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by kohanz 9y ago
Exactly. This part of the article stood out particularly to me: "After eight moves, using his own limited chess ability, the unthinkable was occurring: Max was winning." Pure dramatic bluster. White has a built-in but small initia
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by kohanz 9y ago
This is sound advice. I did have chess coaches when younger. I reached 2100 at 17 but stopped playing shortly after to focus on school and other things (competitive chess play and study is extremely time consuming). Even when I was 1900ish
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by kohanz 9y ago
> but in the long run it may return to normal and in my opinion, our world will be uglier. Not just uglier, but less safe in my opinion. If people have returned to their normal driving habits (speeding over these 3d illusions) it means t
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by kohanz 9y ago
HTPC
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Canada’s no-fly list is in desperate need of some innovation(beta.theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by kohanz 9y ago|0 comments
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by kohanz 9y ago
I have a WP blog that I wrote about my experience becoming a licensed professional engineer, which basically entails writing up your experience and taking an ethics exam. At the time I did it to make myself accountable to follow through. It
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by kohanz 9y ago
How many big tech HQ's meet that criteria?
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by kohanz 9y ago
Kitchener-Waterloo? edit: just thought it would be a suitable talent hub. Not sure why I'm getting downvoted. Maybe Toronto would be more suitable?
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by kohanz 9y ago
I'm not sure if you read the blog post, but they pivoted away from that idea early on.
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by kohanz 9y ago
Agreed. $30/month for only Disney content would only be for the die-hards IMHO, but there are a fair number of those. Saying "most" families would is unfounded.
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by kohanz 9y ago
Agreed. Engineering is a "profession". You wouldn't call medicine or law "trades". In some jurisdictions (Canada for example) calling yourself a "software engineer" without having a professional engineerin
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by kohanz 9y ago
I agree that I don't really see what the problem is. Curious that AirBnB would deny it though. Does it hurt their brand?
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by kohanz 9y ago
I'm a parent, but even love of a child is not "unconditional". There are too many ugly counterexamples to easily disprove that. The bond between parent and child is special, for sure, but I do believe you can build such bonds
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by kohanz 9y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Just to clarify, you're saying you hate your father despite him having done nothing intentionally to deserve that hatred? You're obviously not obliged to go into more detail, but I guess I'm wonde
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by kohanz 9y ago
This is obviously a really complex and personal decision, but I wanted to focus on this bit: > If someone is in their 30s, married, but hasn't hit their really time-intensive stretch goals (be it entrepreneurship, financial indepen
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by kohanz 9y ago
> he just made everyone around him look bad An example of why this is so subjective. For me, the "best" engineers make everyone around them look better. Like the star athlete that elevates the level of play of their teammates.
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by kohanz 9y ago
I'm down-voting you (and not only you, to be fair) because you are hell-bent on creating a discussion against Iranian politics in a thread about the tragic, early death of a brilliant mathematician who happened to be an Iranian-America
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Ask HN: Received unrequested Google verification code e-mail, but have SMS 2FA?
1 points by kohanz 9y ago|0 comments
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by kohanz 9y ago
Did the Svelte version hijack the back button for anyone else?
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by kohanz 9y ago
I think for many people, especially junior to mid-level hires, a few weeks is not enough time to achieve the familiarity, credibility, and just general sense of belonging to feel comfortable sharing genuine critiques. I would expect only se
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by kohanz 9y ago
I think "fortunate" is a more appropriate description. Of course part of his journey was luck and those other people have not been as fortunate. "Privelege" is generally something that is granted to you by another entity
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by kohanz 9y ago
> He's in the extremely privileged position... When you achieve a position by working very hard and risking nearly everything you have, I wouldn't consider that a "privilege". He earned the right to do whatever he wan
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by kohanz 10y ago
As an engineer in the medical device industry, I would offer that few people are in a better position to come up with those ideas than yourself. You have years of clinical experience, surely you've come across areas of practice that co
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by kohanz 10y ago
If I had another idea that I was passionate about and knew how I wanted to execute on it, I would do that. If not, I would dive back into consulting to defer that runway until I did have the right idea/plan/inspiration. Note: I&#x
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by kohanz 10y ago
I don't think that's entirely fair. Graduate students are hardly in a position to refuse a funding source. That's up to the primary investigator and even those only have the luxury if they are able to secure other sources of
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by kohanz 10y ago
Thanks for that definition. I didn't know the word, but it for some reason carried a negative connotation for me. Perhaps because I linked it with "insidious"?
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by kohanz 10y ago
Sure, but the problem I (and I presume others) have with the author not presenting an alternative or an even an acknowledgement he that doesn't necessarily know of one is that the message loses a bit of credibility. I think the autho
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by kohanz 10y ago
It's nearly impossible to read this article without receiving the impression that the author is heavily implying that there is indeed a better way (vague insinuations of slowing down and focusing on quality).
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by kohanz 10y ago
Thanks for responding. I found out today that the 2016 MBP is now in the refurb store, which brings it down to my price point. I called up Dell and tried to cancel my order, but since it is already "work-in-progress", they cannot
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by kohanz 10y ago
Did you keep or return the laptop? If you kept it, how do you like it?

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