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by acconrad 9y ago
I personally go from easy to hard, but for less time focus on the marked ones
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by acconrad 9y ago
Prepping for these interviews is much like studying for the SATs - it's not about measuring how smart / talented you are, but how good you are at taking these tests. I say this as a primer only because rejection sucks, but knowing
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by acconrad 9y ago
I think if I were born in a different era I'd end up as an architect. I see it as much of a science as I do a creative endeavor, and it feels like the closest parallel the web development work I do.
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Where are all the wealth management startups?(knect365.com)
2 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
You're better off going to a place like styleforum.net to learn how to dress well over this archaic nonsense.
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by acconrad 9y ago
Wow what a joke of a link. You know what gets you a defined jawline? Getting down to a legit 7% body fat. Your jaw will have no fat to hide behind.
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The Resulting Fallacy Ruins Decisions: An Interview with Annie Duke(nautil.us)
57 points by acconrad 9y ago|17 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Building something actually drastically reduces the requirements. OP stated $2.2MM to live off of the interest ($80k/yr); put it another way, OP wants a passive income stream of $80k/yr, which can come from $2.2MM invested via the
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by acconrad 9y ago
Bitcoin as a way for a few lucky folks to increase their net worth is certainly not something they are skeptical of. Bitcoin as a means of achieving it's original goal (i.e. a world currency) I'm still highly skeptical of. Why wou
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by acconrad 9y ago
So currently I do have a long-term contract as a subcontractor, which is indeed ongoing and recurring. The only reason I got this, though, is because the contrator knew I had Rails experience. And that's why I feel like if I blog/
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by acconrad 9y ago
Interesting! So I do have subject-matter expertise, which is developing and scaling marketplaces. Would that be the right kind of niche you're referring to?
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Ask HN: How do I choose a niche for freelance software business?
18 points by acconrad 9y ago|12 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
All of my close friends are doctors and the toll that school and residency does on the body and mind is honestly shocking. I'd want to open up the residency and med school programs for nothing else but to not force our young doctors in
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A guide to meteor showers(theconversation.com)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Jesse, the founder, is very responsive and helped me set up my static blog (which is a bit more difficult than a standard Phoenix app). It's a great service, and if anyone needs help setting up their own static site on there let me kno
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Astronomers find an Earth-size world just 11 light years away(arstechnica.com)
5 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
If you didn't get a 4 or 5 out of 5, you should go through this website, it's pretty awesome. It explains SQL performance really well, and provides equivalent examples for whatever database you use (including Oracle and DB2 in add
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What Tech Can Learn from the Fruit Fly's Search Algorithm(m.nautil.us)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
As much as I support what YIMBY is trying to do for San Francisco, I think this is trying to solve the symptom of a greater problem: that our economy has shifted to not needing (yet still somehow requiring) our workers to work in a physical
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by acconrad 9y ago
People don't make decisions in a vacuum. Scientists also care about their children learning STEM, so they will want to live in places with good schools. It's partially why they stay in Minnesota over Wisconsin, Massachusetts over
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This will help you grasp the sizes of things in the universe(m.nautil.us)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Tell If You're a Supertaster(nautil.us)
2 points by acconrad 9y ago|1 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
> Unfortunately a good eng/em makes much more than $50/h. More like 150-300 (pretax) and that’s just for a normal fulltime hour That's to hire them for their work. I'm just trying to talk with them about their exper
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by acconrad 9y ago
15-20+ years in the industry (I'm almost 10 in myself)
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by acconrad 9y ago
Signal has video and voice chat
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by acconrad 9y ago
I would pay $50 a 30-60 min call with an industry vet programmer/EM to look at my career and give next steps to grow my career. I have no idea if I'm doing well or not or how to become a great programmer cause I don't know wh
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by acconrad 9y ago
I couldn't find your contact info in your profile, but if you're interested in a side project buddy I can do the things you're looking for (including front end dev), would be happy to help
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TensorRec: A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow(medium.com)
6 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Thank you, given what you've just added I'd defer to other's comments about relying on negotiation skills. I wouldn't accept anything less than a 10% increase (mixed between equity and cash) unless the title bump was mea
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by acconrad 9y ago
Honestly I don't see how anyone can answer this without knowing what you are already making and what your local market is offering (assuming you also want to stay in the same place with the same title). If you're underpaid (e.g. m

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