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by mavsman 6y ago
I used to work on Cloud9 IDE and it had a feature like this. It's now probably still in AWS Cloud9. It's tremendously helpful and magical when you have it. Having a We had considered ways to expand on this feature for educational
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Ask HN: How can I teach my parents about phishing?
1 points by mavsman 6y ago|0 comments
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by mavsman 6y ago
He says only 1% to 8% of opioid prescriptions result in addiction (and that this is often misreported as being higher). If knew it was even this high I would never accept a bottle.
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Ask HN: How long did it take you to configure your devbox at your current job?
2 points by mavsman 6y ago|2 comments
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Software engineer's guide to asserting dominance in the workplace (2016)(medium.com)
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Ask HN: Funniest/most entertaining HN post
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by mavsman 6y ago
I was hoping to see something about how this affects babies in there ️
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by mavsman 6y ago
I've thought this for a very long time. Now that we have tiny technology that can check your heart rate and fit around your wrist or inside your ear canal, I'm not quite sure why this isn't a feature. It would be easy to impl
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by mavsman 6y ago
> "Your only job is to get an extra minute,” the former employee told the subcommittee. “It’s immoral. They don’t ask where it’s coming from. They can monetize a minute of activity at a certain rate. So the only metric is getting an
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by mavsman 6y ago
I'd like to try a split keyboard but I can't give up a bluetooth keyboard. It doesn't _seem_ like a major technical challenge to have a split bluetooth keyboard but I'm surprised one doesn't exist yet so maybe there
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Textures.js – Add textures to your D3 projects(observablehq.com)
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by mavsman 6y ago
I think platforms like PluralSight could swoop in here and take away some market share from YouTube if they wanted to.
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by mavsman 6y ago
Scrimba is awesome. I was really intrigued by it for a while. For me, I reached a point where I started to feel the limitations of the code editor provided. It became apparent that I was stuck in a learning tool, not a full text editor or I
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by mavsman 6y ago
Brilliant
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by mavsman 6y ago
It never occurred to me until now that Hacker News is free and this statement could be applied here as well, though I'm not exactly sure in what way.
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Ask HN: Learning resources that finally helped you grasp a complex topic?
3 points by mavsman 6y ago|1 comments
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by mavsman 6y ago
I'd like to say that when big corporations like this fight it seems the outcome will be beneficial for users. Not sure if that will be true but I hope it will be.
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Ask HN: How to tell if a JavaScript/front end candidate is mid-level or senior?
7 points by mavsman 6y ago|12 comments
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by mavsman 6y ago
I think I'm closer to you on the spectrums you mentioned. While I find the author's actual writing to come off as narrow-minded and self-aggrandizing, I do agree with the title itself. There are some companies and teams that are l
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Ask HN: Is it still unsafe/insecure to use a baby camera?
1 points by mavsman 6y ago|0 comments
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by mavsman 6y ago
Love, Kevin O'Leary
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by mavsman 6y ago
I was this way too. I got into Amazon via acquisition so I never actually passed a real interview process (though there was a limited one as part of the acquisition). I transferred teams within Amazon and then left for my current company. I
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by mavsman 6y ago
> Your 2-letter nickname and access to important projects makes your account a high-value target. For sure this. People go crazy for this stuff and sell access on the dark web ( https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
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by mavsman 6y ago
Amazing. I was just about to ask how this is different from Pika This sounds great.
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by mavsman 6y ago
Camera covers most cost less than a dollar. Why doesn't Apple just build a physical one into their laptops? I wonder what they could come up with for microphones as well.
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by mavsman 6y ago
Really was hoping this would be for finding projects on GitHub, not for searching within a repo. I often find it hard to do advanced searches using some special DSL GitHub has come up with (or really any company/website for that matter
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by mavsman 6y ago
Here's one I was thinking of actually https://www.dataviper.io/blog/2019/pdl-data-exposure-billion...
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Ask HN: Good posts/resources on how user data is sold?
14 points by mavsman 6y ago|3 comments
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by mavsman 6y ago
I agree with this first paragraph. But disagree with the second. Depends on what kind of learning style you have but I don't think a book is the best format for learning git (or most programming concepts for that matter). You probably
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by mavsman 6y ago
Very Amazon move to wait until a company's valuation is chopped down significantly due to the market or other circumstances and then purchase it. I guess this is the move of any major company or smart investor though.

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