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by acconrad 11y ago
I have this theory that coding boot camps are an attempt at further increasing the wage gap. Globalization has brought down developer prices, but the quality dropped too far below what was needed. How can we reduce costs without having to p
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by acconrad 11y ago
Can a mod change the title? This is a spammy headline but is actually a relevant topic - it's a github project in node/javascript for manipulating timestamps. OP is new and doesn't seem to understand the guidelines for postin
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is how he is - he even speaks like this; there was never a lack of courage I am certain of that.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Chris is a personal friend and really on the verge of something amazing. We talked about this very class in May and he's really pushing the boundaries on things - the collection here is a good start for someone to start to really think
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by acconrad 11y ago
I used to hate recruiters and would delete their emails or even send them letters chastising them for their inability to even do a modicum of research into my skill set. Then I read How to Win Friends and Influence People , as cheesy as th
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by acconrad 11y ago
> my co-founder Kevin and I bet on how many people would download the app its first day in the wild. Kevin guessed 2,500, and in an especially optimistic moment, I went big and guessed 25,000. The next day, the realist in me couldn’t be
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by acconrad 11y ago
Horribly misleading title - they just waive the initial cost to acquire the patented technology, but once a business starts selling a product they collect their usual royalties: > Once the company starts selling a product, NASA will col
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by acconrad 11y ago
Was this book updated for the Oct 2015 release? Or is this more or less the same as the book you asked when you originally solicited feedback?
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by acconrad 11y ago
One strategy for having 1 CSS and 1 JS file is to have a manifest file per model. So say for example you have User and a Widget model; the user dashboard lies within the User controller, and the product page is within the Widget controller.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Really? I've been using it for a year and I've had no trouble finding anything on DDG. Sometimes if I'm looking up a very esoteric bug, I can generally get to where I need to be with a second opinion from Google, but 95% of m
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by acconrad 11y ago
Former Fantasy Sports employee (engineer) here. My guess is if he did use tournament data from DK to populate a team on FD, he did it for himself alone. But he absolutely has access to all of the data they say he did. This is definitely
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by acconrad 11y ago
I like the headline! I was initially intrigued because I just started a side project, bought the domain, and set up Google Apps for email. Then I'll probably set up a Medium blog for the project. I thought "oh neat, it's all
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The Misery of a Doctor's First Days(theatlantic.com)
5 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
Another Nexus 4 owner! My girlfriend has been giving me crap about how my phone is going to be 3 years old in a month and how I need a new phone. I don't. They are all plastic/glass bricks with the same Android operating system in
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Web design is now completely boring(thenextweb.com)
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
I can't join - I get this admin error, meaning whomever is the admin for that regional channel (in my case, Boston), did not use the proper admin auth token. Should look into that.
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by acconrad 11y ago
JavaScript is eating the world. But I'm all for Elixir/Phoenix, which feels like Rails but has Erlang under the hood for much faster development and performance (if WhatsApp can scale to millions of users with Erlang/OTP, so
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Ask HN: What startup podcasts do you listen to?
1 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
The title made me think this was going to be about TAOCP or Godel Escher Bach.
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'd be asking for a raise if I were that rep.
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by acconrad 11y ago
I mean it's still $400/mo, which only institutions would need to, and 10GBps is pretty fast. That's basically downloading a DVD in 4 seconds. Given that DVDs are streaming on netflix, it's likely too fast to need for res
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by acconrad 11y ago
Being born-and-raised in MA now living in Southie, and in spite of Southie being gentrified a great deal as of late, I still would make sure any of my friends from outside of the city don't wear Yankees gear or say anything bad about
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by acconrad 11y ago
I don't care what the average CEO makes or how flawed her statement is. What I care about is how many people are employed by those top 350 companies? And what defines a "chief executive"? Someone who owns a corner store wit
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by acconrad 11y ago
This was already flagged and discussed here from the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165558 TLDR: it's an incredibly reductionist and short-sighted conclusion that index funds would have helped
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by acconrad 11y ago
There was just recently a Business Insider post on a one-man billion dollar startup.[1] Here it is! [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/is-a-one-man-billion-dollar-s...
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by acconrad 11y ago
TLDR: Eat salmon, walnuts, and flax seed - natural food is better than supplements for memory and cognition.
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by acconrad 11y ago
Clickbait title with a lot of bunk broscience. First of all, how does losing weight make you more productive? Because you drank coffee? Also the earth is round, news at 11... On top of that, anything "bulletproof" is marketing cra
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by acconrad 11y ago
We were also in uncharted territory when the stock market collapsed in 1929. The market had never crashed like that before. The market had also never crashed like 2000 because the internet tech sector had never existed like that before. The
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by acconrad 11y ago
This was inevitable. I wonder what this means for a company like Instacart? Acquisition? Push them out?
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by acconrad 11y ago
Except the author is missing the point that taking bigger, braver risks (in a global sense) isn't so risky (in a local sense) when your circumstances provide a much deeper cushion. Bill Gates had a $1mm trust fund in case Microsoft did

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