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by skylark 10y ago
I feel like the most obvious answer was missed: People use Medium because there's an audience there and it mostly "just works." I don't personally care about organically building a brand for myself over the course of yea
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by skylark 10y ago
I think you're massively overthinking it. The poster probably just copy pasted the headline directly from the blog when submitting the link. "All caps" is sorta the Uber aesthetic and looks totally normal in the context of th
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by skylark 10y ago
Having used both SASS and LESS professionally, I'll say that it's easy to end up with an over-engineered mess that's difficult to maintain and reason about. That said, the tooling around both preprocessors is great, so it sho
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by skylark 10y ago
I came here to post The Inner Game of Tennis and was pleasantly surprised to see it in the top comment. The book is only tangentially related to tennis - the real meat of the book is about how to adopt useful mentalities which will help you
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by skylark 10y ago
Did the founder of Expensify seriously pass off performance improvement plans (PIPs) as something cutting edge and original? Poe's law is in full effect - I can't tell if this is honest or exquisitely written satire.
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by skylark 10y ago
While money in politics is certainly an issue which should be fixed, I still think it's disingenuous to say that drugs are illegal simply because parties profit from it. Overall I'd argue that the current state of drug laws is the
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by skylark 10y ago
I find it hard to believe that there's some sort of conspiracy to keep police, lawyers, and prisons funded via laws against selling drugs. Have you considered that these laws are still in place simply because it's the status quo?
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by skylark 10y ago
What's your endgame? If you want to use this as a tool to get a new job, I'd recommend leetcode above all others. If you just want a fun way to learn a new language's syntax, I enjoy grinding the easier problems in CodeWars.
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by skylark 10y ago
I don't think this advice is "dickish" at all - it's really the only way forward. If anything, passive aggressively boxing your friend out of the business because you're afraid of tackling the situation head on is t
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by skylark 10y ago
IQ has the highest genetic correlation out of any trait we've observed in Psychology - r ~ 0.7 if I recall correctly from my college days.
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by skylark 10y ago
I currently work at a medium sized startup which processes ~100 million dollars / year. We offer both Stripe and PayPal. The vast majority of our users prefer PayPal (80%+). For one particular product we had to roll out using Stripe on
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by skylark 10y ago
At (unnamed-giant-bank) for our standups, our scrum master would open the Jira agile board, go through every single ticket in the entire sprint and have the assigned developer give an update. This included tickets still in the to-do categor
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by skylark 10y ago
You passed the interview, so you're qualified. Full stop. Have a little more faith in yourself - if the job isn't working out after a few months, you can start a new job search, it's not the end of the world.
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by skylark 10y ago
When I was a junior engineer, I was making 115k in SF. On average I'd put 2-2.5k/month into savings.
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by skylark 10y ago
The contraction is definitely overstated. If you can nail the technical interview, doors will still open for you left right and center. I've had coworkers who have been laid off and were snapped up within a week or two. There's st
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by skylark 10y ago
Hack Reactor grad here. I was 24 when I went through the program, and was the second youngest person. You'd feel right at home being 31.
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by skylark 10y ago
I think the biggest problem with voice commands is that if the command doesn't work the first time, it would have been faster to simply input the command yourself. I'm not confident that "get me directions to <place>&qu
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by skylark 10y ago
Reading the source of popular open source frameworks is a great way to get a sense of how to write maintainable, reusable CSS. Oftentimes it's not actually too confusing behind the scenes because CSS logic is relatively straightforward
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by skylark 10y ago
As someone who was pretty "good" at math and CS algorithms, I'll let you in on a little secret: None of this is comes naturally to me. I struggle when encountering new ideas that I've never seen before. I've bombed
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by skylark 10y ago
Let's turn it around. If you invest 120 dollars into your retirement fund every year for the next 40 years, you'll end up with 33.5k. Instead, you spent 4.8k. The person who listened to a few commercials is up 40k on you at retire
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by skylark 11y ago
LinkedIn isn't for networking with new people, it's for retaining professional contacts. Think of it like a professional rolodex where people keep up to date resumes. I personally know plenty of past coworkers who I respect and wo
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by skylark 11y ago
There's no contradiction here. I'd argue that the correlation noted is because knowledge workers as a whole tend to have college degrees, and Google employs a lot of knowledge workers. The number does not imply that Google activel
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by skylark 11y ago
The bad news: If you don't have a degree, your resume has a much higher chance of being weeded out before even getting to a phone screen. The good news: This prescreening step is the only one where your degree matters - by the time you
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by skylark 11y ago
For logic based classes the effectiveness of note taking is greatly diminished because the majority of learning happens at home while grinding problems. However in memorization based classes, skipping notes is entirely suboptimal. When you&
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by skylark 11y ago
Good debugging is a lot like good science. You start with a firm understanding of the system, form a hypothesis about what could be wrong with it, test your hypothesis, and then repeat. The stronger your initial understanding of the system,
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by skylark 11y ago
I feel like video game music is perfect for coding - it's not designed to draw too much attention to itself and provides a nice vibe. Rainwave.cc is a great (free) stream for that. Other than that, jazz/classical when I want to re
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Ask HN: Are self hosted SAAS generally provided as source or compiled?
3 points by skylark 11y ago|1 comments
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by skylark 11y ago
What a coincidence, I also have an Embody at home + use the Steelcase Leap at work. I can confirm that both are outstanding (and better than the Aeron).
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by skylark 11y ago
Setting alarms and timers is fantastic with Siri. Nap alarm: "Wake me up in X minutes/hours" Normal alarm: "Wake me up at X AM/PM" Timer: "Set a 45 minute timer" Other than that, I don't use Siri
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by skylark 11y ago
Todoist is fantastic. Once you get the hang of their natural language date parser, entering both one-off and repeated tasks becomes extremely fast.

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