stevenameyer

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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I think an interesting way to talk about programming that may be quiet successful for people who are younger is to try and strip away the sytax of language, and instead focus on the semantics. It would allow a person to develop a deep under
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
First of all, I'd take my opinion with a grain of salt as I have never worked in a corporate setting and every company I have worked at have been very developer centric with the minority being non-technical personal. I do think the ability
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
My personal view on the subject is that for a developer these skills are not overly important and there are a lot of job related things I would prioritize learning over public speaking. If I'm hired to work on solely the technical side of t
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Being at my 4th development internship (as part of my schooling) There are 3 pieces of advice i would give you. 1)Ask as many questions as you need, but find times that don't interfere with others too much. Your an intern, they understand t
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
It's good to hear they've improved the development experience. It was something that I think that really hurt them in the past. I will have to take a look into it when i find the time.
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
If that is the case then I would say giving a high level over view of pretty much everything about computers is probably what you want. Individual areas can become very deep and diving too much into the specifics will be time consuming and
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This. In my opinion BB10 will live or die on third party support. You can have a great OS, but people won't adopt it without a good number of high quality apps. I haven't looked into development for BB10. But I know that previous versons we
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This. What is the point of the curriculum? Are you trying to introduce them to what computers are and how they work from a hardware level? Basic user interactions of an average computer user? Office/business/presentation specialized skills?
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I just hope they stop requiring dev builds to go through a signing process on their servers. This alone would do wonders for their third party support.
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Formal education in my opinion is really only good for one thing when determining how good of a hire someone will be. Ensuring a certain level of exposure to areas that may otherwise be overlooked in self study. When people learn things by
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I think for the general public something general that does everything well enough is what people like. It simplifies the choices they have to make and/or think about and wraps everything into a convenient package. But there will always be a
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This is because people are not looking for just any programmers, they are looking for very skilled programmers with a specialty in what their company does. Which is a hard ticket to fill the majority of the time.
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I think the major problem with higher education is two things. 1) Inflation. So many people are now getting degrees that they are starting to mean less and less. But since so many people have a degree its starting to become a necessity for
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I'm a firm believer in talent dilution being a huge problem, so if this is the standard that you set for full time hires then keep it. Although it may be a good idea to think about wether or not this problem is representative of someones ab
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Is money an issue for you? if yes then i think the the answer is probably to go with the one that pays. If not then go to the one that you think will benefit you most in the long run, and there are a lot of factors that could play into that
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I'd say figure out some projects that let you get familiar with different basic data structures(stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, graphs, hash tables etc), what they're useful for, and some of the basic algorithms that are useful to know
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This is just ridiculous. Every company makes decisions about what features they provide to users based on many different factors. Netflix isn't saying you can use their service with their ISP just that they've made a decision to not support
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This seems like an interesting solution to me. Obviously we have gotten to a point where our computing power has rendered the kind of passwords that most people can easily remember and use fairly trivial for many password cracking methods,
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
In my opinion young people tend to chase what they perceive to be prestigious, or evidence of their value in a field. In respect to the technology field I find this tends to manifest it's self in one of two ways, ether aiming for a major co
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
It is very much to everyone's benefit to know as much about what is going on in your space. So I would try every product that is comparable to see what people are doing, what makes each product different, why people might choose to use one
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
With solid developers it can be pulled off with a fair bit of success. However there is a LOT of work that needs to put in order to make a quality web-app have a good experience on all devices, it's not as simple as throwing the url to your
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Programming requires a certain kind of thinking about things and methods of approaching problems. As with anything there are people who are inherently inclined to think about things in this way, but i do believe that anyone has the ability
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
This is very true. The system is not optimal from an employer or employee standpoint. But it is especially difficult if you are not a company with a recognized name on campus. As a student it is difficult to weed through a couple thousand j
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
Well if your looking to hire Co-ops from the university here is the link https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
There is also a large focus on entrepreneurship. There's a lot of support for students to start their own businesses. Such as an incubator residence ( http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/ ). I also know that when my brother decided to leave school
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
While Waterloo has been a talent poaching ground for Microsoft and RIM for a while, and more recently for Google, Facebook and the likes. The thing i think that really gets overlooked is the startup community in the area. With an incubator
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Ask HN: What helps you produce code faster?
9 points by stevenameyer 14y ago|19 comments
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The Ambiguity of the Term "Startup"(thecriticalcornercase.wordpress.com)
1 points by stevenameyer 14y ago|0 comments
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by stevenameyer 14y ago
I think this bias stems from the perception that people who are older are more established in life and their ability to support themselves and possibly their family is not dependent on the success or failure of the company. I think the mode