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I was pretty impressed when we opened tonight. Folks started walking calmly into the store. They were walking fast, but I didn't see anyone doing an all out sprint.
Posted by
Brewer on Thursday November 22, 2012 @08:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.
This year will be my first working in retail on a Black Friday. I work at Hhgregg, and electronics and appliances retailer in the eastern half of the United States and I will be working 21 out of the next 24 hours.What stories (good or bad) do you have from Black Friday, either as a customer or an employee?
Posted by
Brewer on Thursday November 22, 2012 @02:58PM
from the ontwik.com dept.
I've never understood the desire to work remotely, unless you are nomadic and travel the world.
I'm not sure what you'd do with the data itself, but if you want to build some interactive charts to show off your project, Highcharts[1] is a good way to go.
1: http://www.highcharts.com/
Is that $1500 for your own place or $1500 with roommates?
San Jose is a bit farther away from San Francisco, but the prices are lower there aren't they?
Posted by
Brewer on Friday November 09, 2012 @02:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I know life in the Valley isn't cheap, but how much could I expect to spend on a shared apartment? I'm 20, single, and I don't mind having multiple roommates.
Well I meant in addition to any non-school related projects I do. :P The tasks we are asked to perform here are a joke. I recall a problem set last year that went something like this: "You have a Door object that has a state which can be 'open' or 'closed'. Write a mutator method to change the state of the door." What the hell? That was about 2/3 of the way through the course too. I know its a first year course but come one ...
I haven't made anything yet. How would the source from my course assignments/projects look on GitHub?
I definitely get the point of MIT and Stanford having amazing entrepreneurial cultures, which is something that we don't have here in Newfoundland.
I'd love to be able to tell people about something that I've made -- but I haven't made anything. I have no idea what to make and no clue where to start.
This is an interesting answer because I wasn't expecting anyone to tell me that business is easier than MIT. Then again, you owned the majority of a business that had more than $1m in revenue. I have trouble finding money to spend on lunch.
I'm a CS major now and I'm strongly considering switching to an Applied Math/Computer Science double major. Are you a developer? If so, what about your math degree helped you most? Did you focus on pure or applied math?
I have considered Waterloo, but it's far too expensive for me to attend, unfortunately.
That's good, because although I have a StackOverflow account, my reputation is 1. It's a new account. :P
Sounds like brown nosing to me. :P
I got the idea recently to create a repo for all of the course work that I have done and will do. Do you think that this will work to my advantage?
I'll be starting my second year in September, so I'll have plenty of time to attend this conference. Thanks for the link, I'll make a note of the date for next year and bookmark the site.
EDIT: Do you have any tips on networking? I have no problem talking to people, but starting the conversation is not my strong point.
I'd like to get an internship with Mixpanel -- a web analytics company -- next summer so I've been reading up on data mining and I hope to get to work on a related project using Python in the next few weeks.
I've been working with a CS professor for about a month and a half now as part of a work-study program. Do I get street cred for this?
This is what I've heard. In fact, I actually have another Ask HN thread up write now on this same topic. It should be slightly higher up on the 'new' page if you want to check it out. The title is 'Ask HN: Showing personal projects to potential employers'.
No, I'm in Newfoundland, Canada -- about as far away from the Valley as you can get while staying in North America.
Do you have any tips for fellow attendees of awful schools?
No offence, but that doesn't answer his question. What does it depend on?
Posted by
Brewer on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've heard that when I go to look for an internship one of the most important things for a potential employer will be the projects that I've done in my free time.This will vary from employer to employer, but what is it that you would be looking for when you see my projects? What would get me bonus points and what would make me lose points? What is important to you? Good documentation and...
I don't think that most colleges instill a solid work ethic in their students because the work is just too easy (this is the case with my university). You have to get an 80 at my university to get an A .. the high school I went to required a 93 for an A.
Posted by
Brewer on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:04AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I didn't attend MIT, Stanford, or any other school of note. I'm a computer science major at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Newfoundland, Canada and I'm wondering how much of a disadvantage I'll be at throughout my career as a software developer for going to such a lesser known university.You can say that after a few years of working the university you attended doesn't matter much, but...
Generally I wouldn't waste my time on naysayers, but I feel like this time I should.
I am fully aware of everything that has been said here. I know it's hard work. I've heard about the hours. I know that it would be easier to start with Python.
But you know what? I just don't care. None of that concerns me. This is something that I want to do, and I'm willing to put up with all of this stuff.
Posted by
Brewer on Saturday July 23, 2011 @03:37PM
from the jamesbrewer.me dept.
Now to be fair, there are a couple that at least make sense.
For example, 48. "I got it for free" is a pet hate. You got it "free" not "for free". You don't get something cheap and say you got it "for cheap" do you? Mark Jones, Plymouth.
I'm guilty of this and I'll admit it, but for the most part, the people whose names appear on that list are just fucking retarded.
EDIT: As a side note, I never heard "touch base" until I moved to Canada.
Clearly I would build a time machine to go back to 1996 and invent Google.
Assuming you want to save the data you need to look into databases. MySQL is tried and true, but NoSQL database (MongoDB, for example) are hot right now.