jeffreybaird

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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
Many scientists are atheists or at the very least not strictly religious. It seems that you currently have to believe in God to be elected. Is this keeping many of them from even running?
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
I like the idea. How can we hold them accountable, assuring the research that was intended to be done, actually gets done?
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
The post has moved, so if you are looking it is here: http://jeffreybaird.github.com/blog/2012/08/21/how-to-get-a-...
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
Most of us use some amount of open source software. I think it is in our benefit to support those who make the effort to create and maintain the software we use every day.
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Tech Jobs: Get Your Ass in the Door(blog.grrl.org)
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
So, there have been a lot of negative comments and I understand where they are coming from. I will try to address them as best I can. "Seeing a self-taught guy with 6 months coding experience writing software at a medical lab testing facili
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
Honestly the six months started as a weekend curiosity, and those ten hours often became twelve or more. Addiction was an understatement.
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
"It's not an easy trip.. it's not just six months... it's a lifetime. Yes you might get a job in 6 months but then you will have to work even harder to keep that job and to be in the game." That is exactly why I fell in love with programmin
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
TLDR If you work your ass off you can get a job doing what you love in a relatively short amount of time. I wasn't claiming that I am an awesome programmer but I got good enough to put myself into a position where I could learn from awesome
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
Either you didn't read the article or you missed the point.
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
When I was hired it was with the very clear understanding that I was to be taught a lot and I was being hired for my desire to learn. Sometimes if you can't find a qualified candidate you have to train them.
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
Totally want to learn C, but I wouldn't even have thought to try if I hadn't tried ruby first. I got my first look at C digging through the Ruby source code, trying to figure out how it implemented Array.sort. Ruby opened me up to the world
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by jeffreybaird 14y ago
And since my blog has never had more than 5 people on it at a time... it crashed.