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It's like the movie Ratatouille: Not everyone can be a good coder, but a good coder can come from anywhere. While they may receive an impossibly large number of candidates, in the …

"We're having computer problems onsite."

Is that a problem, underpricing the competition if the market bears it? Dev Bootcamp's cost has risen meteorically since they first opened their doors in February of this year. It …

In 2005, I worked support for a company with a mobile offering. At the time, app purchases were handled exclusively by the carrier and were completely opaque. A little while prior,…

San Francisco: Fulltime Do you like talking about code as much as you like writing code? Hackbright Academy is looking for instructors for our ten week code school. We teach a blen…

They had a guest list and all my students were on it. This particular student was also on it, along with a note to exclude her specifically from entering the office.

The story was abbreviated: I talked to several people to figure out what was going on before they insisted we were blocking the entrance. By then she had decided it was not worth t…

I had another 9 students inside, and the talk was worthwhile for them. Furthermore, the problem was not with the organizers (who were generous and accommodating) or the speakers (w…

It had everything to do with her name: she was turned away by the person with the guest list, but not by the security guy checking for fake IDs. That was the only piece of informat…

It's wrong to offer up the idea that women somehow are biologically averse to tech. You need only look outside the US to verify this: Malaysia's tech sector is almost evenly split …

Repeat after me: programming is not computer science. Got it? Good. Now, for actual advice. Contrary to the prevailing sentiment, there actually is a career path in engineering tha…

Actually, nuclear power plants are designed to withstand failure. Typically there are multiple backup plans to safeguard against failure of any one system. One comment I sometimes …

Twilio's twice-monthly hackathons were explained to me thusly: how much money would you pay annually for someone to scrounge up 300 good use cases and 100 really excellent use case…

Two things. You can build a product but until you manage to sell your product to someone, it's not a company. 'Salesmen' are not the only way to get people to buy your product. I t…

Mostly I agree, except for his introduction of %r very early on in python the hard way. What %r does in the context of the lesson is clear, but many students ask why and what it's …

When you're teaching something completely new to someone, at first you won't even have a common vocabulary. This is true no matter what you're teaching, and you have to dedicate so…

Freeswitch and Asterisk are both written largely in C, although it's unclear if that's representative of industry practice.

It seems to me that you're talking about modularization for managing complexity, which FP does just fine. OOP doesn't have a monopoly on that. It takes discipline, but you can writ…

I did some work programming a sequence for a Siemens magnet, and while I can't comment on the quality of the code driving the hardware, the OOP API they exposed for sequence creati…

If you read the Google paper, you'll notice that they actually refer to this and other work by Liu et al. The overall technique is the same, estimate the original camera path, calc…