nicholasjbs

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The Recurse Center: A Q&A for Past Me(dev.jdherg.com)
3 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago|0 comments
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The Recurse Center (YC S10) is hiring a jobs person(recurse.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 11y ago
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How I learned to (stop worrying and) love HTTP(codewords.recurse.com)
2 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|0 comments
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An introduction to reactive programming(codewords.recurse.com)
97 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|55 comments
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Yes, we considered a few others. For instance, we thought about "retreat" but decided against it because it felt too limited, and we considered "institute" but worried it would come off as pretentious. Center is definite
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
"Actually, Hacker School is vocational and requires an "M" visa." This is not true. See my response elsewhere on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9265755 ), but the tl;dr is: We've confirmed
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
We have consulted with immigration lawyers and confirmed that people can legally do our retreat on a visitor visa. We've had very few people have their visas rejected, and none as far as I know have been rejected at the border. The dif
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
We were mainly torn between choosing a name that was completely meaningless and one that was mostly meaningless, but which had some connotations to programming. We opted to do the latter. All the meaningful, descriptive names we could come
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
I asked every one of the people who wrote those if they were comfortable with my updating the name in their testimonials prior to changing them.
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Does our about page ( https://www.recurse.com/about ) make it more clear? If so, which info do you wish we had on our home page (beyond that we're in NY)? Thanks for the feedback!
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Ack, yes, thanks for pointing that out! Fixing now. (This is the problem with carefully grep'ing your code base and then completely forgetting about some of the parts of your site stored in the database :\)
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Fixed; thanks!
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
I find reading the source of things can be incredibly helpful in some cases, but when I want to really grok something, I need to write code myself. When I'm just reading code it's easy to trick myself into thinking I understand so
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The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking(danluu.com)
166 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|106 comments
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Show HN: Code Words, a quarterly publication about programming(codewords.hackerschool.com)
181 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|71 comments
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Congrats to Jon, Michael, and Ilya! Jon has been incredibly helpful, supportive, and kind to us (Hacker School) over the years, and I'm thrilled to see him become a full-time YC partner.
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UNC Chapel Hill releases investigation into irregular classes(carolinacommitment.unc.edu)
2 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|0 comments
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Paper of the Week: The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable(hackerschool.com)
1 points by nicholasjbs 12y ago|0 comments
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Thank you!
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
What we mean by "at the same rate" is that these rates are the same as the rates that men and women apply. For example, about 65% of our applications are currently from men, and men are about 65% of the people we invite to interv
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
In anticipation of the comments we've gotten in the past: * We hold everyone to the same admissions standard, regardless of race or gender. The grants are our way to create a more diverse applicant pool. * Hacker School is free for ev
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
From the first paragraph of the post: On the way, my co-founder and our CTO stopped me and said “I’m resigning. And I’m going to tell the team why.” He then told me that he had lost trust in me as a CEO and as a person.
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
I'm a straight, white, upper-middle class guy. Do you honestly believe I've dedicated the past four years of my life to making an environment that's terrible for myself and others like me?
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
Shaming rituals, however light in touch they are, rarely improve things. This is in no way a "shaming ritual." It isn't intended to be one, and it hasn't become one in practice. I'm one of the founders of Hacker S
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by nicholasjbs 12y ago
No, since I expect our next batch will be our best yet. That said, your point is true in two ways (though I don't think in the way you intended it). First, we try to make every batch better than the ones before it. That implies that it
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by nicholasjbs 13y ago
You can also read more about feigned surprise in our User's Manual: https://www.hackerschool.com/manual#sec-environment
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by nicholasjbs 13y ago
I don't know. We've considered a number of names but haven't found one we really like. We're open to suggestions :)
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by nicholasjbs 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words, and I'm sorry things didn't work out this time around :\ Regarding feedback: We tried to give individualized feedback up until last year, but we stopped doing it because it took a ton of time and wasn&#x
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by nicholasjbs 13y ago
As the post mentions, we stopped using the word "love" for both reasons -- gender was part of but not the entire reason we switched. In fact, the alum we quote as an example of the trouble with the word love is male: We used to s
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by nicholasjbs 13y ago
That was initially our assumption, but we've learned that there are some people who are interested in (and ultimately great fits for) Hacker School who don't primarily interpret the word as we do. Also, while most people who come

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