briantmaurer

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by briantmaurer 10y ago
Friendships don't materialize out of thin air, you have to start somewhere. If you would like to become friends with people on HN, posting contact info in your profile sounds like a good place to start.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
I love your idea, hopefully it works. But, it is incredibly frustrating when websites override native scrolling. I shouldn't have to disable javascript for the optimal scrolling experience.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
This is great. I have been meaning to learn the CSS flex box model and thanks to this game it took only a few minutes!
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Including other search variations tells a much different story – https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=react.js%2C%20angula...
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Find almost any job posting labeled 'Software Engineer', 'Software Developer' , 'Software Development Engineer', 'Product Manger', 'Project Manager', etc. for a reasonably large growing tech
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Your assumption is not necessarily true. A single job posting can remain active indefinitely and does not necessarily represent just one open position. This leads to the situation where an outsider sees one 'job posting' and thous
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Quantity and quality are not the same thing. The economy needs various quantities of engineers at various skill levels. Within the same field of study there could be a shortage of talent at one skill level and a surplus at another skill lev
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Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’(nytimes.com)
3 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|0 comments
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
I was referring to just buying some shares as an individual investor, not the whole company. Then yes, obviously total value matters.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
From an investor perspective, prices in the stock market are basically meaningless.[1] As an investor you can purchases multiples or fractions of a stock which allows you to choose your price. Percent change in price is all that matters for
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
If there are two companies A and B, and you are convinced that A will yield a better ROI than B, you will sell B and buy A – even if there is room for B to yield a positive ROI. Growth in users/usage/engagement in a social network
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
The important part of exclusivity is not in number, but in quality.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Even though I mostly disagree with the author, I enjoy reading the detailed alternative perspective. It helps me gain a deeper understanding of how different individuals think about income inequality.
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Maximum Wage(howwegettonext.com)
4 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|3 comments
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Grammar (in English) is a tiny subset of human knowledge. Being bad at just one thing hardly makes you dumb. However, consistent grammatical errors during a speech will definitely project the appearance of stupidity...
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
wow, surprisingly consistent layout!
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
I would love to see the complete evolution of the home page.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Looks nice – but it is not 'private'. Using only 6 characters as a 'private' URL is too small. How long does it take to have a bot that can make 1000 requests per second to download every single URL in your URL space? ((
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
This reminds me of some of the early websites I built. I always enjoy looking at early personal creations. Tips: • To prevent "button dancing" on hover add an invisible border to the buttons when you are not hovering –> border:
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How Different Cultures Understand Time (2014)(businessinsider.com)
2 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|1 comments
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Credit card numbers are often stolen and therefore are not a good singular piece of evidence.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
The irony here is that I agree with down votes on my parent comment, unfortunately that does not mean it is false.
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
In recent news, many HN users avoid up-voting/commenting on things that disagree with pg/sama/etc. in the chance that their likelihood of getting into YC will be hindered.
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Two women switch continents, draw and share weekly data(dear-data.com)
3 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|0 comments
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Mitro has been resurrected as Passopolis(passopolis.com)
2 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|0 comments
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The Value of Science (1955) [pdf](math.ucla.edu)
28 points by briantmaurer 11y ago|3 comments
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Maybe, start here: http://www.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-develop... Also, there are probably more good posts on resume writing here: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=resume&sort=byPopula
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
I enjoy ideas. Here are the ones from the tweet storm: • Full stack law firm: template all contracts, law APIs as core, hyperdeflate legal costs. • Full stack clinic: mobile EMR/EHR, qself, genomics, telemed. Employ MDs w/ tech sk
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
I have talked to a number of people in the University of Washington's graduate program for statistics (typically rated #1/#2 in the world) and the consensus is that people almost always overestimate how well they understand statis
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by briantmaurer 11y ago
Does anyone else feel like this "leap" is somewhere in the middle of its transition?

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