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Whoa... (UCLA c/o 2010, Bioengineering) UCLA used to use C# in the PIC10A series. I didn't take too many classes in these series, but did audit some while I was deciding as a non-CS major how technical to become. Personally, I think it's fine for the Math Department to use Python - there's plenty of opportunities to do the lower level stuff or unmanaged stuff in other classes at UCLA.

For CS/CSE and engineering majors we take the CS31 (intro to CS)/32 (data structures and algorithms)/33 (operating systems) series - these primarily use C++ (if not C, assembly, etc.)

Hey ElbertF - I'm on the product team at Sift Science and definitely want to understand more (33% is incredibly high). I took a brief look at your integration, but should take the conversation to email - send me a note! quan at siftscience dot com.

I'm off on vacation for a few weeks (unlimited vacation that's closer to the real thing?!) - if you're applying between now and the next time a post comes up, I won't be able to respond so please apply directly on our careers page!

Ginger.io | San Francisco, CA | Full Stack Engineer | Full Stack / Mobile Internship | On-Site | http://ginger.io/careers

We're working to help people with depression and anxiety take control by building a digitally enabled mental healthcare provider. We’re currently looking for full stack engineers and mobile engineers.

It's an incredibly challenging & rewarding space to work in - send me a note if you want to talk, I’m a PM on the team here - quan at ginger.io

Ginger.io | San Francisco (SF) | Full Stack, Mobile, Design Lead | Django, Python, iOS, Android | https://ginger.io/careers/

We're working to help people with depression and anxiety take control by fixing mental healthcare. We're currently looking for full stack engineers, mobile developers and designers (ideally interaction/UX/product & visual).

It's an incredibly challenging & rewarding space to work in, send me a note if you want to talk - quan@ginger.io.

I believe they covered this - and is somewhat related to your flagship comment. They sold more of the cheaper Lumia variants (targeted at other markets than the US/your part of the world)

Yes, there's definitely more that needs fixing. My stake in this fight is coming up with things that can happen so my industry (and really, the organizations I work for) can get great talent - and that involves training more & recruiting diverse engineers.

Someone can still be a great engineer and struggle through an early class - there's plenty of reasons for this to happen and universities/colleges need to address these problems.

For example - someone who has never coded before in their life - there shouldn't be some expectation that you had a computer growing up, built a website for peers in middle school and are already an expert by the time you hit your first class. There's plenty of capable people who a) never had the advantages/wealth to support some of these things b) haven't discovered their interest and "weed out" core classes don't help with that. You may take longer to get up to the same place as someone with the advantages above, but that doesn't rule you out from being an effective engineer/computer scientist.

Absolutely agree. Reactions like this make it that much harder for folks in the industry to recruit talent through the pipeline because we're discouraging and reducing the ability of potentially qualified people from getting through.

I did research with Adam & Jim back in undergrad @ UCLA - I had a first stab attempt at creating these atomic switches & failed miserably. I'll see if I can get them to comment if there's a specific question here.

Hey Sam,

What would you try to optimize for in terms of learning and growth - good mentorship or fast growing companies? Or is there some other attribute you'd recommend optimizing for?

I live in Seattle and Uber is my preferred method of on-demand transportation, except for maybe rides to the airport where I might call a towncar service. It's cheaper than taking a Yellow Cab if you use UberX, and since I don't care about having a nicer ride, it works out great. No more waiting 30 minutes on Friday/Saturday nights and it's a huge improvement for after major events (even though surge pricing does sometimes lead me to select alternate means).

I'd really be interested to see how their revenue breaks down between larger cities with urban cores (SF, Seattle) and other areas that are more spread out (LA, etc.)

So for the a/b - we just fixed some bugs that should fix those issues - thanks for the feedback there.

I'm interested to see when a MBP or similar comes out with touch - I'm finding there's a few things I do which naturally work well with touch (e.g. scrolling pages).

It's pretty hidden, so it's unlikely that you chose to do this but sometimes gets set if you downloaded a template from somewhere - In Office 2013 desktop (may be similar in 2010), go to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Settings > Document-specific Settings.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll bring this up to my teammates that work on that part of the product.

In general, if you're trying us out and see something you don't like or doesn't work, the bottom right corner should have a button that lets you give us feedback (and yes, we are looking at it, even though there may not be a response).

Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate you taking the time to give me the details, it'll definitely help me pass the info on to the right folks so we can make the Office Online apps better.

Rendering related feedback: I definitely hear you on these things and they're all on our radar (typing and active cell lagging switching and editing quirks in PowerPoint)

Features: Commenting feedback - will pass that on ToC - do you use headings/styles or outline view in the desktop version to create this? Is the navigation pane in Word what you're looking to see or the actual ToC?

Excel-Word linking - were you updating a few charts that automatically updated in Word or tabular information?

Re:signed in not getting names: sounds like this may be a bug, will have to check with the team

page layout - you can now update the margins in the editor without switching to view, but I definitely can see it's not an ideal situation to switch between the two

re:appearing as guest when commenting - this may happen if you have certain privacy/strip info settings on the document itself (we respect the setting the document gives us, and I forget the exact setting)

Other follow ups - was this a group project for school/uni?

Could you share some of those key features or which app (word/excel/powerpoint) is rendering slowly for you?

I liked it, I'll keep watching - it's funny to see the tech memes played back and interpreted and I love the way they exaggerate the silly things about our industry (like the comment you mentioned).

Betas just... got weird at certain points and some of the jokes were a bit out of bounds.

The trial should let you download and use the real app - not sure if the confusion was because the poster above said "Office 365 website"

full disclosure: I work for Microsoft on the Office Online team

I do not believe that feature is in Office for iPad and you should be able to point your browser to OneDrive.com/office.com to get to your documents using Word/Excel/PowerPoint/OneNote Online in the meantime.

This is a really interesting idea though so I'll bring it up with the team, thanks!

these proposals pop up every season - interesting that it looks like it could be reasonably balanced (from a senate perspective - central, west, and another could vote more 'red'), that means Democrats would lose a part of the gigantic electoral votes CA brings. All in all, probably not going to happen.