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Read, try, read, repeat, is the process I use. I read about a topic, then I do a practical attempt (which most times fails), then I go back and read the topic again. I then repeat this until I'm comfortable with the topic, both conceptually and practically.

Foo Fighters - Everlong. Such a great song.

Also Albertan. Maybe it's unrealistic but I agree it would be pretty awesome to see in my lifetime. Would also be cool to see Alberta get on the map for something other than oil.

The following is mostly speculation. I don't really know the inner workings of the Reddit business model.

Businesses that rely on advertising revenue will always seek optimal channels for peoples attention. The mobile app gives them two very import things:

1. Push notifications. Push notifications give companies the ability to advertise to you without you even visiting their website. Also, it allows them to piggyback on the Pavlovian response that has been conditioned in your brain by smart phone companies. Essentially this allows them to "mainline" their product into your brain. Just woke up? McDonalds breakfast PN. End of a long day of work? PN from reddit to remind you to binge their content for your entire evening.

2. People can't run adblock on mobile applications. Even if that only accounts for 10% of it's users, it's still a huge increase in ad revenue.

My team is in the middle of implementing keycloak. Some of the more advanced use cases have been difficult, strictly due to the patchy documentation.

Do you know of any local developer communities? A slack channel for devs in your area, perhaps. Usually they have job channels but also the best people to know about jobs in the industry are developers themselves. Check out /r/forhire and make a post. Then maybe comb through the HN monthly freelance threads and send some emails. That'll get you started. Good luck and stay safe.

Detach your code from your ego. Learn that there's always something someone else knows that you don't. Having them show you is a chance for you to learn, not to be ridiculed. Once you realise that most other people feel the same way you do, you'll be free to not only grow, but to work with other people to help them grow, as well.

Agriculture is just kicking off now too. You're right, it's consuming the world.

I'm usually in bed 9:30pm. I find it hard to go to sleep that early though, so sometimes I get behind on my sleep and I notice it immediately.

Been doing this routine for just over a year now. I wake up at 4:45am, head the gym and do an hour workout. When I get home I make breakfast and eat. Then I catch up on news/tech articles for 20 minutes while drinking a coffee, followed by doing the dishes. Once that's done I get ready for work and head to my 9 to 5. Rinse repeat Mon-fri.

I've gotten about two years worth of contracting work from posting on one of these threads. A lot of tire kickers, and a lot of "take this test and then we'll talk" offers as well. I just ignore those, but I think, in general, it's not a bad network facilitator.

SEEKING WORK - Remote (Canada MST)

Technologies: Python, Javascript, PHP, CSS, HTML, Postgres, MySQL, Django, Flask, React, Redux, Angular, AWS

Email: colin.morgan[at]fullbit.ca

Over nine years experience as a professional developer.

Get in touch if you'd like to discuss further.

> Facebook had traction because it was radically different from anything that was before.

How was Facebook radically different than other social media sites? In my opinion, it was almost exactly the same as the rest. They just leveraged some clever marketing.

Python and Javascript mostly. I just use online job boards, communities like HN and reddit, slack communities, etc. Close to zero networking, though I'm sure it would help. I wrote an article a little while ago about how I approach finding remote jobs, if that helps

https://hackernoon.com/how-i-find-six-figure-remote-software...

The contracts are usually full time equivalent and I usually only have the one, so tracking time is pretty easy.

Also Canadian but I typically contract to US companies and have for the last 8 years or so.

Put away a nice big rainy day fund. I try to aim for 3-6 months of full living expenses. You'll need this to fill the gaps between contracts.

For me, contracts typically last around two years or slightly less. This is probably anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.

It usually takes me between 2 to 4 months to find a new contract, but I work strictly remote, so your mileage may vary. Try to keep your finger on the pulse of what's going on. If you can figure out when your contract will end, this will help mitigate the amount of time you spend running on rainy day money.

Pay your income tax installments on time. Every day you go without paying them costs you interest to CRA. On the topic of CRA, get an accountant to help you figure out what you can expense. You can expense all kinds of things including utilities and part of your mortgage.

Get a GST/HST number if you're making more than 30k. You'll have to pay GST if the work you are doing is not done on a remote server out of country.

That's all I can think of off the cuff. Get in touch if you have any questions

Contacting has been a great experience for me but it takes some time to get used to the risk and learning to anticipate the future.

Good luck!

Maybe the original idea behind IH was to provide success stories to learn from. It seems to have evolved though.

To me, IH is a community of people going through the same struggle. Some are just starting, some are in the thick of it, and some have made it to the other side. All of which have their own role in a community.

I see a lot of blind leading the blind comments, but I don't think it's about leading and following. It's about doing something together with people doing something similar.

For that reason, I still find value from IH.

As an app developer, I can vouch for finding k8 to feel frustratingly complex.

My current client work has recently shifted to using k8. I took the time to get minikube working locally to get a better understanding. It definitely helped, but I find the layers of abstraction hard to grok after not working with it for a while.

I can see the value the tool offers, but I get the feeling it's supposed to be reserved for higher degrees of scale than the average 2-8 node app.

Black box is how I feel about it sometimes. Hopefully I'll get more one on one time with it in the future. It seems like a really cool technology.

Do you see any benefits on the hiring side of things when you're more transparent?

> Also, a note indicating whether or not managers refer to people as "resources"

This made me chuckle. It's a pretty accurate measure of a companies culture though.

These are all great. I started writing the article with the intention of including the soft skills mentioned by everyone but it quickly became very long. Part two will have soft skills and I'll make sure to include your notes.

I think you'd be surprised what is left out when people come from unconventional backgrounds.

Really interesting. Thanks for the info!

Definitely seems like a market opportunity. Did you find any interest when you were pitching?

I think this answers my underlying curiosity. I'm still surprised that no one has come out with a low cost solution that would drive the prices down though. The barrier to entry, which is cost like you mentioned in your deck, must be fairly large.

> It's people who shy away from telling someone they're wrong, or that their idea is fucking awful, that make the industry worse.

You can tell people they're wrong without being a douche about it. That's all I'm saying.

That seems really cheap. Thanks man!

I'm not debating whether you come off as condescending. I know the answer to that question. Even if you were right, which you are, I don't appreciate your input because of the way you present yourself.

See how that works? You could be the smartest guy on the internet and I still would't listen to you. Because I don't like the way you conduct yourself.

> It’s baffling and depressing to me that so many people in this industry get this wrong. It’s like the tech equivalent of the word irony.

People like you make the industry worse for everyone.

Cheers!

Thanks for this. I think maybe I've been barking up the wrong tree with "video hosting" services which appear to charge a significant premium on data transfer.

Peer to peer is an interesting thought. I'm curious how that would work with video hosting. Will have to read into it. Thanks!

I appreciate and understand the difference but like you said, most hosting companies use the term bandwidth to describe their data rates. So it makes more sense to discuss it using their nomenclature.

Also, if you want people to listen to you, try being a little less condescending. You can be informative while not sounding like everyone else is dumber than you. Your approach to "educating" makes anyone who didn't know what you are trying to explain feel incompetent. I'm not sure what the benefit of that is for you, but you might want to reassess your approach.

The tech industry is difficult enough to navigate. Why not try and be a little more welcoming?