The way Medium works is impressive for those who wish to have some income writing. I wish there was a similar blockchain based / decentralized app where authors and editors would get their fair share and is not owned by just a company which could change policies at any time.
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Recently, I got a different take on this from a book called ‘Mad Genius’. The author says in today’s fast moving world if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will perish very quickly. Like Nokia.
Totally disagree. IMHO I’ve tried both IntelliJ and Eclipse and felt IntelliJ to be really complex and non intutive. I can do tasks very quickly in Eclipse using shortcuts I’m familiar with. I also often feel the features of IntelliJ are over exaggerated and almost all the things can be done in Eclipse if you know how to use it. Once, I sat with a dev who was trying to evangelize IntelliJ in our workplace (and influence our manager to purchase licences)and explained alternatives in Eclipse for almost all the ‘awesome’ features he showed in IntelliJ. He simply didn’t know what eclipse could do. For me Eclipse starts really fast, I really like the UI better than IntelliJ. I believe Eclipse provide really awesome features for a free software and on the otherside IntelliJ doesn’t provide enough features for it’s heavy price. It seems many programmers (not all) these days feel fancy about boasting they use a paid IDE to hide their actual incompetence in programming.
( Ps: opinion only from java perspective)
I recommend you try to remove the PhD from your qualification and apply for some jobs. I know a friend who concealed that he has a PhD. He wouldn't get a job because he is overqualified for most of them (and companies think they have to pay him a lot). Just give it a try.
I would recommend you use your expertise wisely to the less areas to build tangible product outcomes that actualy help humanity. I recently brought a drone kit & raspberrypi and built one with a vision to use it help for farming/agriculture/seed-bombing etc. This required me to move out of my desk and play with the hardware and eventually go outside to test it. At fist you may think its impossible to learn robotics stuffs since you are just a programmer. But trust me, if I can do it with no experience in Robotics, you definitely can. That way you can make use of your existing skill, learn new ones and see tangible outcomes.
IMHO I always wonder what happened to the future. There is a huge gap in robotics today. We should've built better things than facebook, twitter with computers by now.
A task is 20 minutes, if it takes longer they ask you to use more than one credit on a single task. And there was one task so far that took so long I ended up doing it myself (they refunded my credit for that one). But overall it has been decent. I haven't tried others yet.
I picked them because their minimum fee is reasonable. As it is I have trouble using all five tasks they give you. (it rolls over to the next month)
For example, the last thing I had them do was to call the landfill and schedule my trash bin to be replaced because the lid broke and put it on my calendar. It is a pain in the neck thing (they don't always pick up the phone... you have to wait on hold... etc) so the assistant probably saved me a lot of aggravation.
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