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Still a great read. Probably the major reason why, when every year I cut down all my subscription services, Spotify remains.
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Generally whatever they end up doing between 9 and 5. Traditionally this would entail one parent working and the other staying at home, of which the one staying at home might spend an hour in the morning getting the child ready and an hour
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I just watched "Back to 1942" which shows a glimpse of WWII from the Chinese perspective. They had to cope with a famine AND a war, and lost ~20 million people during the struggle. To put it into perspective Russia lost around ~28
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I knew there was a word that described my attitude towards tech journalism.
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I'd be curious to see the percentage of migrants/refugees that are coming from war-torn regions such as Syria. My understanding is that many come from North Africa or elsewhere. Granted violence is also very high in these areas an
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Furthermore Stripe is highly visible in places like the Bay Area, where I believe many HN members are located. I wonder what the numbers are for Stripe adoption outside of major tech hubs.
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Not trying to create a positive feedback loop here, but I concur. My personal experience could point to as much as 95% of "programming" time being entirely independent once taken into account: reading articles/guides/tut
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My high school had an abhorrently bad AP CS program. The teacher was a hobbyist who had no business teaching the subject and in fact turned off the majority of the students to CS, especially the girls. I fear anytime we make something manda
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Being a software engineer I've been involved in this discussion for several years now. And I don't think it ever clicked with me so much as with this comment. Guys do find groups that are supportive, be it something like an MMO co
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What would be the implications of such a system when accounts are compromised (as they so frequently are)?
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To be fair it went on several tangents. I find it an interesting phenomenon that posters here who show support for the author/article gloss over the 80% that is a tangent about LGBT issues, migrant issues, sexism issues, and act as if
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"This is reality. This is not theory. This is not assertions on Hacker News about how you must have something to hide if you want to keep something private. This is not about a man in a position of power and influence, who has industry
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I think native apps qualify as the offline-mode for a platform like evernote. I don't user evernote personally, but I do ride caltrain for ~2 hours every week day during which I try to be productive offline. For me that means having a
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I don't think it's a good idea to couple an "ORM" with a web framework for Go. Go is, IMO, an inherently bad language to write an ORM in. I tried doing it once, as a convenience layer on top of Redis hash sets (kind of a
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I work on a product where JS is about 80% of the stack. In my opinion the JS ecosystem is best categorized as a bunch of sugar-rushed chipmunks running around shouting "we need better tooling". And you know what, it kinda works an
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I used to use Django a lot. This news caused me to go back and check the release notes going back to 1.5. It seems like between every major point release theirs about a ~6 month gap. Furthermore the features in each release (bar migrations
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Anecdotal but whenever I see a lot of diversity in a stack it usually means there are a lot of different preferences on the development team, or that the stack was developed over a longer period of time with many members (and their preferen
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Just want to point out that I personally don't think Babel/ES6/ES2015 is ready for production yet. I just wrote a small library with it and ran into several hiccups with continuous integration, which was fixed by specifying a
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Summary: Author made comments on a message board in the context of the Texas clock-bomb thing: X => "Anyone building a clock for their hack?" Author => "We're building a bomb actually looks just like a clock thoug
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It's also my understanding that a large amount of biotech work is "grunt work" that requires a large amount of time and energy but not a large amount of skill.
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Except software engineering is both a science and an art. The statement 'anyone can make art' is widely accepted, but what about 'anyone can do science'? While anyone can pretty much do science the "I'm bad at
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I would make the argument that it is common knowledge among most Silicon Valley tech workers, who I believe make up the primary user base on hacker news, but is it really common knowledge among everyone else? Anecdotally my experience at a
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I wonder how long it will be before this becomes common knowledge. I remember when I was going into college (2013) a lot of my peers chose Biology and similar STEM paths with the anticipation it would yield the same salary as C.S. or engine
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I just went through the same process for my team, settled on CircleCI because the pricing structure fit our needs. We're still newish to CI in general so we might be wearing blinders but it's fit our needs so far.
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Just want to tack on to number one, out-of-state schools. When an eighteen year old is presented with the option of choosing a first-rate (let's say top 100) out-of-state school or a second-rate in-state school, it's a hard decisi
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Please don't over generalize those of us who did indeed leave college without a degree. People do it for a large number of reasons, some of which are good and some of which are bad. In most circumstances this does not reflect on their
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Great video, worth watching even on mobile IMO.
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Let he who has not reached out to people for attention via social networking cast the first stone.. Most of us have done it, its very human to seek help from other people while having emotional distress. In modern times that often means soc
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Notch has always struck me as a genuinely good character. Going back to the earliest days of Mojang when they were in that "holy shit guys we're making too much money" phase where their logistics just couldn't handle the
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I'm all for taking a deep breath and looking at things objectively, but look me in the virtual eyes and tell me you honestly believe they pay reasonably well for that position.. Furthermore I see too much hypocrisy in them wanting a pr

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