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Artist Damien Hirst Will Burn Thousands of Paintings in NFT Experiment(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by acconrad 4y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
What the people said here about climate being political are correct. I worked in climate for 3 years and climate companies suffer from the same problems as all startups: product market fit issues, infighting, executive mismanagement. It’s n
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Ask HN: How do you practice math with your kids?
43 points by acconrad 4y ago|44 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
Are there any new players in this space? Between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, it seems like any attempt at cloud computing infrastructure gets eaten up and you're forced into these price hikes from this triopoly
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by acconrad 4y ago
When the author says “use modern techniques like forecasting” in the section on estimation, what do they mean, specifically?
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The first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy(technologyreview.com)
1 points by acconrad 4y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 4y ago
You can do that on Blind. I didn't (which is what I would do differently). All of my referrals came from my existing network.
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by acconrad 4y ago
Hi folks! Author here - did not expect this post to blow up. Figured it might be helpful to provide some context on points of confusion: 1. Money > everything: an alternative way to look at this is that if you sort by offers, you notice
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Changing jobs during the Great Resignation(adamconrad.dev)
245 points by acconrad 5y ago|426 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
https://www.adamconrad.dev - I used to write more on programming when I was a developer. Now I write mostly on engineering management and how to become an engineering manager.
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by acconrad 5y ago
This advice of being “so good they can’t ignore you” is better applied to the industry as a whole than a particular company. Since employees are dispensable and the average tenure is a short two years, it’s better to have indispensable skil
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by acconrad 5y ago
That sucks but I wouldn't beat myself up over a diagnosis over something like that. It's largely genetic. My dad is a Vietnam vet in his 70s who drinks, smokes, and has way too much coffee. And he's fought 2 tours in Vietnam,
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New Planet Discovered Around Proxima Centauri, Star Nearest the Sun(skyandtelescope.org)
2 points by acconrad 5y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
Honestly, I'm disappointed. The Telegraph is known for being a conservative-leaning media outlet with a mixed track record for fact checking [1]. All of the links in this article just point back to the Telegraph, with no primary source
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by acconrad 5y ago
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
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by acconrad 5y ago
The most salient point against a lab leak theory: > “RaTG13 couldn’t have naturally morphed into SARS-CoV-2,” he says. Neither could anybody have used RaTG13 as the backbone to engineer SARS-CoV-2, as some proponents of the lab leak theo
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The scientist at the center of the Covid lab leak controversy(technologyreview.com)
5 points by acconrad 5y ago|3 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
You had me until you said GMOs and inflammation. GMOs are not allergenic[1]. Inflammation is a necessary function of the human body. There are no anti-inflammatory diets[2]. Short term inflammation has no bearing on health markers[3]. Just
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by acconrad 5y ago
If you’re worried about a $10b telescope, you going to lose your mind when you find out how much taxpayers overpaid on the F35 and the War in Afghanistan.
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by acconrad 5y ago
I’m flagging this as misinformation and surprised this is scoring so high on HN. This author presumes every major VoC stemmed from a lab leak. From the wild strain to Delta to Omicron. This is sensationalist, unsubstantiated claims with wea
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Gaia the Scientist(nautil.us)
1 points by acconrad 5y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
Me and a buddy have a Slack Q&A bot called https://gettoknowapp.com - just something fun to play around with Elixir and pretty much runs on its own.
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by acconrad 5y ago
> They were also unwilling to collaborate, and unwilling to accept how I approached solving the problem Wow. Similar thing happened to me with Stripe. It was a system design interview. I had already seen a very similar problem and aced i
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by acconrad 5y ago
Indigo Ag | Senior engineers, Senior PMs | Boston, MA | Full-time | REMOTE OK | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ Want to write code to fight climate change? That's why I joined - you can read the rest
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The universe has already made almost all the stars it will ever make(nautil.us)
165 points by acconrad 5y ago|204 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
Indigo Ag | Senior engineers, Senior PMs | Boston, MA | Full-time | REMOTE OK | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ Want to write code to fight climate change? That's why I joined - you can read the rest
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by acconrad 5y ago
Indigo Ag | Senior engineers, PMs | Boston, MA | Full-time | REMOTE OK | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ Want to write code to fight climate change? That's why I joined - you can read the rest but tha
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Why Math Class Is Boring – and What to Do About It(fs.blog)
7 points by acconrad 5y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 5y ago
Indigo Ag | SDEs, PMs, EMs | Boston, MA | Full-time | REMOTE OK | https://www.indigoag.com/join-us ================ Want to write code to fight climate change? That's why I joined - you can read the rest but that seems
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by acconrad 5y ago
Consulting your programming knowledge out is a very high ROI per hour (more so than coding). Some people build plugins for ecosystems like Wordpress and that's pretty profitable. I have a Slack marketplace app that is ramen profitable.

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