How difficult is it and how long does it take to become a remote Django developer?

I’ve been studying Django on and off for the past year or so. I’m hoping to become a django fullstack developer as soon as possible. For those who were able to become a remote developer, can you shed some light on your experience and the route you took? Is it difficult to become a remote developer and how long did it take you to become that?

Also, what stack are you on? Is it easier to become a django backend and do JavaScript angular/react etc front end instead of doing just Django for both?


I’d like to travel and work at the same time so any tips or advices would be appreciated.

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[D] Are we expected to solve hard programming challenges to work in ML/DL industry?

Lots of tech companies hire people based on programming challenges. People [quit their job](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/why-i-studied-full-time-for-8-months-for-a-google-interview-cc662ce9bb13) to dedicate months preparing for an interview. [Cracking the Code Interview](https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850) is the #1 best-selling book in programming and software development. Even if a person has a strong experience in developing real-world software, they [may fail an interview](https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768) because of a CS/coding question.

I understand that there is a correlation between people that can solve these challenges and people that can do real-world software engineering, but I believe that this correlation is not as strong as companies believe. People may just overfit to these challenges and get a job without getting their hands dirty in real software development.

Enough of my rant.

I work as a ML/CV software engineer in the same company for five years. I did not have a single interview in the meantime. I'm considering applying to another job and I'm worried about the coding challenge interviews. I can produce well-written and maintainable code. I can understand, discuss, and implement recent advances in computer vision. But give me a simple data-structure interview challenge and I will struggle to solve it without looking at some references.

Am I expect to solve hard programming challenges during interviews for

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[P] Introducing Silas: a fast, accurate and dependable binary classifier

Hi fellow data enthusiasts,

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For a few months now, we've been working on a new binary classifier based on ensemble decision trees with a strong emphasis on dependability. Today, we are proud to present to you our new classification tool -- Silas, now available on Windows, Mac and Linux for free!

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Fast and accurate, Silas provides you with the ability to formally verify properties of its predictive models as well as the ability to enforce them during learning.

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We invite all data enthusiasts with structured datasets to try it out! We greatly appreciate all your feedback!

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[Download](https://www.depintel.com/silas_download.html)

[Documentation](https://www.depintel.com/documentation/_build/html/index.html)

[Get started](https://www.depintel.com/documentation/_build/html/tutorials/basic.html)

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How can I remove the 'static/' from URLs of static files?

I have my images and icon files in a folder called `static`. This is for internal organization.

Publicly, the URLs for these files are like this:

example.com/static/icon/favicon.ico

But I want them to be like this:

example.com/icon/favicon.ico

How can I achieve this?

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Advance Python Keylogger
https://youtu.be/LQ27txwruG4

/r/Python
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7 years of Programming, starts from this book

Hello Redditors,

7 years ago, I was a college student. My college doesn't teach me advance programming, but only basic of all programming language ( I learn from QBASIC, Visual Basic, Java, Cobol, C, C++, and more).

I love C/C++ back then, but I found some barrier while learning it. The barrier is: Different compiler and preprocessor while using different OS.

So I decided to learn one language that running in all platform. The first choice is Perl. I love because I can simplify and "code golfing" while code. But Perl is not my answer, because after 1 week writing the code, I forgot why I wrote in that way. I create many vapor code using Perl.

So, I need other solution for it. And my choice is Python.

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My college doesn't teach me Python, so I decided to **pirate** [this book](https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Python-5th-Mark-Lutz/dp/1449355730). For 1 month and 2 weeks, I learn that e-book.

I also create some script for my private hobby (scrapping from online manga, automation file clean up), and much more.
After about 6 month practice with Python, I try to apply programming job using the knowledge I know.

For about 2 years works after that, I finish my college also pay all my college

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The state of Python Packaging [aka pip 19 and PEP-517/518]
https://www.bernat.tech/pep-517-and-python-packaging/

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[D] Trump will launch American AI Initiative with an executive order

Regardless of your politics, this news may be relevant to American labs and research institutions working on machine learning.

MIT Tech Review article: [Trump has a plan to keep America first in artificial intelligence](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612926/trump-will-sign-an-executive-order-to-put-america-first-in-artificial-intelligence/)

WIRED: [Trump's plan to keep America first in AI](https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-plan-keep-america-first-ai/)


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PyPy v7.0.0: triple release of 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6-alpha
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/02/pypy-v700-triple-release-of-27-35-and.html

/r/Python
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Django 2.2 beta 1 released
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/django-22-beta-1-released/

/r/django
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Django security releases issued: 2.1.6, 2.0.11 and 1.11.19
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/security-releases/

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Django bugfix releases: 2.1.7, 2.0.12 and 1.11.20
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/feb/11/bugfix-releases/

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Building Simple Web Apps with Flask
https://kite.com/blog/python/flask

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Thoughts on using Django as a backend for a React/React Native location based app?

**Background**

I am more proficient in Django, and have begun looking into React in the past week. It looks like an exciting way to create a rich UI/UX + the ability to easily port to a native mobile experience with React Native. The tradeoff appears to be the added complexity that React brings to front end development (at least initially - I'd love some thoughts on this).

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**My app**

* Will have a web interface
* However 95% of the usage will be from native mobile apps that would make requests back to the server
* 99% of my data will be geo spatial in nature - points & routes - so I was thinking of leveraging GeoDjango
* The app will be using location data intensively (pinging user location like every 5 minutes for hours).

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**My question**

Does it make sense to use Django + Postgres for the backend/db to ultimately a mainly react/mobile experience? Or should I look more towards a full JS option? I have no idea what JS server framework I'd use, I am just raising the question to make sure I'm not missing a better solution to my problem.

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Thanks in advance for your thoughts -

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Here we go

/r/Python
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Tutorial on Getting Started with Flask
https://kite.com/blog/python/flask

/r/flask
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Using Alembic to migrate money stored in Dollars as Floats to Money stored in Cents as BigInt?

I think the title says it all, but I really don't want to mess with this stuff without some sort of verdict.

I need to transfer some pricing data, currently stored as Floats, into BigInts using alembic.

I know HOW to do the migration, in the sense that I know how to change the floats to bigints - but what about the users who have their data stored as Floats currently - what's going to happen?

Is it possible to use alembic to transform those floats by some simple Python script (say like, int(old_value*100)) in my Alembic upgrade?

Thanks!

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Tutorial on using flask and Tweepy
https://medium.com/@toivo1996/flask-and-tweepy-library-59cbce13c101

/r/flask
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I wrote a guide on installing Jupyter notebooks on a server and running them with SSH tunneling or with SSL and Let's Encrypt
https://janakiev.com/blog/jupyter-notebook-server/

/r/Python
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Image won't render with copy-pasted code unless I go to Edit > Insert Image

Hello everyone, I was trying to render an image by copying the code


and pasting it to my cell however nothing happens. It's only when I manually do Edit > Insert Image that it works... Is there a way to make images load through code?

Also can I make it like `` instead?

Thanks!

/r/IPython
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