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Thanks for the response. From my perspective, SpaceX is probably the coolest company on the planet right now :) I looked for web dev jobs a while back (that's when I bookmarked those quora posts). Unfortunately, I'm staying in my current location for about another year so won't be able to move.

Any tips on what sort of people they're looking for? Particularly what technical areas they look for in a web position?

The discussions I've seen online are all related to the product engineering side of things.

I had these posts bookmarked because I was curious myself. You may have already googled these, but thought I'd share. I'm a web developer myself but would love to work here someday :)

http://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-a-job-at-SpaceX-after-graduat...

http://www.quora.com/How-did-you-get-an-internship-at-SpaceX...

Thanks for this. Edited the question a little to hopefully clarify things. I'm mostly going back to Coursera just out of pure curiousity, but was hoping I could take something that has some relevance to my career in Web Development (practical side, so more of your latter statement).

Sounds like Linear Algebra would be good to learn.

I don't mean to go off track here, but as someone who's been casually interested in math, I'm wondering which branches of math are the most applicable to software development. I've taken Discrete Mathematics, Stats, and Calc in college, but now I've been working in the field for a few years and want to try learning a bit more. I've been thinking of trying some courses on Cryptography, but it would be a major shift from my current background (web dev).

I feel like there's so many different directions to take, but which ones are the most applicable to practical Software Development? Particularly in the realm of Web Development?

Editing my question to ask what's the most applicable math subjects regarding the _PRACTICAL_ applications of software development, hopefully clears it up a bit.

How did i miss this? Thanks so much!

> I've never heard anyone say or intimate that they would, either.

I'm completely in agreement with you. Unfortunately I've been to a handful of tech meetups where I've heard this exact phrase. It's like they look down on me for using windows :( I dunno, maybe it's my limited perspective but I've actually been feeling like I'm not taken as seriously when I show up to tech meetups with my thinkpad.

thank you! For the moment I was using https://www.nitrous.io/ but this looks like it could be a solution to develop locally

Thanks for this. I'm brand new to Meteor and have been looking for resources.

Does anyone have an idea of when the official Windows installation will be released? I've been struggling with trying to get this working correctly on my windows pc and signed up for their email list when it comes out. Hopefully soon?

Hey, how are you curating this list? I'm interested in making a service similar to cofounderslab but way better (think something curated) and am curious how to make a screening process. Or even for your site, I'm curious how you went about this since I'm interested in remote work myself :)

Cool. I'm curious on the timeline for Stripe's bitcoin integration. Haven't seen anything on an actual date yet. Very nice that Braintree made a private beta though :)

That would be appreciated for sure. Or even just a quick gist of the setup files. I can probably figure it out, just haven't had enough time to play around :(

Great job! Also love the write up you gave and that you shared the code. I tried doing something similar a while back but never got around to finishing it, so I'll definitely dig through this source for some inspiration. I'm very curious how you'll develop the integration between webpack and gulp (or whatever you plan on using) as I tried doing something similar with Grunt but eventually gave up. Having only one build step would be awesome.

This was a good comment that I can agree with. I'm also genuinely curious what the reaction/outcome would be if de Blasio would be less apologetic and slightly more confrontational with the Unions. Or even if the governor spoke out more.. Maybe confrontational is the wrong word, but rather something more "truthful" as your post is suggesting. I wonder what it actually takes to make a major cultural shift in the police force.

I believe haakon is correct on this one, unless I'm missing something. We just got into an argument at my work over the correct usage of the term "api", but found this post to back up my arguments - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8772746/difference-betwee...

Anyway, I'm not trying to nitpick or keep this side-discussion alive. But I'm genuinely curious how most people classify the difference between api and library.

Also on a sidenote, who's downvoting all the comments and the thread itself? This seems like a really cool project and it doesn't look like anyone's posted anything completely irrelevant here.

This looks very well done! Starred on github :)

I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I recently came across a similar question that might shed some light (old post though).

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-is-graphene-only-a...

love this.

"A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions"

just wow. This gives me alot to reflect on and goes much deeper than racial prejudices. This can be applied to alot of areas in my life. I was one of the top in my high school class for math, and skated through college pretty easily. Came out being kind of cocky then learned pretty quickly how little I actually knew. The past few years have really really given me perspective. Speaking for myself, I seem to grow much faster when I humble myself and acknowledge my areas that need improvement.

Current "World" Populatation

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     Developers can get started with Visual Studio Community 2013 here.

<<link is not working>> http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com...

I think they meant here? http://www.visualstudio.com/news/vs2013-community-vs

That was... an awesome explanation :)

Thank you

Thanks for this. As someone new to bitcoin, this helped explained things a bit for me, but also leaves me with many more questions.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone explain the part explaining b?

    y2 = x3 + ax + b
    For a = 0 and b = 7 (the version used by bitcoin)

Can someone please explain why b is set to 7? Is there some other articles that explain this in a little more depth?

I'm finding references to Secp256k1 (SEC 2: Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters), but am struggling to understand it.

This looks like a pretty good resource, thanks for sharing. But even the search functionality for this seems to be lacking/not-so-straightforward.

Maybe this is an idea to make into an app :) Been looking for a small project to do.

Wow , just wow.

Thanks, I think I get it now. Helps when I actually read the API's :)

Which section are you referring to? 2.1, 2.2 maybe?

Sorry of for the simple question, but I think I'm missing something. Wouldn't avoiding a destructive update give better performance? And the trade-off would be higher maintainability? With a mutable structure, you're 'destroying' just reusing the same locations in memory and just replacing, versus say an immutable structure returning a completely new structure (new memory allocations).

But to your main point, yes I won't take this as the canonical source of coding standards. I just like to read through stuff like this because it gives me alot of areas to explore and research. Like why do this vs that, what's the tradeoffs, etc..

<<edit>> Whoop's looks like i have my logic/terminology flipped! Saw this on SO which cleared things up a bit.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6964233/what-is-a-destruc...

Also just noticed the + vs += in some of the mutable collections, which helps to explain.

This is so awesome! I've been slowly learning Scala and was looking for a "Effective Scala" type book.

Thanks for making this!

"Literally anyone can learn how to program" - really, was that necessary? Of course "anyone" can be come a chemical engineer, accountant, etc.. pick whatever field you choose. The obvious point they're trying to make is that they're probably new to backend development and want to showcase something they've made.

Anyway, I think this looks pretty clean, so kudos and keep up the work! I envy good designers because I can't seem to create up with any decent front end on my own.

heydenberk explained it well, but just to add some clarity on why you'd want to use prototype.apply for array as an argument -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2856059/passing-an-array-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1316371/converting-a-java...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I'm still learning more about JS and so I'm no expert, but it seems to be similar in concept to use the ... in other languages. I think Groovy has something similar and Java has the varargs. They have obvious differences, but conceptually I think of it as passing in a variable number of args.

cool thanks

Apologies for the randomly off topic, but what's the logo on his shirt?