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by nhashem 14y ago
The words he used for his actual endorsement didn't scream "MANDATORY CODING" to me: "I want to make sure that (young people) know how to produce stuff using computers and not just consume stuff." Yes, it could mean coding. But people prod
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by nhashem 14y ago
Clearly I didn't mean Rep. Amash just sits around and votes "no" on everything. But his only "yes" votes are on symbolic bills like repealing Obamacare. If it involves spending money without offsets, he votes no, with no exceptions. Seeing
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by nhashem 14y ago
Thank you for finding his explanation. I blame Facebook's infinite scroll. I don't see this as a "hard decision." He cast a symbolic vote to remain ideologically pure. Had our Congress consisted of at least 217 Justin Amashes, their vote
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by nhashem 14y ago
I am definitely not lumping Amash in with the greater Republican party. I deliberately said Rep. Amash "represents a wing" of the party, because the voting record of many Republicans do not resemble his. My understanding of Rep. Amash is t
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by nhashem 14y ago
Scroll down to January 4th on Rep. Amash's Facebook page. This was the day that the House voted on $9.7 billion in Sandy aid, which was pretty much just to replenish FEMA's flood insurance fund. The entire bill is one page. ( http://www
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by nhashem 14y ago
"I voted no on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H R 297, Children's Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013, which reauthorizes federal payments to children's hospitals for operating graduate medical training programs... Th
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by nhashem 14y ago
Unfortunately this is not going to be resolved without our federal government going through the painful gyrations of partisan politics. The OP mentions the Democratic Party (and the Obama White House) and its opposition to HR 6429, which ba
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Breaking Someone With the Law(esquire.com)
6 points by nhashem 14y ago|0 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
More analysis on Point #3 in this article was also covered by Paul Krugman (liberal economist columnist at the NY Times): http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/human-versus-phy... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/10/technol
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Failing Fast Means... Failing a Lot(blog.diaperchange.me)
4 points by nhashem 14y ago|1 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
We're essentially reaching an intersection between the cost of Chinese labor (steadily increasing as China's economy grows and their currency gains value) and US labor (depressed because we're still at 8% unemployment). If these workers st
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by nhashem 14y ago
I had a Nintendo Power subscription for most of elementary school. To me, that era of video games seems nostalgically arcane -- when games weren't just intended to be finished as a function of time, and there wasn't an abundance of informa
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by nhashem 14y ago
You raise an interesting concept, but as US-born software engineer, this is why I'm not too concerned: - Unlike low-skill manufacturing jobs, most technology jobs are not commodity work. To put it another way: if the US gave out visas to 5
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by nhashem 14y ago
From the administration's response: "As a part of immigration reform, the Administration strongly supports legislation to attract and retain foreign students who graduate with advanced STEM degrees, to establish a start-up visa for foreign-
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by nhashem 14y ago
In my opinion, this technology gap will exist as long as the Republican party embraces social conservatism to the point of scientific ignorance. Consider Todd Akin’s comment: "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to just shut
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by nhashem 14y ago
One other major suggestion I'd add: Practice writing. Just write whenever you can, in whatever environment, no matter how unformal. Your company wiki, your personal blog, whatever. Maturing from a "junior" engineer into a more experienced
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by nhashem 14y ago
While I've never been a recruiter, I've been a hiring manager at some mid-sized companies and worked closely with their recruiters. Side projects or attempted startups are great, but I've seen countless resumes where they get completely ov
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How Diaperchange.me weighed the pros and cons of Mobile Web vs. Native App(blog.diaperchange.me)
5 points by nhashem 14y ago|3 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
The liberal arts themselves aren't the problem. For those of us on HN that went to college and got a computer science degree, I'm sure a lot of took a handful of liberal arts courses as electives. It's even possible that we remember the r
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by nhashem 14y ago
For what it's worth, if you're the target of especially terrifying harassment like this, it's important to keep two things in mind: the more targeted the harassment is, the easier it is to identify the harasser, and the more likely it is th
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by nhashem 14y ago
The National Review is a conservative publication. It's unfortunate that an interesting hypothesis -- our society is no longer innovating and advancing as much as it used to -- is backed up by obviously conservative partisan points that ar
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I Redesigned The Website of The Guy Who Bearhugged President Obama
7 points by nhashem 14y ago|5 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
This is a great point, and I wish some of the executives as my previous employers understood this. For awhile, things seem great. The company has a core product that is showing great growth. That in turn leads to even more ambitious goal
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by nhashem 14y ago
If investor attitudes are changing as the OP seems to indicate, I actually think this is a great thing. For all the doom and gloom about "Tech Bubble 2.0," the public markets are not valuing tech companies on "potential." You need real pr
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by nhashem 14y ago
I haven't advertised on Facebook myself, but this is is an interesting concept. If it's broadly true and that Facebook essentially has two "classes" of users, then it's up to them to price them segment and price them effectively for advert
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by nhashem 14y ago
The problem with mechanical turk impressions/clicks is typically the country of origin, since they usually involve paying people in third-world countries a fraction of a cent which is still worth some nominal amount to them. Say you are an
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by nhashem 14y ago
My startup is essentially an advertising aggregator (pooling traffic from a variety of publishers and routing it to advertisers) and dealing with things like bot detection is a HUGE chunk of what we work on, technology-wise. Let me try and
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Why Startups Sell Out(hash-money.com)
1 points by nhashem 14y ago|0 comments
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by nhashem 14y ago
A lot of the job postings to me from YC startups seem absurd, since a lot of them seem to be looking for "expert"-level roles. For example, a lot of them are looking for a "growth engineer." My interpretation is that they're basically say
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by nhashem 14y ago
Very cool service! Question about the architecture though: what were the reasons for using HTTP as opposed to UDP (which is typically how these stats collection servers receive data)? It looks like it's possible to keep system load managea

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