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by mrburton 7y ago
Plugins: yuttie/comfortable-motion.vim - Gives you nice smooth scrolling to the bottom junegunn/fzf - Great fuzzy searching for files scrooloose/nerdtree - A file system navigator itchyny/lightline.vim - nice fancy stat
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Ask HN: Share your .vimrc file and what plug-ins you use
14 points by mrburton 7y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: What was your biggest mental shift when learning Rust?
4 points by mrburton 7y ago|1 comments
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by mrburton 7y ago
Just to kick this off with a spicy little argument "Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs" https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/06/15/developers-use-spaces-...
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Death to the Space Infidels (Tabs vs. Spaces)(blog.codinghorror.com)
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|1 comments
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by mrburton 7y ago
Now I'm going to find your github account and comment on every line of code that has a tab! lol Take back the tab comment and we'll be okay! ;)
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by mrburton 7y ago
My personal opinion - keep politics and religion the fuck out of the IT community. I personally love building, coding, etc. I rather watch two people argue about emacs vs. vim; I vote vim. Or spaces vs. tabs; I vote spaces. Remember the day
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First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified(scientificamerican.com)
213 points by mrburton 7y ago|87 comments
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New Relic Acquires Technology and Team Members from IOpipe(blog.newrelic.com)
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrburton 7y ago
You should look at the pHash algo.
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How to share your presentation on Twitter(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How many of you were impacted by the Route53 issue?
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|0 comments
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WeWork’s Valuation Falls to $8B Under SoftBank Rescue Offer(wsj.com)
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrburton 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. This was fixed.
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by mrburton 7y ago
Sorry, it's not a data mining effort. We're taking sign-ups now and will start scheduling calls with people. To best help us, getting some information makes this process move faster.
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by mrburton 7y ago
Thank you! Updated and rolling out now.
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by mrburton 7y ago
The reason for avoiding the usage of the word "recruiter" is certainly intentional. We don't feel like that term lends itself well to what we're trying to do honestly. We're not sure exactly what term best expresses
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by mrburton 7y ago
One thing that has always felt wrong/broken/dirty, is how little people get to know about you when applying for a job. In order to correct this, we schedule a call to learn the following: Understand experience. - Learn more about
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by mrburton 7y ago
We feel like keeping a very niche focus allows us to do a fantastic job at helping candidates find their next job. It will enable us to work closely with the candidates and work on a process that can eventually scale.
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by mrburton 7y ago
Interesting - the server seems to be responding. What browser/os?
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by mrburton 7y ago
You're so on point with this comment. Core to our belief is keeping costs low, do our diligence with the companies and candidates, and work on improving how this business is done. Most people don't know recruiting hasn't chan
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by mrburton 7y ago
We're not a recruiting firm, and we'll make this distinction very clear on the website soon. The primary purpose of the website is to help people bounce back from being laid off. Given this is our primary mission, we don't do
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by mrburton 7y ago
> Does 'high profile' matter? Not at all. There's really no discrimination based on how big company or layoff is, we'll work with you. This was placed here to appeal to companies. We want to create as much "liqu
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by mrburton 7y ago
There will be an about today. As a company, we work closely with those laid off to help them find their next job. We don't charge candidates for this service. Given our extremely technical backgrounds, we can help people and companies
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Show HN: Layoffs.at – helping people laid off find work(layoffs.at)
95 points by mrburton 7y ago|43 comments
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Ask HN: What do you use for cohort analysis?
1 points by mrburton 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrburton 7y ago
When I was laid off early in my career, I took a massive emotional hit. I was only making $35k a year programming at 20, but it was my way out of the poor living conditions. When they laid off my entire team, I was upset, afraid, and angry.
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by mrburton 7y ago
I do agree that layoffs don't just affect those who were laid off. I'm building a product now that I'm testing to work out any bugs and will do a release soon. The platform isn't only those laid off; it could also be use
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by mrburton 7y ago
PG is still alive and coding! :)
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Ask HN: How many of you have been impacted by a layoff?
164 points by mrburton 7y ago|169 comments

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