[OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
I'm sure there will be a substantial amount of arrogance perceived from this question, but frankly I don't think that I have anything to learn from my co-workers, which saddens me because I really like to learn and I know that I have a lot of learning to do. I've been employed as a software engineer for about eight months now and I feel like I haven't learned nearly as much as I should. Sure, I've picked up little tidbits of information here and there, but I'm no more confident in my ability to build anything more complex than a basic crud app than I was the day I started. Things I'm interested include contributing to both Python and Django, database design and data modeling, API design, code quality, algorithms and data structures, and software architecture, among other things. Basically, I want to be a better engineer. Where can I find someone willing to point me in the right direction and what can I offer in return? Happy Monday! James -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > -People are on crazy deadlines and have no time to work with you. > > > -People make you feel like an idiot when you ask a question and they > intimidate you so you don't come back and ask more. > Both of these issues exist; mainly on the part of the CTO. I feel like everyone else is on board with making a few changes that need to happen, but management is much more concerned with pushing code to keep investors happy. While I understand that we have to move quickly as a startup, I don't understand why we are sacrificing quality for speed. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
I'm in the Bay Area and I did actually go to a Django meetup yesterday in SF where there were talks revolving around large-scale Django applications. It was very informative. :) On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > Check meetup.com. I live in nyc where there are django, python groups. > Maybe where you live too > On Apr 8, 2014 12:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" < > steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> >>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your >> >>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you. >> >> >> >> A utopia very few will ever find. >> > >> > In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source >> > projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for a >> > long post. >> >> http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-politics/ >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Steven D'Aprano >> http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- *James Brewer* *http://www.brwr.org/ <http://www.brwr.org/>* *Software Engineer @ RealScout | What is RealScout? <http://vimeo.com/72791570>* *Twitter* *twitter.com/jamesbrwr <http://twitter.com/jamesbrwr>* *GitHub* *github.com/brwr* <http://github.com/brwr> *StackOverflow** stackoverflow.com/users/2052923/james-brewer <http://stackoverflow.com/users/2052923/james-brewer>* *LinkedIn* *linkedin.com/in/jamesbrwr <http://linkedin.com/in/jamesbrwr>* → *M**y favorite RealScout search is Modern & High-Tech Homes in Atherton <https://kendeleon.realscout.com/categories/modern-high-tech?utf8=%E2%9C%93&loc=Atherton>* -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > > Judging from your childish optimism and bombastic > expectations that the onerous of scholastic achievements lay > solely in the prowess of your teacher, i can only conclude > that you are yet another recent graduate of one of the > "fine universities" that happily rob naive parents of their > life savings and then infect the professional world with > plagues of self-absorbed little lazy a-holes who think they > offload their workload on everyone else. > > So you want to be taught eh? Maybe you should consider this > little "tidbit"... > >"When the pupil is ready, the master will appear" > > And now allow me to "female dog" slap you back in to reality > about your new found "masters" -- you know, the ones you so > kindly refer to as "co-workers"... > > > They are not going to help you! > > They are not going to teach you! > > Heck, they may not even point you in the direction of > the lavatory when you need to tinkle! > > No, these people are your mortal enemies. They will smile to > your pimpled face and then stick a knife in your back -- not > much unlike the trolls around here! > > Listen kid; working is competition, a competition to the > death, and only the stupidest of stupid person would train > their replacement! > > So what is a boy to do? > > I would suggest you learn a little self reliance. Go and > read some tutorials, learn a new language, try to challenge > yourself to build something that is beyond your skill level. > Short of that you'll always be Bubba's "female dog". > > Good day! > You're an interesting fellow. Also, I didn't graduate; I dropped out. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:19 AM, James Brewer wrote: > > You're an interesting fellow. > > Rick's one of our resident... uhh... characters. Don't take his words to > heart. > > > Also, I didn't graduate; I dropped out. > > I dropped out of high school. Never went to uni/college/etc. > > ChrisA One thing I have picked up is to take what everyone says with a grain of salt, taking only that advice which is helpful. People like Rick are awesome because they say things that other people only think; and sometimes these things are the most helpful. :) - James -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Travis CI + Python 3.3 + Django 1.7b1
Hi, I've been trying to get a build running for my Python 3.3 + Django 1.7b1 project, but I've run into an issue and I'm not sure how to solve it. When the command `pip install -r requirements.txt` gets run, the build errs with a message referencing some Python 2.x syntax when `import ez_setup` is called. Here is the log from the build: https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/22824057/log.txt Here is the .travis.yml file associated with the project: https://github.com/WargamesIO/wargames/blob/master/.travis.yml Any ideas? :) Happy Saturday! -- *James Brewer* *http://www.brwr.org/ <http://www.brwr.org/>* *Software Engineer @ RealScout | What is RealScout? <http://vimeo.com/72791570>* *Twitter* *twitter.com/jamesbrwr <http://twitter.com/jamesbrwr>* *GitHub* *github.com/brwr* <http://github.com/brwr> *StackOverflow** stackoverflow.com/users/2052923/james-brewer <http://stackoverflow.com/users/2052923/james-brewer>* *LinkedIn* *linkedin.com/in/jamesbrwr <http://linkedin.com/in/jamesbrwr>* → *M**y favorite RealScout search is Modern & High-Tech Homes in Atherton <https://kendeleon.realscout.com/categories/modern-high-tech?utf8=%E2%9C%93&loc=Atherton>* -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
