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What sort of company do you work for? Is it a government contractor? I've known many highly paid people in that line of work that are not fit for startups.

Simple: CRUD operations

Advanced: Everything else

This looks like spam / seo. Nothing about this is new.

That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

>What will it take to stop this type of BS for good

They'll stop when they pass the bill that lobbyists for this issue want.

Why do you believe this? One making an accusation of that nature should cite sources.

Is this meant to be satirical? Being male makes me able to lie about my GPA? Being female causes gaps in your resume?

"Being able to lie about your GPA and possibly get away with it due to the Freedom of Information Act that forbids the release of college/university transcripts to employers. This is how male Computer Science students are able to land internships, co-op positions, or entry-level jobs in reputable high-tech companies where their female classmates have failed, sometimes even when the latter had earned higher grades. "

"Not having the stigma of possessing a long resume gap due to a period of unemployment because of discrimination. Unemployment, usually regarded as the mark of an underperforming individual, may actually affect perfectly competent women that were just as competent as the men around them before being laid off or fired. They couldn't hold onto their jobs because being twice as good was expected, rather than being just as good."

Pay $5. Their marginal cost is essentially $0. I'm willing to bet the authors would rather have the $5 than nothing, and that is probably why it was priced this way.

Itll cost them much more in the long run. Why hire anyone other than the most qualified?

These policies are trying to correct an imbalance which is based on self selection rather than discrimination and are themselves discriminatory.

It is not.

Chiptunes are great for programming. Check out fantomenk.

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/cpu-mood-2010

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/dischipo-2009

https://soundcloud.com/fantomenk/fantomenk-playing-with-powe...

I did something similar. Two friends of mine were unhappy with their jobs. One was a writer, and the other worked as a wordpress administrator. I started a somewhat informal weekly class, and six months later they both work as software developers.

It absolutely works, and it's certainly more efficient than a four year degree.

It depends on what you want to scrape. What do you hope to accomplish with an answer to this question? Do you intend to study/play around with a bunch of the libraries/tools mentioned? Do you have some sort of project in mind? Are you trying to get us to write a 'top 10 web scraping' blog post for you?

I'm extremely concerned about the lack of women in another high paying career. Did you know that more than 98% of pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters are men? Clearly plumbers are not doing their part to get more women into plumbing.

Maybe it's the bro culture, maybe there is pervasive discrimination against women in the field, but it is unacceptable that there are so few women in the industry. The government should do something about this. Maybe if we offer women scholarships or prizes it would get them interested in this very lucrative field.

Sigh.... https://www.watersafe.org.uk/news/latest_news/get_girls_plum...

This is spot on. When I started writing the application I'm working on, it was as though I could divine new features overnight with little effort. Now, much of my energy goes to making sure I don't screw myself over with bad design decisions, fixing bugs, and answering questions about the software. I find that it is hard to write any code on some days. I'm glad to see this is common.

Windows 8 is terrible. Free is still too expensive. It's Windows 7 with reduced functionality and an app store. I've been using Windows on my work laptops for the last 4 years because I use the adobe suite, and it's been easier. I've been stuck with Windows 8 on my most recent laptop, and yesterday I finally decided to switch to Ubuntu. Good riddance.

Have you ever been to a hacker news meetup? Did the conversation end in conspiracy against the public?

Shameless related plug: By the way, I'll be organizing a Hacker News DC meetup in the near future. Check the meetup group for updates. I'll likely send something out later this week.

Furthermore, moving the button 3 px to the left might take a ridiculous number of man hours, and it's demoralizing work. Most coders are making smart trade offs and balancing a number of things to maximize productivity. How much is that 3 pixels really worth? Why don't you try again, and think of a way to design the interface that doesn't require that 3px move?

I wouldn't want to work for a company that would slam the door in my face because I was arrested for a petty offence like the one mentioned. There are plenty of companies out there that will treat me like a human being.

My goal is to do this eventually. I live within walking distance to a small air strip at a mountain resort, and my office is within walking distance to a local air park. I wouldn't have to use a car at all.

I telecommute most days, but it is two hours by car through DC traffic when I do visit the office.

I live in the mountains, and the only ISP available offers 5 megabit DSL. If I stream HD video, I typically can't browse the internet because my connection is just barely fast enough.

>Well sure, but largely because the standardized tests are all biased against women and/or minorities

I can't tell whether or not you are being sarcastic.

The problem is the two party system which exists because we have single member districts rather than proportional representation. It's a race to the center, and we all lose.

Software engineering -> Harvard/Wharton MBA -> McKinsey -> CEO

He works at an SEO agency. He's making a big stink about it for publicity.

ceteris paribus

That sounds like an awfully big project for a job interview. If someone asked me to do this, I would probably install phpbb.

Have you never been so engrossed in building something that you stayed up all night to work on it? I certainly don't put in 20 hours every day, but I know many very talented coders that go on similar coding marathons.

Where are you located. I know a company that is great for that type of thing. They work with clients all over the US, but they're based in the DC area.