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Ask HN: How do you find side projects?
12 points by philaquilina 13y ago|8 comments
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by philaquilina 14y ago
I'm also a Dev Bootcamp graduate and I work at Hipmunk now as a software engineer. Something like 93% of my class (summer) got hired so I'd say there's _some_ empirical evidence. What kind of engineers we'll be in a year's time will be eve
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Lessons on Team Coding(philaquilina.com)
2 points by philaquilina 14y ago|0 comments
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What The Lord of the Rings Can Teach You About Success(philaquilina.com)
2 points by philaquilina 14y ago|0 comments
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by philaquilina 14y ago
Good eye! I am indeed half maltese. Although atheist, I've always subscribed to the (secular) symbolism of the the 8 points on the cross, so I thought it a good symbol for the site.
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by philaquilina 14y ago
Ha yea, there's a typo there. The gist is cached by the wordpress plugin. Going to fix it at lunch. Should look like this: [20] (pry) main: 0>
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Tossing Out IRB for Pry(philaquilina.com)
113 points by philaquilina 14y ago|23 comments
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by philaquilina 14y ago
As an incoming student for the next round, who just quit his mech engineering job to do this, I can't tell you how nervous I was about signing up a few months back. Before I decided to take the plunge, I talked to Shereef, audited the clas
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by philaquilina 14y ago
I think you are thinking of "change the world" in the "topple bad governments, empower the meek, help make this world a utopia" type of way. Evernote is changing the world. If you make 30 million people's lives just a tad bit easier, then
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Wisdom From Eloquent Ruby - Metaprogramming(philaquilina.com)
2 points by philaquilina 14y ago|0 comments
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Wisdom I picked up from Eloquent Ruby, Chapters 10-19(philaquilina.com)
1 points by philaquilina 14y ago|0 comments
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by philaquilina 15y ago
Some programmers would argue that using self.method_name helps clear up ambiguity to humans who read the code, even if it is equivalent to method_name This is the reason I highlighted it. I had heard both sides of the argument from peers
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Wisdom I picked up from Eloquent Ruby, Chapters 1-9(philaquilina.com)
47 points by philaquilina 15y ago|16 comments
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by philaquilina 15y ago
Whoa, no kidding. The majority of people are not going to stop on those two letters and consciously differentiate "virus" from "PC virus."
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by philaquilina 15y ago
As someone who used to sell Mac computers, I used to get asked the question "Is it true macs never get viruses?", to which I replied "No that's not true." (It was just an apple reseller store afterall so I was never compelled to bend the f
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The Warm Embrace of Vim(philaquilina.com)
1 points by philaquilina 15y ago|0 comments
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by philaquilina 15y ago
I was very surprised by this too. It sounds like EMC is trying to establish some kind of legitimacy in the startup world. I feel like Pivotal gets a lot of respect from the hacker community. I wonder what kind of fallout this will have th
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by philaquilina 15y ago
While I won't argue with the fact that you should donate, I never felt any pressure to donate while I was taking classes there. I didn't even know there was a donation bin on-site until you mentioned it. To me, that was the cool thing abo
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by philaquilina 15y ago
One suggestion on working spaces if you're traveling up to the city. There's a place called Noisebridge in the Mission that is more or less a free hacker lounge with a lot of creative folk in. The only caveat is that it tends to be noisy