ChrisSurprisingly, DevOps specialists “are among the highest paid, most experienced developers most satisfied with their jobs, and are looking for new jobs at the lowest levels” according to the recent StackOverflow developer report. The report shows that almost 11% of all programmers classify themselves as DevOps specialists. On average, they earn $71,000 per year (worldwide) and $122,000 … Read more
Investing is the most natural thing in the universe. Trees invest energy into seeds. Parents invest time, money, and sleepless nights into their children. Companies invest in employees. States invest in public school systems. They invest because they expect growth of their investments. The one who invests more and smarter has a huge structural advantage. … Read more
Rather than having a technology-first mindset, the best freelance developers have a project-first mindset. They don’t limit themselves to a single technology so any answer that gives you a single technology to learn is fundamentally flawed. This article discusses practical freelancing projects and many of them are interdisciplinary. Here’s a list of projects and an initial reference … Read more
Today, I got the following question from one of my Finxters who struggles to find the best Python field to work in: My main struggle now is which python field to choose. I know there is a video that you recommend pick up one field and maybe later pick up another in order to find … Read more
The Android operation system (OS) uses the Linux operating system kernel which is implemented in the programming language C. The Linux kernel is a program that sits between the hardware and the processes and manages resource allocation (e.g. CPU access) and device drivers (e.g. printers)—among other things. The kernel’s tasks are challenging and performance is … Read more
The popular (and addictive) Question and Answer Site Quora is not just a hobby. There are many people earning serious money with it. Affiliate Marketing This guy earns money by including affiliate links into his answers. Read his excellent Quora answer to learn more about this way of earning money with affiliate links. Read Zach … Read more
The short answer is 80 bytes. Here’s the longer answer: In Python, you can determine the size of any object x by using the function sys.getsizeof(x). The complex number consists of two parts: the real and the imaginary part. On my notebook, a complex number is represented by 32 bytes: Note that the sys.getsizeof() method … Read more
Yesterday, I got a great question from one of my “Coffee Break Python” email course readers: I once read that {list, dictionary, tuple} comprehension can substitute any lambda code. Is that true? Is lambda, filter, map really essential? — Albrecht, Finxter Member Python’s creator, Guido van Rossum, doesn’t like functional programming a lot. That’s well-known. … Read more
Many people have a negative attitude toward investing money. The reason is that there are so many companies that do not bring good into the world. However, investing is one of the most profound things in nature. Every plant invests energy into creating seeds out of which grow more of its sort. A lot more … Read more
Is your coding interview coming closer? Or do you want to learn Python but you don’t know where to start (and on which topics to focus)? In this article, I will answer this question for you assuming that you are talking about core Python knowledge. Of course, there are dozens of different specializations within Python—but … Read more
Of course, it will! I doubt that there’s any job today that won’t be replaced by general AI. But even if you don’t believe in general AI, there will be specific AIs optimized to write cleaner code with fewer bugs (and don’t bitch about working conditions). Humans are inherently bad at coding. It’s even hard for … Read more
Not at all. There are at least four reasons why you can start to learn to program at any age and become successful—especially if you are only 25 years old! First, you don’t need to become an expert programmer to pursue your dream job. Most jobs that most people would consider as “dream jobs” do … Read more