joeschindel

Re:Ask HN: What affects your Job Satisfaction? on Monday January 21, 2013 @02:41PM (#5093275)

Clickable: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF8zOWV...

Ask HN: What affects your Job Satisfaction?

Posted by joeschindel on Monday January 21, 2013 @02:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hacker News Community. I am conducting a simple job satisfaction survey. If you have a few minutes I would appreciate your responses. I also would like to open up the comments for discussion on the topic as well. Thank You for your time.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dF8zOWVpeHd2aUhUSzlvRGNmVXEtaGc6MQ

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Re:Ask HN: How do you find product ideas? on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:48PM (#5006314)

My rule of thumb is to find problems and create solutions using technology. If you can solve a problem you truly have a product worth working on.

Re:Ask HN: Tech Down South? on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:44PM (#5006305)

I am from the DC area originally and after the past 4 years of college in Illinois I am ready to move south. I have found several opportunities in the Charlotte metro area. It has southern charm but is a growing city.

Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas break? on Friday December 21, 2012 @06:40PM (#4955118)

I am working on rewriting a PHP application in Rails to learn Rails.

Re:Engineers suck at finding the right jobs on Thursday November 15, 2012 @01:51PM (#4790096)

As a soon-to-graduate student as well, I am having the same issue. It is a blessing but also a curse, having to figure out what direction to take from so many options.

Ask HN: How to pick between job offers?

Posted by joeschindel on Thursday November 01, 2012 @05:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a senior in college and have recently received two similar offers. Any general pointers for deciding on my first career out of college?

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Re:Ask HN: Learn Subversion or Git? on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:12PM (#4318780)

I am not familiar with Mercurial. Would it benefit students to learn it over Git?

Ask HN: Learn Subversion or Git?

Posted by joeschindel on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @02:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am trying to convince a professor to teach one of these technologies in a sophomore level programming course at my university.What are the benefits of learning a VCS early? Between Subversion and Git which would be best for students to learn?

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Re:Ask HN: What one thing would you tell your younger self? on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @04:55PM (#4262913)

500,000 lines of code and thoughts on internships

Posted by joeschindel on Sunday July 01, 2012 @08:36PM
from the joeschindel.tumblr.com dept.

http://joeschindel.tumblr.com/post/26256540565/500-000-lines-and-thoughts-on-internships

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