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HTTP 418 – I'm a teapot(tools.ietf.org)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
You should always be learning something new. If this is what peaks your interest, do it. In a month come back and see if you want to make the switch professionally (assuming this is your day job). The worst that'll happen is you'l
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The 100 hour rule(modernmrsdarcy.com)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
How do you do this? The thing that pops to mind is getting involved on github, but what if the company does not have any OSS?
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Ask HN: How do you get that dream job you want?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
HN hug of death incoming. Poor guy.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart's Law Hiring a minority individual because they are a minority individual and it makes you look better, marginalizes everything else that person is
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by tbirrell 9y ago
You have an open door that will set you up for life. And for a lot less effort than basically anything else you can do. Use this opportunity as a springboard to get to your dreams. In 5-10 years once you have a family, you'll probably
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The best thing Chief Justice Roberts wrote this term wasn’t a SCOTUS opinion(washingtonpost.com)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
As someone who lives in one of those counties... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no. Not even close buddy. Try 1.5x and you might be right.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
I got one! http://i.imgur.com/6N5hNrR.png Inspired by: https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/841802094361235456?lang=...
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by tbirrell 9y ago
This (at least this specific comment thread) isn't a discussion on if belief in a religion is justified, but rather the acknowledgment that if you believe you have found the answer to life, the universe, whatever, you would almost cert
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Raise Your Voice: Proclaim the Need for Net Neutrality(stackoverflow.blog)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
> Religion is morality, history, worldview, behavior, traditions, habits and more all wrapped up into one. Why would I want to deprive them of all that especially if it s a faith I subscribe my life and salvation to, even if it were poss
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Net Neutrality and Stack Overflow(meta.stackexchange.com)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Are you looking for someone to teach you? Or someone to help you when you get stuck?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Problem number one, that girl in the opening picture has a ring on her left hand. Perhaps try again with single girls?
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Same here.
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How we survived the Cold War, nobody knows (2011)(cracked.com)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Not-paywalled version: http://www.cetusnews.com/views/Bkej9jiRXb?title=Who-Pays-on-...
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Ask HN: What does “consulting” mean in the software world?
1 points by tbirrell 9y ago|1 comments
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by tbirrell 9y ago
I fear you missed the part where I said "start easy". It's all about small goals and achievable victories. :)
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by tbirrell 9y ago
True. Consider those as placeholder terms for whatever stack OP is going to teach.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
I assume the job is about coding, otherwise this would be a very interesting situation and will likely backfire as your friend will have no motivation to actually learn. That said, here are some tips. Note that I have never taught someone t
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by tbirrell 9y ago
Most billing cycles are by month (rent, water, internet, spotify, ect) so budgets tend to be by month. Obviously I don't know /exactly/ what I make per month, but I have a general idea. I expect this would be fairly similar t
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by tbirrell 9y ago
It could be misconstrued as granting legitimacy by "officially allowing" the slur.
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by tbirrell 9y ago
The fact this is about India is slight important. Maybe put that in the title?
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The Science Behind Spotify's Discover Weekly(blog.vodafone.co.uk)
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Why We Never Had “The Year of the Linux Desktop”(makeuseof.com)
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C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015)(atlasobscura.com)
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