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Comment on How did you make the career pivot? in ~life
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Comment on Marvel Snap players - How's your season going? in ~games
mattr LinkI only started a couple weeks ago. I’ve unlocked around 15-20 series 3 cards. I peaked around 78 a few days ago, but after getting my CL to 700+ and the increased rank I’m losing pretty often....I only started a couple weeks ago. I’ve unlocked around 15-20 series 3 cards. I peaked around 78 a few days ago, but after getting my CL to 700+ and the increased rank I’m losing pretty often.
I’ve got a handful of good cards like death, wong, dracula, absorbing man, and venom so in theory I should be able to make a decent deck or two but no luck so far.
It’s tough to get a read on a deck with location rng and opponent/draw rng
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Comment on What was your favorite older social media site/app? What did you like or dislike? in ~tech
mattr Link ParentI thought Digg was great in the early days, but agreed it was mostly random content with less of a community. most of my digg memories are actually the diggnation podcast. digg also what pushed me...I thought Digg was great in the early days, but agreed it was mostly random content with less of a community. most of my digg memories are actually the diggnation podcast.
digg also what pushed me to start subscribing to various rss feeds so I’ll always appreciate it for that
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Comment on What are you self-hosting currently? in ~tech
mattr Link Parentds918+ here w/ a plex server, some usenet/torrent services and also used for important photo backups. I could (and should) probably use it for way more but plex and photo backup alone are worth it...ds918+ here w/ a plex server, some usenet/torrent services and also used for important photo backups. I could (and should) probably use it for way more but plex and photo backup alone are worth it for me.
29 is not too late. I did it from product to engineering in my early 30s. Did take a substantial pay decrease.
4 years later and no regrets, I’m much happier and enjoy the work.
For language I would probably check the job market in your area. JS/Python is a safe stack though.
Learning a language isn’t hard, learning how to build something is. I’ve only looked at a few lines of python code but if you told me to start coding in python i’d be fine with it on the fly.
Check out app academy open and full stack open for free starting points. I can highly recommend both of them.
Does your company have an engineering team? You should make friends with some of them, let them code review your projects, ask to shadow them, etc. I’ve done that as both the engineer and wannabe at my previous company.
The market right now… not good. Especially entry level. I would try to utilize your network, existing company and your domain specific knowledge as much as possible to turn that into eng possibilities. It’s tough.
One route (I didn’t go but considered) was self teaching via the above programs then going for an online masters to give myself more credibility. With this job market it’s worth consideration.