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Ask HN: Where does one find true entry level development jobs?
35 points by mcgrath_sh 9y ago|44 comments
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I use Cryptomator. https://cryptomator.org I'm not sure of the program's technical specs, but it is multi-platform, available on mobile, and is easy to use. I am able to have a shared set of secured documents with vari
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
My friend's friend moved to a new city. He invited 6 of his new coworkers over and asked them to bring a medium pizza from their favorite pizza place. This let him quickly find out which would be to his "go to" pizza joint wi
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I would absolutely own an electric vehicle if I was part of a muti-car family. But, until electric is as easily and quick to refill on as gas (long road trips, etc) I would not own it as my only vehicle.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Wait. Your son is currently only in front of a screen for 30 minutes a day? Tha is pretty good, IMO. Heck, when I was 5 I was watching more TV than that.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
For jeans and dress clothes, I would absolutely prefer custom tailored. T-shirts, sweaters, hoodies, etc aren't worth the hassle. I would also stick with my Nikes/Jordans that are mass produced (I know exactly what size to get). I
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
When Pittsburgh's mayor is no longer elected in the Democratic primaries, I will be inclined to agree with you. Pittsburgh proper is still blue. There are red parts in Allegheny County, but that went blue last November too.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Any head injury in all sports (or not sports for that matter) are incredibly devastating. That being said, what happened to your cousin (I am sorry about that) is an anomaly in basketball. Most basketball injuries are to legs then hands&#x2
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Depends on where you are from. In super blue Pittsburgh, not a chance on earth. Football will have to be nationally legisated against in order for its popularity to fall in Western PA. I am sure there are other, similar pockets in the count
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I agree so much. At $75k/yr in my area, you would be able to live in a top 15 school district and go on a family vacation anually. I literally cannot conceptualize scraping by on $75k a year. That is just unfathomably expensive!
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Agree. I actually subscribe to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette because of their sports beatwriters. I think they provide value to me. I would absolutely subscribe to other sports content that was of high quality and focused (mostly) on the team
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I am convinced I love twitter as much as I do because I use it to do nothing but talk about sports. Twitter is incredible for sports and I talk to people from multiple countries and states about various teams. It is incredible.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Simmons has touched on that in the past. He talks a lot about some of what happened at Grantland, ESPN, and decisions he made re: The Ringer on the July 12, 2017 of the Bill Simmons Podcast titled, "Inside the Evolution of ESPN With Ji
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Local newspapers and local talk radio still dominate local sports. Typically, the best-connected reporters are those for the local paper. Sports coverage is actually what drives me to subscribe to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I have replaced ESPN with podcasts, individual national writers, SB Nation, local beat writers, the teams and leagues themsevles, and official highlights from YouTube. All of this is really easy with RSS. I rarely go to ESPN anymore except
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Listening to Simmons over the last year, it is clear that part of Grantland's failure was being under the ESPN umbrella and not chasing what ESPN considered "small dollar" advertisements and partners. In a recent podcast, Sim
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
If I was a betting individual, DK Sports would be in the top 5 bets of things I would never see on Hacker News! Ha! I actually subscribe to the Post-Gazette for my local sports news. I think Ed Bouchette (despite some of his flaws) is qui
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I think it depends on how convoluted your splitting is. To make things easy, my friends and I tell a waitress individual checks up front, then the couples will tell the server "pay these with this card." That is much easier than s
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
That is completely fair. The equation also drastically changes when you are looking at traveling alone and traveling with more than one person. Even with just my husband and I, the cost in both time and money to fly to Philly, NYC, DC, and
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
With the increase in speed limit on the turnpike, DC has become just under 4 hours for me. From my house in the city to the Silver Spring metro stop is 3h 55m on the GPS. Toronto is a 6 hour drive, Charlotte or Chicago are also only a 7 hou
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Pittsburgh also has a lot of underdeveloped waterfront real estate and still has room to develop in a lot of areas within an hour (or closer) drive of downtown. Over the last 20 years, a lot of areas that used to be mills (all along the wat
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
How do you handle mobile with this setup? I have looked at taskwarrior, but I need something that is easy to use on iOS. Hence, Taskpaper.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
This is what sports twitter is. Yes, you have to build up the list of people you follow and interact with people to build your followers, but I would much rather that than have to share a sporting event with every fan. I would rather have t
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I am a heavy podcast listener and will toss my hat in this ring as well. I use the DreamReader app and can import websites, PDF, epub, etc. I use it to read study notes, books, and web articles. I do appreciate a good audiobook and understa
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I'd be really interested in that audiobook script. I have some that are ripped but not stitched together. I want to get to the point where all my audiobooks are one file.
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I love living 5 minutes away from my parents. We are close enough we see each other frequently, drop by to do favors, borrow tools, carpool to events, etc., but there is juuuust enough friction to getting to the others house it doesn&#x27
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
Getting photos out of old iPhoto libraries has been a nightmare for me. I will never use a system that is not a simple directory structure for photos again. In addition to that, I find that photos are actually harder to manage when everyt
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I use a combination of Dropbox and a nifty piece of software called Hazel on macOS. The general workflow is that Dropbox automatically uploads photos from my phone and from my husband's phone to a "Camera Uploads" folder. My
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I was at Hover and moved most of my domains to NameCheap. The only way I could change my last name on my Hover account was to remove 2FA to prove that I was the owner of the account. No ability to give them a code verbally, etc. Remove, c
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by mcgrath_sh 9y ago
I throw out every business card I get with a package. I never scan the QR codes. I can only imagine the nightmare of recovering 2FA for someone who was tricked into setting it up without really understanding it. Just getting my relatively t

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