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Why It's Better To Hire The Least Qualified Person For The Job(forbes.com)
1 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
Slightly OT, but you probably want to rephrase or get rid of this sentence. _"Yet I'm a rockstar to mediocre people."_ It probably won't earn you much sympathy in these parts. Also looking forward to the answers, as I see some of my own fea
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You are probably not very good at most things(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
I'm always a little worried about using this sort of service when they don't provide pricing info.
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In defence of narcissism(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
You may find http://hackershelf.com/topics/ useful.
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by okal 14y ago
What might those be? Honest question. My inexperience is probably showing, but I have a hard time picturing what the middle ground might look like.
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by okal 14y ago
"If you do things that make people happy, you will find a way to your own happiness." While this has been true, in my limited experience, it can be a slippery slope. The, possibly unintended, message I got from the post is more along the li
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by okal 14y ago
Why should these studies be taken seriously when - from what I can tell - they do not take digital sales into account? CDs seems like a dubious metric. Wouldn't they have been hurt by digital purchases as well?
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by okal 14y ago
I think the question was directed at the founders, not the users. What happens to the users of the service when the founders no longer have any use for it?
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by okal 14y ago
Not sure I agree that this is magic. Syntactic sugar? Definitely. But it doesn't obscure any of the underlying logic.
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by okal 14y ago
I prefer to keep away from political discussions but WTF! Have you heard of Israel?
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by okal 14y ago
The Stripe CEO was in Nairobi two days ago for a meetup at one of the startup incubators. This was the one question every dev had on their mind - the short answer, at least for those of us in Africa - is "don't hold your breath". I have to
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by okal 14y ago
"I'm feeling sucky" bubbled up some real gems. Will Wheaton sucks a lot more than Constant pain. :)
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Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69(washingtonpost.com)
42 points by okal 14y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Chrome extension to show article reading time before clicking through(chrome.google.com)
2 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
A few more here http://hackershelf.com/topic/python/
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Web App UI Bloopers: Flickr and SoundCloud(journal.okal.me)
2 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
I thought about that, but aside from bug fixes, I can't really give it much time at the moment because of my classes (final year). I did play with some affiliate links from http://udemy.com for a while but it didn't work out so I dropped
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by okal 14y ago
I launched http://hackershelf.com on Valentine's Day. It stayed on the frontpage for a little more than a day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3589963 . Save for a few Flattrs, haven't made a cent from it, though that was never the
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by okal 14y ago
You do realize Nigeria IS an English speaking country, don't you?
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Eduardo Saverin renounces US citizenship to dodge tax bill(thenextweb.com)
1 points by okal 14y ago|1 comments
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Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial(grymoire.com)
1 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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Stephen Fry on Pedantry(youtube.com)
2 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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Hacker Shelf - Some stats, changes and thoughts on the future.(journal.okal.me)
1 points by okal 14y ago|0 comments
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by okal 14y ago
I'm not the author, just something I found while browsing.
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by okal 14y ago
Took me a while to find a live copy, but here it is. http://read.pudn.com/downloads118/sourcecode/windows/502418/...
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Tetris in 73 lines of Python(pygame.org)
29 points by okal 15y ago|21 comments
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by okal 15y ago
Sad to see you go. http://zipf.ep.io got me my first dev internship.
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by okal 15y ago
Interesting history :). Didn't know any of that before I posted this - I was still 7 back then, and nowhere near a computer ;). Just found it cool that this is a post from '95 talking about what is essentially Agile.

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