Quora runs an interesting question – “What is the hardest part about learning to program?“. As always, there are plenty of insightful answers with suggestions, tips, shared stories, research and statistical data, and more.
For me personally, this answer in particular was useful, as I’m very well familiar with the phenomena, but never knew there was a name for it – Dunning–Kruger effect.
This TravisCI blog post welcomes AJ to the team. In it, there is a bit that caught my attention (except, of course, the one about bra burning):
If you’re so inclined, you can follow her on Twitter or run curl cv.soulshake.net.
Wait a second … A what? curl for the CV? I had to try it out. Here’s an even better way, for reading all the slides:
p=1; while [ $p -lt 9 ]; do curl -N cv.soulshake.net/$((p++)); read; done
Oh. My. God. Lo and behold, this is the coolest tech CV I’ve ever seen. Ever. Period. TravisCI is so lucky to have her!
P.S.: If you are interested in how this was done, here a couple of blog posts – one and two.
The New York Times has this awesome chart of highest paid Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in 2016. You can sort and filter the data in a variety of ways.
Most of these guys and gals make more a year than the rest of us will ever make in our lifetime. I guess, they totally deserve it. I’m sure all of them work really hard to get these money.
“The Engineer/Manager Pendulum” is a great article about a career shift from engineering to management. Anybody who’s in engineering now and plans or even just wants to become a manager should read this. Anybody responsible for “promoting” engineers to managers must read this too.
1. Becoming a manager is not a promotion – it's a lateral move onto a parallel track. You're back at junior level in many key skills.
— Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) May 11, 2017
Richard Yang, a UX designer at Sony, shares his path from a guy with zero experience in design to a respected professional with a high paying job. Much like with any professional, in the past, present or future, it wasn’t an overnight success, but an inhuman amount of work and dedication, with plenty of failure.
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