I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned.

I completed Hack Reactor in July 2016 and took almost 3 months before accepting an offer with Radius Intelligence. I applied to 291 companies, did 32 phone screens, 16 technical screens, 13 coding challenges, 11 on-sites, and received 8 offers.

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The Goldman Sachs Elevator guide to dressing like a gentleman

New York Fashion Week doesn’t mean much to most guys out there. Still, there’s no shortage of advice when it comes to men’s fashion. And there’s obviously no real consensus.

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The Best Emergency Preparedness Supplies

If you’re starting from scratch, picking up these 12 essentials will get you a best-on-the-block kit at a price affordable for almost any household (about $300 as of this writing): a long-term, heavy-duty water storage container, water purification tablets, energy bars, a quality first-aid kit

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Monsters and Madonnas: Looking at William Mortensen

This is the third guest post by Cary Loren of the The Book Beat. See his previous posts Monsters Are Inoffensive and Adelaide Hanscom's Rubaiyat. William Mortensen (1897 - 1965) was one of the most well known and respected photographers in America in the thirties.

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Prince’s Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories

He was a legend, a virtuoso, one of the true gods of music. But he was also (at times, anyway) a person in the world like anyone else. He liked to send goofy Internet memes to his friends. He made really good scrambled eggs.

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