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by spyckie2 8y ago
This exactly. To achieve the same things that our previous generation achieved (quality of life, financial stability, and betterment of our future generations) takes a lot more resources (time and money), to the point that min/maxing i
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If my friends knew I was called a rationalist they'd be shocked and would applaud my growth. I'm not a min/maxing person, but I do find value out of min/maxing, especially with local optima. Min/maxing is a great to
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At the age of 30, you are not worried about your kids leaving the nest (you may not have kids yet), your social circle can still be lively with colleagues, family, and past friends that are slowly going out of your lives. You may not have a
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No, I don't view everything in investment and value extraction. I'm actually a very sentimental person, but since writing allows you to think before you type, I like to take the opportunity on HN to write out more objective focuse
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I'm going to throw out a controversial statement: It's hard because adults don't (and rightfully shouldn't) make friends a priority. When you're young (<20), you don't have many responsibilities or long term
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you're right, to be more accurate I should say it's not just about the spider.
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Surprisingly well written. Was wondering why a 43 year old spider was in the news, it's not about the spider itself but about the dedication of the people that study and track these species, the connections they make with the world aro
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Disclaimer: I work at a recruiting company. Resumes should be good enough to get you in the door, no more. The typical recruiter/hr scans a resume for 5 seconds. Two things stick out in a bad way - typos and jumpiness. Anything else is
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Terminal 1 | Technical Recruiters, Engineers | Hong Kong | Full Time | Onsite | Visa | We're a fast growing team in Hong Kong looking to build the recruiting firm of the future where technology powers recruiters to be extremely efficie
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One thing I learned about startups is that you have to detach yourself from the success and failure of your work and concentrate on two things: The first is runway. How much time and resources do you have? How are you generating runway? Run
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One of the arguments against UBI from a moral point of view (ignoring feasibility arguments) is that people will become lazy because they don't need to work to survive and lead to economic stagnation. It's kind of a throw back to
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This is why I was so in love with Google wave, and so disappointed in it's result.
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No. Fax is a specific communication medium where you can send physical documents to others, and was replaced by email because email was a general communication medium that was more accessible (everyone had it), and didn't have as high
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clicking the link or logo prompts firefox to save a dms file for some reason.
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Here's a novel thought: maybe we're following Google and Apple's design frameworks because those frameworks provide the best ease of use, consistency, predictability, and usability to designers, which is the point of good UX?
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Terminal 1 | Technical Recruitment Consultant | Hong Kong | Full Time | Onsite | Visa | Terminal 1 is a full-service recruitment firm in Hong Kong bringing automation and machine learning to recruitment. We're a group of technologists
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GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Lead backend engineer, Front end engineers with webassembly skill, iOS developers | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA We're looking for senior backend engineers to build real time collabo
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AWS is blocked in China so you're forced to use Alicloud. Friends who use it say it is hard to use and has bad documentation.
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What strikes me is how cheap the economics of social noise is. Writers are cheap and in huge supply, and can churn out tons of content (content writers can output 20+ blogposts a week). I'd suspect that based on economics alone, these
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GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Lead backend engineer, iOS developers | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA We're looking for senior backend engineers to build real time collaborative systems. GoodNotes was created from o
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What do I know, I am not very good at this either and I respect the author's willingness to get other people's perspectives and attempt to reach a conclusion. But I would like to critically consider the "indicative trends&quo
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I meant, reading physical books as a recreational activity because you're living on a farm with subsistence wages and lack the income or time to do so. China was a country with 750 million people living on less than $2 a day in 1990. N
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Every high growth era is defined by the abundance of "new adopters" - people who do not have habits or who are willing to change their habits. What happens with populations is that they do things a certain way for long enough peri
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Programming, as a craft, is about the aspiration to write perfect code, as defined by your values. Programming, as a job, is about doing a job, as defined by the job's values. It sounds like you're a great craftsman but poor at le
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In my experience, the topic of parenting always elicits the worst case of "everyone in the room is immediately an expert". People are incredibly opinionated and judgmental about the subject, and often take a dismissive attitude ra
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<table> was built for displaying tables. But table layouts just happened to be very similar to grid layouts, which was what web developers wanted in the first place but CSS as a language didn't explicitly support. Flexbox was bui
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> It comes with its own trade offs. I don’t know that adding a build step and tightly coupling your styling with your DOM counts as “fixing” css, but I suppose it all depends on your perspective. It is a fix. While creatively combining C
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This needs a part 2 on the history of the philosophy of CSS code. It should go through 4 eras: Table and Frames - how layouting dominated the CSS school of thought Grids and Frameworks - the mighty grid frameworks that gave you lots of stuf
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GoodNotes [ http://goodnotes.com ] | Lead backend engineer, iOS developers | Full time | Hong Kong ONSITE, VISA GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad. We
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These same issues came up in the early 20th century as well with the same kind of discourse on it. When markets get mature, all additional wealth generated goes to a select few due to how difficult it is to generate that wealth in the first

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