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ericjmorey

@ ericjmorey @programming.dev

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Data Science

  • Mistral AI bot on Lemmy

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  • It sounds like you're describing a normal mentoring relationship.

  • New Grad with some experience needing some advice

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  • They were doing a lot of stuff really inefficiently because..

    made a bunch of applications over a few years that automated/worked around/replaced that old broken stuff. This ended up becoming a really important part of everyone’s work day and my software has saved them 1000s of man-hours annually and honestly I think that is a conservative estimate. My work in part helped them grow their product offerings significantly because they weren’t having to do a bunch of stuff manually anymore. (Inventory updates, Customer order and tracking updates, Updating/pulling stuff from databases, eventually integrated my stuff with some vendor APIs who offered them, web scraping to get info on hundreds of thousands of products and more!)

    Sounds like you're not entey level anymore and you shouldn't think of or present yourself as such. It sounds like you can find businesses that need similar updates to their processes and improve them.

    The other person mentioned attending Chanber of Commerce events. If you go to one, tell some business owners how you made the existing staff at the prior company able to do more with fewer mistakes and how much the business expanded as a result.

    I know that you have your mind set on a more traditional software development position, but until you find it, you can be more creative with how you can make money using your skills. Data is valuable, you know how to collect it, store it, organize it. You're clearly able to problem solve, so create some solutions to problems you see or offer to create them for someone you see that has problems (and money to pay you to solve them).

    The market will come back around, you'll eventually be able to find a traditional position that you're looking for, but in the meantime you have to be more flexible.

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  • Get started, make mistakes so you can learn. The best stack is the one you use to build things with. If you want to learn a new tool, use it. Otherwise, use what you're familiar with.

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  • Sign in with Google/Facebook/etc. bypasses the problem that ActivityPub isn't all that popular (this may change with Threads but it's unclear how that will play out). But I also think you're overstating the hesitation most people have in creating an account for a service. Also, being a hobby project, it doesn't necessarily need to be or desired to be popular right away. It doesn't need to have all the features right away. It doesn't have to be built in one try or architected perfectly.

  • Matrix rooms and spaces for rust [RUST]

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  • Just to be clear, I merely found these rooms and passed along the URLs. I don't have any more association with them beyond joining them.

  • JavaScript developer getting into rust and looking for memory resources

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  • I linked to free resources so you wouldn't have to buy the book, but I also bought a physical copy as I find it easier to regularly read a physical copy.

    Have fun!

  • What are you all doing with Rust?

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  • Which IDE do you use?

  • Meta: How can we grow this community?

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  • Fair

  • Rust for Lemmings Reading Club [PROJECT PORTAL]

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  • I guess it couldn't hurt to share the matrix rooms in a dedicated post.

    I don't have any other recommendations right now.

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  • Getting hung up on the difference between a mirror and a relay is moot. I don't see how people would be more accepting of that. In fact it seems like more people would object to having their posts mirrored to reddit considering the reason many are here is to stop participating on Reddit.

    And it doesn't eliminate the initial problem which is that the posts will be considered spam by the largest instances.

    So you could not care and do it yourself, but I suspect that it will result in the same reduction in community engagement as the prior attempt.

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  • There's an entire instance that implimented your proposal that was quickly blocked by the largest instances. They were considered spam. It resulted in the opposite of growing community engagement.

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  • You're talking about adding uncurated noise to the mix. I have a lot of RSS feeds that I browse through, but most of the posts I won't share because they are just noise.

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  • I don't think that would be allowed on Programming.dev or Reddit.com

  • JavaScript developer getting into rust and looking for memory resources

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  • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • Building a house (or any construction project) is notoriously impossible to be on schedule and on budget too.

  • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • Everything is one line of code in a turing machine.

  • Rust for Lemmings Reading Club [PROJECT PORTAL]

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