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I had some of my projects brought up in my interview at the place I'm currently at, and they asked questions about them in some detail, but I guess that was after I had cleared the initial resume + cover letter hurdles. Probs also depends on what kind of position you're going after too. I'm front-end with explicit design duties, so having content that showed that I could design sites and apps decently was important. Might be less so for other areas. Point being, I don't think you should totally neglect having strong projects, but yeah it sounds like the resume might be the first thing to fix.
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If you know enough / the right people, you don't really need a resume or sample projects. Instead of spending 40 hours on a project, use that time to go to meet ups or actively engage with people in other ways.
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my bony fealty posted:resume Thermopyle posted:resume TheCog posted:resume The Dave posted:resume I've shared my resume over PMs and gotten feedback from over a dozen goons in the Newbie thread and a few people in some Slack groups over this past year. I've also had it professionally re-made from scratch by the SA Mart guy last year, and I regularly post job search progress updates in the Newbie thread. Not comfortable posting it publicly but i'm happy to share it over PM if you guys want to see for yourself. The only feedback on my resume that I get when I show it to people ranges from "decent" to "pretty great."
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Jul 26, 2018 00:34
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A resume is a tool to get a faceless job. If you want a job where you matter as a person, you need to meet people face to face and make connections. Both types of jobs have their pros and cons, but a keyword optimized resume is not the only path to a job.
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There's a post in the PYF Schadenfreude thread where a boyfriend and girlfriend, both the same age and working the same type of job, have wildly different jobs. Despite the boyfriend being more practical and intellectual his girlfriend has a much better job because she is more personable
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nexus6 posted:There's a post in the PYF Schadenfreude thread where a boyfriend and girlfriend, both the same age and working the same type of job, have wildly different jobs. Despite the boyfriend being more practical and intellectual his girlfriend has a much better job because she is more personable
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Jul 26, 2018 15:54
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The Merkinman posted:or it's just sexism First of all, I don't think that's how sexism works. Second of all, this really sounds like it depends on the job in question.
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Hey dudes. I'm thinking about making a small online business/store. I'm versed in website making with tools like Django, React, Webassembly, Heroku, Typescript etc. I'm good at making functional websites with good UIs and complex behavior, but not at making pages pretty. Given that I just want a simple website that serves as a storefront, should I just use Squarespace etc? I feel like building one with DRF/React would involve reinventing the wheel for a generic problem that's been solved numerous times.
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Aug 1, 2018 05:58
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Squarespace/Wix will give you 95% of what you want for 10% of the time.
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Aug 1, 2018 06:45
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ddiddles posted:Squarespace/Wix will give you 95% of what you want for 10% of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
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Aug 1, 2018 14:26
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ddiddles posted:Squarespace/Wix will give you 95% of what you want for 10% of the time. That last 5%? That's the bespoke functionality the client can't live without.
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As a programmer, my main problem areas are: looking people in the eye; saying their name in conversation; speaking positively and assertively; sitting up straight; strong handshake; not actively avoiding unstructured conversations. I doubt I'm ever going to be really good at interpersonal stuff, but I'm actively working on not sucking at it.
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:As a programmer, my main problem areas are: looking people in the eye; saying their name in conversation; speaking positively and assertively; sitting up straight; strong handshake; not actively avoiding unstructured conversations.
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nexus6 posted:That last 5%? That's the bespoke functionality the client can't live without. It's why we all have jobs, don't let them figure out they can live without it.
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ddiddles posted:It's why we all have jobs, don't let them figure out they can live without it. That's why people at Squarespace/Wix have jobs. Can you do external bespoke stuff for those sites or do you have to get their developers to do it?
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Aug 2, 2018 11:58
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Are there any online hackathons coming up? All the ones I can find are in person only and there are none in my area that I can attend.
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Follow-up to my prev Q: I'm going to roll my own [online store] for practice, and because I have a unique layout. How can I securely process payments etc? When I google online store, it mostly focuses on dets about managing orders in a DB, keeping a persistent shopping cart etc. I'm not worried about that; I think I can handle all that through state in React, and passing submitted orders or saved carts via POST calls to a rest API. What's the best place to start for accepting payment methods, and processing them securely? Also need to keep addresses/customer contact info secure. Should I use PayPal Business? Dominoes fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Dominoes posted:Follow-up to my prev Q: I'm going to roll my own [online store] for practice, and because I have a unique layout. https://stripe.com/ Stripe is one of the most popular payment solutions and has a lot more features than Paypal.
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SimonChris posted:https://stripe.com/
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Dominoes posted:Thank you very much. Looks like it avoids a monthly fee, unlike PP. I can't tell from skimming the site: How would this tie in to a webapp? Eg do I send it a post request over HTTPS with encrypted address/ CC info from a form, and it sends back a success or fail message? SimonChris fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Thanks; sounds easier than I'd guessed. Will likely go this route. Looks like This quickstart page provides details. This package containing React elements is probably how I'll approach. Love that I don't need to mess with this stuff in my backend sever and db.
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Aug 3, 2018 07:47
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There's also Braintree.
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Thermopyle posted:There's also Braintree. Does Braintree have any advantages over Stripe?
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I'd like to receive monthly Google Analytics performance updates per mail, but can't find the option to enable them. The one Google help page I found, referred to a layout that's since been overhauled. Pretty cheap they redesign the website, but don't update the help page. Not sure if this is the right thread, sorry in advance.
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Can I ask an azure question here? I'm trying to deploy my rails app to Azure, using the linux ruby 2.3.3 image. My app won't come up though, and my current issue is that it's not running bundle install on deployment. It did run it a few times, but I have no idea how I triggered it. Does anyone have azure experience that can tell me how to get the bundle install running when I push to azure? I also can't ssh into the server, I can only kudu with a bash which doesn't let me run the commands I normally would. so if I could also get a tip on why the hell the web shell ssh isn't working that'd be much appreciated. Azure is bad I hate it.
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SimonChris posted:Does Braintree have any advantages over Stripe? I can't give you a solid answer since I'm a designer but at my last job our devs hated working with Braintree and were really happy to move to Stripe.
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SimonChris posted:Does Braintree have any advantages over Stripe? I do not know, but a quick google of "braintree vs stripe" shows a lot of articles comparing the two. I will definitely do that search and read those articles next time I'm in the position to pick something like that.
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Where do y'all like hosting commercial SPAs? Eg something like GH Pages, but with a TOS that allows business. No DB/server code etc. AmazonS3? Surge? I found a way to do it on Heroku mixed with the backend code, but it's a bit awk (involves duping part of package.json, special static config etc), and you have to pay a good deal to a third-party certificate authority to get https on a custom domain. Dominoes fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Aug 3, 2018 |
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Love Stole the Day posted:Are there any online hackathons coming up? All the ones I can find are in person only and there are none in my area that I can attend. Amazon has an AWS SAM hackathon going now. It's themed around ending human trafficking but you can make whatever you want. Dominoes posted:Where do y'all like hosting commercial SPAs? Eg something like GH Pages, but with a TOS that allows business. No DB/server code etc. AmazonS3? Surge? Gonna throw Netlify out there. They do free SSL and domain aliasing that I think includes free SSL. The overall Netlify experience is generally very good.
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Dominoes posted:Where do y'all like hosting commercial SPAs? Eg something like GH Pages, but with a TOS that allows business. No DB/server code etc. AmazonS3? Surge? A reserved micro instance on EC2 will be dirt cheap and you can get free SSL from them or let's encrypt.
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Incidentally it looks like one of the Game Jam websites added a Hackathon category just this week so I thought it'd be good to share it here in case anyone else cares: https://crowdforge.io/hackathons
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Yay, Chrome 69 finally has support for 2d OffScreenCanvas https://blog.chromium.org/2018/08/chrome-69-beta-av1-video-decoder-css.html
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I've been looking to take some kind of intensive design course after work. I'm a software engineer and have been designing the UI for most of the personal projects I've worked on so I've got some experience. My company will pay up to $3000 per year for whatever I want to learn. I was thinking of doing General Assembly's course in Boston. Any thoughts of other classes worth pursuing?
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MrMoo posted:Yay, Chrome 69 finally has support for 2d OffScreenCanvas Nice
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What I see: What my client sees:  They claim they're not zoomed in. I have media queries in place that should make it so this doesn't happen. Their screenshot says it's 1920x1080, and they just checked for me to confirm. Same resolution as my screen. To see what they're seeing on any browser on either of my computers, I have to resize the screen to about 1244x620. What's going on?
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Could you give them directions on how to use an inspect tool and screenshot the computed size of the text so you can first weed out if it's a code issue or not?
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Aug 7, 2018 18:33
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Are the DPI/scaling settings the same on both computers?
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Did you have them hit the reset zoom key anyways?
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Crazy question, are you zoomed in?
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The Dave posted:Could you give them directions on how to use an inspect tool and screenshot the computed size of the text so you can first weed out if it's a code issue or not? What kind of code issue would cause this? They come back to me a lot saying my sites look broken like this. I imagine they'd notice if they were viewing all sites at 1280x720, so what could I be doing wrong? I'll try the other stuff mentioned. Putting this here just in case: code:
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