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Product | Operations | Community tracyhinds@gmail.com tracyhinds.com tl;dr Tracy is the Head of Platform at Samsung NEXT. She is using her passion for startup engagement, cultivated in her prior work as a web and product engineer, community builder, and strategist to build a service platform that provides portfolio …
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I have a million amazing stickers I have collected from my running conferences, meetups, and travelling to many of my friends at other events. I also like a clean aesthetic, and have therefore resisted covering my new(er) lappy with them. I realized this week that some people really -do- …
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There will always be those who don't like you. Who don't like what you're doing. Who don't understand you. That's unfortunate--for them. …
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I just recently celebrated another birthday. As a year that many tend to freak out about age-wise, I'm trying to instead steer with the rushing river of oncoming wrinkles and mellow out to embrace it. As such, I've decided pretty recently that I should also stop fighting/hiding faults of …
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A great turnout, a few hiccups, lessons learned. ON PLANNING The charge was led by PDXNode. We were fortunate enough to have 10 mentors, many our own PDXNode organizers and others who were fantastic community members willing to step up for mentor roles. We built a plan of attack by …
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Be Kind Being better prepping your work for code review Less seasoned programmers do not have the built-in habits and knowledge required to have work ready for code review but even programmers who are more experienced may have not picked up these habits in their work environments. You can do …
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I did not create the idea of Hacker Train. I merely implemented an instance of it--an instance I hope to replicate for years to come. Our Hacker Train came about from a group of coders desiring a fun and beautiful way to head up to CascadiaJS 2013. Trains are a …
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Why I'll be fighting for a ticket to CascadiaJS 2014 Overview I had quite the luck in getting a ticket to CascadiaJS 2013. I started my journey to the conference with Hacker Train. I ended the trip by realizing I would have to depart my conference family. At the start …
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Or how I career transitioned and kept my sanity(so far) In November 2012, I was knee-deep in the process of becoming a programmer. I’m a planner, I planned everything--down to the DATE I would start looking for work as a programmer. March 2013--Dooms Day. Otherwise known as Pycon …