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I'm in a slump. I'm not excited about any of my own ideas, and I don't know how to find an open source repo I'd like to contribute to. The latter probably stems from not knowing ho…

I'm also a Dev Bootcamp graduate and I work at Hipmunk now as a software engineer. Something like 93% of my class (summer) got hired so I'd say there's _some_ empirical evidence. W…

Good eye! I am indeed half maltese. Although atheist, I've always subscribed to the (secular) symbolism of the the 8 points on the cross, so I thought it a good symbol for the site…

Ha yea, there's a typo there. The gist is cached by the wordpress plugin. Going to fix it at lunch. Should look like this: [20] (pry) main: 0>

As an incoming student for the next round, who just quit his mech engineering job to do this, I can't tell you how nervous I was about signing up a few months back. Before I decide…

I think you are thinking of "change the world" in the "topple bad governments, empower the meek, help make this world a utopia" type of way. Evernote is changing the world. If you …

Some programmers would argue that using self.method_name helps clear up ambiguity to humans who read the code, even if it is equivalent to method_name This is the reason I highligh…

Whoa, no kidding. The majority of people are not going to stop on those two letters and consciously differentiate "virus" from "PC virus."

As someone who used to sell Mac computers, I used to get asked the question "Is it true macs never get viruses?", to which I replied "No that's not true." (It was just an apple res…

I was very surprised by this too. It sounds like EMC is trying to establish some kind of legitimacy in the startup world. I feel like Pivotal gets a lot of respect from the hacker …

While I won't argue with the fact that you should donate, I never felt any pressure to donate while I was taking classes there. I didn't even know there was a donation bin on-site …

One suggestion on working spaces if you're traveling up to the city. There's a place called Noisebridge in the Mission that is more or less a free hacker lounge with a lot of creat…