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by bambataa 9y ago
I don’t really understand the criticism of Meetup not innovating enough. People create meetups and other people attend. Yes the UI could be better but, fundamentally, what innovations are needed? What is wrong with Meetup just continuing to
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by bambataa 9y ago
It must have been discomforting that your sweet girl had become a woman with thoughts and opinions differed to yours.
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by bambataa 9y ago
DDG is usually good enough but I do find myself dropping back to Google for some searches (easy enough with !g). It does make clear how tailored Google searches are to the user. For example, when I search for programming terms that have non
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by bambataa 9y ago
And not just programming - all of computing really. Logic gates are composed into more complex ones that are composed into even more complex ones and so on upwards.
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I enjoyed this but its ending really let it down.
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by bambataa 9y ago
> I feel that expecting me to be exactly on time to non-work events is even more disrespectful because the stress of trying to make it on time makes my cortisol levels go up and probably shortens my life expectancy. You could always have
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by bambataa 9y ago
This is making me think that maybe I’ve been doing these wrong. If someone says “don’t spend more than a few hours on it” then I assume that’s part of the task requirements. I’ll get as much done as I can in a few hours and put a TODO secti
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by bambataa 9y ago
* Start contributing to open source projects. This feels quite overdue. * Try and buy no new books until I read all the unread ones I already have.
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by bambataa 9y ago
What strikes me about this is how little weight recruiters put on referrals from current employees. I would have thought that being recommended by an internal employee would get you an initial interview at the very least. Surely a trusted e
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by bambataa 9y ago
I also would not call that burnout. It sounds like you're realising that work sucks. Going to work is fun the first few months when you're all 'look at me going to my big job!' and you probably feel richer than you have
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by bambataa 9y ago
There's a relevant Guardian article today [0]: 'Google executives set foot in the Obama White House more often than those of any other corporation – its head lobbyist visited 128 times. Google spread its money across Washington wi
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by bambataa 9y ago
I think this is an excellent idea. There definitely is a gap in the market for non-CS grads who want to get a more robust grounding than a ten-week bootcamp can offer. I'm interested in how you select applicants but your website doesn&
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An Evening with Berferd: In Which a Cracker Is Lured (Bill Cheswick, AT&T 1991) [pdf](csrc.nist.gov)
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by bambataa 9y ago
I attended a (London-based) bootcamp and all we really covered was developing CRUD apps with a decent-ish UI and API integration. On the one hand it did feel very superficial but then a lot of web development jobs don't require much mo