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Ask HN: Is the subject matter of my GitHub projects (as résumé) important?
1 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
• He hired an alcoholic for a lawyer • He didn’t know about Founders’ Stock • He only ended up with 4% of the company after his divorce • The board of directors took pity and helped him out financially, but they didn’t have to Rereading
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by mproud 12y ago
Peter says again and again how he did it might not have been the safest way, that perhaps he was lucky it worked out, that there could have been a better approach. He does recognize it’s all water under the bridge, that in the end, he got s
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The First Female Typographer(ilovetypography.com)
6 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
Yeah, interleague play, as certainly now with the odd number of teams in each league has prevented a good, consistent number of games between teams — though more teams and divisions didn’t help either.
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by mproud 12y ago
In Major League Baseball ( http://mlb.com ), the season lasts 162 games, from late March/early April to the very end of September. Game 163 is played, only if necessary, as a tiebreaker game ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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Wonderlic test(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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Campfire stories may have sparked early societal learning(latimes.com)
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Scottish Independence Referendum Latest Results(theguardian.com)
2 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
What’s next? Don Draper doing a marketing pitch to Apple as if he was selling the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch?
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Jon St. John (Duke Nukem) Does VoiceOver in TextEdit(tatatataa.cn)
1 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
The cool thing is the other office shuts down for Thanksgiving, but we don’t (inorite?) so instead they give us 3 days to take whenever else we want (pending approval).
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by mproud 12y ago
Yeah, at 240 hours (6 weeks) I start losing it. There is a cash out option typically in the summer (for every vacation day used I can cash out another day). I did that once; then more money taken out of my paycheck because the govt. assumed
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by mproud 12y ago
Maybe you need a break from school? Try to line up an internship, or at the least just some kind of bill-paying job, and start working on something. Then re-evaluate where you are next year whether you want to re-enter school or jump into t
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Ask HN: U.S. workers, how much vacation do you get yearly?
10 points by mproud 12y ago|12 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
I don’t buy it. NCL, incorporated in Delaware, was a holding company which took over 46 transit systems in 16 states. Doesn’t sound like flowers and bunnies to me.
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by mproud 12y ago
Really? Then you don’t know about National City Lines ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines ). They were indicted in 1947 on charges of conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, and of
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by mproud 12y ago
Hmm, that’s an interesting question. Most of the studies only focus on auto traffic. I know the Twin Cities metro area fares good enough to be outside the top 10 worst ( http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmj45mlei/no-1
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by mproud 12y ago
The Twin Cities had a lot of catching up to do with transit, and only recently have we started to see the fruits of our labors. Both Minneapolis and St. Paul used to have very active streetcar systems ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by mproud 12y ago
Reminds me of “The 50 Dollar Logo Experiment” ( http://www.logodesignlove.com/the-50-dollar-logo-experiment ). Sometimes $50 isn’t worth it either.
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by mproud 12y ago
This guy has too many ideas, and the ideas he has conflict. How can you offer contextual links without saving some information? I’m not sold yet.
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by mproud 12y ago
The good news is yes, these do exist! They’re called “part-time jobs.”
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by mproud 12y ago
What a misleading headline. Redesigning the infographics is not redesigning the World Cup.
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Git usage in 1988(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mproud 12y ago|0 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
A 2 MB file limit makes Atom just impossible for me to use.
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by mproud 12y ago
That’s interesting. Hopefully it doesn’t get abused too much.
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by mproud 12y ago
Yeah, that’s a good way to look at it. Now only if my medical premium would decrease like how some car insurance companies reward customers for good driving.
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by mproud 12y ago
> The upside of your company is if you ever had a larger injury you would be covered, where as after 6 weeks my pay would be a lot lower than full amount. That might not be entirely true. After 5 days, I would have to declare a leave of
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Ask HN: Do you have more sick time than you can use?
4 points by mproud 12y ago|12 comments
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by mproud 12y ago
Just a poor copy from this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526272

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