Is the scrolling lag because of MeteorJS or is that the dev's fault?
Can you be a little more specific about the bug, I'll take the blame.
Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
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Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#12Amazing, I love these kind of initiatives. It was the missing step to fix some insecurities when taking your own way and not getting a diploma
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#13For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)
The important thing is to keep learning on your own during the 4 years of college. You're essentially playing the game, going through the motions for the degree. What they teach you in college you probably won't apply to your actual job, so keep learning on your own and teaching yourself new programming languages, tools, and techniques for what you enjoy doing. The degree just opens doors.
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#14For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)
I'm 23, left school when 21 and now going back exactly for the same reason.
Without an degree you have to prove yourself harder for every single little thing (resume, visa, job applications, etc.).
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#15Nice looking site. What did doing this in Meteor get you? Why did you go with a framework that focuses primarily on real-time interactions/data streaming? It seems to me this could easily be a Rails app with some simple Angular components for the Filter Career Paths bit. But, perhaps this betrays my ignorance of the versatility of Meteor...
Thanks for the feedback! Me being a 21 year old developer who didn't have his hands in the mud when all the big guys were in play (Rails, Django, etc), I went for a new framework like Meteor to see where my self-learning abilities can benefit me. So far it's been great in terms of the speed we can develop at and the transparency between front end and back-end (no missed import calls anywhere to crash the app). Meteor…
Cool, thanks for the background. Good luck with the site.
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#16It's not working right now but I think it's a fantastic idea. I don't think a college education will matter as much as it used to in the computing world. I know several successful people without a CS degree (myself included) or a degree period and they are doing fine.
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#17For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)
In my personal experience a solid work history is much better than a degree. Once you have it the value of a degree decreases significantly. Its almost entirely redundant. The only problem is you often need the degree to get the work history.
I've also noticed as I start working with people who have their Masters and some with PHDs that people take me seriously. It's like... I must know what I'm talking about. How else would I still be here?
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#18I really like this. It reminds me of Mr. Money Mustache's "50 Jobs over $50,000 - Without a Degree":
[Part 1] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/25/50-jobs-over-50000...
[Part 2] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/08/05/50-jobs-over-50000...
Quick question: How did you get pagination working? I haven't built anything big in Meteor, but I did go through the Discover Meteor book, and it said that Meteor doesn't lend itself well to pagination, so that you should use infinite scrolling. Does pagination break if the database is updated, or is it not reactive, or am I missing something?
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#19Great interface! Very clean and I like the career path aspect to it.
Re: Show HN: Careers for people not going to college, built with Meteor
#20For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college. I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful. The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29. Get it over with :)
Also, as someone who has dealt with visa issues before, it's far, far easier to move around the world if you have a university education. Maybe right now you don't think you'll want to, but it's a tremendous opportunity to have.