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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Udacity Nanodegrees are geared toward "post-beginners looking to specialize" (my words, not theirs). https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree For example, the Android nanodegree assumes you're already familiar with
2. 602.▲
   by valbaca 9y ago

   I'm sorry, but what's the point of this?
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   > employer is legally required to pay the minimum wage for that shift. Right because if you're getting paid $2/hr + tips and make less than min wage because you didn't get tipped, you sure have the means to file a lawsuit.
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Here I think the passive voice actually helps and an extra word. Spoil movie [plots] on all your ports to avoid being scanned. {{by zombies}}
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Did they mean "2nd largest prime number"?
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   1. gets drunk and does something stupid... => Welcome to consequences 2. from a female => from a female what? Alpaca? Oh human? We have a word for that, it's woman 3. social inept key staff => get past the idea that the only
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Any drawbacks of using these #defines? It looks awesome #define var __auto_type #define let __auto_type const
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Neat! I like how it balances simplicity of use (should be no harder than `echo "shipped v1.0" >> journal.txt`) and useful features (tags, dates, export to json/markdown/etc) and stays in plaintext format
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   by valbaca 9y ago

   Ask HN: What personal FINANCE advice would you give your 25yo self ?
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    by valbaca 9y ago

    > Young Pioneer Tours described itself as providing "budget tours to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from." WTF. Why would that be your ad-line?
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    by valbaca 9y ago

    How about you educate yourself first: http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/JamesDrakich.pdf Nearly every study shows that men talk as much as women, if not more than women. However, men see their talk as "impo
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    by valbaca 9y ago

    It also doesn't help that "maintenance" is usually pronounced "maint-nense" in the South, not broken out as "may-ten-ance"
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    > If you're not comfortable with anyone seeing what you're sending, > don't send it via a website you found out about 15 minutes ago. Says it all.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    I would LOVE something like this for Facebook, but I understand that there is little to incentivize companies to do this other than the "emerging markets" argument.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    <3
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    I read about 8 articles a day, mostly from HN and Lifehacker.com, usually just Productivity "Junk Food" Articles Depending on my energy and/or how long my build is taking, sometimes I just skim articles headings and throw the
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    On a mac, so these are a must: - Workspaces! These help with focus and isolate the "blast radius" of getting randomized - Spectacles: windows manager to assign windows to left/right side of screeen, across monitors, or left,
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    Fasting is a major part of Ramadan. The whole ordeal took several stressful hours during which he was starved and dehydrated.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    Seattle, working & living in SLU. 20-25 minute walk or 8 minute bicycle ride (when it's not raining). I also WFH about once a week.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    The botched cliche we have now that's says "those who know, do. Those who don't, teach" was originally: Those who know, do. Those who understand, teach.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    I go to less than half of happy hours or other team "outings." That way I'm not cast as "anti-social" and I don't let people start to expect me to go to each one. Useful excuses cough lies cough - a simple, &
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    This is the TYPE of answer I like to see.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    0. The Killer Feature: My bookmarks are always synced with my Google account. I've lost many-a-good set of bookmarks because I didn't think to export them. Bookmarks are typically: a few key ones, a lot of old archived links, and
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    > Is "culture fit" illegal? There's an argument to be said that it is a euphemism for discriminatory factors, along the lines of "shared values." > Is that against the law? Yes when you take contracts from the
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    This is covered in "Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131774298
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    This just in: The Cloud is just someone else's computer.
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    I use "kj" for escape, "lkj" for escape-and-save, and ";lkj" for escape-and-save-and-quit since I can roll my fingers faster that way that doing "jk" or "jj" It also has the advantage of usu
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    I much prefer Julia Evan's zine on strace: http://jvns.ca/strace-zine-unfolded.pdf
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    STOP CLICK BAIT 1. Be a reflective producer (consider ethical implications of who you work for) 2. Be an ethical consumer 3. Be an active citizen (petition, campaign, unionize, call/write to politicians) 4. Be a principled person
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    by valbaca 10y ago

    "premature optimization is the root of all evil" I think you're conflating NIH with "willing to write code that isn't absolutely perfect." I think your paralysis is coming from perfectionism. We all want to bui