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walesmd

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About walesmd

Web Dev Curriculum Manager and Course Developer, Udacity

Recent public activity

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    Comment #29837821

    We are not, knowingly, providing this data to Equifax; but sure enough, there it is. I'm going to guess it's tied up within the mountain of agreements with our HRIS or payroll prov…

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    Comment #19222283

    And making it free, at least initially, for businesses removes the requirement of having to have a conversation about it or get permission. It's the same way Dropbox gained so much…

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    Comment #19194933

    Why the hell are they capturing keyboard inputs of the q, v, m, l, and p keys and updating the URI w/ navigational things? Makes CMD+L useless... Looks like the are supposedly emul…

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    Comment #17808864

    Google has had AI art museums at the past 2-3 I/Os.

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    Comment #16083462

    Moonrise | Chicago, IL | Full-time | ONSITE (2x/wk + WFH) | $70-100k + Performance bonuses every 6 months | Fortune 500 backed spin-out Moonrise is seeking a NodeJS Platform Engine…

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    Hiring Node.js Platform Engineer in Chicago

    Moonrise, https://www.moonrise.works, is seeking a NodeJS Platform Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining the current infrastructure our prototype service …

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    Comment #14720131

    It's a Lincoln MKZ. A number of partners helped us with the conversion, including AutonomouStuff and NVidia. And yes - we're running student code on the car, around a test track, a…

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    Comment #14612415

    Absolutely not and I'm sorry you feel that way. Graduate success (either moving into a new career or moving up in their current career) is one of our company OKRs that we measure, …

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    Comment #14512049

    Udacity person here (Director of Content Development - but this is my own personal commentary)! You are exactly right - Sebastian has gone pretty public on record in explaining the…

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    Comment #14510507

    We offer scholarships - https://www.udacity.com/scholarships

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    Comment #14355402

    I do (work for Udacity) and willing to answer any questions. :)

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    Comment #8218867

    California is a big place and Silicon Valley occupies a very small portion of it. Today's earthquake has had very little, if any, effect here; so that's not the reason your traffic…

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    Comment #8082019

    On most military bases, and therefore in military heavy towns like San Antonio, the zipper merge is used to great effect. I've even seen it used at T-intersections (where the perpe…

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    Comment #8078166

    I participated in a user study for terminal, although it was a modified version marketed toward a specific use case. We came away quite disappointed in the product, primarily becau…

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    Comment #7923645

    Udacity Nano Degrees: https://www.udacity.com/nanodegrees

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    Comment #7827543

    Nice catch! I'm going to assume, since GT really does handle all of the admissions stuff, that their page is the correct one. It does look like, on our page, we are displaying GT's…

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    Comment #7826031

    Hey there! I actually work at Udacity and can (or will find the person that can) answer any questions you may have. You specifically mentioned our MS Computer Science program with …

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    Comment #7738699

    I do something very similar to this, using Wintersmith and shell scripts. It essentially boils down to using two repositories for my site: the first being the raw/ungenerated files…

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    Comment #7738677

    Those reasons being? I can't think of any reason a naked domain would have any impact on growth.

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    Comment #7505795

    I had not heard of Strip Search - thank you for posting the link, girlfriend and I enjoyed the first 6 episodes this evening and definitely plan on finishing it up.

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    Comment #7462258

    Edit the kernel entry in grub to boot into single user mode (by appending a 1 to the line), boot, you're now free to change root's password. This is what we did to a number of mach…

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    Comment #7398337

    As a San Antonio resident paying out the ass for AT&Ts 40Mbps tier, all I have to add to the conversation is this: fuck yes.

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    Comment #7121305

    My Synology NAS comes with a relatively easy to setup mail server. I wouldn't call it cheap, as a mail server alone; but all of the other functionality has made it well worth the p…

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    Comment #7121272

    Because Azure is targeting the enterprises (government, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, etc), not Aunt Jean's Nail Salon and Tackle Shop. When big business sees $10/mo, you may just as well sai…

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    Comment #6965382

    Using Google as a verb (ie. "just google it") is actually behavior the company discourages, or at least used too. It severely devalues the brand by generalizing the term. For examp…