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by jurassic 13y ago
HTML/CSS is like basic literacy. CSS preprocessing (SASS) is easy and essential to keep your projects flexible/maintainable, so definitely take a couple hours to learn that now if you haven't been using it already. If I were you I'd focus
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by jurassic 14y ago
Like camelcamelcamel.com? I set up price alerts for big wishlist items; it's a great service.
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by jurassic 14y ago
My main experience of MATLAB is fixing pathetic spaghetti code from non-programmers (think of complex "scientific models" with no concept of DRY principles), and wasting hours trying to adjust their MATLAB scripts to do things that are triv
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by jurassic 14y ago
The best way I know to "check" radiometric ages is to date a rock using more than one isotopic system (e.g. K-Ar and U-Pb) and compare the ages that you get. If you get the same age from isotope systems with different decay rates and syste
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by jurassic 14y ago
Single crystal uranium-lead dating is one of the best all-around methods and gets used a lot for vanilla geological applications of Earth rocks; any rock that contains trace amounts of the mineral "zircon" can be dated with this technique.
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by jurassic 14y ago
I was excited until I got the word of the day "misunderstanding".
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by jurassic 14y ago
Yes! We need to see more material under Matt Might's CRAPL license. I feel a strong urge to write off any result that doesn't have accompanying code with it. http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
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by jurassic 14y ago
I share your frustration. No reasonable permutation of my name and initials or usual handles is available, and most are inactive accounts. Besides their developer-relations problem, namespace pollution and stagnation is a big problem for T
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by jurassic 14y ago
They're going fast now that you posted this link!
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by jurassic 14y ago
Good designers scoff at 99Designs because the expected payout is absurdly low for the amount of skill and effort usually required to win a "competition". The price structure undermines the pricing of struggling freelancers trying to break
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by jurassic 14y ago
Female here and longtime lurker before registering somewhat recently. The only time I feel very cognizant of the gender imbalance is in comments of articles about the lack of women in tech. Some amount of introspection on how to be welcomi
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by jurassic 14y ago
> Think of how much time you spent arguing with a profesor that your score deserved an 8 instead of a 6, enough points to bring you from a B to a B+ for the semester. I spent zero time doing this, and I never even realized how widesprea
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by jurassic 14y ago
There are lots of them. Dev Bootcamp and App Academy come to mind, but google and you'll find plenty of options.
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by jurassic 14y ago
> Forget Codecademy This. Getting everything installed and the environment configured is huge.
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by jurassic 14y ago
There will continue to be low retention until there is an incentive to finish. Without the credentialing piece, I don't see a problem with low retention. I think it's awesome that people dip in and out as their needs and interests change.
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by jurassic 14y ago
This message is sure to alleviate their technical recruiting problems.
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by jurassic 14y ago
Another idea once you've saved up a couple grand is to outsource yourself while you continue learning and improving as a developer. Move somewhere with rock-bottom cost of living (southeast Asia? Boliva? ...you get the idea) while you do f
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by jurassic 14y ago
> Women can just marry someone after college and make the husband pay off all of their college loan debt for their women's studies major or whatever. > Women have far more options with career paths these days, and very rarely have t
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by jurassic 14y ago
I wish somebody would write a post like this for Ruby. Trying to craft a personal study plan of the best, most current resources from the large number of apparently high-quality offerings is difficult for a newcomer to the language. I'm o
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by jurassic 14y ago
For all but the superstars with a desire to pursue academia, it is irrational to stay. Especially outside CS, a lot of quality people are heading towards oblivion (middle age with no job, no prospects) by doing a PhD. I know some of them,
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by jurassic 14y ago
The sequester is serious business in science. A scientific workforce and the equipment they need must be maintained; it's not easy to ramp up or down capacity as demand and funding levels shift. The pipeline for an individual into a high-
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by jurassic 14y ago
>> And honestly, she can't even function as a sort of "women's tech evangelist" anymore. Most [all, actually] of the women I've talked to about this are furious with her over how badly this portrays women. Female here. I'm a newbie
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by jurassic 14y ago
Webvan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
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You could be kicked out of Dev Bootcamp(natashatherobot.com)
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by jurassic 14y ago
I prefer list view to tiles, but I wish the text wrapped at a more readable width. On a large monitor, reading the small excerpts as a single truncated line isn't the greatest experience.
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by jurassic 14y ago
I've been eyeing the gmail import tool with suspicion, and I'm glad I didn't give in to my curiosity. I'd be mortified if all the contacts in my address book got an email blast from a 3rd party website.
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by jurassic 14y ago
No doubt the scions of many middle and upper-middle class NYT readers are having a hard time seeing the ROI on their liberal arts educations. It's sad how many people I know who finished college, moved back home, and ended up with the same
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by jurassic 14y ago
In some states it is still possible to sit for the bar without attending law school. But who would hire you, when there's a glut of credentialed attorneys with no job?
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by jurassic 14y ago
If you ask women who work in tech, and if they feel comfortable telling you the truth, many of them will respectfully disagree with you. Just because you do not perceive bias or discrimination does not mean it is not there. I was recently
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by jurassic 14y ago
I completely agree. I'd love it if there was a broader selection of "anagramable" 2 letter extensions that aren't encumbered with geopolitical associations (e.g. ly=Libya, ir=Iran, etc.) I have zero interest in .long_noun extensions.

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