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by shermablanca 7y ago
Plenty more examples abound. Even the American Red Cross — raised $500mm in 2015 for Haiti earthquake relief. Used $125mm for internal expenses[0] [0] https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-rep
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by shermablanca 7y ago
I started a conference (Reactathon.com) as one of the various channels of income I had (entrepreneur, not FTE). One of my sponsors liked it so much that they asked me to run theirs. Now their conference has expanded to 3x per year in 3 citi
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Funny/Inspirational Books?
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by shermablanca 8y ago
Advice: tell this story! Create a video where you describe this same thing, and promote it on the right channels. You can even add production value by showing b-roll of specific points of your story, such as footage from on-campus recruitin
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by shermablanca 9y ago
Not to plug, but if you’re near SF we are organizing a full day conference to to help introduce people new to React in a linear manner. https://www.reactathon.com
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by shermablanca 9y ago
Sorry, this is a result of socialism. Chavez undercut the middle class by giving or selling staple goods to the poor voting class, subsidized by the oil wealth. This undercut the middle class and anyone who sold things based on market suppl
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by shermablanca 10y ago
All respects to Dan Abramov, this is not necessarily true. Under the guidance of the right teacher, who knows the use cases and reasons for using redux with a React app, it can make perfect sense to learn them together. It's not easy,
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by shermablanca 10y ago
I was going to say this. These rules will drive investment in home automation. I'm also willing to bet that a large portion of the revenue generated from this scheme will be spent on the manpower necessary to enforce it. That being sai
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by shermablanca 10y ago
Are you in the SF Bay Area by chance? We're putting on a 2-day React & Redux workshop where you build a full stack e-commerce app. We developed this workshop after hearing similar feedback from students frustrated with the lack of
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by shermablanca 10y ago
I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than it used to be. Here's a good article by one developer on his exp
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by shermablanca 10y ago
Good recommendations. I would add that once you've understood the basics, subscribe to the economist magazine and try your best to understand the articles. Look up what you don't know until you feel comfortable reading and discuss
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by shermablanca 10y ago
If you find this interesting, do a google image search of Man Plastic Surgery Dog. Warning: Graphic and way worse than it sounds. That is, if it's real.
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by shermablanca 10y ago
For sure this is interesting, but it's curious that articles of this sort are appearing on HN with increasing frequency. There used to be purely tech news, now it seems that anything interesting qualifies for an up vote.
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by shermablanca 10y ago
This has been one of the recommended readings for our workshop students for quite some time: https://reactweekend.eventbrite.com We also recommend the following: 9 things every React beginner should know. Take it with a grain of
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by shermablanca 10y ago
> The material standard of living of a homeless person in modern-day Manhattan is several dozens of times higher than the wealthiest of kings ten thousand years ago. It was here that I stopped reading.
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by shermablanca 11y ago
If I had the resources zuckerberg has, and the access to information and data that he does, my posts would be optimized to show asynchronously by region, and to show first in the region most likely to respond positively to my post. That way
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by shermablanca 11y ago
Cancer articles have been trending on HN lately.
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by shermablanca 11y ago
So all of those knots in my back and side rib muscle - where oxygen is constricted - will become cancerous?
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by shermablanca 11y ago
Except that it wasn't an agency at all. Kalanick headed the redesign himself, despite admitting that he didn't even know what kearning was when he started. From wired: >>> Most CEOs hire experts—branding agencies that s
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by shermablanca 11y ago
Not surprising to anyone who follows greenwald. Read his book With Liberty And Justice For _Some_
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by shermablanca 12y ago
I learned my lesson to not develop an entire business on the buzz of a new product https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bendunphy/numis-the-coi...
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by shermablanca 12y ago
Vuvuv