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STEM to STEAM(stemtosteam.org)
27 points by ritchiea 11y ago|49 comments
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by ritchiea 11y ago
That sounds like an entirely different problem. You shouldn't need a boss to speak up and communicate to someone that your work environment is broken.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I heard their founder/current CEO Yancey speak at a startup accelerator and speak extensively about the business. According to him they told their investors they have no intention to have a liquidity event. He suggested the investors w
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by ritchiea 11y ago
Kind of odd to say that a famous playwright and a famous silent film star who were roughly close in age would make an odd couple.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
If he brought in $4MM in revenue and he's only making $98k he's incredibly underpaid.
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What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us(nytimes.com)
4 points by ritchiea 11y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 11y ago
Agreed. It's often underplayed how helpful it was that Zuckerberg was at Harvard when he created Facebook. It created a sense of wanting to be a part of a network that once was exclusive as it expanded. I doubt he would have had the sa
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by ritchiea 11y ago
My favorite example of this is Max Levchin in Founders at Work bragging that they didn't hire a great engineering candidate because he said outside of work he likes to "shoot hoops." According to Levchin it might have been ok
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by ritchiea 11y ago
It actually was a programming question, it was in the context of discussing how I would build a redis-like caching service.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I am generally against drug tests but I'd deal with one for USDS because I believe in the mission. Also let's say you're a recreational marijuana user, all you'd have to do is stop smoking for a month or so to pass a sin
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by ritchiea 11y ago
That's exactly it.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I agree with you. I misspoke above. They are not exacerbating the problem but their hiring process could be an impediment to reaching their goals.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
Good point. Though if that's the case then the question is why schedule a Java dev to interview a Ruby/Python/Javascript dev?
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I appreciate the apology but the really disappointing thing is talking to your recruiters who say it's hard to get good technologists into government and then looking at your process that seems to exacerbate the problem.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
Yes I would say it's typical. But they also say their challenge is getting good technologists into government. So if they believe they have difficulty hiring (which is their public stance) why not adopt a more candidate friendly proces
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I can't answer that, you'd have to ask them but everyone I spoke to at the digital service said their work was specifically delivering government services to citizens. I don't think they work with the FBI, CIA, DEA, DHS etc.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I really wanted to work for the digital service and my experience applying was horrendous. The recruiter scheduled an appointment to call me and didn't at the scheduled time. She followed up weeks later and I finally got my phone scree
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by ritchiea 11y ago
It's really not fair to lump all of government in with the NSA. "Helping the US government" in the case of the digital service means things like making it easier for immigrants to apply for a green card by building a web appl
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by ritchiea 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or New York City area I am a full stack web developer with expertise in Ruby and Javascript. Most of my recent projects have been Rails applications and/or Angular.js client side apps. My clients have included sta
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by ritchiea 11y ago
It definitely matters what bootcamp and what the devs backgrounds were before the bootcamp. But I'm also curious what kind of work they struggled with. For instance so much work is getting data from a form or API, doing something with
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by ritchiea 11y ago
While I'm sure it helps to be a math major anywhere, anyone who has been trained to be a careful analytic thinker would be a good candidate to become a programmer. For instance if you were a humanities major from a school with a strong
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by ritchiea 11y ago
I had a similar experience with an Ivy CS grad with most of his prior work being writing code for financial services companies. Smart guy, easy to work with but tremendously messy code that often failed to take advantage of the language&#x2
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by ritchiea 11y ago
The HN team often penalizes particular topics they feel like are dominating the front page. As far as I can tell this is typically used to make sure the front page is mostly about buisness, startups and engineering with occasional other top
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The inside story of a golden child, hired killers, and parents she wanted dead(torontolife.com)
3 points by ritchiea 11y ago|0 comments
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The People of This Island Kill Anyone Who Comes Ashore(wackulus.com)
1 points by ritchiea 11y ago|1 comments
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by ritchiea 11y ago
It would be really nice to talk about leaving a job, seeing your goals and expectations change, or finding yourself in a position that previously seemed like a "dream job" only to find yourself not as fulfilled as you expected. Ra
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by ritchiea 11y ago
The example of Ellen Pao was merely a way to start the conversation. That specific example does not diminish the message of the piece which I find very insightful.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
The problem is anyone who identifies himself or herself as a backend person probably hates dealing with HTML & CSS. And that's without also getting into the backend devs who also despise Javascript. As far as I can tell anyone who
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by ritchiea 11y ago
They probably don't have anyone on staff whose responsibility is to do that but it seems it would be in their best interest to create a department that defends their top contributors with DMCA takedown notices.
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by ritchiea 11y ago
You say "few things get you fired immediately" but I'd say it depends. If you're at a big relatively stable company few things get you fired immediately. If the company is small or in flux (as Reddit appears to be) it ca

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