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All of them, except "pet".
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Is Medium even customizable now? I've mostly been avoiding the site due to getting sick of the tacky tweet-begging UX whenever you select any of the text in a post. A huge number of WP sites are professional or semiprofessional and hav
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This is a great place to start: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/
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Was it a government job?
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Language majors, like philosophy, psychology or math majors have some very core skills that are useful in a lot of pursuits but not enough to clear the hiring bar in much of anything unless you're from a top school or have an advanced
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Not at all. Trello is quite snappy and back when I first started using it in 2013, it was remarkably so compared to all other similar tools I'd seen.
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A couple of months ago there was another article about Trello here on HN that basically held Trello up as a model of disruptive success: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13485462
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> "Though, the other reason we're not living in a simulation is that reality is continuous" I'm not so sure that it is. Given the existence of Planck length and Planck time and other related units, it's entirely
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Shenzhen is a very different thing. It's important but not a challenger to SV. Huge startups come out of Beijing because it's the hub where the top students, founders, investors and regulators are. If you look at Fortune's li
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Chinese concepts of race and nationality are hopelessly intertwined and Chinese nationalism has been increasing , not decreasing, over the past generation. In recent times, the very best chance of China becoming open—even in comparison to
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Have their early employees been able to cash out yet or are they basically trapped into either losing their hard earned options from work done years ago or staying still more years at the company?
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> " the US has turned noticeably anti-science, anti-immigrant..." The US gives grants citizenship to more immigrants each month than the PRC has in its entire history. Another interesting statistic is the total number of peopl
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I completely agree that visas are a problem but I disagree that they will be "the problem" to unseat Silicon Valley as the world nexus of startups. I've spent most my adult life in Asia and have lived in several countries and
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I used to be a pretty big fan of VS Code until it started defaulting to Powershell recently. Due to PS security policies, common development tasks are blocked in all but the most common tools. It's also got some aliases that get in the
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> "You appear to have been moved (triggered, even)..." This kind of uncharitable guessing at others' states of mind isn't very constructive. Focusing on one's impression of a speaker often makes it harder to par
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Free speech has never been about protecting popular ideas. It's the ideas that those in power find obnoxious that get censored. Though the particular ideas vary between modern America, communist Russia and medieval Spain, it's th
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> "Unlike the campus protesters of the 1960s, today’s student activists are not expressing countercultural views. They are expressing the exact views of the culture in which they find themselves (a reason that administrators prove s
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Taiwan. I'd definitely take standard taxis in Taiwan over Ubers. In fact, I've made that choice at least a hundred times. Especially in Taipei, they hit a price and convenience point where taking an Uber is essentially doing a tas
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I lost about 50% on my Apple stock in a single day shortly after buying it during the early 2000s. I didn't mean the company's actual business had drastically deteriorated. It just meant that shares I had previously evaluated to b
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> "If you're 40, you have ( or should have) nearly a couple of decades of hard-won experience in building software" Why should every 40 year-old have 20 years of experience building software? Most 20-somethings weren&#x2
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Modularity, extensibility and price would be a few advantages.
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Then apply to those companies. If they're willing to apply for visas for Indian and Chinese grads, there's no reason they'd have a problem doing the same for Japanese grads.
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This answer certainly fits the current social fashion, but I don't find it convincing. There are many, many horrible/aspiring developers who are focused empathy and feelings but just aren't good at building things. The strong
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Not being able to install apps to a machine absolutely is a tech problem.
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That relies on a Node.js back-end... don't think it's possible to install it onto a Chromebook. You'd have to have to go to the web page. If you have any experience with a large class of children, I'll bet you can guess
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Comparing the decision of a type of screwdriver to use with a programming language is disingenuous at best, given the vast differences in complexity, switching costs and effects on productivity. A more honest comparison would be screwdriver
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I do know and I have read stats on it in Chinese and (I think) in English as well. I don't have time to do your research for you and to be blunt, it would be hard to interpret its credibility if you're unfamiliar with the Chinese
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I'm sorry but 2% is way off. Far more web sites than that are Chinese. Your "stats" were calculated from total domains and the data from Alexa. While Alexa is good for the highest traffic sites, not that many Chinese intern
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I already did give you a better source in my previous comment. Here's another that measures something slightly different. It took all of 10 seconds to google: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm China has near
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Your stats are off. The Chinese-language internet is far larger than the Russian-language internet. Take a quick look at the Alexa top 500 sites.

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