nicolethenerd

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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Twitter's official policy is that an account becomes inactive after 6 months - at that point, they reserve the right to release the account (in practice they rarely do this, though - there isn't an automated job releasing inactive
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Canvas is amazing. I cannot say enough good things about it (and no, I don't work for them). Love their SpeedGrader feature (allows you to quickly flip through your students assignments).
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I'm a woman, and I think it's hilarious and not at all sexist. Had to stop myself from laughing out loud because I'm in a library. Is the association that some people will make with "brogrammer" culture a bit unfor
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
You should get 10 free articles a month before the paywall appears. I'm guessing most HN readers haven't used up their quota yet.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
One line of code on the whole page, and the syntax is wrong. (Need quotes on "hi computer") But besides that, I think this has the potential to be great... but I honestly didn't get much from the video about the content of th
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Would you have heard of her book if she didn't have a kickstarter? That's why she needs a kickstarter. It's a marketing tool, possibly moreso than it's a crowdfunding tool.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
@JetSpiegel http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Reminds me of a situation I once encountered in the Mumbai airport. I open up my computer and see there's free wifi - I try to log on, it wants me to verify my identity by sending me a text message... of course, I don't have an In
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted - this is a brilliant way for him to get his name out there. Before this, we never would've heard of him, and now he's at the top of HN.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Minor nitpick, but calling them "transgenders" is kind of like referring to straight people as "straights" - it just doesn't really make sense. I think the appropriate term would be "trans people."
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
What app is that "Did you write 1000 words today?" a screenshot of?
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I didn't read it as him saying the two were mutually exclusive... I thought the distinction was between 'just a [CS major]' as opposed to 'hacker' (who may or may not have a CS degree) - perhaps I just interpreted i
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Misleading title - this doesn't prevent tampering, it just makes it obvious to you, as the laptop owner, that your machine has been tampered with. Still useful, but then what are you supposed to do about it?
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
My 2 cents (not that anybody asked). I teach computer science at an predominantly black all-girls school in Brooklyn - my students are exactly the demographic that this organization is targeting. And I think its great - the more opportunit
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I see several comments on this thread re: 'where are they going to get the teachers?' Not sure what Chicago is planning to do, but I'd love to see them follow the TEALS k-12 model ( http://www.tealsk12.org/ ) -
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Have you seen the Trello Calendar power-up? http://blog.trello.com/introducing-power-ups-calendar-card-a... I like it a lot. What would you do to make it better?
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I use different tools for different purposes. I have Trello always open as a Fluid app ( http://fluidapp.com/ ) for work projects, but I use Workflowy for personal ToDos, as well as long-term goals, project ideas, and everyt
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
First thing that jumped out at me was the "Try CoffeeStrap" button at the bottom isn't obviously a button - of course, the text gives it away if you're reading carefully, but if you're just skimming the site, it&#x2
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I'm curious how this internally transparent policy works when hiring new people? Do they tell you what everyone else is making before you negotiate, or only after you've been hired? Either way, that feels potentially awkward.
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In A Divided San Francisco, Private Tech Buses Drive Tension(npr.org)
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
This hits incredibly close to home - I work in Brooklyn, very close to Dasani's school, and also teach computer science (through http://www.tealsk12.org/ ) at a school nearby. Many of the locations in the article are f
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Can't speak to this particular book, as I haven't read it, but the best starting point for you depends what you want to learn CS for - do you want to build apps, or do research, or dabble in a bunch of topics just for the sake of
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I interned at Google's Mountain View HQ in 2009 - I don't remember there being an actual nap room, they just had a few nap pods (like this http://www.hammacher.com/Product/12199 ) scattered around the office.
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Hackathon and on and on(writing.makeshift.io)
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
We do have a handful of remote engineers and QA folks - typically, they're employees who started on-site and then moved elsewhere, and they do visit the office fairly regularly (with frequency depending on distance) - but it is somethi
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
For example, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/j...
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
http://www.amplify.com/careers (disclaimer: I work here) - we make educational apps for kids
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Uhh, clear your cache? You've definitely been compromised - content all over your site has been replaced with spam content.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
So yes, this is gimmicky - that said, it may work for them anyways. It certainly gets their name out there - it got them to the front page of HN, and it got me to read their jobs page (and be tempted by their perks) - which I probably wo
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
You disagree with people creating value and selling it for money? Genuinely curious, what is immoral about that?

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