amcooper

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by amcooper 9y ago
+1. I know people who will probably need this.
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by amcooper 9y ago
I switched to Protonmail in November. I'm using the free version now, and it's fine.
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by amcooper 9y ago
I don't have much in the way of ideas for you, but I did want to comment to offer solidarity. HN is full of bravado and braggadocio, and acknowledgment of holes in the software labor market is rare here. And here your post has been dow
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by amcooper 9y ago
We have become inured to the Times's anti-journalistic practice of "simply repeating claims" for years now, but it's still a problem worth pointing out.
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by amcooper 9y ago
You're forgetting the dropouts. For every online student who graduates from Flatiron, there are many—maybe a dozen, maybe more—who drop out. Flatiron bills online students monthly, so they're raking in a good deal of money from dr
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by amcooper 9y ago
I've applied to about 500 jobs. I'm 46 & returning to coding after years of absence. I get better response rates outside of engineering (e.g., teaching, program management). This year, I won a teaching job and a technical writ
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by amcooper 9y ago
"This is the first time anyone's had a problem with this," the subsidiary's h.r. rep told me. This approach impacts people who have had experience with contracts and lawyers, and thus aligns with age discrimination.
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by amcooper 9y ago
I received a one-month contract—teaching, not developing—from a subsidiary of a large education company. I had to consult a lawyer and fight with them for a week over the contract's overly broad IP claims. They basically wanted ownersh
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by amcooper 9y ago
Let's clarify that 'your take on the demographics' was an article about Australia that was not specific to the tech industry. Here's a relevant piece from the Los Angeles Times. 'One example: Google's own data
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by amcooper 9y ago
Maybe the truly surprising thing about The Iron Yard is that they were able to run so many campuses in third tier markets for as long as they did.
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by amcooper 10y ago
I've heard about the similarity between orchestral auditions and whiteboard interviews before. As someone who has prepared for whiteboarding interviews at a Big Five firm, I'm fascinated by the comparison. For a while I couldn&#x2