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by adamzerner 6y ago
Check out https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li... .
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by adamzerner 6y ago
https://nomadlist.com/ is a good resource.
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Ask HN: To what extent do you “sketch” as you program?
2 points by adamzerner 6y ago|1 comments
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Coronavirus: Justified Practical Advice Thread(lesswrong.com)
3 points by adamzerner 7y ago|1 comments
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by adamzerner 7y ago
I've been working on Premium Poker Tools ( https://premiumpokertools.com/ ) for the past two years, which I built with Vue, Node, Express and Mongo. Location: Las Vegas, NV Remote: Yes (Remote only) Willing to relocate:
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by adamzerner 7y ago
Awesome! Hit me up at contact@premiumpokertools.com if you want to chat and/or study hands.
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by adamzerner 7y ago
Playing poker! My winrate online is only a couple dollars an hour. I don't play live very often so I don't have the sample size to say what my winrate would be, but I'd guess $10-20/hr. So, ultimately, not too much money
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by adamzerner 8y ago
I worked for a company where we were told to post good reviews on Glassdoor. The engineering team was small, there was about six people in the room. The CTO called for our attention. He told us to go on Glassdoor and leave a good review. He
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by adamzerner 8y ago
I remember reading The Sociopath Next Door a few years ago, and the author, a Harvard psychologist who studies this stuff, claims that 4% of people are sociopaths. My impression is that we aren't at the point where we can detect sociop
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by adamzerner 8y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.
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by adamzerner 8y ago
> But startup costs have undeniably increased over the past few years. We thought a $30K increase was necessary to help companies stay focused on building their product without worrying about fundraising too soon. I didn't realize t
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by adamzerner 8y ago
Is it possible to get the best of both worlds? 1) Advice from a variety of sources. 2) Not being slowed down by all of the advice. My impression from the article is that this usually doesn't happen in practice, but I can't help th
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by adamzerner 8y ago
Other commenters: just because employees _are_ resources doesn't mean that managers should make them _feel_ like they are. There are companies that do a good job of making employees feel more of a sense of being valued, and so at least
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by adamzerner 9y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted. I think that Bryan Caplan's book The Case against Education - Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money ( https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11225.html ) makes a
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by adamzerner 9y ago
It's a new site and is on the todo list to fix.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
Do you know this, or are you assuming this? It is certainly possible that, at the margin, someone is willing to spend money on a charity but not spend that same money on the product. Although I suppose there's probably a correlation be
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by adamzerner 9y ago
True, but that doesn't seem like enough to explain the drop from 90s to 30s in job placement rate within 3 months.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
80% sounds really high. Other bootcamps seem to be in the 30-40% range within 3 months. Also, I find it suspicious that App Academy seemingly isn't taking part in CIRR.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
> third-party industry averages (~70% placement rate) The ~70% placement rate seems to refer to what percentage of applicants get full time jobs within 6 months of graduating. For within 3 months of graduating, the placement rate seems t
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by adamzerner 9y ago
Back in 2014, coding bootcamps were advertising rates in the 90s. See https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-job-placement-rates-at-va... . From that post, this is what the director of admissions at Fullstack Academy claims are
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by adamzerner 9y ago
The fact that this post mentions all benefits and no downsides makes it not very credible to me.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
> Executive (Senior Manager at a Large Company) > A higher likelihood of having a huge impact (given that most startups fail). I think it's important to note that regarding money, starting a company does have a very high _expecte
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by adamzerner 9y ago
I was expecting a street view like Google Maps. The name seems a bit misleading to me.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
Do you think it'd fit will into two semesters? Currently, you usually take one semester of microeconomics, and another of macroeconomics. This book seems like it covers both micro and macro. But this book also seems to introduce new ma
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by adamzerner 9y ago
As the article mentions, The CORE Project seems to cover a lot of material. I wonder if this means it won't fit well into a traditional college semester, and thus it not being used in college classes too frequently. The main website of
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Reason as memetic immune disorder(lesswrong.com)
2 points by adamzerner 9y ago|0 comments
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by adamzerner 9y ago
PR benefits seems like another plausible explanation.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
How about looking at average flight prices?
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by adamzerner 9y ago
Good for you, glad you got through it.
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by adamzerner 9y ago
> While I don't necessarily recommend going through that, I do think everyone should experience what it's like to work 80+ hour weeks (at least for a short period of time), because it's difficult to convey how awful it is.

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