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This is a bit of a tangent, but you guys seem like the right crowd. Logo has been on my mind the past few days, as I'm rapidly approaching my 20th "codeversary" (ie. 20 years since my very first programming lesson, in what I believe was Berkeley Logo). To mark the occasion, I've been trying to figure out what a Logo tribute tattoo might look like - the "turtle" is the obvious thing that comes to mind, but in the version of Logo I learned on, the "turtle" was just a triangle. I'm trying to come up with an image that's aesthetically pleasing, doesn't actually include any code, and is recognizable as Logo. So maybe the "turtle" drawing something, but what? (No idea whether I'll actually muster the courage to get this inked on my body, but it's a fun thought exercise either way.) Any ideas?


The obvious solution to me is an image of a turtle in the process of being drawn by a Logo triangle.

You'd want it to be incomplete, but complete enough to have transformed from an arrangement of lines to something that's unambiguously a turtle.


Thanks! Or a turtle being drawn by a turtle being drawn by a turtle... turtles all the way down! ^_^

Seriously, though - I appreciate the suggestion - I was thinking of triangles drawing triangles, and turtles drawing turtles - but it didn't occur to me to mix the two. Great idea!


> triangles drawing triangles

Reminds me of a Sierpinski triangle[1]. Can you have a turtle infilled with the Sierpinski pattern, or maybe a Sierpinski triangle being drawn by a turtle?

Also, you could get a tattoo with something like:

    to e :s :l
    if :l>0[repeat 3[e :s/2 :l-1 fd :s rt 120]]
    end
    e 99 5
Which is Logo code to draw a Sierpinski triangle (main credit [2], you can demo at [3]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle [2]: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10793 [3]: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/


Clicked through to her site, and the tagline is "True && False of two Female Developers"... True && False evaluates to False... so, lies by two female developers?

Not a criticism - I get what she meant, but it's amusing.


Or just have people mail you a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE)? Then you can just put the stickers in it and drop them in the mail (plus, you don't have to buy or address envelopes)


Interesting analysis, but would have also loved to see a breakdown of salary by years of experience. "Average salary" doesn't tell me much about how much I can reasonably expect to be making in those cities - how many of those data points were senior vs junior people?


Hi my name is Jessica and I am the data scientist at Hired who pulled the numbers for this report.

Hired.com does provide this information. You can use our salary calculator to get more detailed information about what salary you should expect based on your experience, skills, and location: https://hired.com/salary


This is great, thanks!


MIT Mystery Hunt - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/ happens every year in January. Afaik you don't need to be an MIT student to participate


Nice to see this again - I've told this story to many of my web dev students. :-)


Not to knock the work that they're doing at all, but that website has the first use of the <marquee> tag I've spotted in the wild in a long long time! I had no idea Chrome still supported it!


Hooli XYZ is a reference to the HBO show Silicon Valley. It has no relation to Google (other than that Hooli is basically a fictional parody of Google). Looks like some developer added that to this press release as an easter egg.


I feel Google shouldn't stop trying to pretend they are still cool hype startup, that just come up as fake. I also feel from a PR perspective it might in fact hurt their image.


I like when random people try to pretend that they've defined cool, who has it, and what constraints it puts on their behavior.

EDIT: hartator disingenuously changed the content of his comment to be more measured. The original comment was "I like when Google tries to pretend they're still cool".


>> Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth.

Is this supposed to say Sundar? Kind of an awkward mistake to make.


Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube


Sorry you're being downvoted. I wasn't sure who Susan was either and came to the comments for clarification.


Joined the registry in 2012, but your post prompted me to make sure they had my latest address info. Good luck w/ everything! I hope you find your match!


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