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by nkangoh 11y ago
Thought: Why would anyone use this when they could use Anki for free?
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Ask HN: Am I searching for jobs wrong?
10 points by nkangoh 11y ago|8 comments
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Honestly? Just practice a lot and get people who have some familiarity with Software Engineering/Computer Science to interview you. It's also important that you ask those people to not take it easy on you. The initial discomfort i
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Ask HN: Which class would you take?
3 points by nkangoh 12y ago|2 comments
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Excellent website. What did you use for the front-end, is it based off a template? It looks great!
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by nkangoh 12y ago
What exactly is wrong with using notepad to code? No syntax highlighting?
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I've read quite a bit on standing desks and I'm curious if there is any study/research that shows, experimentally, that it's actually [standing] that leads to some of the proposed benefits. I only ask because I wonder if
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I've been doing some heavy investigation to how (and where) I should start my career in terms of maximizing learning. I have friends who will be working at Microsoft, and other friends who criticize said 'Microsoft' friends,
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by nkangoh 12y ago
This is slightly off topic, but why aren't folding bikes or scooters more popular? Their folding mechanism allows you to take them with you which would presumably prevent theft more than a lock. If a bike lock is the only thing that&#x
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I find this paragraph interesting: "From the outside, it might have looked like I was crazy to feel this way. I had graduated from Stanford, I had a CS degree, and I knew how to play the startup game. In college I had started an ed-tec
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I would be interested to hear the opinions (or more accurately, experiences) of developers regarding "practice." I'm beginning my career as a software engineer this summer and I would like to become an "excellent" e
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I once had a conversation with someone who described themselves as "rich." They claimed the poor had it easy. I asked him: "If the poor have it so easy, would you switch places?" There was silence. Do the poor not have t
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by nkangoh 12y ago
The mentioned book really talks about how Korea, China (and Hong Kong) along with some European countries do education much differently.
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I REALLY wish teaching was as prestigious as say, being a doctor, or investment banker. I read a very interesting [1] book on this and it really just opened my eyes regarding the mediocrity of teaching (not quality per say, but as a profess
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by nkangoh 12y ago
It's really nice to see there are others from a C.C. background. For some reason I thought I was the only one (coming into this community I thought everyone went to Stanford, CMU, MIT, etc).
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by nkangoh 12y ago
That would only be true if community college were an equivalent alternative. Unfortunately it is not . Unless you care about education for education's sake and nothing of jobs or career prospects, then a well motivated individual cou
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by nkangoh 12y ago
I went to community college and transferred into an excellent, top 5 (according to some rankings anyway) school. I would say that most people in community college don't really want to be there. Many of the students that I started with
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by nkangoh 12y ago
A friend of mine has been trying to get me to learn awk, sed, perl or grep. Honestly I only have the patience for one at the moment, which do you think is the best (taking the ease of learning into account)?
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Though I agree that in many situations it is anti-competitive, I think it would be difficult to tell someone who has a small data to work with that you're going to take away their currently free access to Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
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by nkangoh 12y ago
You built a beautiful project and task management tool, make a post about it, yet fail to show us what it is (e.g. link)? That's pretty much your problem right there. You need to advertise the service.
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Anyone watch Black Mirror? Remember 15 Million Merits? Heh...
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Agreed. I also had a Yuneec E-go and realized that electric skateboards, despite their low weight, are very annoying to carry around. I'm personally waiting around for a good electric kick-scooter or small foldable electric bike. Mainl
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Just a question: why should your friends want to work on side projects? Or, why do you believe your friends should want to work on side projects?
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Do you really think that acquihires are becoming the default failure mode? What about all of the startups that fail silently? I'm seeing some selection bias here.
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by nkangoh 12y ago
Is it really a good idea to undervalue yourself like this? I feel like problems that "matter" couldn't be solved by a single person in a single day (or even a few days), otherwise they would have already been solved. Just a t
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by nkangoh 12y ago
What do you mean by "write a shell script to build and demo it"? Pardon my ignorance.
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by nkangoh 12y ago
This is true, but it's also possible that the very treatment that supposedly decreases cancer deaths also decreases the "other illnesses" such that the distance between the cancer death and other illness death is constant. In
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by nkangoh 12y ago
It's very difficult to say if this is good news or not. Is it not possible that people are actually dying from other things that have actually increased since 1991 that occur before cancer? In other words, couldn't the other illne
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Ask HN: How should I spend this winter?
1 points by nkangoh 12y ago|0 comments