Re:Ask HN: Anyone out there trying to help new devs avoid ca...
by tacostakohashi on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:18PM
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I do not. I think it's a pretty good idea, though.
I have learnt a lot of things the hard way in 20+ years in tech / corporate life, there are a lot of truths that can't and won't be spoken about inside a big company. I've also done some career coaching in the past few years, and I think something specific for tech / development would be pretty good for a lot of entry level people.
I guess your 3 bullet points are really just general career issues and not really tech focused (which is fine, a lot of this stuff is pretty universal and probably applies just the same to accountants), but I think maybe mixing in some more tech focused advice would be helpful. (e.g., you really need to learn some basic shell / scripting, grep, git... if you have some complicated system that is failing, you might need to remove some complexity instead of adding more, etc.).
I have learnt a lot of things the hard way in 20+ years in tech / corporate life, there are a lot of truths that can't and won't be spoken about inside a big company. I've also done some career coaching in the past few years, and I think something specific for tech / development would be pretty good for a lot of entry level people.
I guess your 3 bullet points are really just general career issues and not really tech focused (which is fine, a lot of this stuff is pretty universal and probably applies just the same to accountants), but I think maybe mixing in some more tech focused advice would be helpful. (e.g., you really need to learn some basic shell / scripting, grep, git... if you have some complicated system that is failing, you might need to remove some complexity instead of adding more, etc.).
Maybe share a link / email address?