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For a 21 year old prodigy developer, what are some of the best options?(dropbox.com)
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by dmeb 11y ago
I really dislike their aggressive attempts to get new members to send out join requests to every person they've ever corresponded with on gmail. I've gotten many invitations from people whom I'm pretty sure had no idea that L
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by dmeb 11y ago
"The first 1/3 of CS61A in scheme had no mutation. That is almost impossible in Python to do..." Pretty unambiguous to me. GP had a very thoughtful reply to be clear. If the desire was to teach idiomatic python, that's t
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by dmeb 11y ago
How is it that python is less amenable to functional programing? (Functional in the sense of referential transparency and immutable data-structures, rather than map-filter-fold). Through my limited exposure to python, I agree that immutabil
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by dmeb 11y ago
Trees with a very high branching factor can be used to support immutable vectors which support effectively constant time insert/remove/indexed lookup. However, it's not necessary to use trees to implement immutable lists. In
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by dmeb 11y ago
34 yelp reviews from App Academy students. http://www.yelp.com/biz/app-academy-san-francisco Is it possible to remove negative reviews? They're uniformly 5 stars. I'm actually surprised that there aren't
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by dmeb 11y ago
Disclaimer: I went to App Academy summer of 2014. I paid ~$14,000 up front as Canadians didn't qualify for the tuition deferment (an eminently reasonable restriction, work visas are far from a sure thing). I had degrees in non-cs STEM
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by dmeb 11y ago
I haven't used erlang - that said, one reason might be that it's dynamically typed by default, and that the extensions for a type system have had mixed success: "Phil Wadler and Simon Marlow worked on a type system for over a
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by dmeb 11y ago
Balaji Srinivasan's background probably counts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/balajissrinivasan
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by dmeb 12y ago
I think this is something that would mostly be taken up by people trying in the early stages of their career. The revealed preference of more senior people is to not push for these kinds of contracts. A shorter trial period makes a lot of s
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by dmeb 12y ago
There's a fairly large literature in labor economics on discrimination in the labor market. Reductive summary of consensus'ish opinion going back to 1996 [1]: 1) Very large gaps between average wages of whites and blacks 2)
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by dmeb 12y ago
Happy to see a Tyler Cowen recommendation. Thiel is still very much worth reading though. FWIW, Tyler Cowen would say the same; "The Great Stagnation", his book before "Average is Over", is dedicated to Thiel.