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by jlees 13y ago
I don't pay much attention to the exact degree weather outside. I guess if it was on the cusp of freezing it might be interesting, but generally.. it's cold, I'm not going to change my behaviour as a result. Is the quantifiab
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Especially if you have had a bunch of individual interviewers, who are all conducting multiple interviews per week and trying to ship product, the delay may be down to waiting for one or more of them to submit their feedback about you. I&#x
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I linked some mentoring resources further down, specific to connecting high schoolers with female role models. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7039716 ) RailsBridge ( http://www.railsbridge.org ) is aimed at
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Not all women-led companies were started by women, too.
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Funny you should say that. I got my first real programming job from a puzzle in MENSA magazine.
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by jlees 13y ago
Lemma: Women-led companies are desirable. Vivek Wadhwa is doing a bunch of research into the data. I don't have his report at my fingertips but fundamentally, not investing in women is not a rational move. Here's the media headlin
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by jlees 13y ago
The SWE K-12 outreach ( http://aspire.swe.org/ ) is probably close to what you're thinking of, though if you meant more of a peer-to-peer "dial a mentor" service I don't think I've seen one. Not that
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There are also recent studies that confirm different manifestations of it, for example [1]. I tend to agree with Wikipedia on the publication bias aspect, but I don't think you can sweep away the impact of stereotypes at all. I also th
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by jlees 13y ago
A lot of the advice given to beginning game developers is exactly to put out a few generic arcade games at first. It's a great way to learn a stack and actually ship something, plus the end product is instantly recognizable, and the
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by jlees 13y ago
Thank you. I didn't know about this and it looks perfect for my occasional SF uses.
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For folks who are away from home, or otherwise on the road with a laptop, Starbucks is invaluable. There's a guarantee of transactional access to wifi, even though the quality of the wifi varies by location, and the only risk is findin
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by jlees 13y ago
I love pen and paper, and use it a lot. But I'm still struggling for a solution to capture things like bookmarks/mobile thoughts in a way that I can use alongside paper. Right now I use a combination of Google Keep and Pocket, whi
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I love the Miquelrius/Paperchase style notebooks but haven't paid quite that much for them, I think. The grid/line-height is a good size and the multi-colour paper in the subject notebooks makes them really handy for multiple
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by jlees 13y ago
Scrivener's actually an interesting tool for research, depending on your exact needs. Not as cross-platform as it should be though.
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I can't imagine it'll make any difference at the hiring stage (I certainly interviewed my fair share of older interns and often found them to be very strong). The only way in which I think it will make a difference is if you end u
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45 Articles and Books that will Make you a Great Product Manager(medium.com)
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by jlees 13y ago
To me, a hacker is someone who thinks creatively about problems, and who views technology as a set of tools to solve them. The YC question about "the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage"
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As a tangent, I read this earlier today and then got annoyed at not having a quick URL shortener on hand (I got spoiled at my last job, where I could use internal shortcuts for complex URLs like create new Google Doc / link to specific
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by jlees 13y ago
Thanks for the detail! One of the folks I'm working with is having trouble banging their head against a big co, but it's good to hear you didn't have such issues. Hadn't thought about it in terms of price, beyond individ
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by jlees 13y ago
Hmm, this dovetails with an idea I had for a Paleo monthly box, if you're interested in chatting... how much work on the day-to-day do you want to offload?
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by jlees 13y ago
Signing up to a specific gym timeslot for Crossfit. The combination of social pressure, financial commitment, no-brainer workouts (variety, someone tells you what to do, and it works) and getting into a routine mean I haven't missed a
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by jlees 13y ago
There are initiatives doing both of those things, luckily. Little Miss Geek, Technovation, et al for the first; and various changes including anti-harassment policies for the second (though some companies/events remain quite "bro&
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by jlees 13y ago
Congrats Randall! If you can answer, I'd love to hear a bit more about the unknown-guy-vs-major-broadcaster relationship :) Did you have any issues as such a small company dealing with a big giant like CNN?
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by jlees 13y ago
Set a goal to do one small part of it in 5-10 minutes, then the rest usually follows. If it's a real struggle to get that small part done, examine why I 'need' to get it done in the first place. Deadlines are a huge motivator
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by jlees 13y ago
I'd like to call attention to this part of Fred's post which many of the sub-threads appear to have overlooked: Instead of turning Paul's comments into a blogosphere shitstorm, maybe we would all be better off staring the is
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by jlees 13y ago
I got into programming by figuring out how to cheat at games when I was small; another common route is writing mods/addons (which I also did, later on). Don't knock the instincts even though it's not writing code!
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Yeah, I lease out three rooms in our house to roommates and it feels a lot like a boarding-house style setup. It depends quite how it's organized, of course.
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I was thinking something along the same lines. PageRank was great back in the day, but in today's world, the link is not the only way of determining whether a site is good or not. I wonder if a rethink of the HITS model or a complete o
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by jlees 13y ago
Both contestants in Countdown have 30 seconds to find the longest anagram that is also a valid entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. The one with the longer valid word wins, gaining equal points if there is a tie. There is always an exper
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by jlees 13y ago
His recent Wired guest-editor issue talked about his passion for books, I'd look through the books he has and pick out a couple of my favourites that he hopefully hasn't read yet.

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