Solid prediction. I've been THIS close to learning Scala a few times. I did pick up some Groovy/Grails a couple years ago and decided, while familiar & powerful, I'd try to venture outside of the JVM next.
I learned a ton in 2018 after many years of working primarily with Java & Spring in large "enterprise" systems. It had been getting boring to the point of questioning if development is what I wanted to do. 2018 was a year of stoking the flames and I'm really enjoying hands-on technical work again.
I decided to pick up Python and learned some Flask & Django while I was at it. Really liking it. I also took some machine learning courses and wrote an image recognition app w Pytorch. I started & finished two Udacity nanodegrees to help keep me on task with learning these tools.
I worked for a while on a cloud infrastructure team and enjoyed learning a decent bit of Go, AWS & Terraform. Also touched on Docker, K8s & that whole ridiculous devops ecosystem.
Lastly, for the first time in my career, I worked solely in Linux (used to work solely in Windows). Never going back to Windows!
A significant amount of freedom is necessary to maximize people's potential in terms of both productivity and happiness. People also need clear expectations and accountability for their work. These are not mutually exclusive, but much easier said than done. I always lean toward more freedom than control and always will.
Sometimes you need to let people have enough rope to hang themselves. Sometimes you need to take risks that may come back to harm you for the betterment of your culture & team.
Micromanagement should be a last resort and is indicative of other issues that should be addressed.
I like what the Netflix culture slides say about Freedom & Responsibility [1].
I got into recreational gymnastics about a year ago to challenge myself and have really taken to simple body weight exercises with no weights... But people have different bodies and need to find what works for them.
Here is what i may do in 30-40 minutes in the morning:
* stretch quick.
* ab/core workout for 5-10 minutes.
Then 2-4 rotations through the following:
* hand stand hold against the wall.
* air squats or power jacks.
* push ups.
* calf raises.
* variations of pullups.
The only equipment i have is a pull up bar over a door frame.
If you're writing your first page as a standalone thing though that matches what the posting is looking for, do you think you need to eliminate unrelated things on the remaining pages?
Are people intentionally crafting their resume in such a way that the first page(ish?) could essentially be read as a standalone thing -noting the highlights and main points. Then the remaining pages would, in a sense re-state some of what the initial page has but drill down and provide more detail. Is that a good approach to take?
* Don't follow a specific diet and don't exercise regularly *
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Honestly, this is the biggest red flag for me. Yes, you may have other personal/emotional/mental health things you want to get support for, but regular exercise can do absolute wonders for your overall well-being.
My advice: watch a couple youtube videos about navy seals -about how disciplined they are and the will power they develop to get up every day and attack the day during their training. Challenge yourself to get up early and do a good quality workout for about ~2 weeks straight, then re-evaluate how you feel. I bet you'll feel 5x better.
The spring reference docs are quite good. I'd take a scan through those first, maybe focusing more on the areas you will need so you have an idea what it can do and how.
I have left 3 jobs and for all have asked/told not to bother with a counter offer because my decisions were not based on $. Looking back on my career thus far im sure i could have made more money but not sure i would have been better off.
I wouldn't make math/STEM a special emphasis when they're young.
It's more important to foster an positive learning environment and encourage/draw out curiosity and creativity at this age. Help them become curious about the world, fascinated with what they're learning and find enjoyment in learning.
In terms of subjects, aim for a strong reading focus at an early age as it will pay dividends in all other subjects (even math) if they can read/comprehend well.
Too many options! Give me 3 things to pick from, I'll debate for a while, go with one and after awhile feeling it's less than adequate, I'll start looking at the other two.
Give me many more options, as the internet does, it gets much worse.
If only we knew exactly what we wanted to study and there was one good option/path for it
I moved to a "remote" place in Canada from Chicago and took a significant pay cut. 5 yrs later I'm finally making about as much as I was when I left. And I'm still making an awesome living where I am.
And it was totally worth it given cost of living change & everything else. Salary isn't everything!
I find it interesting that people use the need for a CRM like this to make two opposing arguments:
1) If you need something like this to better communicate with friends/family, you must not genuinely care about them
2) If you use something like this to better communicate with friends/family, it shows that you actually do genuinely care about them
The former assumes if you care enough you should be able to do it on your own without assistance from a CRM/app, the latter does not make that assumption and gives you kudos for using the tools available to make you better at caring for others
i think that people are beginning to find these more shallow ways of connecting less meaningful and while they will always serve a purpose, i think that technology such as virtual reality will enable people who are not in the same room together to connect with one another in more meaningful and real (feeling) ways.
This is refreshing to hear. I've been a successful developer for years working for a few different clients but don't have this portfolio of things I've done after work.
What I do have is a bunch of great reviews from my managers in the past years. Do those carry any weight in an interview?
Scala still on my mind though. Kotlin too.