ashworth

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by ashworth 10y ago
I interned as an orthodontic assistant before entering the software engineering field. Dental school admissions are highly competitive, require several years of additional schooling, and will place the student in hundreds of thousands of do
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by ashworth 10y ago
Genuine question: What do Atom and Visual Studio Code offer that Sublime Text doesn't? I have tried both within the last year and wasn't able to find any significant advantages (except for VS Code's excellent TypeScript exper
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by ashworth 10y ago
From the team at TrueVault, a GitHub repo with a developer's guide to HIPAA compliance. Similar to Aptible, they pitch themselves within the guide but still a good resource: https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compl
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by ashworth 11y ago
But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician? Can you imagine scenarios where the state, or the family, or the physician are incompetent, selfish, or malicio
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by ashworth 11y ago
It sounds like you're trolling, but if you aren't: 1. One wrong does not make another wrong right. 2. "Dick" is used as an offhand comment usually because it is considered less offensive than other words with the same me
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by ashworth 11y ago
I wish it was a lie, but it is not. Anyway, the story ends well. B is a front-end engineer at Google now, A didn't take the offer and went to a different start-up.
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by ashworth 11y ago
What??? My childhood best friend and college roommate shocked me by calling one of our CS classmates a "huge bitch" for not going on a date with him after they had lunch together our first week of college. I've lost track of
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by ashworth 11y ago
I feel like you're taking an elitist position... I've heard this applied to professionals at every level of education. A quick find-and-replace applied to your comment follows. --- The difference between having a job in programmin
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by ashworth 11y ago
Feedback from my diabetic neighbor: this is useless to him without gram values for all the macronutrients, because he needs to calculate his insulin dosages. Percentages aren't enough.
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by ashworth 11y ago
You think people with cs degrees deal with stack swaps better than boot campers? I went to a top 10 cs program and I don't think so. Both populations push out equally ineffectual grads, only passionate programmers can really be fluid,
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by ashworth 11y ago
It's still kgs in the western world afaik, but online-go.com is very nice and Ajax-y and runs in browser without being janky.
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by ashworth 11y ago
As someone who failed to reach the top of the e-sports scene a little less than 10 years ago, I can tell you that I developed valuable skills and tenacity that serve me well today. Anyone who struggles for the top will be transformed.
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by ashworth 11y ago
One of my coworkers holds their M.S. IT Management. We work at a 3 year-old, ~150 person start-up in Mountain View. That's the only data point I can provide. Edit: I should point out he already had many years of experience before he pi
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by ashworth 11y ago
Have you found Western Governor's University's B.S. Software Development? Competency-based program from a non-profit and regionally accredited U.S. university. (the real kind of accreditation, as opposed to the national accreditat
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by ashworth 11y ago
Sounds like demandbase. They have IP lists of many big companies and serve ads targeted by company, part of a field called account based marketing. My manager used them at her previous company.
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by ashworth 11y ago
I got a job through Hired.com about a year ago at a series B start-up in Mountain View. It was a great experience, they connected me with 11 companies and I got offers from half of them within 2 weeks.
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by ashworth 11y ago
This is the greatest developer tool game/demo I've ever seen. Great work guys
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by ashworth 12y ago
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=.4"> The meta viewport tag is making the site illegibly small for me on OSX/Chrome.
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by ashworth 12y ago
=/ It produced inaccurate results for myself and a few coworkers/friends. (both public domains like gmail/yahoo and corporate emails)
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by ashworth 12y ago
No man, definitely don't give up like this. Try going on CrunchBase/AngelList and looking for companies that recently got big funding rounds and apply to work there. The bar of admission will be lower because they're eager to
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by ashworth 12y ago
I would think the ratio would have been MORE skewed in the past because war and violence were much more prevalent.