; Or, dispelling myths about how applicant tracking systems (should) work. After publishing my last post, I decided to sort through all of the articles written about automated resumé screening software. What I began to realize was that, for the most part, nobody
Read moreModding Command & Conquer: Generals on OSX
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game released in 2003 on Windows. I remember playing the game at 1/6 speed on my father’s original-model Dell Inspiron laptop, never winning a match until I repurchased the game in a bundle
Read moreMeasuring Rap Lyric Clarity Part 1
I love rap music. Chances are, you do too. With the popularization of Genius, we now have a crowdsourced library of not only song lyrics, but also the meaning behind those lyrics sometimes provided by the artists themselves. This is
Read moreRe: Please don’t learn to code
About a month ago, a TechCrunch contributor named Basel Farag published an article titled Please don’t learn to code. In it, he criticizes the “Learn to Code” movement, or, broadly, the idea pulsating through society that everybody should learn how to
Read moreAn Optimal Runescape Staking Build
September 2018 Update: Staking has changed significantly due to recent game updates. I wrote a follow-up article covering that. I will leave this unedited, though I have come to suspect I made an error in my calculations and also dislike the verbosity. If
Read moreA Hackathon Sponsor’s Duty
Update: After first publishing this post in June, the student director of LehighHacks reached out almost immediately with his side of the story. Though my team was frustrated by Well’s Fargo’s apparent Houdini act, it turns out that the hackathon
Read moreIs Codecademy Worth It?
There are a lot of people looking to jump into programming1. At least, they’re posting quite often about it on Reddit. A site that gained a lot of traction in 2012 was Codecademy, an interactive, gamified, learn-how-to-program-from-scratch learning tool. People wonder: is
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