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by kadabra9 9y ago
Junior developers are just that - junior developers. Sounds to me like what you really want are senior developers at a junior developer salary.
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by kadabra9 9y ago
I can relate to this. Chess is a beautiful game, but for certain people it isnt just addictive; its a complete escape, a way to tune out the world and just get lost in a game. I was going through some personal problems a year back and found
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by kadabra9 10y ago
Cool Article. I played a ton of chess in my high school / college years, progressing to just over 2000 USCF before taking a break from the tournament circuit. In my opinion, if youre not an expert / A - level player and want to p
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by kadabra9 10y ago
And none of that I would disagree with. We're not discussing whether or not the population should have ability to leave the EU via referendum, however. I was referring to the tendencies of some to cry out that democracy doesn't wo
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by kadabra9 10y ago
Ah yes, the classic "My side lost, so the other side must be uneducated" argument. Democracy is great up until the point people dont vote the way you want them to vote.
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Axel Springer wins partial victory in German ad blocking case(venturebeat.com)
2 points by kadabra9 10y ago|1 comments
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by kadabra9 12y ago
I think the problem with these founder dating type sites is that starting a company really isn't like "dating" at all, its more like a marriage. It's tough to just meet someone on a whim and dive into something like star
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by kadabra9 12y ago
> Schools — K-12 plus colleges and universities — aren’t turning out enough skilled workers. “I have jobs,” said one Texas entrepreneur. “I just don’t have the talent to fill them.” Whenever I read this, I just interpret it as, "I h
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by kadabra9 12y ago
My own career or financial situation also has no relevance at all to this thread (but thank you for speculating anyway,(very classy)) or the OP. I'm not taking any resentment out on anyone here, or justifying anything. I'm just po
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by kadabra9 12y ago
>That you don't have what it takes to change it doesn't mean that someone else can't. Change what? My objections to panhandling on the internet so others can pay for me to take a year off? What makes this such a novel or m
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by kadabra9 12y ago
And asking strangers on the internet to give him money to take the year off doesn't infringe on these "morals"?
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by kadabra9 12y ago
It really is quite simple --- find work that you enjoy. This should be pretty easy for someone with your skillset. Just because you "want to help people" or have some moral objection to working for the man does not mean you'r
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by kadabra9 12y ago
How so? Because I'm a little put off that OP wants to take a year off to just do what he wants, and hopes everyone else will pay his expenses?
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by kadabra9 12y ago
"For about a year, I've had a paid open-source job, but this really didn't work out well - I became increasingly stressed and depressed, and I wasn't able to find enough time and energy to work on the things that I reall
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by kadabra9 12y ago
I have a few printouts stuck to my wall with common snippets I use frequently but often have to look up....regexes, sublimetext shortcuts, db schemas, etc. I also have one big notebook that serves as a day to day scratchpad for projects tha
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by kadabra9 13y ago
Good to know! Figured you guys were getting slammed today. Nice work though, app looks promising.
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by kadabra9 13y ago
So far, I have to say I'm impressed. I've been searching for a bookmarks solution that I will actually use, to the point where I've played around with writing my own. But from what I've seen, the date sorting, tagging, o
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by kadabra9 13y ago
Do you have any non competes or IP agreements with Intuit / Turbotax that could be potential liabilities down the road?
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by kadabra9 13y ago
In point one the OP complains that the term "Product Guy" is too vague and generic (which I agree with), then in point two she complains that people using the term makes her uncomfortable because there isn't an informal femal
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by kadabra9 13y ago
After all the scummy tactics Uber has pulled, (recruiting and ordering/cancelling drivers from Gett comes to mind), I really have a hard time feeling bad for them anymore when it comes to matters like this.
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by kadabra9 13y ago
Agree that you should ASK...and many people overlook this simple step, but a founder that "loses sight" of something as critical as the comp of his so called critical employees is not someone I want to work for.
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by kadabra9 13y ago
I don't want to hijack from the OP, just want to point out that these are both awesome. Seriously, as a a data geek and huge NFL fan, great work to both of you.
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by kadabra9 13y ago
This really puts some of the boneheaded moves I've made in my career in perspective. One thing that's always kept me pretty even keeled after a blowup is to take a breath and tell myself that no matter how bad I've screwed up
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Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?
217 points by kadabra9 13y ago|309 comments
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by kadabra9 13y ago
I really, really enjoyed the 180 websites posts. I checked this site out earlier (this week I believe?) when you shared it to HN and thought it was pretty slick. It was great to get a sort of post game review of this particular app, detaili
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Ask HN: I may have made a mistake taking this job. What's next?
1 points by kadabra9 13y ago|2 comments
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by kadabra9 13y ago
The cynic in me can't help but think that this so called "velveeta shortage" just in time for the NFL Playoffs/Superbowl is in reality nothing more than a lame guerilla marketing tactic from the Kraft marketing team in a
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by kadabra9 13y ago
You wanna know the saddest part of my day? When I'm moving around my laptop, and pop into the "projects" folder and see what a graveyard it has become. Dozens of half baked projects that seemed brilliant at the time, that I e
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DataCamp - Codecademy for data analysis / R(datacamp.com)
4 points by kadabra9 13y ago|0 comments
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by kadabra9 13y ago
Really interesting idea for a project, but is this just a blog about analysis of different hands from the WSOP? Or is there some sort of API / product behind all of this glorious poker data that is coming soon or is simply not so easy

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