Dude you are a legit beast and super inspiring. Hope you can find the time to throw up a thread about your whole process at some time. Congrats

Anyone have any extensive experience with AWS Lambdas? Were using them to process huge amounts of data and I feel like Im becoming a negative nancy about how it seems like the wrong hammer for our nails, someone hold me and tell me itll work out okay

Nice, hope you enjoy. This is your first programming job?

Nice! I'm on the job hunt still and getting some interviews/follow ups but still nothing solid. How did the interview go? What was the job posting/requirements like and lastly you got hired for front end doing react? How much react have you done ?

Yea first programming job.

I had one other place I had 2 phone screens, but they were trying to pay a max of fifty in an expensive place to live/work so I nope'd out of that.

This place had people come to our career fair and the VP Engineering was super pumped at my react stuff. Telling them I taught myself it and used it to build stuff seemed to really impress them. Then met a lot of the people i would be working with and they all seemed super great.

I rebuilt the team project we built in react, did all the react tutorials online from the docs, read a React book, watched maybe 50 YouTubes, and built my personal website on it, as well as a bunch if smaller apps.

Not a ton of real stuff but enough to show I have drive and am fairly good at moving forward with stuff quickly.

Nice man! Feel happy for you and jelly is as well, but in a good way. I've been working on python scripting and learning more daily. I'm doing a live online "advanced" python 6 week course and a udemy data science/ML course on the side, while still applying/job searching. I hate not having the time/energy to learn more on the side lol. I want to tackle an angular and a react project, but if I did that the python courses would go out the window.

Blah, I hate that my city has few tech jobs outside java/.net for old enterprise stacks. I need to move.

trying to get a junior position in python is going to be much harder than React. get on your local slack and take a look at React listings vs Python.

http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-acad...irbnb-part-ii/

I would consider to keep applying and see if you can leverage another offer against that offer. Tell the 2nd company that you already have an offer which should entice them. If you got this offer this fast, there is probably another offer.

React is just exploding. I was just commenting to someone a few days ago that my local slack job listings are 60% React / 40% everything else.

Wp sir congrats on job.

Congrats Larry Legend

there's job listings on slack?

Thanks for all the congrats, it feels great.

I'm gonna write up a post about this and maybe start a thread as well. I think I was very fortunate to have the knowledge and background I had going into this, which allowed me to effectively influence my direction much more than just showing up to the class and doing their minimum requirements.

But, I should also be able to convey that wisdom effectively to help other people considering tech bootcamps or self-teaching and then getting a job quickly, but obviously my specific advice is best suited to bootcamp grads.

Off topic but I find dogishead (haseebq) to be a really strange person and his writing style is terrible imho.

I did wonder if that was an "innocent" link to Haseeb with no knowledge of his prior 2p2 escapades...

Where are you making this post at? The job market down here (Miami) is slightly more limited in terms of tech. Doing a simple Indeed search for "react JavaScript" i get Boston:300+ jobs, Miami:25 jobs. Lol, I'm willing to move just not yet, my wife is at UM till end of fall semester. For now I'll keep sharpening my skills. I'm thinking of doing a Django backend with react for the front sometime soon.

Yea I optimized for my local market. That's definitely a huge part.

Same thing I was wondering.

most cities should have slack channels for tech or specific languages. go to meetup.com and look for local groups and ask them. these slacks will always have a job listings channel.

Larry Legend, where are you making this post? This thread or...? I'm definitely curious and like always trying to inhale as much information as possible.

I'll probably either link to my personal site or repost a link directly to whatever forum I wrote it in.

I've been getting contacted by a few people who are building on this idea of distributed internet, using encrypted blockchains across cellphones.

Silicon Valley, the TV show, is real life. Believe it or not, there are a few fairly large open source projects going full-gun on this stuff. For those who are interested, the status quo appears to have settled on Clojure and NodeJS.

And speaking of Node, why would a system fail to slurp in and install the deps in the project.json file?

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A lot of the block chain stuff strikes me as a "hammer / nail" thing. Like people think it will magically solve some hard problems. I interviewed a guy who was working on something to use the blockchain to, uh, manage IoT devices or distribute patches to them or something. I couldn't quite get a straight answer.

He was unresponsive to my point of view, which was that the problem with IoT devices is that they're easily usurped pieces of **** that are abandonware almost before you even buy them. The problem is not really controlling access to them via a complicated method, it's securing even the very basics on them, which almost every one except a few big players completely fail at, if they even try.

The blockchain really only solves one problem, distributed consensus. How many applications really need that ?

I don't quite understand the technical points of this stuff either. I've only taken cursory looks at some of what is out there, but so far, nothing seems entirely stable. I'm not particularly interested in working on it.

From what I'm able to tell, a lot of this blockchain stuff is more about end-to-end encryption, temporary storage, and some quasi-TOR for the masses. I'm not entirely sure how the idea of distributed internet ties into this, or if that particular idea is meshed out enough to have any real meaning, especially in the framework of blockchains.

IOT is a totally different world and I don't have a full opinion on it yet. There's definitely a lot of strange "why bother" things, but much of it makes Facebook look like the paragon of privacy, so I have some ethical issues and turn these jobs down. I'm still quite technophobic, so there's always that internal struggle.