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ashworth

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    Comment #11820003

    I interned as an orthodontic assistant before entering the software engineering field. Dental school admissions are highly competitive, require several years of additional schoolin…

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    Comment #11805003

    Genuine question: What do Atom and Visual Studio Code offer that Sublime Text doesn't? I have tried both within the last year and wasn't able to find any significant advantages (ex…

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    Comment #11378315

    From the team at TrueVault, a GitHub repo with a developer's guide to HIPAA compliance. Similar to Aptible, they pitch themselves within the guide but still a good resource: https:…

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    Comment #10513473

    But who decides who has control over their mental faculties? Who decides who is competent? The state? The family? The physician? Can you imagine scenarios where the state, or the f…

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    Comment #10373591

    It sounds like you're trolling, but if you aren't: 1. One wrong does not make another wrong right. 2. "Dick" is used as an offhand comment usually because it is considered less off…

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    Comment #10373555

    I wish it was a lie, but it is not. Anyway, the story ends well. B is a front-end engineer at Google now, A didn't take the offer and went to a different start-up.

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    Comment #10372143

    What??? My childhood best friend and college roommate shocked me by calling one of our CS classmates a "huge bitch" for not going on a date with him after they had lunch together o…

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    Comment #10113307

    I feel like you're taking an elitist position... I've heard this applied to professionals at every level of education. A quick find-and-replace applied to your comment follows. ---…

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    Comment #10092873

    Feedback from my diabetic neighbor: this is useless to him without gram values for all the macronutrients, because he needs to calculate his insulin dosages. Percentages aren't eno…

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    Comment #10029713

    You think people with cs degrees deal with stack swaps better than boot campers? I went to a top 10 cs program and I don't think so. Both populations push out equally ineffectual g…

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    Comment #10004834

    It's still kgs in the western world afaik, but online-go.com is very nice and Ajax-y and runs in browser without being janky.

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    Comment #9988887

    As someone who failed to reach the top of the e-sports scene a little less than 10 years ago, I can tell you that I developed valuable skills and tenacity that serve me well today.…

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    Comment #9988567

    One of my coworkers holds their M.S. IT Management. We work at a 3 year-old, ~150 person start-up in Mountain View. That's the only data point I can provide. Edit: I should point o…

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    Comment #9985145

    Have you found Western Governor's University's B.S. Software Development? Competency-based program from a non-profit and regionally accredited U.S. university. (the real kind of ac…

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    Comment #9959544

    Sounds like demandbase. They have IP lists of many big companies and serve ads targeted by company, part of a field called account based marketing. My manager used them at her prev…

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    Comment #9912573

    I got a job through Hired.com about a year ago at a series B start-up in Mountain View. It was a great experience, they connected me with 11 companies and I got offers from half of…

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    Comment #9650330

    This is the greatest developer tool game/demo I've ever seen. Great work guys

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    Comment #9155317

    The meta viewport tag is making the site illegibly small for me on OSX/Chrome.

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    Comment #9093666

    =/ It produced inaccurate results for myself and a few coworkers/friends. (both public domains like gmail/yahoo and corporate emails)

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    Comment #9078512

    No man, definitely don't give up like this. Try going on CrunchBase/AngelList and looking for companies that recently got big funding rounds and apply to work there. The bar of adm…

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    Comment #8998182

    I would think the ratio would have been MORE skewed in the past because war and violence were much more prevalent.