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by pincubator 11y ago
I was the OP who posted the first thread which was linking to his life-threatening tweet minutes after he posted it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803924 ). Unfortunately it got deleted just before reaching to front
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by pincubator 11y ago
Apparently Ian Murdock recently faced with police brutality and announces that he will commit suicide. More updates here: https://twitter.com/imurdock
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by pincubator 11y ago
A discussion on "why" this is happening: """ The reason older photocopiers don't copy blue is very simply that the drum was activated by reflected light from the scanner. The chemical process that creates the &
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by pincubator 11y ago
A while ago, someone wrote to Systers (a highly activated women in CS e-mail list) the following, which is highly accurate: --- What a great business model Grace Hopper Academy has. First, you find women who are very smart and highly motiva
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by pincubator 11y ago
I favor Python as well, but from what I see in industry, Python is best for exploration/initial experiments and Java (and recently, Scala) is for production.
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by pincubator 11y ago
It also makes sense why there are less American PhD students in those kind of locations when you look from their perspective. If I were an American, there was no way for me to spend 5+ years of my life in mid-west with 1500K a month (instea
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by pincubator 11y ago
I did my PhD in mid-west, and I literally only met 2 American PhD students during my entire PhD (majority was Chinese and Indian students who pursue a PhD as a gateway to a top job). I guess location is a big factor.
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by pincubator 11y ago
I experienced the two sides of the coin first hand. Right after college, I started to work at a start-up; everything was just awesome, people were cool, job was interesting, I was extremely happy. 3 months into the job, after I talked to my
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by pincubator 12y ago
I stopped using a cellphone when I moved to US --it was way more expensive than what I used to have in my home country (so I just simply said "nope."). Now when people ask my phone number, I just give my Google voice (which is fre
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by pincubator 12y ago
Reminds me when I was an instructor for a grad course and showed up in a very trendy outfit to the first lecture (nothing weird or revealing, but nothing you would often see in a campus either -- full make up, high heels, ripped jeans etc.)
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by pincubator 12y ago
Surely, I am serious. I can't see any other difference that can affect the choice of career path between men and women.
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by pincubator 12y ago
>My wife is a nurse. A female dominated field. I also own a construction company. A male dominated field. In neither field would you see a company or an organization suggest hiring one gender over the other to satisfy a ratio. The only d
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by pincubator 12y ago
what kind of information you can pull? is it possible to pull content of the comics?
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by pincubator 12y ago
maybe i didn't get it but: why this is a physical card instead of an app on a smartphone? what's its advantage?
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by pincubator 12y ago
I think most of the CS programs will just waste your time --unless you attend to a very good university. Given that best hackers I've met are self-taught programmers, you can definitely work it out yourself. I think these are amazing t
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by pincubator 12y ago
Also can someone suggest what is the best way to approach code reading? When I open a library in Python, I am not sure where to start reading, just a bunch of files. Should I randomly pick one file and start reading from there? Is there any
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by pincubator 12y ago
I think the best way to learn a programming language is to learn it yourself. Imho, these kind of things don't work well with courses; they often restrict the way you think. For Python, you can start from Learn Python the Hard Way (fre
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by pincubator 12y ago
We all know that it's almost impossible to provide custom feedback to those who are not selected. But is it also impossible to point out what portion of our application went wrong? E.g. there might be 4-5 checkboxes for reviewers: - Id
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by pincubator 12y ago
no, i just used streaming api to gather the data. you can crawl surprisingly more data with streaming api as opposed to regular api.
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by pincubator 12y ago
I guess that makes Twitter data cheaper than before? Last time when I contacted them for one week of worth tweets (with some filters on top) they wanted me to pay tens of thousands dollars. I ended up crawling the data myself.
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by pincubator 12y ago
>> I couldn't find this 6-months clause anywhere .. Actually if you try to add a *.cat domain through gandi.net, they included this clause as a tip-text encoded in the little warning image: "Warning: the registration contrac
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by pincubator 12y ago
It is interesting to see big companies like LinkedIn, Twitter, HP showed some interest in hiring remotely. Not sure if they would consider hiring a regular software developer remotely. Their answer mostly make me think of "Well, in cas
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by pincubator 12y ago
You should also keep in mind that most of those companies expect applicants to practice that kind of puzzles/code challenges before. A couple of years ago, I was also in a similar state-of-mind with you, but when I get to know people w
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by pincubator 12y ago
Here is the source code: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/antigravity.py?v...
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by pincubator 12y ago
That's why whenever I get a neat idea (after "Oh, I can't believe I've never seen this kind of app around, it would be awesome to build it!" moments) I always do an extensive market research. It helps with two thing