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All the more reason to host your own instance! However, I understand if others prefer not to go this route and thus use an alternative version control solution.

I haven't experienced any downtime with their public service - which I think is great for hosting private repos (as others have mentioned). I actually prefer it to bitbucket.

In other professional experiences, hosting our own instances of Gitlab was a great solution. Setup/updates were easy and we had the piece of mind knowing that we were in control of the maintaining uptime. I was very impressed by how simple it was to their implement CI service as well.

Ever checked out Rocket Chat? Open source solution that is extremely similar to Slack and you can self host.

https://rocket.chat/

Thanks for the suggestions and write up - very insightful.

This looks amazing - much better than most of the comparable services I've looked into. Going to give it a shot - thanks!

His Foundation episode with Kevin Rose is pretty good as well.

http://foundation.bz/7/

"I guess this week it's React, but some say that Vue may surpass it in terms of popularity by next Wednesday."

haha thanks for the laugh!

As striking as it is for a company to take in a billion every quarter and still fail to make a profit, it is all to common in the telco space. I know from experience at one of the big 4 wireless carriers in the US. The inefficient mismanagement and spending decisions, specifically related to operations were astounding.

I started a company (shameless plug: fifthsignal.com) that makes software to fix a lot of the inefficiencies we saw. One of our biggest concerns was whether or not other carriers operated as poorly as what we had experienced. After talking with several carriers outside of the US, it would seem that most are actually worse off.

I believe someone in this thread made a comment towards the "legacy" telco space. Based on my experience, I would say it's a "dinosaur" industry that has seen very little delivered innovation in recent times.

*Most of my experience relates to operations/OSS solutions, with very little insight into telco BSS space.

My first child is three weeks old and I have a very similar support group in place. Yet even with all the help, I too, am strongly considering a nanny - I feel the thought alone is an indication that I've already lost my sanity haha

Obsolete was the wrong word - Perl definitely still works (very well for certain things). Cool to see new applications being developed in it still!

Nice post! At my most recent job, we used perl daily for processing scripts and many other functions. After initially having similar thoughts about it being "obsolete" and a "dinosaur", I quickly realized how resilient and flexible the language is (I know the flexibility can come with some criticism).

We investigated a lot of other options (go & python specifically) when building new projects, but found that perl was the best solution. It's flexibility allowed us to develop a custom and durable solution that surpassed our expectations.

We ran into some environment/portability issues and resorted to using docker, carton, and gitlab CI to solve these problems. It is incredible how reliable and easy it became to modify and deploy code to a variety of systems (new or old).

A lot of times you will end up teaching in a school where children or people know conversational English and are studying to become more proficient.

I have two close friends (husband and wife) who spent the last 6 years teaching English in Thailand and Bali. In Thailand they taught at a private learning school and in Bali they taught at a school where the wealthier families sent their children.

Per the larger discussion: While there, they lived on one of their salaries and saved the other. I think they left with $15k and returned with roughly double that. I know during there time over there, they took off around a year and half total to travel and relax. They didn't live in glamorous places and eat at fancy restaurants. Instead they lived more like the locals to some extent, but this mentality/lifestyle allowed them to stay longer and ultimately come back home in a better place than when they left.

My wife and I visited them in Bali for four months last year (I am a remote software engineer). By association we adopted their lifestyle and had a fantastic/extremely affordable extended traveling experience.

Exactly what happened.

Great post!

For those learning, make sure you look into removing unused images and containers otherwise you might run into some issues a little farther down the road (eventually our builds started failing).

You can run docker rm and docker rmi to remove specific containers and images respectively, but we also found passing the --rm flag with docker run helped a lot as it removes a container after it exits.

Happy learning!

funny, the "learn more" button is broke but the "buy me a beer" one works just fine!

I've worked a cross campus (santa monica) for a couple days last spring. It was pretty cool, with some good food options nearby for lunch. I went with a member so I was able to enter with him, not sure if they offer day passes, but worth looking into.

http://www.crosscamp.us/

maybe the rupture was the initial bit of smoke (it looked the larger of the two from my view).

I saw two big puffs of smoke and initially thought it was the boosters releasing.

Was just watching the rocket from my backyard and it looked like it exploded... wow, can't believe that.

How is patagonia? Heard the wifi isn't so abundant there.. Congrats, I hope to make it there one day!

For those whose startups failed and ended up working as an engineer at another company, what would you say is the main difference between the company you work at now and your failed startup? Basically, what lacked in your startup that ultimately led to it's failure?

yes! That's a great example!

I agree, but I do think from a cosmetic perspective some UI's can be memorable, mainly because I've experienced some that are.

Extremely well put sir! Go forth and travel young ones!

Orlando, FL - Remote/Relocation, Any/All

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I am looking to join a team that is passionate about what they're working on. I've worked for startups and contracted for international corporations for the past three years. I love engineering solutions with technology and am always expanding my stack knowledge. I enjoy engineering front-end and back-end aspects of applications. I have no problem working remotely, but would consider relocation if necessary.

I've personally experienced the frustration of trying to introduce an innovative and different model in the auto industry.

It's a good old boys network that seems like they will resist change until their failure far before they'd ever consider transitioning to something that isn't, "just the way it is".

I live in Orlando, 30 minutes from all the parks. Please reach out to me if and when you and your family make this trip. I will help in any way I can. I know, from my personal network, that I can help in getting free tickets and an employee rate at one of the park hotels. I'd be more than happy to provide transportation for you and your family to and from the airport as well.

If you make it this way, please contact me, I'd love to help!

Really enjoying this! Thanks for building!

It's more than links to other resources. Having transitioned from a marketing/business background to a development career, I recall the areas that gave me the most trouble when I first started and would like to simplify that for others who would like to become more familiar with development.

I'll send over a copy as well, I'd be curious to get your opinion!

I'm in the process of throwing together a short and sweet e-book (20 pages) with basic front end concepts explained from a zero background perspective and references to more places you can go to further develop your skills.

It's $10, shoot me an email if you'd be interested in a copy or have any questions!

Good luck on your journey as well!