darrellsilver

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Amazon-Unveils-Q(techcrunch.com)
13 points by darrellsilver 3y ago|29 comments
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by darrellsilver 6y ago
This quote is fantastic: > In 1992, Roy Hall, a 46-year-old minister, bought a royal blue Hickey-Freeman jacket at Unclaimed Baggage. When he took it home, he noticed the name “Whitey Ford” — a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Yankees — writ
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by darrellsilver 9y ago
Even though a direct competitor with DBC I just wanted to say: solid team and leadership; we respect everyone there, especially in pioneering the market in the early years. It was in DBC's NYC campus that I did my first LGBT advocacy e
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Government Is Disrupting Coding Bootcamps(techcrunch.com)
4 points by darrellsilver 11y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 11y ago
Anyplace and bite-sized learning, even before personalizing it to a commute or using other data, seems totally green field. Most corporate training is just videos. Pretty exciting.
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by darrellsilver 11y ago
Hi Mohamed – what bootcamp are you joining?
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Chris's point seems basically undisputable: tons of engineering talent but not enough vision to gain escape velocity from the massive gravitational pull of Google's wide-ranging needs across all its products. Remember before you c
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
3 months from beginner to job ready ready is, basically, bullshit. There are people who do it, but they're the exception. The jobs they're getting typically rely on their using other skill sets on day one so they can continue lear
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Why do you think he chose to come out now?
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Hm. On the homepage the price is listed as part of the main description of the course. You're not the first to make this point – there's definitely something to it. We'll have to rethink appropriately. Surprises like this in
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Swift was designed for beginners and in our experience it delivers. We ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ) recommend Swift for beginners and the students in our Swift classes the last few months agree!
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Google complies with Goldman Sachs request to delete single email(reuters.com)
6 points by darrellsilver 12y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Thinkful based in NYC: We're looking for software engineers interested in helping us build the best online education platform, in AngularJS + Python / Flask. http://www.thinkful.com/ For engineering, check out the
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Our mentors & curriculum developers went bananas when they heard about Swift – so we announced the first course teaching Swift: https://www.thinkful.com/a/dlp/learn-blue/base/IOS-002
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Awesome site, and want to support any way we can. Great context around content sources both free and paid are really promising. Let me know if we can be at all of help: darrell [at] thinkful.com
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by darrellsilver 12y ago
Yeah – it's an easier way to do donations, but the tax implications and fees are the same as always. It even comes out of your paycheck pre-tax... making your tax end simpler as well.
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New Effort Gives Tech Workers Additional Way to Donate to Charity(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
13 points by darrellsilver 12y ago|13 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This sounds like a temporary issue in your career, or, put another way, a circumstance of that particular job. In another year or two (or in another opp that values slightly different things) the full stack marketer will be incredibly valua
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
The Blogger example doesn't seem fair: Any app can overload the user with too many animations or other distractions. At Thinkful ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ) we're building our student / education app in Angula
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Announcing: Thinkful for Teams(thenextweb.com)
1 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
We just went through the entire 2013 performance for female and male students here at Thinkful ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ). The results are very revealing for this debate: Once enrolled in our courses, women perform exactly
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
It's much more common than when you were 22. Career changes, diff tracks through school, all sorts of reasons why people want to do internships into late 20s and thirties since the recent recession. Companies are still desperate for to
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Thinkful based in NYC: We're looking for software engineers interested in helping us build an education platform in AngularJS + Python / Flask. http://www.thinkful.com/ Thinkful is the best way to learn online par
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
For sure there are other things to worry about... but it's not a label, it's a first impression. We didn't originally spend a lot of time thinking about our jobs pages at http://www.thinkful.com/ until candid
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Recruiting Abe Stanway(recruitingabestanway.com)
1 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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Why the failure of healthcare.gov is great news for engineers(blog.thinkful.com)
16 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|3 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This maps extraordinarily closely with what we've seen at Thinkful ( http://www.thinkful.com/ ) with both our hiring as a team and with the students we've helped get hired. Our biggest breakthrough actually came las
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The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science(online.wsj.com)
4 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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Building on Google Docs was the best technology decision I’ve ever made.(pandodaily.com)
9 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|0 comments
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The Definitive Guide to GitHub Pages(thinkful.com)
18 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|1 comments

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