BenderV

I'm a cs student in Europe (France), and I'm still struggling to find my road.

I have competence in IA, Machine Learning, Python, JS (node, express, meteor), Angular but also Design (mockup, wireframe, bootstrap, css).

I don't see myself as a front-end engineer, nor a back-end engineer, nor data science man.

So, I'm a full-stack engineer but without a deep knowledge in anything. I have a hard time to feel confident enough to work for someone else, as they might realize that I am an impostor (I know about the syndrome, but how can you be sure not be one ?).

I would really like to have a mentor that could show me where I can evaluate myself and where I should make progress.

Thanks !

benderville[at]gmail.com

I follow Ethereum for a while now, it's really impressive the vision of the founders. Especially Vitalik Buterin. He have the technical abilities, the media power (he is a co-founder of the Bitcoin Magazine), and the vision (he anticipate long-term effect).

The team is growing rapidly, with impressive new members. The community as well.

"While I imagine that larger contracts would likely be built with some sort of failsafe mechanism for arbitration, there is no need for such a thing to exist."

I don't understand why. If I were to use a large cryptocontracts, I would make sure that an impartial third party could 'debug'/judge a bad situation.

He certainly used Vanitygen https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Vanitygen

Well easy, it's 1)... But thinking that there was only two viable options is stupid. (less stupid than create a password so simple for such a powerful stuff...)

Though, you are right about the danger of the perception of reality. (that why it's good, some time, to go back to the first principles)

I couldn't believe it. It pushed pop up even when I wasn't on the navigator...

Whenever I look at the evolution of Bitcoin's price, I feel oblige to think about the internet bubble...

But I was too young to care about that then.

Could someone explain to me the similarities and differences between those two events ? How Bitcoin could avoid the "too-early" bubble ?

Funny that I almost invest in Bitcoin ten days ago...

Really, I always feel it's a good moment to invest when I look at the last 3 days chart...but then I look at the 2y chart...Big Bubble.

For the optimistics, I would suggest you to read that http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/04/11/an-illustr...

The article just say that S&P punish France rating for their political choice without proof of it's economic impact.

But, for what is worth : richs are leaving the country, young educated dream to leave, less educated want to work for the gouvernement, tv, radio, newspapers talk about gouvernement. And gouvernement only create new taxes and stupid debate (See leonarda...)

People are all about gouvernement spending, without a care for the debt.

It's not signs of a bright future...

[disclaimer : I'm French]

Indeed, it's for India people... My bad.

Though, that's not the first time I see that kind of result on contests (but I wasn't so surprised because of the demographic numbers.)

Leaderbords : https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#lea...

India, India, India, India, India, India, India, Germany, India, India, India...

There is, without doubt a great pool of talents available in India, but this kind of result make me suspect that it's maybe just a result of India' schools focus on algorithms. Not on real problem solving, creation, design...

I think it's about service that are stream-centered and sectioned.

HN, Reddit, Upbeatapp, Quora (?), are stream-centered. Information come and go, which make it very easy accessible.

Reddit, Upbeatapp, Quora are also sectioned ; There are sub-reddit, there are subgenres in Upbeatapp and in Quora, you can follow topics/interests/questions. HN is not sectioned but is already very specific. That point make an access to your pre-targeted audience.

The two factor combines make an easy accessible access to a large interested audience.

( Note that is not the case in twitter, youtube, soundcloud, tumblr...) I don't know Medium enough to be sure, but I think they are trying to do the same (sections + stream).

I'm trying to find online services that use this pattern for other type of market (Movie, Food recipes, ect.)

See...not exacly.

Because, If I create an account on Soundcloud, put some awesome music that I created, what will happen ? Nothing. Same for Youtube. I would have to be detected by someone with a huge number of followers to take off.

If I make an awesome post on start-up or about an experience, and I post it and HN, I could go from 0 to lots of good (read "targeted") traffics.

If I make a great anwser on Quora, I could go from nothing to lots of readers.

Using Quora (or Reddit) is really a smart first move. It allow you to find interresting question/subject that you could answer (which is not trivial). It also allow you to directly reach a base of interested reader.

Kind of what HN does for ideas/start-up.

I wonder if this also exist for other type of markets (product, music, ...) ...

Well, Python is quick to learn. So my advice would be first a focus on the Python langage. After, it would depend : If you have great experience in MVC framework and you need it for a seasoned job, I think you could start with Django. Flask is a just an easier (cooler !) way to learn framework with python.

For people starting with Web Framework or new to Python, I would suggest starting with a lightweight framework, such as Flask or Pylons.

I used to struggle with Django, so I started to look into Flask, and I really feel like I finally understood what I was doing.

Flask tuto : http://flask.pocoo.org/

In texts for those who prefer (I'm not a native English speaker, so you are welcome to modify it)

https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ns9mrG2gpy

Thanks !

It's cool to have this option.

But it disturbed me. I feel like it's a way to shut off the protest (a small small minority of interested persons)...

It feels like it's a choice now, but the reality is not really... my sister, my parents, will never go on the options, and will never defaulted it. The choice is disconnected with the impact, thus making it kind of invisible. "By default" is a small, but commons dark patterns.

Well, I'm not an advocate :P

I am more in the mitigating circumstances than in a total defense.

"The only defense so far is a bunch of rather ridiculous hearsay by a bunch of internet people who weren't there." That the whole goal of this post. How can you judge without a defense ?

The defense of Joe ? The fact that he is not saying anything on the Internet is not a proof of anything...

And again, I don't say that her story is false. Just that it could have been viewed in an another way from Joe pov.

People seem eager to judge other people. Especially on the internet...

This is sad. I don't want to be the devil advocate but I don't think we can judge here...So I will imagine the defense of Joe ;

I understand that Justine doesn't want to enter in details. But without all informations, it does seem to me that Joe could have just misunderstood Justine behavior.

"- Joe began to start rubbing my back and kissing my forehead (let me say this is not uncommon behavior between me and men I consider close friends." => Joe certainly believed that it was unique between Her and Him. He doesn't have the same pov as Justine

"- Joe then put his hands down the back of my pants, yes, I wear a thong and thus he began grabbing my ass." => Shouldn't she stop him there ?

"- Joe then started kissing me, forcibly with his tongue. I was not reciprocating." => Joe is drunk. He certainly does not remark that.

"- Joe began to put his hand down the front of my pants and finger me." => He certainly have gone to far there. But why does he wasn't stopped before and during that operation (not easy) !

"- I told Joe to stop and reminded him he had a wife and children. He said, “Don’t’ worry about it we have an agreement”" => That unfortunate, in one side (Justine), it seems to be the smartest thing to say to calm him down, in the other side (Joe), it seems like a girl who know it is wrong but wanted it if he is certain would said.

As for what we have here, it doesn't seem to me that Joe is specially an asshole (but maybe I'm wrong.), but more that this could be the results of peers pressure and mis-communication.

[Again, I don't want to judge here, just to give another pov]

It's however clear that Joe should have think about how his work relation [the fact that he is her boss...] influence that relation.

Maybe this is what the victims of assault don't tell the police. They fear that the case will be drop because of lack of details...

"- Finally Matt Darby approached me and asked if I want to go out for a smoke (I smoke, he does’t smoke, and I knew that he was trying to help) I agreed." That's a smart move. Bravo Matt.

In another subject, I'm surprised (and sad ?) that HN doesn't give any tips, tools for all the possible victims.

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