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by xiaoma 9y ago
That's how it used to be. How long ago was your last course? They still let you watch the videos but generally don't let you take the quizzes or submit assignments to the auto-grader anymore. http://cyrilandersontrainin
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by xiaoma 9y ago
How much have human brains changed in the past 30 years?
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This title makes it sound like he's so full of himself that he'll only eat with the ultra wealthy and those foolish enough to spend millions they can't afford. In reality, he does a charity auction and dines with the "wi
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This would be so good if it were available off of Coursera, which is essentially a shake-down for certificate fees at this point. Nand2Tetris is a fantastic course. Back in its heyday 3 years ago, I did a ton of courses on Coursera. They we
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> Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that. There's no way for a fresh visitor to know that! The ga
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by xiaoma 9y ago
So it looks like earth is in the "C" slot. Why is it that when I type "C", a text field appears and starts filtering out elements by name? After seeing this happen, I tried typing out the whole word "earth" and
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The age of my account is evidence that it's not a sock puppet as you suggested commenters on this story were here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14519547 ) and in your flagged comment here ( https://new
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "Mind telling us who you are so we can take a look at your code and background? YouTube channel and GitHub would be helpful for us in assessing what you learned when you went to the bootcamp." I don't really need valid
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I had been "semi-technical" and messing with a WP blog and doing simple tutorials for years myself! When I attended HR, their marketing materials made it clear it was for taking you from "20 to 100" instead of "0 to
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I was running a brick and mortar business. I just wanted the coding skills for more leverage. After finishing a bootcamp, I did take a job at a large tech company and then one at a YC startup but I never had any intention of a "coding
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Many, many HR grads followed a similar path and many read HN. I personally knew just about everyone in the first 7 cohorts. During that time I saw success after success from the other students with some getting promoted and leading teams wi
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by xiaoma 9y ago
From what I saw of people in my cohort and the few after it, the entry point is usually a bit higher, like where someone with a college degree + 1-2 years enters. Disclaimer: my school was a very intense 6-day/week, 10-14 hours per day
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> "The sad truth is, there are recruiters who will throw out your resume if you associate with bootcamps.Why? Because the quality of the programmers they generate is low. >Code camps run like mills. From stories I've heard,
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> you're spending some energy, time, and money to protect against a perceived threat. Perceived by some but apparently not by many others who are still clueless. I know multiple people who invested considerable time and energy int
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by xiaoma 9y ago
HN is social media. Anyone who answers you here is a social media user. Try asking acquaintances offline and you might find some who aren't.
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There's a whole Tumblr for confirm-shaming. http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/
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Tell me about the things it's good at making. If those aren't a match, I don't care about any of the points above! I accept that you enjoy using Pharo. What is the output of that time enjoyably spent? What product does Pharo
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by xiaoma 9y ago
About fucking time. I've literally been waiting for this for two and a half years! This is absolutely huge. Many, many services that could once only be provided at a premium fee or by large to massive companies like Skype or Google can
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by xiaoma 9y ago
What kinds of projects is this best suited for? Cross-platform GUIs? Web servers? Data processing and numerical computing? Where does Pharo shine, at least in the eyes of those who use it?
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Ah interesting. They were contrasted as different categories of selection in my school textbook. What do you call the other category/categories?
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The feature sets between the two apps are not identical but they are roughly at parity depending on what you're working on. I'm not a beta tester and can't do the real time collaboration but from their open road map it looks
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Why only natural selection instead of both natural selection and sexual selection?
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by xiaoma 9y ago
If you want to get paid, you have to make stuff people want. When I moved into tech from language teaching, I focused on JS, specifically Backbone.js and CoffeScript. I wasn't specifically interested in front-end work but I did it beca
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It seems like YC's stamp of approval often isn't enough, even without the kind of dilution you're talking about. Patrick from Stripe said something like "Everybody still thought we were crazy, but Peter Thiel was also cr
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by xiaoma 9y ago
That's interesting... growing up, I always saw video games as expensive—both needing to buy the game and needing to update the system or computer every few years—but sports as the budget choice. There are so many sports you can play wi
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Webster made just such an attempt and it was responsible for a lot of the US/UK spelling divide. https://www.merriam-webster.com/about-us/spelling-reform
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Japan has a somewhat analogous Kanji kentei that is highly competitive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji_kentei
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What makes it hard is that it's a tournament. A popular tournament of anything is hard.
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That makes it an even nicer sales page.
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A deep belief that the world is doing it wrong and no ability to change large organizations from the inside.

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