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Ask HN: What's going on with Hover?
4 points by reuven 9y ago|4 comments
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by reuven 9y ago
You're 100% right... in the United States. In other countries, this isn't even a consideration or thought, because health care cannot be denied, and is independent of your job. I grew up in the US (through college), and returned i
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by reuven 9y ago
I was lucky, but my story isn't unusual: When I started freelancing, my former employer hired me to do some projects. This gave me a financial cushion to start finding clients. Most of them came through word of mouth, although speaki
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by reuven 9y ago
How about freelancing? I've been doing that since 1995 -- and my income and happiness have never been higher. Pros: - Work on what you like, with the people you like - Potentially very high salary, definitely more than you would get as
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My favorite terrible Python error message(blog.lerner.co.il)
9 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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Here’s your point by point refutation of the Google memo(medium.com)
2 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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by reuven 9y ago
I'll revise my criticism, then: There are some examples, but not enough. And the links to an interactive regexp system is very smart and nice.
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by reuven 9y ago
I've been teaching regular expressions for years, and offer a free online e-mail course on the subject ( http://RegexpCrashCourse.com/ ). This site is a very nice summary of regexp syntax and is written well -- but it&
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by reuven 9y ago
I'm glad that the author of this travel blog is warning people against using Airmule. Someone is going to get in a heckuva lot of trouble. First: I can only imagine, when checking my bags, getting the question, "Did anyone give y
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Regular expressions crash course(lerner.co.il)
1 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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by reuven 9y ago
So a VC admits to long-standing sexual harassment, his firm admits that they knew about it and did nothing, and it's the media's fault that the firm is in the news for being slimy? The mind boggles. It's true: A VC's jo
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Uber has met with SEC about giving drivers equity(axios.com)
9 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable ‘Earth-like’ worlds(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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How VCs Talk About Male vs. Female Entrepreneurs(hbr.org)
3 points by reuven 9y ago|0 comments
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by reuven 10y ago
Columbia Journalism Review used to have full-page advertisements from Xerox that read, "You can't Xerox a Xerox on a Xerox. But you can make a copy on a Xerox-brand copier." It was effective, in that I remember the ad many y
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by reuven 10y ago
This was a fascinating article, not just because it reinforced some of my existing thoughts. For me, the most important statement was as follows: "If we—or our friends or the pundits on CNN—spent less time pontificating and more trying
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by reuven 10y ago
This is AMAZING . Thank you.
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by reuven 10y ago
Yup, that's what I meant!
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by reuven 10y ago
Fair enough. My sample is from lots of companies, but a small subset of tasks there.
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by reuven 10y ago
One of the companies where I teach just (in 2016) upgraded one of their core systems to Python 2.7. That's after years in which it was written in Python 2.4. Yes, 2.4, the same version my great-grandparents ran back in the Old Countr
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by reuven 10y ago
OP here. I teach Python to Fortune 100 companies, more or less every day. You're totally right that people who deal with outside-world data need Unicode. Anything that deals with users MUST deal with Unicode. But a huge proportio
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Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck(medium.com)
3 points by reuven 10y ago|0 comments
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by reuven 10y ago
Yes. This is the real jaw-dropping showstopper for me. My current MacBook works well enough. There's no overwhelming, compelling reason to get a new one. And yet, it's three years old, so I figured that maybe if Apple comes out
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Why you should read “Weapons of Math Destruction”(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Why you should read “Weapons of Math Destruction”(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Dell Gets Bigger and Hewlett Packard Gets Smaller in Separate Deals(nytimes.com)
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by reuven 10y ago
I had the honor of meeting Seymour Papert on a few occasions (there's no way that he would have remembered me), and coming away awestruck and inspired each time. I also read his books and papers, and did a PhD with one of his best-know
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Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned from Tweeting About the Olympics(gizmodo.com)
1 points by reuven 10y ago|1 comments
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SoftBank Buys ARM, a Mobile Chip Designer, for $32B(nytimes.com)
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by reuven 10y ago
I'm pretty horrified by the use of Facebook and other social networks to spread all sorts of hateful stuff. Lots of horrible stuff, such as instructions for how to kill Jews in stabbing attacks, has been spread on Facebook. That hasn

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