Spent a while stuck on an issue, read everything I could about it and all related stack overflow posts.

Wrote a detailed stack overflow post and within 5 mins the first person nailed it for me.

I feel so empowered.

yeah. sometimes i spend three hours and then write a STO post and get an answer in 1 min and start wondering about time management/allocation.

This is especially true when it turns out to be some versioning issue or some over looked typo/dumb mistake.

Am I reading this right that the plan is create new contacts in our gmail account with common names, ie james@yellowbandana.com until one of them shows up with a LinkedIn account attached to it?

Or is there some other feature with that tool that can search LinkedIn for you and get email addresses of people who work at the company you want to hire?

Or are we searching LinkedIn and looking for people who have exposed their names/positions?..cause I dunno if it changes if you have a premium account on LinkedIn but when I search for companies it usually just says "LinkedIn Member" in lieu of a name (a couple of people openly show their name).

It's an extension for gmail called Rapportive.

You don't need to add contacts. Just compose a new email and rapportive will ping the linkedin API each time you put an email in the compose line. If it exists it'll populate the rapportive interface within gmail.

Before just guessing try and find the general email cadence for the company by searching things like "email @company.com" until you find one. If the company is under 500 people the email style is probably the same for everyone. Sometimes the first X employees will just be firstname@.

In bulk (tens of thousands of contacts+) it is very difficult to accurately guess email addresses with less than a 15% error rate, but doing it manually you can typically run more like 95%.

I think you need to go through the struggle a few times in order to become the person that could answer the SO q about it in 1 min

Algorithm analysis using Big O should lead you to to some useful conclusions.

My experience with SO questions is usually, once I write out the question I figured out the answer before I press submit. I close the browser tab and move on.

That happens to me a lot as well.

Explaining the problem to someone else often makes you think about the problem from a different viewpoint and lets you figure it out. That's what offices are for, to give someone to explain it to.

I guess people may wonder why I don't just answer my own question, but it's always because the answer has almost nothing to do with the actual question.

Q: Stupid redirect not working?

A: I forgot to make the sitemap.xml public in AWS, lol.

Not a real example.

Not deep at all. If you're looking for a challenge take a crypto class offered by the pure math department.

OT I'm going to Napa with wife for vacation, worth it to take pch over 101? About an hour extra. Anything we "have" to do? Best SF strip club??

Ugh. I can't save the coding exercise for this Coursera R course for the last day.

Where are you leaving from? The stretch from like Santa Barbara up to Santa Cruz is absolutely worth the delay. I haven't done any of the stretch North of that

SFO to napa city/valley, rental. Most of the time spend north of SF.

been too long since i did it to speak to specific stretches, but i'd venture yes, absolutely worth it.

Things to do in SF:

Stay away from Golden State Park.

Stay away from Little China.

Stay away from Oakland.

Stay away from Downtown.

Stay away from the Warf.

A strip club generally requires women to be in the vicinity. It's likely the first thing you'll notice about SF.

Have fun!


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j/k all.

My favorite thing to do in SF is start at Eagle's Point and walk to Sutra Baths along the coast. It's a great, simple, and beautiful hike.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Eagl...4369!3e2?hl=en

China Town is also interesting, though the food isn't as traditional as I expected. It's okay for a few hours, but I really don't like downtown SF at all.

If you are into ice skating at all, the rink at Yerba Buena is the smoothest ice I've ever been on.

Passing callback functions down to children components in React is so ****ing sweet.

Nitpick: I think "PCH" is a Southern California term, up here it's just highway 1. And yeah, it's a nice (though windy - which I love as a driver and would not appreciate as much as a passenger) drive along the coast in Marin if you're not in a rush to get where you're going.

I dunno if I have great advice for visiting SF as a tourist but I think it's nice to just wander around some places. Walking down the west end of Haight Street into Golden Gate Park is fun, especially on a nice day. Depends what you're into, as a craft beer fan for example I would recommend some of the city's world-class craft beer bars.

Never been to a strip club here.

oh OK sounds good. We are craft beer people and really looking forward to russian river which I had once and loved. Will see if she's down for extra hour on the coast. She'll be disappointed if we go on vacation and doesn't get a lap dance though obviously.

I think y'all would enjoy Portland, OR.

Almost spent all kinds of time re-learning functional programming to "solve concurrency", which is entirely false apparently. Next time I think about starting a thread, I'm just going to play it safe and post in the LC.

Side-note C++17 is out. Out with the old boss, in with the new boss. Compile errors are noticeably easier to read. It's installed as g++7 on my Linux machine.

In the embedded world my perspective is that most places haven't come to grips with C++ 11 (although they would benefit greatly by doing so) let alone C++17.

Something you may find interesting, C++ Guru Herb Sutter's 33 Essays on Concurrency.

I write C++ stuff for my side projects and my biggest problem was (shocker) cross platform support. You kind of either have to choose lowest common denominator support between windows/osx/linux or you have to make custom makefiles and some #defines and stuff. Not that this is anything new.

(This is mostly a problem if you want the bleeding edge stuff. When c++11 first started making it's way into g++ it was pretty spotty, probably better now, but now c++17 will be spotty and so forth.)

Thanks, I am reading it, and looked through the first chapter of the book you recommended and was "huh". Concurrency and Network Programming is high on my list, studying all kinds of comp-sci this year.