nicolethenerd

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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
How about "Your software skills were great, but so-and-so's were better"? Of course, not knowing you and not working at Fog Creek, there's no way to know if that was the actual reason or not - but I would think it would
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
On the contrary, the evolutionary argument here is that a few generations under these conditions would allow more biologically "stupider" humans to survive (since intelligence isn't being selected for) and pass on their genes
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Why offers from startups specifically? I think most of the companies I applied to were safely out of the 'startup' category. Also, are you looking specifically for data from new grad job searches? If so, you should clarify that on
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
That's exactly the same link.
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ ?
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
The missing word kind of broke the joke for me ("so he [can/could] get a vasectomy") - I got so hung up on wondering whether part of the sentence was missing or whether something had been lost in translation that I missed the
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Technically, nobody was "effected". They were, however, "affected" http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/affect-eff... Also, http://www.gingersoftware.com/english-online&
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Access Code seems like a perfect program for someone in your situation (basically a 9-month coding bootcamp for folks from underserved groups - it's in Queens, NY - I'm not sure whether you have to be from NYC to apply) http:&#x2
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Only tangentially relevant here, but that photo reminds me of MIT's "Make Way for Cruftlings" hack: http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/cruftlings/
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
It kind of threw me that he used the word 'semi-colon' in his defense about not having too many extraneous hyphens - apparently that is an acceptable variant, but the most common spelling I've seen has always been 'semic
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Battlecode ( https://www.battlecode.org/ ) is a programming competition run by MIT every January for programming an AI to compete in a game (the exact nature of the game changes every year. It's vaguely Starcraft-like, e
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Funny brand name, considering that the word can be slang for "stolen." I can see this causing some confusion.
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Why I’m glad Satya Nadella gave that awful career advice to women(blogs.seattletimes.com)
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Maybe find an open source project to contribute to that interests you? I'm not active in the open source community myself, so I don't have any great suggestions - but maybe someone on here can suggest some projects with a good co
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Honestly curious, what is the alternative to PTO? I don't see why this is such a bad thing - you get X days off, you can use them for whatever reason you want - sick or vacation - as long as X is a reasonable number, what's the is
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
In case any of you have a business w/ a physical location, yext.com sells a service that lets you manage these details (business hours, location, phone #, etc) across several different sites (Bing, Mapquest, Yahoo, etc + ~50 others), r
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Why Online Games Turn Players Into Psychopaths(wired.com)
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but I wrote a blog post that details the steps for creating a repo and hooking it up to github - http://nycda.com/blog/how-to-create-a-git-repo/ - I cover two met
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
Do you know what you'll be working on, or what tech stack you'll be using? I would probably try to get familiar w/ the specific languages, libraries, and tools you'll be using on the job - maybe build a small project in
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by nicolethenerd 12y ago
In flappy48, are there some cases where it's impossible? Because the pipes are randomized (unlike the original Flappy Bird, I think? Never played it, but my understanding was it was always the same sequence) - by the time the first pip
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
The big question... is this actually useable at Starbucks? If I show a barista a 3rd-party, non-Starbucks affiliated app, and ask them to scan it, will they do it? Or just look at me like I've grown 3 heads? Even if it is a valid barc
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
The zone pricing is a little strange to me. So it's cheaper to have something delivered the 50 blocks from 110th to 59th St than it would be to go say, a block or two from 35th to 33rd?
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Threes shouldn't be knocking their 'rip-offs', they generated a ton of publicity for the original game. Without playing 2048, I probably never would have heard of Threes.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Genuine question - I see a lot of references to the fact that this practice is "illegal", but what law is it violating?
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
But it is just pattern matching - 'sexism' seems to connote intent, or at least some kind of discrimination / negativity. Assuming that a woman you meet is more likely to be non-technical than technical is just probability -
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Amplify - Brooklyn, NY (we also have offices in Manhattan, Atlanta, North Carolina, and more) amplify.com Amplify is reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn in K-12 education. Our digital products are leading the way in data-d
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
97% of people like to code??? What??? Unless you mean 97% of developers - in which case, yeah, I should hope so. But even if you meant 97% of the tech industry? This industry is full of people who want to "design apps" or "m
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
But what you don't get with an index (at least, I don't think you do? I admit my ignorance on this) is the sort of transparency and ability to dig deep into the algorithm(s) that it appears you'd get with something like Quant
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
When I first heard about Facebook's Paper, I wondered how that conversation could have possibly gone down... "So we're building this great new experience, and we want to call it Paper..." "Isn't there already a

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