iurisilvio's comments

Beautiful APIs and clean code. It is easy to contribute to their projects.

I had the same problem years ago. You must have a good "excuse" to not know these simple things. You studied it for the last 4-5 years and still don't know?!

It is a flaw in your CV. When I graduated (2011), I failed every algorithm interview. Passed in some that asked me other things, like Python / Bottle / Flask. At that time, I was a Bottle core contributor and had several Flask projects available.

I was too busy working on real projects (internships, startups, open source) and passed all the exams with low grades. My fault. It was a choice and I had to handle the consequences for some time. I don't regret this.

Being a "competitive coder" helps a lot, you have in your head every algorithm they'll ask. Some companies don't hire you without this knowledge. You have less options.

The most important thing about it is to understand if you are able to dig someone else's code and fix/improve it. This shows a lot about you. It is your code and you have to interact with other (good) people. It is a social experience.

I use it for some time. When I researched about it, this was the best option.

[0] https://www.revive-adserver.com/

Flask is an awesome option, I'm building things with it for some years now.

[0] https://restpy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I'm using Cloudflare as a CDN for my website for 3 months now. All my traffic (~98%) is from Google and it is consistently increasing every week.

It saves 20% of my bandwidth serving static resources and some of most visited pages.

I don't use SSL, it is not important for my pages.

I check it sometimes, but I don't know if it is good.

I started with AdSense 3 months ago and I'm still afraid of being banned and lose all my revenue. I don't explicitly violate any terms, but it is not original content and can easily be framed as doorway pages.

One of my goals to 2015 is a better project to publish here.

I have a small directory website. It's pretty boring stuff, but it is a good source of almost passive income. Never published it. I just created the website and sent the sitemap to Google Webmasters. It's 8 months old and I have 400k pageviews/month.

I have lots of projects in idea stage, I want to execute at least two in 2015. My plan is to reinvest all money from this first side project to create others.

I have the same problem with a website with 98% search traffic. I don't know if Google changed something or if my traffic will go back to normal in next few days.

The days I do it are really more productive. It is easier to acomplish tasks this way.

I use just a new tab in Sublime Text. I maintain this tab for several days. I never save this file.

I know other people who use only Olark/Zopim free plans because it is too expensive and really want something like it.

It is difficult to contribute to Django, Flask, Rails, Linux or any other large project. Look for small and undermaintained projects. They are easier to understand and have more low hanging fruits.

* I started contributing to Postmon (a brazil zip code API) during a 24pullrequests. Now, I'm a core developer of this project.

* I helped with freedomsponsors.org development a lot (the creator is a friend), looked for issues there too and fixed them (counting for 24pullrequests and receiving some money for it).

* Contributed a lot with bottlepy core, bottlepy plugins and Flask extensions

* Fixed some 24pullrequests bugs =)

* Fixed some docs

I wrote about how 24PR help people to increase OSS contribution, using 2013 stats: http://notenoughmemory.com/2013/01/24pullrequests-post-morte...

Honestly, I have a lot of difficult to do it. Most of the time,I suffer of impostor syndrome. I don't want to write because I'm not an expert about the topic. You have to ignore it and go ahead.