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Would love some real examples where these tools are helping you write less boilerplate or other code, debug faster, and ship faster in general. If they are, what's your sense of ti…

Yep thanks!

Thanks! We decided to go this route....

No offense taken! I only push the kids to get proper nutrition and sleep :) rest is their choice. She was applying for summer internships. I explained to her that open source might…

If you can afford it, I strongly recommend Bradfield School of Computer Science https://bradfieldcs.com/

My daughter is fairly proficient in Python (only language she has been learning for a couple of years) and I'd love to get her to contribute to open source projects as a way to get…

Good luck fixing that bug you don't have as much context on as an engineer who is familiar with that part of the code, while mentally preparing for the investor presentation on the…

Twitter is your best bet.

Roughly 99%,which has consistently been the failure rate of tech startups since Y2K.

First of all, you don't need to be likeable by dozens of people in order to be a founder. In fact most founders are not likeable. Second, even if you are generally likeable, you ca…

Research, think, and come up with concrete proposals to solve specific problems for them, and pitch them. Networking without being useful is useless. Be useful.

Start contributing to open source projects you like, and write blog posts on topics you learn about. Then reach out to engineering leaders at growth stage startups. They are always…

Unless they make you a founder and give you say 5% to 33% of the company, quit. It makes no sense to get a 1% equity when you are making the same sacrifices and taking the same ris…

No generic answer to this but one way to think about it is over the long term would you value more depth (expert in something) or breadth (freedom to explore everything)? If you va…