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by KevinMS 15y ago
qualified There you go. Who determines who is qualified? HR screening everybody in the dev business that doesn't have a compsci resume? Under 30 years old? Been out of work for a few years living on savings? I've said it before and I'
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by KevinMS 15y ago
If you are young and recently graduated with computer science you are hot in Boston. If you've been around a while and have a degree in anything else, or are self taught, companies like these will most likely just ignore you. That is thei
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So whats your problem? The only pools of programming talent come from young interns or computer science graduates? You'd suggest political lobbying before looking outside the narrow focus of twenty something male comp-sci clones that coll
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Mail servers are state machines. The SMTP protocol is all about state. In a way any web app with a login is also a state machine - there's the logged in state, and the not logged in state. erlang has a very effective state machine library(
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by KevinMS 15y ago
I also have a schizophrenic computer, but that points to the fact that I shouldn't have upgraded to OS X Lion.
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Given that all of computer science is based off of math at some level, i'd say math is more important than you think. There's your problem right there. He isn't talking about computer science, he's talking about actually programming. Sad
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Nonsense, they have one of the most distinctive, recognizable cover designs, easily recognizable even from a distance, and are consistent for all their books, and I think they are attractive, what more would you want for your book designer?
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by KevinMS 15y ago
SOJs was a really interesting phenomenon and probably taught me more about economics more than anything else. SOJs, "stone of Jordan" was a unique ring in diablo2. Gold in diablo2 became worthless, even though they tried to soak it up with
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by KevinMS 15y ago
But knowing how to program and knowing all the trendy algorithms are two completely different things, - I should know.
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I would be shocked to find that apple had the same kind of comp-sci bias that google had. They must have a huge number of developers who have been with that company since the 80's and 90's, a time when much of the industry was being create
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It will be interesting to see how a company that hires with a strong academic bias competes in the long run. I'm not sure but I suspect Apple is the opposite, and look how they are doing. Update: is this not a relevant comment? What would
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Coincidentally, I just finished a rails plugin that does something like this with rails and posted it a few days ago. In this case "back" is determined by a graph of your web app you feed to the plugin. Never managed to get any feedback o
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Is this web app navigation algorithm a good/bad idea? (rails plugin)(kswope.com)
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YC disagrees with facts? I said "on the east coast" http://www.startuply.com/#/in%20massachusetts/1
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Boston/Cambridge is startup land on the east coast. I'd say about 90% of the job listings I see for startups or web companies are in boston or cambridge. Bigger "more corporate" companies are situated around route 128.
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Maybe SF is different, but I'm talking the Boston/Cambridge area, those are not "corporate" companies. Just an amazing coincidence those companies are mostly in college towns? I really wish you were right, but I'm not seeing it.
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Although there are some standout exceptions the hacker community is obsessed with credentials. Most of the job listings I see, on a daily basis call for a computer science degree, and its almost never qualified with (or equivalent experienc
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Perl 5 may have gotten more interesting lately, but is any of this is a beginners book? The llama book is ubiquitous, you can find it anywhere, including used copies for a few bucks, second hand book stores, the cubicle next to yours, etc,
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I got a little excited when I though "Lama book for perl 6!", then I was a more than a little disappointed. How is this any different than the previous 5 editions? And if not, why should anybody care there is a new version? And how is thi
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Not buying it. If there was a facebook rule for "college students only", it was because facebook was for college students. I have no doubt that many companies and headhunters look for recent graduates not because they have just been taug
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How is this not automated ageism?
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by KevinMS 15y ago
Do we really have to be so imprecise in our language that now "spam" in a headline can refer to "blog spam"? How about "comment spam" as well? What else is there? How about I write an article titled "spam is now illegal" and by the fifth
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Unseen cost of all that filtering. And for how long is it going to keep up with spammers? Oh and all the false positives that are a nightmare for so many legit uses.
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Inspires confidence in a language when drivers for a major database are side projects released on github? This is one of the main reasons I just walked away from erlang, the ratio of buzz vs its supportive environment for the real world is
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by KevinMS 16y ago
I could probably get behind this idea if it differentiated between junk accounts and premium paying users. In fact I began offering exclusive domains just to keep my paying users from dealing with this sort of thing. As of right now you a
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What about disposable email address services who offer exclusive domains for paying customers? Are you going to characterize those addresses as "fake"? I see you are actually doing that now! I know these evil disposable email address user
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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Now I'm baffled. I downloaded Xcode yesterday, and today I was going to start mac programming for the first time, and now Xcode is 5 dollars or join? Do I need to join now? I seem to have access already to their documentation so I'm comp
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by KevinMS 16y ago
I think the "red flag" is that I'm over 40. I get screened by HR because I don't have a comp sci degree, and then I end up interviewing with 20 something rails hipsters that just feel uncomforable around an old dot-commer. The perl communi
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by KevinMS 16y ago
I'm in the boston area and I have a similar experience I seeming to be outside the job market. While I don't have comp sci degree I have lots of work experience as well as a small web business that demonstrates lots of solid code. Just so

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