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by josh_fyi 14y ago
So... if you signed up, maybe that means that it does the job as-is? ;-)
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Thanks, I see we can get a lot just out of a CSS touchup.
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Ask HN: Is it worthwhile to do major graphic design reworks?
3 points by josh_fyi 14y ago|13 comments
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
You pretty much have to enjoy you job to have a successful career. But having a successful career is very important to opening up opportunities for jobs you can enjoy.
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Go for it! If there's nothing holding you in the Midwest, take the offer, learn, grow, and come back later if you want. Such a small percentage of the industry rocks like most hot SF startups rock. Take the opportunity.
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Learn everything you can from your job -- but sooner or later you will exhaust its learning potential. When that happens, invest all your energy NOT in the job but in getting a better one, or in lieu of that, building skills to open up oppo
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Some price comparison site should set up a how-much-it-would-cost-you-in-America feature for Aussies. You search for a product, see a few local prices, and the US price alongside. Local vendors would scream at this sale-killing feature, and
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
The US government has a variety of ways to stomp on such countries, hard.
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
So, is angry good or is angry bad? Developers who care with a passion, or developers who can't stand what they're doing?
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Thanks for fighting the good fight! Just curious ... when you fly, do you get hassled or barred from the plane?
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Alexey Vayner, Tim Ferriss's tragic twin(blog.fiveyearitch.com)
2 points by josh_fyi 14y ago|0 comments
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
> You Can Carry All Your Money In Your Pocket With that headline, this looks like an anti-GoBank article. The though "carry all my money in my pocket" suggests to me that a mugger could grab my 401(K). Sure, there are security features,
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Fire her pour encourager les autres.
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
He does not need a pardon. A pardon means that you did the crime, you are guilty -- also, it is usually conditional on your confession and statement of regret. Martin Luther King never asked to be pardoned for his acts of civil disobedience
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
We wish it didn't have to be that way. We wish that information, particular academic publications, could be share openly and legally. Now, it's 1855. You want the slaves to be freed. By law. By right. So, do you shut down the Underground Ra
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
With all the sharing of movies and music -- aren't these articles being shared somewhere else on the internet?
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
We need a website to coordinate open sharing of all research papers and books. If Napster and Bittorrent could do it for music and movies, we can do it for research. Various technologies are possible, but the key point is to spread these pu
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Everything you're saying is true. But note that these people have had the opportunity to learn of the harmful effects of consumerism -- even if they watch TV shows, there are other sources of information that tell them the truth. Is everyo
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Note that people who are outside the American madhouse, those who live in developing countries like the Philippines or China, very much want to adopt American customs. Few of them want to live a monastic or back-to-nature lifestyle. These p
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Anatomy of a successful cold-email campaign(blog.fiveyearitch.com)
4 points by josh_fyi 14y ago|0 comments
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
There seem to be two categories of workers: Software Engineers and everyone else. SWEs have the confidence to leave stability behind. On the other hand, 90% of SWEs behave like all the SWE employees!
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
You need a graduated system of interviewing. Start with quick-screening questions online, then a phone interview, then more in-depth online testing (nothing too burdensome on the candidate, say an hour's worth), then several hours of interv
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The Top Five Reasons Employees Will Quit In 2013(forbes.com)
2 points by josh_fyi 14y ago|2 comments
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
This is where Facebook's closed-data policy causes trouble. If they allowed backup to other cloud services or to local disk, users could make a habit of this, and tools would be developed. FB does have a "download your info" service, but th
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Larry is a smart guy, his success is proven, and he has the resources to make the future happen. But don't put too much weight on his prediction. Real innovation usually comes from unexpected places. Historically, predictions of technology
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
PDF and ebooks (MOBI, EPUB) optimize for different things. PDF is for layout -- it is actually more of a graphic format than a text format. Contiguous text may be scattered around in the internal data representation, so long as the location
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
There is tremendous demand for software engineers today. No matter that you are doing CRUD, employers need you. They can't see your code that you developed at work, so a Github with some quality code would be good -- but the key is to rem
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Ask HN: What current new projects take advantage of future accelerating change?
1 points by josh_fyi 14y ago|0 comments
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
Could be. In what way does it not fit?
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by josh_fyi 14y ago
We need patent violation insurance. This lets companies share risks, but also makes it easier to aggregate defensive efforts and so get economies of scale. Just having this insurance would scare off most trolls who rely on victims to fold e

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