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stc

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About stc

reach me at steven.ciraolo@gmail.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3830489

    I am currently attending Hacker School and fall in the less experienced camp and can honestly say that the experience has been nothing short of fantastic. The environment is incred…

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    Comment #3418740

    You can do much more than just changing the column numbers or width, you can alter any styles.

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    Comment #3209667

    Very cool, love the visualizations. Is there a way to select multiple subgroups when looking through the data (such as 18-24 and 25-34) or to compare groups?

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    Comment #3204993

    The Eloquent Javascript book is excellent, thanks for the heads up. Definitely helping to expand my mind as I work through it. For anyone else here trying to learn I have also been…

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    Comment #3201536

    That is definitely the type of role and organization I would like to join. I am in NY right but will be back in the bay area soon and would be interested in an interview. I am cert…

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    Comment #3199948

    Thanks for the insight. I agree ropeadopeandwink.com is an ugly design I will go in and clean it up shortly, font sizes especially need help. Comparing it to the blogs you suggeste…

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    Comment #3199629

    Thanks for the feedback but perhaps you can give me more insight into what is dreadful about my site/portfolio. When you say site/portfolio, which are you referring to? Is it the d…

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    Comment #3198908

    Thats a great idea. I am a big believer in/user of open source technologies and would love to contribute.

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    Comment #3198887

    Thanks for the insight, you really hit upon several things I have been thinking about, namely my shortest path which I also think is javascript/frontend. Been looking into javascri…

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    Comment #3198842

    Funny you should ask. I come from a sales/marketing background and can talk to people. I do not need a 100% dev role but also do not really like sales however something that includ…

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    Comment #3198781

    Thats where I spend most of my time. NY right now for the holidays.

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    Comment #3198769

    Thanks Andrew, virtualenv is next on my list as my system is starting to get mucked up with different packages and you are absolutely right that I need to clean everything up. Than…

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    Comment #3198710

    Thanks for the reply, always nice to hear about liberal arts majors that have walked the road ahead of me. I think I need to improve on the confidence as I feel less sure of myself…

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    Best approach for self-taught developer looking for job?

    I have a degree in social sciences and after several years of unfullfilling employment at various jobs I started learning some programming and found I really enjoyed it. I taught m…

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    Comment #3197233

    I do not think a lawyer have to specialize in patents specifically to support byzantine laws. I think it is the willingness and propensity to accept laws and regulations for everyt…

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    Comment #3118080

    I think you absolutely can. I am actually paying off the debt I incurred while attending a four year college with development skills I have picked up from mostly online resources, …

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    Comment #3034826

    I have used Google Analytics in the past and just tried Mixpanel. It is great. Love the visualization. You can try out both pretty easily.

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    Comment #3027465

    Yes. But depending on your background and skillsets the little "building the web app" part he glosses over could take awhile.

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    Comment #2988244

    Well you still get to do that when your $10,000 runs out.

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    Comment #2422372

    I have not yet begun to charge forwards!

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    Comment #2411231

    What do you technical people think of business/idea guys that teach themselves how to code and begin working on their ideas themselves? Do you find it makes the business guy easier…

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    Comment #2406557

    It would create more noise when trying to optimize your site to reduce the bounce rate which is a bad thing.