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by thomk 10y ago
Why is your age on your resume? That's unusual and it seems to be hurting you; everyone here on HN mentions it.
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by thomk 10y ago
Eat To Live, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman describes a diet that is low calorie high nutrient and it's a very good, easy read for anyone who is interested. I personally lost 70+ pounds on it: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eat_
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by thomk 10y ago
This is the correct answer to that and every other "what tool should I learn" question. I'll add my two cents be expanding this answer a bit. As crusso basically stated, the answer is actually twofold because you have to: #1
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by thomk 10y ago
This. I have spent the last 10 years preaching this to clients and other developers alike and I spend a good amount of my time writing documentation that define software projects; and customers pay me to do so. I love doing it actually and
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by thomk 11y ago
OP here with a question. How, as everyday programmers, can we help catch terrorists?
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Safe and Sorry – Terrorism and Mass Surveillance(youtube.com)
2 points by thomk 11y ago|1 comments
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by thomk 11y ago
We use Jira for agile and this article is pretty spot on. We finally have it configured to fit our workflow, but, that took a while. Also; Atlassian likes to change the UI quite a bit in Jira (stop f*cking with it already!) so every week or
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by thomk 11y ago
http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime/ "With a crime rate of 81 per one thousand residents, Detroit has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - fr
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by thomk 11y ago
Detroit is something like 95% black and poor, making it the least diverse city in the country as well as the biggest to be bankrupt. People who live in the city don't stay there because of a visa system, they stay there because there a
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by thomk 11y ago
This guy writes an amazing blog. I've been following him for years; http://randsinrepose.com/
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by thomk 11y ago
Rands?
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by thomk 11y ago
This is amazing marketing for an outsourcing shop. You don't get to meet the developers so who knows what "top 5%" really means and there's clearly not any competition. The price you get is the price you get.
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by thomk 11y ago
That's a great technique to get your client base to feel like you mean business. My guess is: There was never a "Peter".
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by thomk 12y ago
What do you mean you realized you'd never "really hustled in your life"? Explain.
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by thomk 12y ago
Please do.
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by thomk 12y ago
Thanks for the question. Actually what I did was quit my job at Ford as a developer to do freelance work. I realized that when I was speaking to my own clients I really enjoyed talking about their projects and documenting what was said in a
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Ask HN: How do technical non-developers help with open source projects?
216 points by thomk 12y ago|88 comments
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by thomk 12y ago
I had to stop reading this article because it was making me itch all over.
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by thomk 12y ago
Lifelong vegan here. Any links to scientific studies to help me fully understand your point here?
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by thomk 12y ago
Typo in this sentence: However, it is also possible - in contrast to generators - to iterate over those multiple times if needed, it is aonly not so efficient.