What I'm I looking for? Minimal contracts i.e I also don't mind being the guy in the cogs , fixing bugs, shipping features, reviewing PRs etc .

Portfolio:https://gilbertmpanga.com GitHub: https://github.com/gilbertmpanga12

Email: gm@gilbertmpanga.com

Time Zone: Preferably EAT or anything close to Greece time

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Things to watch our for: * You need to file tax reports regardless if you made zero sales. I hired a guy from fiverr , he did it for just $48

* Every June 1st, you have to file annual returns report to Wyoming and that costs about $209 for anonymous option or $111 for public option

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion

One thing that I've learned to boost my speed a little bit up is:

1. Ask tones of questions before implementation, even if they're stupid ask. Asking and knowing the right thing will help you prevent wasting time building something that wasn't needed

2. Ship the simplest piece of code that solves the problem. Don't be afraid if it's not fancy, or not optimised. You'll think of that later on.

3. Then before you go down to code, please spend almost an hour brain storming the entire problem through, think through all entire edge cases required for the problem.

4. I also sucked at stand up meetings , terrified I hadn't finished my stories. Keep them short 2 max, at least explain how far you've gone with the problem. If you don't have anything to show, at least mention something related to your progress.

Lastly , budget your time and always be optimistic , I've realised most things I presumed were hard but as long you're optimistic and tackle them , some how you find yourself shipping things

My journey: I learned about html and it clicked fast then got introduced to C & C++, but shit was so hard I didn't know what I was typing even

Then I moved to C# , installed Vs studio but still things weren't clicking

A friend suggested python is easiest , but when I tried I got discouraged, I didn't know how indenting worked, most of my programs failed so I dropped it.

Then I attempted again with JavaScript, early days of react js when SPAs were hot, I still failed. Angular js was more easier but still couldn't put up anything.

I gave up and took a break, that was after failing for a whole year, nothing clicking.

I tried again the following year, and that's when I heard about ruby and rails. I downloaded Learn enough rails to be dangerous, and walked through the tutorial step by step, finished my twitter clone, was amazed that I had a twitter clone!

This inspired me to learn more, there's a way ruby abstracted simple concepts into readable syntax , non scary cryptic stuff. It was almost like plain English.

This made me realize why I was failing, the languages I had started with introduced advanced concepts so fast without telling you why such things exist in the first place.

I mean writing a class just to print first hello world is such an overkill. Plus many languages use strange symbols & syntax that look intimidating.

Now, I can learn any language in just minutes or a day. Overall it took me 1 year and about 6 months . More solid knowledge has been learned on working on projects at companies

All the best

Pretty curios, was the message clear, is the problem you face too?

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* It's a form of reparations i.e if you belong to one of the folks who were victimized by colonialists, what more other way to pay back by using such a tool. After all the heavily guarded science corporations + universities were built with such privilege & stolen wealth

* Another one is we pay lots of taxes for this research but it keeps gated by corporations that pay zero taxes

* Last reason fuck it! Do it Louis Pasteur style;- never followed so-called medical ethics, relied on secrecy and dirty tricks to invent tech that still impacts modern day society to date ANTI BIOTICS

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