douglascalhoun

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Tech Workers Retool for Artificial-Intelligence Boom(wsj.com)
15 points by douglascalhoun 2y ago|3 comments
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by douglascalhoun 8y ago
try opening the article and then paste this into your browser's URL bar: javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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D3 visualization of San Francisco BART employees' salaries and union membership(blog.vctr.me)
52 points by douglascalhoun 13y ago|72 comments
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Yeah, but was it created by a novice programmer in 3 days?
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Awesome Sauce, Michael! Best of luck in bringing hacker schooling to the Sacramento area! The revolution is spreading...
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
My 2c from personal experience: 1) Pick a place. Let's say Paris. 2) Go to hostelworld.com, sort by highest review, choose the first hostel in your price range, book a week stay. 3) Sit at a large table in the common room, nurse a b
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Congratulations to David, Christian, Charles, and of course the graduates of Hackbright! I remember visiting your classroom when the Summer cohort was just starting to take those first uncertain steps. Seeing them now, successfully working
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Great work, Ed! Very interesting and informative.... Looking forward to seeing more quality content in the future!
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
I'm sure there will be more courses in the future. I think they wanted to get their first cohort started as soon as possible.
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Congratulations to Shawn and Tony for launching this new venture! I know you guys have taken big personal and professional risks to follow this dream (you know, quitting your jobs, putting up your life savings, professional reputations on t
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
I'll throw in another one: screencasts. Peep Code, Destroy All Software, Railscasts... It's like watching over the shoulders of some of the best programmers in the world as they teach you everything they know.
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
"Tech Bootcamps don't work." Your opinion is based on a small group of people you met briefly 10 years ago who had gone through programs in no way related to what is being discussed here. I'm sorry if I'm being snarky (I admit I am), but I'
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
I completed this program earlier this year after burning out working tech support and failing, failing, failing to move up into dev ops, QA or some more satisfying, challenging technical role no matter how hard I tried. I got hired right ou
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
HN is not a democracy. If you watch closely enough, you'll see plenty of posts (and comments, and users) disappear if the moderators do not agree with them.
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
I believe this is what you're looking for: (a) http://www.eligibleapp.com/ (b) https://eligibleapp.desk.com/customer/portal/emails/new
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
You can drag it, you just can't end the drag motion outside of the dongle area. Took me a few tries to figure that out myself.
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Indubitably!
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by douglascalhoun 14y ago
Apparently everybody else knows what a bookmarklet is and how to use it. Maybe a little explanation on the landing page for the laggards among us would help your adoption rates.