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Ask HN: What Makes a Great Developer?

Posted by focodev on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A little context. I'm currently a junior in a middle of the road state university studying for a degree in software engineering. I have been doing a lot of reading - whether it be comments on Reddit, articles, etc - and it appears that there is an abundance of junior developers looking to enter the job market, but very few "good developers".My question is, what is it that sets someone apart as...

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DigitalOcean Introduces Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Networks

Posted by focodev on Sunday May 03, 2020 @08:46AM
from the digitalocean.com dept.

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/

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Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost

Posted by focodev on Sunday May 03, 2020 @07:05AM
from the erikbern.com dept.

https://erikbern.com/2020/03/10/never-attribute-to-stupidity-that-which-is-adequately-explained-by-opportunity-cost.html

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Re:Ask HN: Change in developer salaries in 2020 Q3 and Q4? on Sunday May 03, 2020 @06:30AM (#23058139)

Lyft just cut internship pay. I know thats not valuable input, but thought I’d add it.

Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:33AM (#22803033)

That is one expensive setup you how - wow. Your chair costs more than my laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Something Is Wrong with the Internet

Posted by focodev on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:25PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

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No one’s coming. It’s up to us

Posted by focodev on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:43PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@hondanhon/no-ones-coming-it-s-up-to-us-de8d9442d0d

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The Old Guard

Posted by focodev on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:54AM
from the randsinrepose.com dept.

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-old-guard/

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:31AM (#22790916)

So cool!

Re:Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era tech... on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:23AM (#22790902)

Is it actually Perl though? I have my money on COBOL which is an entirely different story.

Re:Newly unemployed New Yorkers are being frustrated by 1970s-era tech... on Monday April 06, 2020 @12:21AM (#22790888)

High ethical standards and the US Military do not go hand-in-hand.

Re:Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed S... on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:48PM (#22790545)

Awesome. As a CS student, I'm trying to take in as much as I can. Just finished the Phoenix Project. Will start on this now.

Re:Ask HN: What are you learning? on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:47PM (#22790255)

I'm entering my junior year in a CS program and just had my internship opportunities rescinded because of the virus. So I'm home taking a docker / K8s course on Udemy as well as a Spring Boot course.

Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:05AM (#22784614)

That is very much a challenging task.

Re:Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:02AM (#22784610)

We have come a long way from Limewire apparently.