londonymous

11 jaar geledendiscuss

I had problems with the OH Press just because the minimum increase when you're starting out is so much relative to the total weight. I think I started out at 25kg so with the smallest plates at 1.25kg, the first few increases were around 10% each — tough to pull off every week.

londonymous

11 jaar geledendiscuss

Possibly inspired by Jesse Schell's fantastic DICE2010 talk:

https://youtu.be/9NzFCfZMBkU?t=2m15s

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

A company today is worth however many billions it will be worth if it succeeds, discounted by the risk that it won't succeed. That's an incredibly difficult calculation to make, but fortunately you don't have to do it if the company recently had a funding round, just use the value the other investors decided on.

So if the company raised money at $10MM and you're being offered 0.5% equity, then treat it as a $50,000 bonus that you get for being a loyal employee over the vesting period.

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

Also The Artworks which just popped up in Elephant & Castle.

http://www.theartworks-uk.com/

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

>The MakeSchool Gap Year is designed to accelerate the careers of the brightest computer science majors.

I'm confused about what this is offering. If it's for existing CS majors, surely by definition if you're among "brightest", you wouldn't forgo the $5-10k/mo internships available [1] or generous starting salaries you can get right out the door, and instead pay $30k.

[1] https://twitter.com/tzhongg/status/536565474041937921/photo/...

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

AKA why I don't like $COMMON_PASTTIME. This could easily be "Why I don't like Hand-gliding", or "Why I don't like book-clubs"

>Domestic and carer responsibilities are unevenly distributed, which means women are more likely to be too busy to attend hackathons than men are.

Domestic responsibilities are unevenly distributed. This is bad. It has nothing to do with Hackathons.

>Attending a weekend-long event means massively rearranging my life.

Has this guy never been on holiday?

>if I spend two long days in poor lighting and poor ventilation, sitting hunched over my laptop at a meeting table in an uncomfortable chair, eating pretty average catering food or pizza [...] I feel like crap.

If that's an issue, bring your own food. Drink more water.

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

I think rather than sales skills, what's helped me is having the mindset of consciously applying for jobs I don't think I'll get. The worst thing that can happen is that you 'easily get the job' — I like to think if more than 20% of your interviews result in an offer, your day rate is too low.

After starting out doing Ruby on Rails, I moved to backend development focusing on Devops/PaaS — not super-niche but definitely more in-demand than Ruby on Rails, which that's one of the reasons I switched (as well as enjoying it more). Furthermore it's has the advantage of being a Hot New Thing™, which means you gain seniority much faster — in Ruby on Rails it might take 4-5 years to be considered 'senior'. In a much newer technology (like Angular for example), you might only need a year.

londonymous

12 jaar geledendiscuss

Contracting is definitely the way to go in London. To add another data point, I have slightly over two years industry experience and make what would be equivalent to a six-figure salary if I were a full-time employee.

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