wdewind

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by wdewind 17y ago
I've had no problem getting employment in NYC (I've actually had 2 different jobs since I graduated and a total of 5 offers between two job searches since last april). It matters much more who you are as a person: college is one path to wh
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by wdewind 17y ago
I'm 20 years old now and just left school to work and so far it's been the best decision I've ever made. I had many of the same issues with school and put it to myself like this: At the age of 22 will I be a more valuable programmer by sta
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by wdewind 17y ago
Have an example of correct use of pie charts?
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by wdewind 17y ago
Muggsy Bogues could learn to ride a horse pretty decently in a year or two...
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by wdewind 17y ago
Yeah, I'm 20 now but learned a ton doing crappy freelance work (not saying the stuff you need done is crappy max :P). I probably made less than minimum wage frequently, but I remember the first time I could charge $500 for a website (when
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by wdewind 17y ago
this is such broad level claiming bullshit. how is an "article" (stretch) from mariecalire ending up on hacker news? i know we like productivity hacks, but we may as well post the horoscopes, we'd get just as much valuable information.
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by wdewind 17y ago
I'm going through the hiring process now so from my perspective: Keep your resume short, and tailor it for the specific job. If the job doesn't say anything about a specific skill, take it off your resume (unless its a general skill like U
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by wdewind 17y ago
this is inherently skewed. many reader onlys dont have accounts and so wont vote and so will be vastly underrepresented. like asking how many people who voted for president are under the age of 18.
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by wdewind 17y ago
the crockford book is really good, but in reality the best thing is practice. javascript is a tricky language, and crockford helps to simplify it, but you can get a lot of practical knowledge on how to use the language and jquery just by p
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by wdewind 17y ago
yeah seriously...it totally depends on the app...how can you define the perfect tools for the job when you explicitly state you don't know what the job is yet?
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by wdewind 17y ago
As I said: Not saying it's infallible, and you should always back up your data (Amazon can't prevent things like natural disasters - this is the point of backing up in general - you can't predict), but if you're going to act like you gave g
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by wdewind 17y ago
Come on...one of these is from 06, and it looks like it was totally dealt w/ by Amazon customer service, and the other one was from 07 and is a complaint about EC2 when it was still in beta. Would love to see REAL documented cases of data l