thumbtackthief

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Ask HN: Looking for a quotation about mentoring
1 points by thumbtackthief 11y ago|0 comments
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
What would you suggest? That's the sort of thing I'm looking for to prepare for this meeting this afternoon. Have you found something that works?
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
This is helpful, thank you. We're not a small startup by any means--we are a company that predates the Internet by about 100 years, literally--but we are a small team (seven devs). Do you have a formalized pair programming process, or
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
We all agree that documentation is important, but none of us want to write it.
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
We're a small team, but just today I was in the middle of a Slack chat with someone and told him I was lost, but never got a response.
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Thanks for your support--it's really frustrating. I'm looking at tasytt but having trouble figuring out what they're used for...
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Sadly, while question-asking is encouraged, question-answering is not. I can't count how many times I've asked something--to the group as a whole or to an individual--and it's just been ignored. Do you find the "sink or
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Ask HN: What's the best way to train/onboard new programmers?
4 points by thumbtackthief 11y ago|14 comments
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Sock go-fish is _genius_
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Hi Mehr, I wish you the best of luck. I would donate gladly except healthy gay men can still not donate blood or marrow, despite there being no medical reasoning behind that. I'm sorry for your situation.
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
First off, $5000/week?!? I clearly need to get better at this fast. Thanks so much for your detailed response; posting this was a shot in the dark that I'd get anything at all. So, I'd be working on this part-time at best.
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Ask HN: How do I know what to charge?
5 points by thumbtackthief 11y ago|2 comments
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Will there be a recording of this somewhere? Would love to watch it but not available at this time. In other news, I'm desperately trying to find some part-time freelance work. I'm a Python/Django dev with 4 years experienc
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Yeah, must suck to have your life ruined and be denied opportunities based on your actions rather than your gender, race, or orientation like all us non-white non-straight non-males have to deal with. "Why can't I just be allowed
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
Ugh... I'm 36 and--according to Timehop on Facebook--just hit my 3 year anniversary of "Hmm, I wonder what it would be like to learn to code"? I have a good web developer job, but I hear everything you're saying. I fee
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by thumbtackthief 11y ago
How about contacting local news stations? Seems like an interesting piece for them. I feel your pain--Comcast is the devil.
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Hacker School has people of all ability levels. I was a total novice, and I got a paid internship with a startup after I finished. Now two years later, I'm still not making 100K, but I'm pretty happy as a full-time developer! (
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Yeah, there were plenty of coffee shops before Starbucks. Just make your reward tags the best!
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Also says "item's". We may be pedantic, but I tend to not trust services that don't have proper grammar and spelling. To me, it makes me wonder what else is sloppy and may come back to bite me. Nice idea though; good l
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Simpsons did it. http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/6dbqbm/looks-like-homer-p...
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
I bought your book for my scientist lady-friend! It's awesome! Nice work!
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
I'm going to say one last thing and then move on with my life. It seems that most of the dissent revolves around asking that debates about when these things are pointed out be kept private. So, I got almost no work done today, and I&#
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Can everyone see what just happened here? This is all it has to be. It was a cis-sexist remark. Now, I tend to make similar remarks and I also try to be aware of them, and there's indeed a limit to what you can do. But this is _all
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
So, in that first article, the point was not that the person used the sexist gendered pronoun, but _absolutely insisted_ on it. Here's my example, and if the person in question is reading this, he/she can feel free to chime in. I
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
That was not at all what I said, but if you need to make things up to stand by your viewpoint, have at it.
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
"After this, we ask that all further discussion move off of public channels." I don't see anything wrong with keeping such discussions private. Especially when you are dealing with a minority standing up for himself or hers
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Sexism is deeply-ingrained in lots of cultures. That's sorta the point here.
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
Again, the 'no debate' is more two-pronged: 1) No need to defend yourself, because no one is saying you're terrible, and 2) Keep the debate private, as opposed to long threads on the HS boards that just deteriorate into this
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
I'd also point out that Hacker School's anti-isms rule is probably a lot _less_ strict than most corporate HR policies.
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by thumbtackthief 12y ago
I don't think 'oops sorry' is demanded. You're allowed to disagree. That's there so people don't think that being corrected means that they're terrible racist sexist homophobes that don't belong in

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