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Given that many people come from larger cities, my story is an anomaly probably. I was working on my MS in CS and Applied Math at a local university when I started going to a local meetup. I got to know some people there who were in hiring positions at a local company that had a number of dev teams. They invited me to interview for an internship and ended up hiring me as a contractor instead. My next job after that came from meeting the CTO of a local consulting house at the same meetup. It's all about networking. I haven't gotten an offer from a place that didn't start with a warm intro.

This isn't entirely true. People have been making good money for ages in specialized trades (electricians, plumbers, etc). However, it's arguable that their apprenticeship is equivalent to a degree. In addition, there are plenty of people in technical fields who manage to make up for education with self-teaching and real world experience. This probably becomes an obstacle when applying for jobs through automated HR systems, but I've noticed that those aren't nearly as useful as networking and knowing people anyway.

I just use Codeship's free plan for CI/CD. I embedded the deploy script in my repo and use Codeship to run it via SSH. Works great and costs $0.

We found this a few months ago. It was perfect for the application we were looking to build. I had to invert his recommended process for mixing it with Angular, allowing Angular to bootstrap naturally, then initializing GL. If you go that route, you just have to manually wire the window resize to resize GL.

$35 for a t-shirt?!?! I was ready with the credit card until I saw that salty bit.

This would only make sense if you could make the uninfected t-cells totally resistant to infection. What this paper suggests is that even this would be unnecessary. The combination of antiretrovirals and CRISPR therapy would prevent replication and excise the embedded viral sources. With enough of this combined therapy, eradication may be obtainable, resulting in a properly cured patient.

Most HIV treatments center around suppressing the virus. For example, many antivirals used in treatment interfere with viral reproduction. These people are never cured, because part of what HIV does is it inserts itself into the DNA of the infected individual's cells.

The technique proposed in this article would be revolutionary because it suggests that we may eventually be able to use CRISPR to selectively cut that HIV DNA out of infected cells, leading to a permanent cure, if 100% eradication of HIV DNA can be achieved. Unfortunately, doing it in a petri dish is much different than doing it in vivo, particularly with 100% eradication.

I just refurbed my '09 13" MBP. New thermal paste, cleaned the intake/exhaust, new battery, replaced the battery indicator/sleep sensor (ribbon cable got damaged). All in: ~$70. It still has 8 GB RAM and an SSD from my previous upgrades. It runs El Capitan just fine, and the fan is barely audible. I'm going to be so disappointed when I eventually drop cash on a rMBP, knowing that I'll never be able to do all of that in the future.

I think they know the risk is too high, and they jeopardize being able to use the All Writs Act in a similar situation against a company that lacks all of the resources that Apple has at their disposal. If patent trolls back down when challenged too hard, why not the US government?

I'm shocked that they have waited this long. They really seemed to ramp up support for Xamarin. Seemed like this was a no brainer.

What is more ridiculous is that shared public wifi would become critical in the event of a major terror attack (on scale with 9/11). We have already seen the use of social media to allow families and friends to connect after a disaster occurs. Given the fragility of mobile data networks under heavy load, public wifi could become the only option for mass communications. The French government will only be handicapping its people when they need help most.

Find out if you have a local Code For America brigade (http://www.codeforamerica.org). They're interested in building apps and tools to help communities and local governments work together.

This was one of the first things that was shown to me at my first job. It strengthened my tendency toward well-defined, modular architectures.

Thanks for validating my logic. I wanted to make sure that there wasn't some major gotcha in the MIT license that I missed.

What are the broader implications of this with respect to the rather permissive nature of the MIT license? I mean, it grants users the ability to outright copy the code, provided that they include a copy of the license. If oh-my-fish included the copyright notice, then regardless of any disagreement between the repo owners, it seems that the author of wahoo has no ground to stand on here. Can someone explain otherwise?

Well, looks like I'll be doing some upgrade purchases very soon...

There are varying degrees of this though. Singles have things like speed dating and singles only volleyball leagues. We have meetups and conferences. I have found all of my jobs through networking. My first 2 were directly from meetups. The 3rd came from a former classmate. My current role came from a coworker from my 2nd job. Most of my other interviews have come from meetups too. It is a lot easier to do this when you know there's some common ground.

Learning their software stack is good, but also learn the tools and best practices that they are implementing. When I started my first job while I was still in school, I had learned little to nothing about unit testing, version control systems, continuous integration, and agile process, which were all in use at this place. It made my integration with the team that much harder because I didn't completely speak their language.

If you search Wikipedia or Erowid for the chemical structures of 2Cs and NBOMes, you'll find that while the NBOMes contain the core 2C skeleton, they have an additional aromatic ring on the amine part of the phenethylamine core. That is enough to significantly change their absorption profile, tendency to cross the blood brain barrier, and affinity for the target binding site. So while they are related, it's not "siblings" like the 2Cs are to each other. It's more like "cousins".

Location: South Bend, IN

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

* Languages: C#, HTML/CSS, JS, Node, Elixir (learning)

* Databases: SQL Server, SQLite

* Libraries/Frameworks: Socket.io, Knockout, Bootstrap, Angular (it's been a while), LESS

* Other: nginx, TeamCity, Agile, TDD

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByrhKjFxo5KDdEhZSi1WZmpjRkU...

Email: azurelogic [at] gmail [dot] com

Website (blog/talks/projects): https://azurelogic.com

I'm a full stack developer with most of my professional experience in .NET, but I have done quite a bit of work in my free time with Node, Socket.io, LESS, and nginx. I'm currently teaching myself Elixir, and D3.js is on the horizon after that.

The best compliment I have ever received on my work came from a former manager with whom I had lunch recently. He said that he missed having me on the team because of my willingness and capability to be handed anything and just dive in. Send me a message, and let's see if I can do that for you.

The author mentions that many games now treat death as comedic or at least have backed away from in-your-face player death. I would love to see their take on death in the Dead Space series, where you are frequently treated to the sight of your character's body being dismembered by your enemies.

This was our topic from our local dev meetup last month. We have a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQAELeiY68E. Interesting discussion of weird time bugs too.

I'm excited about this not because I want to use it, but because it is a great example of an Elixir app. I'm in the process of learning Elixir, and it was cool to see someone else's code and be able to make sense of most of it. Thanks for posting this!

I was just discussing F# with my coworkers today. I feel like it doesn't get much attention because neither the OO or the FP camps want to own it. It's too different for OO people, and FP people won't find it pure enough. Is that correct, or are my observations and inferences way off?

This should be 5 reasons, and #1 should be their lackluster history with security.

Spideroak FTW! If you keep an eye open for promos and stuff, it's not hard to rival a free Dropbox account.

(For things I don't care about or need to use in collaborative settings, I still use Google Drive and OneDrive)

If you're buying any laptop for development use, it's worth getting 16 GB of RAM if possible. You may not need much more than 8 GB right now, but inevitably your need will increase over the next few years, and many laptops aren't expandable anymore.

This is the facebook feed problem for software developers. You said:

> Every day, I read an article by some hot-shot young dev who has a handful of fancy projects behind his belt (not to mention a great website and design sensibility) while I have exactly zero

This is going to keep happening. The only thing you can do is find something you love and grind it. That's what most of them have done. They (or at least most of them) don't just pop out a new smash hit every night. Most of those articles still take time to put together.

I didn't even start my career until I was 28 (while I was working on my MS). My daughter was born a year later, and it took me 2 years to get my blog going. (I foolishly thought I could write a CMS. I ended up building something clean and minimal with a static site generator.) It takes me forever to get a post together, but that's ok. I work at the speed I can. I'm happy because I'm still making progress.

Not everyone gets to be a rockstar all the time, and you have to jam in the garage before you get to take the stage.

I run a small (20-30 people) dev meetup that is fairly technically focused. While we don't have beer, we do have free pizza. I managed to leverage a bunch of my local contacts to negotiate corporate sponsorships. I let them get their name out there and announce job openings. In trade, they pay for pizza, pop, and desserts. It works great for everyone.

This is insane. This seriously just blew my mind. Well done!

April Fools is the new Black Friday. It's creeping into the day before. Soon, all of March is going to be prank month.