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> The only AAA game that I bought was "The Witcher 3" precisely for the back story, but after 5-10h of playing it just felt so repetitive that I gave up on it. I went through the s…

AssemblyAI (YC S17) | Senior Backend Engineer | Full-time | Remote We're building the Top Rated Speech-to-Text API for Developers. Customers use our API to transcribe phone calls, …

SEEKING WORK | Troy, NY | REMOTE At Papa Bear Software, we provide technical strategy, architecture, and engineering, and staff augmentation primarily for early stage b2b software …

SEEKING WORK and FREELANCERS | Troy, NY | REMOTE At Papa Bear Software, we provide technical strategy, architecture, and engineering, and staff augmentation primarily for early sta…

SEEKING WORK and FREELANCERS| Troy, NY | REMOTE At Papa Bear Software, we provide guidance, technical strategy, system design, and engineering staff for Early Stage B2B Software St…

SEEKING WORK and FREELANCER | Troy, NY | REMOTE I am an Early Stage Software Consultant helping leaders find their way to market. I work closely with leadership to help them naviga…

I have to parrot what others say about playing slower chess. I was around 900 when I started on chess.com and peaked around 1600. I did regress though as I lost the obsession. This…

I run a remote-first consulting company. So far everything is good. My clients are all pushing me to work for them. I even signed and started a new contract in the middle of all th…

I hate that word, self-made. I think of Bezos, Buffet, Gates and all three of them had investment from their parents or had a business relationship made possible by their parents. …

> Yeah right it’s the government taking black men at random in the street and putting them in jail Well not as cut and dry as that, but cops harassing black kids walking the street…

Thank you. I will pick up that book. Perhaps I can send questions your way once I've digested all this advice and books?

I can't name it all but here's the main stuff... Languages: Java, Scala, Python 2&3, Javascript/ES6/Typescript Libraries/Frameworks/Middleware: Spring, Java EE, Spark, Flask, Panda…

> This helps you create a target client list and start hammering the ground finding contacts in to them. I don't have any experience in sales, but I'm eager to learn. Any advice on…

1. I haven't picked an industry. I've been working with a startup in adtech and the other a significant player in the digital content provider space. Do you most clients expect ext…

About six months ago I started my own one man software consulting company. Now I'm working for two clients making things and having a blast. The problem is that these are subcontra…

I felt the "magic" of software as a teenager with my first programs. I've even faced long stretches of boredom over the years, but after 2 decades the awe of the magic has been rep…

It sounds like your org needs two things, 1. A data warehouse for this data 2. Awareness of software/data best practices That being said, while I agree code duplication is bad, dat…

Very good advice all around. Thanks for the help!

I started my own one man consulting company earlier this year and so far it's gone very well with my first customer. However, I am in talks to begin an engagement with a second com…

In the java world this gets solved with gradle's incremental build system, which uses a build cache, a user configured dependency tree, and some hashing to determine what needs to …

One of my biggest fears is being aged out of software development as I am almost 40. Over the last year I've been casually looking for a new job while currently employed. Yes I kno…

Ended up learning kotlin, advanced my python skills, acquired some basic ML knowledge, and journeyed further into the rabbit hole that is brazilian jiu jitsu.

A football analytics website that I have been slowly building for years and learning ML.

IMO the ACA was an overreach that cost him the congress in 2010 and possibly Clinton's presidency. That political capital would have been better spent on getting higher taxes at th…