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Fun survey: State of Developer 2017(surveymonkey.com)
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by positivity89 9y ago
Do enough people really have a subscription to the Washington Post? Or is this trending purely because a lot of people agree with the opinionated title?
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by positivity89 9y ago
Does no one see what's happening? This whole thing is a massive sign of progress. Men are deeply scared of an increasingly growing population of female developers. This is a pretty significant moment of anxiety and fear. That's go
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H-1B visa applications drop for first time in years(sfgate.com)
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Where Should You Open Your Next Engineering Office?(hackerrank.com)
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HealthTap shipped Dr.AI in 4 months b/c they weren't wasting time on interviews(blog.hackerrank.com)
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by positivity89 10y ago
The calendar is not working for me. It shows grey bars instead of text.
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Solving 20 Practice Challenges Improves Your Interview Pass Rate by 50%(blog.hackerrank.com)
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by positivity89 10y ago
I think parts of the US have already started making coding mandatory (like Chicago: http://cps.edu/News/Press_releases/Pages/PR1_03_19_2014.aspx ) but it’s a slow uptake. I think other countries (Finland and o
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by positivity89 10y ago
Really interesting graphs at the bottom of the article, which compare the rise of FinTech and the rise of Python. Makes sense why finance companies use Python--they're usually less interested in mathematical languages and more interest
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by positivity89 10y ago
I think a lot of people forget this: 'Programming is a scientific tool' Computer science is not really a brand new field. It's built upon decades of programming in physics, bio, etc. etc. basically most scientific fields. I t
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by positivity89 10y ago
True - you can't go too far in programming without math.
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by positivity89 10y ago
Good resource list at the end of this article for people who want to become better at math/coding: Resources to Help Boost Confidence in Math: Forget what you learned in school (memorizing theorems or trig identities won’t help you). I
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by positivity89 10y ago
Yeah, I think we have all been there at one point. Spending hours tweaking every single line in a resume to make it match the job description perfectly. It just doesn't work for people that come from different backgrounds. This story o
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by positivity89 10y ago
If the article is great, then I don't see the harm. It's worse when an article is completely misleading and the content/subject is underwhelming. This is definitely not the worst example of this.
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by positivity89 10y ago
I think you're really underestimating these strong women. The title is not misleading because of this point: "I was one of the first few girls on the Georgian team in IOI and I was the second Georgian girl to win a medal." It
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by positivity89 10y ago
Wow, this was really inspiring. There are probably hundreds of girls/women like this, but they don't make headlines as often. This is awesome. The youngest sister may even grow up in a world where she doesn't have the same ba