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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Sure - except in this case the author was. By declaring women, minorities, and LGBT folks the target audience of this Clojure tutorial - it implied that they wouldn't be just as well served by a "regular" Clojure tutorial (e
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
> Is EE shop sites you would have visited before the search? No. I think you might be parsing his statement wrong - it's not "have searched" as in searched for previously, it's "have searched for a PRODUCT"
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Exactly - Apple products are expensive - despite their usability, not all users are willing to pay a premium for that. On the other hand, if there was a highly-usable free alternative to Windows (which Linux seems like it's well on it
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
The "who is this guide for?" section seems a bit out of place here in an otherwise technical document. While I appreciate the sentiment, studies have shown that girls/women perform worse on tests if they are reminded that th
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
It's not a full online curriculum, but the pre-work for the Flatiron school ( http://prework.flatironschool.com/ ) is a pretty solid introduction to the basics.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging ETA: oh snap! Didn't realize that someone else posted this link above as a reply to a different comment. Oh well, you can never have too much rubber duck debuggi
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
See Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Last I checked, he wasn't a know-nothing engineer.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
That picture is adorable! How could anybody have something bad to say about that? Haters gonna hate, I guess.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Well, to be fair, it is - http://www.fiftythree.com/paper (Not new, but an app, and an awesome one at that)
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
One more addition for the list - the Khan Academy programming tutorials - https://www.khanacademy.org/cs Very hands-on, kid-friendly (but good for adults too) - I'd recommend them for middle school and up. Also, there&
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Love the concept, but the site itself (which I assume was built using the framework) is visibly laggy (in Chrome, on a MacBook Pro) - I'd be worried about using this for anything where performance was important, and for mobile (esp And
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I bought Portal in a box. I put the CD-ROM in and it prompted me to download Steam.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Yes - let's not forget she wrote this on a tumblr - with a kind of unprofessional-looking freebie theme (Fluid Neue by PixelUnion, for those curious), as opposed to an official Yahoo blog. There's no way Marissa Mayer can't
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Err, what? Months? It's just an API. I was once given two weeks to write a prototype of a small Android app, w/ no prior Android experience (years of Java, though) - granted, just being a prototype, it didn't need to be produ
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Haha, no. I'm really a Mac person at heart, and I used OS X happily until the laptop was stolen out of my office two years later :-( - this time, the company replaced the laptop (with another Mac, of course) within days.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
It's a wall calendar - it only shows one month at a time - presumably, the current month.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Pretty sure keevie was being sarcastic.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Not quite the 'forgotten employee' story, but when I started a new job a few years ago, the company ordered me a Macbook Pro (or so they claimed...) While I was waiting for it, they gave me an old Linux box to work on, but I didn&
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Aw, I was kind of hoping it would be about this kind of Tesla: http://warehouse13.wikia.com/wiki/Tesla
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
The fact that so many people have popped up here to defend or justify Linus's behavior terrifies me. There is no excuse for being mean. Period. Full stop. This is basic human courtesy - they teach it in grade school. It doesn't ma
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Re #4: There is a funny scene at the end of Disney's Carousel of Progress ride that shows exactly this - a "futuristic" family is gathered for the holidays while their voice-activated oven cooks in the background. As they m
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
No, tons of people saw that page. I'm the only one who saw that particular permutation of that graph.
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I used to agree with you, but I've seen the other side of this. When I was applying for FT jobs out of school, one of the companies I interviewed with sent me a small coding assignment, which I completed - I got the job. I've be
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
Based on that headline and the number of startup redesigns that show up on HN, I was expecting a redesign mockup of PayPal - not an actual product. Took me a minute to realize what I was looking at. But great job!
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
This is awesome! Two features I would love to see are: 1) A calendar, so you could plan out meals for more than one day 2) A way to enter your own meals, so that the generated meals could be planned around the ones you entered (ie. if I ha
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by nicolethenerd 13y ago
I think we need to separate out the term "old boys" from "network." One of the most valuable things you get from going to a top school, whether MIT, Ivy League, or otherwise - is exposure to a network. They're not necessarily the "old boy
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
While I was there, there were no shootings, but two stabbings. Both by people known to the victims, though, not random acts of violence. Not that that makes it any better or anything. :-/
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
And NY? Just curious, what makes you say that? Haven't seen that reported anywhere.
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
Looks like that thread is too old to comment on? Anyways, I think my username makes my gender fairly obvious. :-)
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by nicolethenerd 14y ago
I disagree with the " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5489039 versus https://news.ycombinator.com/5489039/if-the-earth-were-100-p... - its in contradiction to the author's earlier point that URLs should be "hackable". With the form

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