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I wrote some thoughts about it, after doing it for a two year stint: http://jeremyraines.com/2014/01/18/remote-retrospective.html
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So in fact, it [clean sport] is profoundly just what the Nazis would’ve admired—the strongest, the fittest, the most beautiful. self-Godwinning sophistry
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Why? This statement is certainly true. You can expand the range of people with any plausible contribution until it's not, but doing so would be an ideological exercise at best. Von Neumann, Shannon, Turing, Weiner, Hopper and many more
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What sucks is Android used to be good, at least in a lot of cases. I don't know how much this generalizes, but on Hacker News I used to be able to pinch to zoom, then double tap the screen and the site would wrap at the zoomed size.
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Can you recommend any good resources learning about taking this approach?
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Yes! (This was in NYC, through The Flatiron School)
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"But one thing led to another, and it was [Nash], rather than von Neumann, who ended up as an intellectual celebrity, the subject of a Hollywood movie." Hollywood schmollywood. From The Dream Machine , Waldrop's account of
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Or not being able to afford it
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People have, I think, internalized the logic of arms races. Someone's going to have [scary technology X], so why shouldn't we have it first/best? (Sure, there are answers to that, but none that I think most people would sti
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Yeah, but that's a different phrasing. If you say "You guys can find the pizza in the back", do you think it'll be only men who head for the back?
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Your only software eng position there goes to a sales position with a message saying that the position you were trying to view is no longer open.
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge One traces the history of computing from inception to roughly 1990, the other feels like it picks it up around 2030. Highly r
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Networking is like VC investing. Most investments don't pay off, some a little, and the rare right-place, right-time one changes your life.
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"I still wonder if affiliate rapper dullspace ever got a record deal" I'm not sure, but he did get into YCombinator
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I have had a somewhat similar experience, quit after 3 or 4 days, and it has had 0 negative impact on my career. I can't believe the commenters telling you to grind it out -- why would you do that in one of the hottest job markets in
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These things have become a joke -- I guess because they are so common in SF -- but damn, for a single person who doesn't like cooking or taking long lunches, and likes ping pong, these things are pretty damn cool.
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We hired a junior developer from Flatiron School in NYC. We were very happy with the process of working with them and very happy (now 6 months in) with the hire. She got familiar, then proficient, with our stack (Rails, Rspec, heavy clien
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Seems to me this weirdly presumptuous post--imagine for a second a stranger pontificating to the world on how your wife would feel about you doing some hypothetical thing--is refuted almost entirely by Graham's lecture & essay &quo
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What's the difference between a "well, actually" and correcting someone's misunderstanding -- or rather, when is it not welcome? My understanding is that it's when someone parachutes into a conversation uninvited t
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Cool - do you (or anyone) have a favorite reference or catalog of UI patterns?
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Stylitics Fulltime in New York City (Manhattan) or REMOTE We aggregate consumer data through our web and mobile apps, providing a self-service analytics dashboard to brands and retailers. For consumers, Stylitics is the way to intelligently
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Here's the best take I've read on the subject, by John Allspaw of Etsy: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/10/25/on-being-a-senior-engi... Choice quote: "I expect a “senior” engineer to be a matur
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"I just feel like we're moving too fast"
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Stylitics Fulltime in New York City (Manhattan) or REMOTE We aggregate consumer data through our web and mobile apps, providing a self-service analytics dashboard to brands and retailers. For consumers, Stylitics is the way to intelligently
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https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/
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I might wonder which of my personal details they don't like on this cozy level.
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People have lost every last penny trying to recover from ______ by gambling
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I wish I didn't know the stomach-plunge feeling of realizing you've done this
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pg's writing has made a big impact among a lot of people, the majority of whom don't view him as a cult-like leader or personality at all. It sounds like you disagree with his ideas; what qualifies someone as an intellectual in y
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Simpsons' funny take on why extrapolating from past results can be bad: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BcCWP8wCIAA4LQw.jpg

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