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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
the restrictions aren't on the green areas. The city can keep all of our parks and nature and be fine. The restriction are on the building heights and number of units on vast areas of the city that are already developed. For example,
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
As an xoogler, this tells me that the voice team is now staffed again. It also tells me that the executive team is thinking about reducing headcount and focus on hangouts, but still are uncertain. Finally, it tells me that google still has
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I can't believe the word "curated" is used here.
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I don't know what elite company you work at but my closest friends at my bootcamp work at Pinterest, Credit Karma, and Pivotal Labs. Those are solid companies. 2 years in I am finding that 75% of the companies I apply to respond within
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Name the bootcamp so people don't apply there
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
App academy. I assume hack reactor also has a strong js curriculum.
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I actually went to app academy. Their placement rates are definitely deceptive. For example they touted a 95% placement rate on their website when my cohort went thorough but we had huge job hunt issues with our cohort. But that number neve
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I did a coding bootcamp and it was a very positive experience. I transitioned from a PM to a software engineer and have been working full stack for 2 years. Here's some advice: * don't start the bootcamp without any practice on yo
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Wait...there was a glass ceiling preventing Europeans from creating companies ?
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I have a question for senior developers like the author. I've been a developer for 1.5 years and on this article's checklist for switching jobs I have everything except a mentor (that's probably more my fault). According to t
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
You are looking at a holiday shopping list which is the epitome of consumerism. You shouldn't find things that are elevating the human spirit you are looking for stuff that you would find in skymall or the home shopping network. There
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Not in the rest of America (I.e Latin America) where that would be common and even a term of endearment (gordita). It's common in South Asian cultures as well. To me Americans are focused on being PC while not dealing with the root cau
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
1) app academy San Francisco 2) it was challenging you get rejected a lot, you get tons of homework projects, and you end up having to practice skills that are useless for your job. I am dreading when I have to do the next job hunt (a lot o
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I'm going to disagree with the bootcamp grads don't do interesting work. My company employees a couple bootcamp grads including myself. All of them work on what are considered the most critical teams in our company. I work on sear
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Sounds like we are of similar backgrounds. I was a well paid PM, I've worked at a top tech company, and I had strategy consulting experience before that. I quit my job went into a bootcamp and have been a software developer for a year
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
They are liable in the sense that they report to a board chosen by their investors. So if I bought or invested in company XYZ at a valuation that assumed a lot of growth and company XYZ suddenly stopped pursuing that growth I would probably
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I don't think it's gullible for a user to proceed when they see a site missing an image, I think it's gullible that an engineer expects that the user would notice without any actual evidence. seems like a cardinal sin of engi
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Yeah, but are you under rent control ?
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Obesity is not the issue causing this. India has an almost billion person population with a 15% obesity rate with 0 medals while the US has a 33% obesity rate with 80 medals and a third of the population. Funding and culture are the biggest
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Google is one the few employers that where if you perform well you can get to a 250k+ comp within 5 years. The pay difference between Google and most other companies is quite big after a couple years. There are obviously other options but G
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
Unfortunately the economics don't really work out for those in the Bay Area.
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I have to respectfully disagree. While this may be true for top recruiters, the SNR is very low in this field - a large majority of recruited are not helpful. Specifically I'm speaking on the hiring side of two companies. In one, we ha
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by throwthisawayt 10y ago
I attended a bootcamp 1.5 years ago and have been working as a full stack dev for almost a year. My firm has hired a few bootcamp grads who have all done well. However, I would only recommend HackReactor and App Academy in San Francisco as