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How a crappy promotion led to me being a software engineer

Austin Startup

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Propensity Modeling: Using Data (and Expertise) to Predict Behavior

ConversionXL

The same way SEO experts need to understand a bit of content marketing, HTML, etc., The two work best when combined—when a propensity model fuels an experimentation program and vice versa. Edwin Chen, Software Engineer at Google, summarizes the process in more detail: Edwin Chen: First, select which variables to use as features.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. By putting this online, it increases the efficiency with which startups can get funded. We respect your anonymity. Trending Stories.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers. did the question!

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One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks

Software By Rob

Outsource your graphic design and HTML/CSS? Graphic design and HTML/CSS are also great ways to dive in. I’ve found design to be much easier to outsource than programming. at 3:03 am To x: The point is that as a software engineer you get obsessed with irrelevant detail. Outsource your product architecture?

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Keep input fields as close to their unaltered HTML rendering as possible. Valid point from a programming perspective. StuntCoders Located in Belgrade, SERBIA StuntCoders is agile team of freelance software engineers who love their call. Smashing Book 1 in HTML. Smashing Book 1 Extras in HTML. Justin Mifsud.

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