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by padwiki 15y ago
I also work in online education. We're either competitors or complementary, depending on exactly who you work with. The list of things I could throw out as features we want to see in online systems, or standalone products that could make a
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by padwiki 15y ago
As important as it can be to keep the model of the system you are building in "ram", it is actually more important to allow your brain to digest and process new information with genuine downtime. The way I approach it is to "pulse" through
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by padwiki 15y ago
Nice to see you found decent customer service. My experience talking with them about educational licenses was a textbook example of how not to land new clients. Very disappointing.
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by padwiki 15y ago
Ok, here's a specific question I've been mulling over for a little while. We're launching our college in about 10 days and have been discussing the best way for prospective students to try out the system. We have limited server resources (l
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by padwiki 15y ago
I think the pricing may be off a bit, but this is an excellent idea for a couple of reasons. First, the super-memo algorithm has been proven effective for more than 20 years, and can be very effective for building a wide base of programming
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by padwiki 15y ago
If it helps, this is exactly what our school is built around. Every class we create is available both in a degree track as well as ala-carte to students exactly like yourself. You have the same professor and t/a support, grading and evaluat
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by padwiki 15y ago
This is a fantastic article, and really hit home with our project. The rules of deflationary economics has become common knowledge in most product and service industries, but in my industry (higher education), the opposite seems to be true.
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by padwiki 15y ago
Fair enough. I feel the same way about my mySpace page and AOL account. So hard to let go sometimes :)
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by padwiki 15y ago
Here's a suggestion; don't ask about creative ways to use airplanes with the user name "killa911".
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by padwiki 15y ago
This is very illuminating; thank you for sharing your thoughts on the subject. I can see where you are coming from in regards to diversification, although I take a slightly different angle. If I'm taking 75% of the salary I would in a fortu
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by padwiki 15y ago
Let me put it another way. Let's say you were flush with cash for some reason. Would you ever invest in an early stage or startup company? Would you ever invest in any company? Or, do you believe it is impossible to know, or at least approx
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by padwiki 15y ago
Scratch all of the above. I really don't want to sound like a dick here, but there is one skill that will help you immensely in your career. Try googling something before asking senior team members. Also, and this is just nit-picky, but try
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by padwiki 15y ago
So, if you were an early stage Google or Apple employee you would take salary over stock?
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by padwiki 15y ago
Yes, and here's why. it's not about project productivity, it's about building your company. "A" players hire "A" players. "B" player hire "C" players. "C" Players don't want to look bad so they hire "F" players. That being said, I wouldn't
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by padwiki 15y ago
Glad to help out. Took about 7 minutes to fill out, for those interested in contributing.
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by padwiki 15y ago
I've watched a few of them and no, they can't. They can be condescending and long winded though...so there's that.
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by padwiki 15y ago
Ok, that adds quite a bit of clarity. From your first post it was unclear where you were starting from. So, the money and demand for junior developers tends to lean towards front end or full stack devs. If you want to work for a startup, le
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by padwiki 15y ago
A lot of it depends on your exact job, the support network you have and how much cash your business takes to get running. If you are a programmer or other highly employable type, my advice is to form an s-corp, get an hourly contract that w
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by padwiki 15y ago
Couple questions back: 1. Can you program at all right now? If so, what languages and how much experience in each? 2. How stubborn are you? How do you react to stressful and frustrating situations? Do you get excited by fixing difficult pro
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by padwiki 15y ago
Ok, what we see in the valley are two types of recent graduates. We see "curriculum only" graduates who can barely use an IDE and can't code their way out of a paper bag (usually without real internships). These graduates require 2-3 year
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by padwiki 15y ago
It's interesting that the UC administrators think that the "paying for" is the part that needs to be addressed, not the base cost to begin with.
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by padwiki 15y ago
Honestly, in your budget, I think your best bet is going to be focusing on building your library. You can get the same benefit from conferences by snagging the webcasts and papers online. Colleges and Universities (other than mine, and our
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by padwiki 15y ago
15 year full stack developer here with at least 8 of those years doing GUI stuff. Over the years, the two biggest things that helped boost my skills were: 1) Write a game. It may sound cheesy, but it gives you a frame of reference to work f
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by padwiki 15y ago
What technologies/languages do you want to focus on?
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by padwiki 15y ago
I third Mountain View, and the computer history museum. Also, while you are there, check out Hacker Dojo. If you need a lift anywhere I live a block from the train station in MV and never mind a quick siteseeing tour. In the city, check out
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by padwiki 15y ago
I would like to know about things that the powers that be specifically don't want me to know about. Laws that are being slipped through under the cover of night. Any changes to civil or human rights issues. Funding connections to politician
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by padwiki 15y ago
I would suggest being more direct in stating exactly what the site is and especially how it can benefit the user. Right now it has a "this is a thing I built" kind of vibe, which is not great for driving signups. Find out what the real prob
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by padwiki 15y ago
Sorry, should have been more specific. they might ask you if and how JS handles general threading concepts. The correct answer, as you alluded to, is that aside from web workers, JS is not multi-threaded. You could then talk about the cha
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by padwiki 15y ago
Closures, closures, closures. Also, know how JS handles floating point arithmetic, type coercion, threading and the difference between async and sync.

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