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by et-al 10y ago
I used to think stickers on Macbooks were a crime against their clean design. However when your entire office, or the airport security line, has a row of identical laptops, stickers become very useful in identification.
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by et-al 10y ago
> I've been in go-mode unremittingly since June of last year, and keep putting relaxation off because I don't want to miss an opportunity. That's really admirable! But yeah, take care of your mental health too. When I me
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by et-al 10y ago
Yeah, I feel Europe cares about the degree more than America does. We're the land of self-reinvention here, whereas Europe generally requires some sort of training/schooling to switch careers.
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by et-al 10y ago
Sorry if these are obvious and you've already gone over them: - have you tried reaching out to your alumni network or the career development person at the bootcamp? - what has feedback been about your interviews? if it's "we&
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by et-al 10y ago
I can see that. He's not Crusoe, but I still found his story interesting because this is someone I usually don't get a chance to talk to (as most recluses are). And maybe it's my age and experience, but 25-27 years is a reall
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by et-al 10y ago
A literal footprint: "The first snow usually came in November. Chris was always fearful about leaving a single boot print anywhere, which is impossible to avoid in a blanket of snow. And so for the next six months, until the spring tha
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by et-al 10y ago
If you think of him in that terms, sure. I think much of the disappointment people have here is that they were expecting a man vs nature story and instead read about a thief who lived off the fat of the modern world. The responses in this t
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by et-al 10y ago
Probably because it's "easier to hire than to fire". I worked with some really great folks that had trouble getting hired and it was because of the flawed interview process. One person writes concise and clear Rails code that
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by et-al 10y ago
He admits to this: "I stole. I was a thief. I repeatedly stole over many years. I knew it was wrong. Knew it was wrong, felt guilty about it every time, yet continued to do it." If folks haven't already, the GQ article by Mic
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by et-al 10y ago
To follow this thought, most people know just handful of zip codes (if even their own), so if you drop "94303" in front of me, dollar signs are not going to appear in my eyes because it's Palo Alto, CA (multi-million dollar
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by et-al 10y ago
You sound like a good interviewer that adjusts to each candidate. I wish more interviewers would learn the importance of this.
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by et-al 10y ago
This is great advice, thanks. In the past six months, I've been better about keeping notes. Not specifically for this, but this is definitely another benefit of journaling.
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by et-al 10y ago
Yup, whiteboarding and reciting tried and true stories are inevitable routines when interviewing. However, you'd also be surprised at how many people don't know how to prepare for this. My main concern would be the possibility of
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by et-al 10y ago
> That said, I'm always surprised how many candidates cannot even point to one problem they worked on they found interesting or one solution that they're proud of. It could be that this technique favors people good at telling
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by et-al 10y ago
This. When a minority group is consistently saying there is a problem , one should probably question their existing beliefs and wonder if they don't see it due to some sort of bias. And it's fine to be wrong, to not have see it.
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by et-al 10y ago
[edited out my comment to reduce the noise -- see comments below]
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by et-al 10y ago
Don't know if you've seen the other posts, but Archive.org already has torrents (click on a course and check out the Download Options on the right): https://archive.org/details/@schule04?and%5b%5d=subject%3A%2
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by et-al 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Yes, seeding lectures would be the best way to contribute while still maintaining a personal copy. https://archive.org/details/@schule04?and%5b%5d=subject%3A%2... (If you go onto one of the cours
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by et-al 10y ago
Archive Team seems to be down (maybe from all the requests). If you really value these videos, I'd still download them onto your own computer instead of relying on a third-party hosting. As others have mentioned, youtube-dl is the way
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by et-al 10y ago
If you're talking about just constructing new JS views, creating templates, and styling them, yes I think that will be relegated a WYSIWYG editor for a designer to weld. I know people said this was going to happen when Dreamweaver came
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by et-al 10y ago
Would there be a way to be a bit more specific about flags? E.g. "inaccurate title", "duplicate post", "advertising"? There's been times when an older article is posted and adding the year in the title mig
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by et-al 10y ago
I got on Facebook for the exact same reason when I was in university, and it was necessary as a way to know about events and art openings from acquaintances. The key is just limiting how much time you spend on there. Not installing the mobi
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by et-al 10y ago
Thanks for the upvote, but a bigger thanks for coming back to answer my question so thoroughly. :) > If you're using an HTML templater, it might sanitize/encode the HTML for you, but only if it knows that it's supposed to
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by et-al 10y ago
Wow, I'm glad they brought up the iOS Gmail app redesign as an example. It took the Gmail team 7-8 releases over a 3 month period to finally restore functionality, but the app is still a user experience eyesore despite all the praise f
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by et-al 10y ago
> “If I have a guy’s number from Tinder, sometimes I’ll prematurely save it on my phone so it comes up in Snapchat if he uses it. I probably won’t add him immediately, but I’ll try and deduce his Instagram or other handles from his Snap
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by et-al 10y ago
This example will only affect that particular user viewing the page, though. And once they hit refresh, that'll be gone. If I'm following your other example with malicious input into a form; the snippet would have to pass server-s
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by et-al 10y ago
Some folks were saying TNF was on a decline even 15 years ago when the VF Corporation bought them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VF_Corporation
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by et-al 10y ago
OP might be thinking of Sierra Design guys starting up MH. It's a common cycle for these people to jump ship as companies get entrenched and they lose their creative freedom. Same thing happened with backpacks: Dana Gleason of Dana Des
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by et-al 10y ago
> Also, who wants someone picking through all their produce/meats/perishables? That's a pretty subjective thing. Remember, you're addressing a group of people who probably would drink Soylent if it was sustainable. So
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by et-al 10y ago
(And this is the original blog post that inspired the book: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/the-pot-and-how-to-... )

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