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markwaldron

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Personal Email: markewaldron at gmail dot com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/markwaldron; my proof: https://keybase.io/markwaldron/sigs/HaooAiT7ktcZARduc1TfQybU2lZcFU7hpkuG_3Pzew8 ]
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markwaldron··on Ask HN: Stories about women who helped you to become a better programmer?
In college, we had to do a senior project in order to graduate. For CS, this consisted of building something and writing a 15-30pg paper about what you built and the technologies it uses. The other people in my class all chose to build things using technologies they were taught in our CS classes and how no problem finding professors to consent to their project and be their mentor during the process. I wanted something challenging, though. I wanted to build an iOS app using Objective-C (pre-swift), which was not something taught at my college.

After I came up with the app idea, I went around to the different professors I had classes with (some male, some female) and not one wanted to sign off on the project. Some simply said no, some tried to talk me into doing the same app in HTML5 or another language that we covered in class. I spoke to one of my peers and they referred me to a teacher I had never taken a class with. I went to her, expecting to be rejected, but instead, she happily agreed to sign off on the project. The one condition was that I TA her CS2 class the next semester in Python. I told her I never used Python before and she said: "Well you have 3 months to learn enough to TA the class". With her guidance, I learned enough Python to TA. With her guidance, I learned enough Objective-C to build the App. With her guidance, I graduated. This one professor taught me to push my limits and not let anyone hold back my pursuits of knowledge, and for that, I am extremely grateful.

markwaldron··on Ask HN: How did employees do after the Jet.com acquisition?
I work about 3 blocks down the road from them in Hoboken, and I've seen an influx of nicer cars in the area. Not sure if there is a correlation between the two.
markwaldron··on Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)
I don't personally know any men in that age range who fit that description, but I can imagine that living in the middle of the country there are probably fewer jobs than people. I've heard people suggest that they just relocate to an area with more jobs, but it's very difficult for someone with little money (and many times, little education) to relocate to more densely populated areas.

As a whole, our society should not leave these people behind. It would be nice to see more education initiatives focused towards getting people fitting this description the training required to get them back in the workforce. Even if the country couldn't afford to subsidize this fully, maybe set up a plan that allowed them to pay 10-15% of their salary for a year or two like some coding boot camps do.

markwaldron··on Ask HN: What to do when you're denied to every New Grad position?
Get on Angellist and just keep applying. You can make much more than 40k a year in NYC as a junior dev.
markwaldron··on The Road to Learn React.js – Build Hacker News App
Just bought it. I've been building a React app for about 2 weeks, but there's always more to learn. I look forward to following along with this tutorial!
markwaldron··on A Top Climate Scientist Blows the Whistle on Flawed Climate Science
The National Review isn't a science magazine. When it says things like "And in the most Obama-esque move" and references The Cato Institute, you have to take what they are saying with a grain of salt.
markwaldron··on Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO
It's great to see someone with this much influence joining the masses to protest these injustices. I understand these companies have shareholders and tend to avoid politically charged topics, but in this case, it affects not only Google's employees but people all over the country.
markwaldron··on Uber Freight
Interested to see how Transfix will stand up to this: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/transfix
markwaldron··on [dead]
Repost from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155504

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Sugar%20is%20killing&sort=byPo...

markwaldron··on To fixate on finding work that makes us happy is a luxury
Getting 500 on and off. Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20161221164424/http://austinlchu...
markwaldron··on The Linux Credit Card
Site isn't loading. Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20161201162722/https://www.linux...
markwaldron··on We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
Interested to know how many sales come through from this Hackernews/Medium post.
markwaldron··on Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer
This! I couldn't agree more. I try to end my day at work with a challenging problem that I won't be able to complete. I think about it a bit on the train ride home, and then it slowly dissipates throughout my night. I eat some dinnner, relax with my fiance and go to bed. By the time I get to work the next day, 90% of the time I'll come up with a solution in 5-10 minutes that I couldn't get to the day before. Also, doing this gives me a clear entry point into the day and that 'winning' feeling you get whenever you solve a tough problem. I highly recommend it.
markwaldron··on Developer Book Club
This would be great if they could be quickly downloaded in a specific format. I'd love to have a lot of these on my Kindle. Thank you for uploading this
markwaldron··on Trump, our next president, promised to block AT&T/Time Warner merger
He's all about removing regulations, and then wants to regulate this?
markwaldron··on LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn
Are they going to access our email without our permission to get this information too?
markwaldron··on Tell HN: Ycombinator.com Blacklisted by Norton
Just got an email from Norton saying they have resolved the issue.

Email: http://imgur.com/a/2WwXf

markwaldron··on Tell HN: Ycombinator.com Blacklisted by Norton
You can submit it to get whitelisted here: https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/
markwaldron··on October Special Event Keynote [video]
If only they had the option to keep the function keys. My 2011 MBP has been serving me well all these years. Going to be difficult to justify giving it up.
markwaldron··on Viewing Sizing Recommendations for Instances
Does GCE have the ability to automatically resize based on the recommendations?
markwaldron··on Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements
This would be a game changer. My fiance works in a non-technical role for an online media company and her non-compete clause is basically every other online media company in the NYC area. I don't understand how a company can have the authority to limit someone like this for 2 years after working there.
markwaldron··on Show HN: I'm writing the Modular JavaScript book series
Why is it that if I try to unlock a chapter with a tweet it wants access to:

Read Tweets from your timeline.

See who you follow, and follow new people.

Update your profile.

Post Tweets for you.

Seems a little excessive. Edit: Link to screenshot - http://imgur.com/a/rAO0d

markwaldron··on AT&T for Profit Spying
Does something like this break any contract I may have with AT&T?
markwaldron··on Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
What are the odds that Donald Trump has reached out to Assange and made a deal with him? I don't think it would be outside the realm of possibility that Trump would say if he won he'd push for the US to drop charges against Assange (although that doesn't clear him of the charges brought by other countries) in return for Assange releasing whatever information he has on Hillary leading up to the election.
markwaldron··on Visual Studio Code 1.6
Just got the prompt to install, so I figured I'd check HN while it was rebooting and this was on the front page. I switched to VS Code from Atom about 2 months ago and I couldn't be happier!
markwaldron··on macOS Sierra Stores and Syncs SSH Passphrases to iCloud
Anyone who has upgraded - Have you had issues with it prompting for your keychain password every time you wake your computer up and occasionally throughout the day?
markwaldron··on The Lightest Metal Ever (2015) [video]
Does the lack of centering with the play button bother anyone else?
markwaldron··on Accessurl – Share accounts without giving away your password
Basically cookie/session hijacking as a service - what could go wrong?
markwaldron··on Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs
I'm a big fan of Papier for chrome. It doesn't save to your Google account so my notes on my home computer are different than my work computer, which is just how I like it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...
markwaldron··on World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (1937)
This just reminded me of the joke from HIMYM:

Marshall: Whats that?

Ted: A 1986 world book encyclopædia. Just the one I grew up with.

Marshall: An encyclopædia?

Ted: [laughing] Oh! You think it should be pronounced encyclo-pee-dia. I'ts a common mistake. But if you look at that squished together "ae" symbol in this here encyclopædia, you'll learn that it's a ligature derived from the Anglo-Saxon rune ash...

[shelf breaks and falls]

Marshall: You know, you're gonna have to pædia for that.

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