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    bstro avatar bstro 1 year ago | link | on: How do self-taught developers actually get jobs?

    I started by working at startups as a designer. I did basic front-end (html, css, light javascript) for years until I discovered Backbone at a company I was at, which was a revelation to me at the time. From there, I discovered React and decided I didn’t want to do anything else. So I found a startup willing to hire me as a front-end engineer and here I am, a few jobs later, a senior-ish FE dev. It seems to be pretty easy to find work (even as a junior dev) in the SF Bay Area, fwiw.

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      bstro avatar bstro 1 year ago | link | on: Who will own Mars?

      No one owns anything.

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        pab avatar pab edited 1 year ago | link

        Agreed. Property is theft!

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        caio avatar caio 1 year ago | link | on: Phoenix and Elm, a real use case (pt. 1)

        Elm still looks completely foreign to me, no matter how many articles I read about it :(

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          bstro avatar bstro 1 year ago | link

          You just gotta start writing code.

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          bstro avatar bstro 1 year ago | link | on: Don’t Pursue Programming if You Aren’t Passionate About It

          or: just do whatever you want to.

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            bstro avatar bstro 4 years ago | link | on: My Surreal UberX Experience

            This seems more suited for HN.

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              bstro avatar bstro 4 years ago | link | on: Community get-together?

              It would be amazing to have a monthly meetup that we could get sponsored.

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                zhemao avatar zhemao 4 years ago | link

                Location might be an issue, since not all of us are in the Bay Area. Perhaps simultaneous local meetups connected by video call would work.