whiteboarder

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by whiteboarder 11y ago
The people who break copyright laws are heros, not criminals. The whole reason the industry is moving forward is because of people like him, the pirate bay, and nabster. If it weren't for rampant copyright infringement, the industry wo
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
The name is intentional. It gets them free publicly by being quirky.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
That's because graduate students at universities are shitty coders. CS degrees teach you how to do math, not how to be a software engineer.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
That's not what the statistics say. The top coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor have 99% placement rates for their graduates within 6 months with average salary of 100k. And if you don't get a job, hack reactor charges you NOTHING.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
I've received about a dozen job offers in the last 3 years. TBH, I don't even consider myself better than an average programmer. I've just practiced interview questions a lot.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
I live in a bubble in San Francisco and post on HN, so when talking to people I usually assume (perhaps incorrectly), that they are all software engineers between the ages of 18-25 currently in the job market, interviewing at all the same
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
You are being pedantic. The author obviously meant "algorithms that you might be asked to do on a whiteboard during a tech interview at Google, FB, ect"
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
Any response on the weird comments such as "DICE.COM EMPLOYEE SPAMMING LIVECODING.TV" that were put on the profile?
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
If one believes in a Malthusian apocalypse then one must explain why THIS time things are different. People have been talking about a supposed Population Bomb for literally hundreds of years. And each time, they have been wrong. Obviously,
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
It is factually correct, but perhaps a little misleading. Hack Reactor indeed has these statistics, but their application process is probably the most difficult/selective of any of the bootcamps. The people going into the program, are
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
My definition of a "software engineer" is someone who gets paid 6 figures for writing code, any code. And it just so happens there there are quite of lot of 6 figure jobs that solely involve building crud apps by gluing together f
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
It depends on the school. The very best ones like Hack Reactor have a 99% rate for people getting jobs within 6 months, averaging at 100k. The "average" ones are closer to 75k average starting salary.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
Who gives a shit? The tech industry currently doesn't need any more people to work on the Actually Hard Problems. The tech industry currently pays people 6 figure salaries to build CRUD apps. There is such a huge shortage of tech peop
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
If what you say is true, then how come the dev bootcamp hiring statistics say otherwise? Look at any of the statistics. These bootcamps graduate people making 80k-100k. That is a good salary for someone who didn't graduate with a CS
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
And yet the Developer Boot Camps work. Just look at the job statistics for anyone of the top ones, like Hack Reactor, Flatiron School, ect. They graduate people who get 80-100k salary jobs, within 6 months of graduating. People go to these
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Amazon Spars with NYT over article(nytimes.com)
1 points by whiteboarder 11y ago|0 comments
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
And the fraud thing doesn't even look to be true. The NYT writer responded and said that was false.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
There wasn't any fraud. There was a response to this accusation, by the NYT, and they claim that this is false.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
My other sources have to remain private unfortunately. (official responses haven't been crafted yet) But I can say that even if it ends up that they technically had the authority to do this, then us Hack the North organizers were misle
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
Here is one of the directors, he has lots of post on reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke... From the link: "For the record: MLH kicked him out. HTN did not.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
Yes. Here is a link to the response of one of the Hack the North Directors: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke... From the link: "For the record: MLH kicked him out. HTN di
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
MLH had no authority to kick out the students. The hackathon is run by a separate group of Waterloo students, whereas MLH is a for-profit hackathon organization that just helps colleges with sponsorships.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
It is not their event. MLH stands for major league hacking, and they are just a separate group that helps out colleges with hackathons. The problem is that they kicked someone out even though they had no authority to do so. The real peopl
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Two hackers get kicked out of Hack the North for clock bomb jokes on Facebook(news.mlh.io)
4 points by whiteboarder 11y ago|2 comments
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How Hack the North wasn’t the bomb(medium.com)
63 points by whiteboarder 11y ago|52 comments
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
An important thing that articles like these miss when talking about the "fundamentals of computer science" is that a CS degree doesn't actually teach you of lot of the necessary fundamentals that people use in the real world.
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by whiteboarder 11y ago
Oh no! I am a poor professor who is being censored, because a few students want a 1 sentence warning about potentially traumatic experiences! Look at how my rights are being infringed on, because of a 1 sentence warning that I am being &qu
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by whiteboarder 12y ago
Build more houses. None of this shit would happen if SF would just build more houses.
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by whiteboarder 12y ago
Oh man, everything about this post rings true. I myself am a pretty mediocre developer. But fortunately for me, I realized that tech interviews are complete and total BS. So what I did was spend a whole bunch of time studying whiteboard al