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by jlees 12y ago
Well, I thought this was awesome. And the way they are promoting it (social media, Google.com homepage) is neat too.
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by jlees 12y ago
As everyone else has mentioned, ask your peers to introduce you directly to the manager. A couple of things: Include a brief but enticing paragraph on why you are awesome. It makes it a lot easier for the "intro-er" to forward or
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by jlees 12y ago
I think just getting the data is the hardest part; there are several corpora available in academia, but not so much outside it. Although you wouldn't need the full text of the paper, just the bibliography entry, which could be much eas
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by jlees 12y ago
There is also such a thing as diminishing returns: for some people, working on something different after a day's work is better for productivity, happiness, and the bank balance. Especially if that gets channeled back into the main gig
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The graph of overall CS enrollment backs up your comment that there was a decline in STEM degrees in the 80s. Interestingly the next peak of CS degrees hits in 2002-3. While the obvious explanation of the dot-com boom fits, I would say stud
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by jlees 12y ago
Lovely article with some interesting puzzles near the bottom (and top). When I was young, Martin Gardner's puzzle books, along with Raymond Smullyan's 'What Is The Name Of This Book?'[1], introduced me to logic and to th
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by jlees 12y ago
No Hands Ken is another in the former camp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMivdZ-mbI http://www.dailydot.com/geek/ken-worrall-twitch-diablo-warcr... Sorry to hear about your friend, chrissyb. Some g
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It depends on your definition of 'best'. Do you want to leave with a solid understanding of how a programming language works, how memory functions, many of the fundamental algorithms and data structures in CS, and more of that kin
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Some bootcamps do teach computer science principles. Many do not.
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I tend to find a lot of the folks coming out of online or bootcamp-level courses start off as front-end or app (usually web app) developers, and then gradually pick up the backend and architecture pieces as they grow as a developer. There a
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by jlees 12y ago
I would be interested to know how you look for these things. We find that although folks can seem very passionate and curious, sometimes they find out they just don't enjoy (or aren't particularly good at) programming. Would love
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by jlees 12y ago
Well, it's kind of two-phase. If the license check fails, the Play Games server calls will fail. Which means features like multiplayer just won't work.
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It was even more painful live, in a room of 8000 women. Ouch.
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It is far too easy to say "I know I know something" and mistake that for being able to do it when the time is right. This piece is the rocky piece, the point where it's easy to be carried away with enthusiasm for something yo
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by jlees 12y ago
Well, if we establish personhood as a two-sided social contract then I would argue that psychopaths are those who view it as a one-sided social contract, seeking to maximise the rewards for themselves without maximising the rewards for the
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by jlees 12y ago
They cross the interface between school and the outside world by causing a certain set of behaviours and/or expectations when in transition between states. A schoolchild walking home in uniform may be better behaved than otherwise, be
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by jlees 12y ago
Close - San Francisco Hiring full-time in SF (SoMA), contract-to-hire preferred: * Generalist or Rails Engineer (application stack) * Back-end Python Engineer (data stack) * Data Scientist * UX/UI Designer We're a seed fun
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by jlees 12y ago
Neat idea though I'm having trouble differentiating it from Mixergy.
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You need to find a set of people who are connected and connectors, and who have this kind of problem in spades. Then build in sufficient virality so they all start using it, and as you point out, multi-platform presence. Many folks have tri
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by jlees 12y ago
Hmm, a kind of double opt-in? (Or possibly triple if you count handing out the card in the first place.) Interesting idea, at the same time there are ways to replicate this today in terms of 'send me a blind message on Facebook/Li
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by jlees 12y ago
This (and sister comments to mine) are super interesting, we're working on this problem space - with a professional focus - and there are a bunch of folks in the consumer side too. Happy to chat to anyone interested in solving this sor
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Look for angels in the LA area, too. There are some!
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Academic 'business' courses can seem as far distanced from real business as computer science is from day-to-day engineering. Perhaps neither computer science or business professors are the best equipped to teach these things. Find
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by jlees 12y ago
These are great nuggets of advice -- the observations on job searching as well as big companies/startups are still true 3 years later. Especially if you're moving to a new area, being in a startup requires you to put in a lot of e
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by jlees 12y ago
Also phrased as: Remember the person behind the keyboard is a real person. You might not agree with them, but they're a living, breathing human being who took time out of their day to type what they typed.
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I recommend reading some nonfiction too. Cryptonomicon is one of my all-time favourite books, but I feel by focusing on it alone it's a little bit of a disservice to the reality of Bletchley. The Secret Lives of Codebreakers and The Se
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Close - San Francisco Hiring full-time in SF (SoMA), contract-to-hire preferred: * Generalist Software Engineer * Data Engineer * Data Scientist * UX/UI/Rapid Prototyper We're a seed funded startup - 3 former Go
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by jlees 12y ago
Not necessarily. Drivers rating the passenger is a defence against passengers rating the drivers low, and also a way for Uber to keep quality standards high by stopping 'bad' passengers from using the service.
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If you keep track of the total number of rides.
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We also need to shift our culture and empower our employees to build their own careers, networks, and ultimately, dreams. Companies should take the opportunity to encourage their engineers to give technical talks, release open-source code

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