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fgandiya··on Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
no need when people list their employer as "BangBros" and work as "fucker" before I see the comment column.
fgandiya··on Curl is 18 years old tomorrow
Not in the US.
fgandiya··on Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
It's now three years for stem https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/
fgandiya··on Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation”
Honestly, I think the submission title doesn't do the article much justice. While it does mention their intention to monetize, it talks about other tings to.

I mean, maybe I don't use it much, but it seems to do a really good job of filtering spam and I don't see much harassment. But it's hard to see opposing views unless you look hard enough for posts which are usually shut down by others. Also, the comments have to be approved by the author which does lead to echo chambers, but they seem to know this since their lawyer Ferrest said that "You shouldn't necessarily be kept safe from other people challenging your ideas."

It's also very SF-centric at times, especially with all the self-help posts, but it does do a good job at content discovery since I can get a wide range of topic from the tech industry through to social issues.

I don't know how they'll sell paywalls to users, though. I mean, the internet has a lot of blogs which are already free to see. Plus, I can use my Pocket recommended feature for diversity right?

fgandiya··on Paywalls coming to medium.com: “We're building monetisation”
Plus, they discussed a whole lot of other things which were rather interesting.
fgandiya··on Ask HN: Should I be concerned about using company's computer for side projects?
Didn't they get away with it because the contract was illegal to begin with?
fgandiya··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you.
fgandiya··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
It looks like it cut off your email at the end.
fgandiya··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2016)
Location: I study in Iowa, although I'm from Zimbabwe (F-1)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

Resume/CV: http://fgandiya.me/gandiyaresume.pdf

Email: gandiyafarai@gmail.com

As a sophomore, I'm looking for an internship over the summer to see what software engineering is like in the real world.

fgandiya··on The Most Dangerous Writing App
I'm much less elegant:

Shit. I've wasted enough time today, but YOLO. I have no idea what the purpose of this thing is like seriously? Why do I need this, I hope the author/screator is trying to get onto techcrunch in order to earn a whole lotta $$$ from YC< Senoqua and Andressen Hortolowolloiz? if thats a thing

Arf! I don't know why there is a wquaetion mark after hororloworitzs. I think its suopposed troo be andresson horowitzz but screw it, sounds like another rich guys name.

I have so manyu fucking grammatical and spelling wrrors that this shit aint worth it anynmore. I'm done, like seriously. I should be working on my blog but na..

ol I'm done with over thrree minuites to spair there, happy noe? I can only type at a pittiful 41 wpm which is super slow, but then again there was an optiob for a whole fucing hour

and now i'm looking at my grammarly extention and I apparantly have 36 fucing errors in this thing. No its 20. Damn, I'm dumn.See, I cant even spell dumb.

I guess I should reside(???) and go back to looking at this AAron fellow. He seems really interesting. It's sad how he got screwed over badly despite him contributing a lot ex

fgandiya··on Hackathon Be Gone
Personally, the main reason I go to these hackathons is just to expose myself to a bigger network and places with stronger CS communities than the one at my really small liberal arts college just to see what I'm missing out on (which is a lot).It seems like a necessary evil and it has worked in a way since I've finally been able to get an internship interview from it.

Otherwise, I agree with his points. Not sleeping for 24+ hours really takes its toll, especially if you need to drive back to where you came from. Food is mostly junk, but this one other hackathon I went to had really well-made food, so there's that. They have been unrewarded since I always lose steam before I get to make an MVP and they do seem to be very commercialized and they're really trying to get groundbreaking stuff from us within a weekend, like the last hackathon had very specific prizes relating to using certain company's API as well has performing "health innovations".

I also like Brian's suggestions to provide more specific hackathons so that I know exactly what to expect from them. These events take up a huge portion of my weekends theI should be using on school, so it seems like a good idea to pick those which seem most useful at the time.

fgandiya··on Why Tech Degrees Are Not Putting More Blacks and Hispanics into Tech Jobs
It's times like these when I think to myself why I'm bothering to enter this field? I mean, I really wanna go into the tech feel to make awesome stuff, but hearing how hard it is for people who look like me (black African college student in the mid west) just gets me down.

Then again, software engineering has only been a thing for about 40-50 odd years and is young as compared to other professions, so I guess things will change.

fgandiya··on Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List [pdf]
Ahh, this is among my favorite papers, alongside the two medical papers in which one said to fake the NMR data (in first person) and the other said '(insert statistical method here)
fgandiya··on Ask HN: What are the best options for cloud IDEs?
I'd been using Cloud 9 c9.io. It's really good since it gives you a terminal and repl shell to play with.

The only issue is that c9 seems more suited for web development.

fgandiya··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
It doesn't look like it does yet.

http://caniuse.com/#search=Notifications

fgandiya··on Show HN: What parts of your code are not original
The part about 1% salary is.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-li...

fgandiya··on The Game Industry of South Africa
Sounds like an interesting game. You'll love the game the country just north of you made.
fgandiya··on Apple’s declining software quality
I'm getting an error as of 9:43am UTC -6

EDIT: Looks okay now 10 minutes later.

fgandiya··on Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions
Interesting, although I can't help but shake that in at a pretty big disadvantage going to my Midwestern College.

I read about how the biggest advantage to elite colleges is networking as opposed to the actual education, but then the network itself is really significant, like having investment firms as alumni as opposed to DevShop founders.

Is there a way for a student who isn't at an elite college to mimic the elite like network?

fgandiya··on How Target failed in Canada
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. The clothes I get from Target last much longer than those I bought at Walmart.

Also, the staff are much easier to get a hold of.

fgandiya··on WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees
Good to so I'm not alone. Heck, I've even moved countries like 3 times and I haven't paid a cent.
fgandiya··on WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees
For the 5 years I've been using WhatsApp, I've never been charged anything. I always get a "trial extension", even after changing numbers many times and changing countries 3 times.

I don't know if this happens frequently, or I'm just lucky

fgandiya··on Android-x86 dev offers $50k for proof of contribution by Kickstarted ConsoleOS
nautical shared this link with the email http://imgur.com/b7xousy
fgandiya··on Forget your wallet? Here's one way to fly without ID
Off topic. What's this Twitter feature calle? It looks neat.
fgandiya··on Google Deceptively Tracks Students’ Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
There's history.google.com where you can see pretty much everything that you've ever done with a Google product. You can even delete everything and disable tracking if you need to.
fgandiya··on Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
That sucks. May I ask why you got the MacBook? The air always liked like a better deal to me.
fgandiya··on America is full of high-earning poor people
They already do. They partnered with The Bank of America to provide some courses on financial literacy here.https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/khan-academy-partnership.h...
fgandiya··on Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Wow, what a coincidence! I'm just about to start my Operating Systems class. This will come in handy.
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