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by xiaoma 10y ago
VSCode has become a mind-blowingly good editor. It's closing in on the power of heavy-weight IDEs with much better performance than some code editors (e.g. Atom), even.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
And if everyone followed this advice, we'd have no Kahn Academy, no Wikipedia, no Linux and a much poorer world.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Gitlab is closing in on that pretty fast.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's not just those costs. The real cost is the phenomenal candidate you do miss. If engineering talent follows a power distribution, as I believe it does, then a single mistaken "no hire" can mean more productivity than the
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by xiaoma 10y ago
So they can work with them far more efficiently? A computer is a much more general purpose tool than a car.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I disagree. It's harder today now that everything is online. Most people in wealthier countries, especially younger people, struggle greatly to focus deeply for long periods of time and several of their most addictive distractions ar
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Try telling that to the IRS. Just any international bank just about anywhere in the world with any US citizens as customers can tell you all about it.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
But the entire problem is that millions of children are being forced into a regiment of school based on the Prussian system (which also pioneered goose stepping), then segregated by age rather than ability and indoctrinated in whatever it i
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Interesting. My high school looked like a prison. No idea if it's true or not, but some students said the architect did both.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'll be honest. I think that's terrible advice for improving your accent, though it might be okay advice for improving your comprehension at an early level and maybe picking up some vocab and grammar along the way. For improving
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That doesn't work at all. Just look at sponsored posts on pretty much any publication/blog/forum. Every single one is paid and they race for the lowest tolerated behavior.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Github managed to escape that dynamic up until the last couple of years.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
How many stars did you give him?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Yes. Do a lot of listening and do minimal pair drills. I don't think Chinese tones are that tough, but it can take a long time to train the ears when the actual sounds of the language are different, e.g. Taiwanese where there are aspir
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I always loved Robert Greene's story of when he was young and living in France he got hired at a hotel while he was pretending to be Irish. He talked about it in an interview that got a little into how much of a method acting exercise
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Well, I'm sure distance makes it 1000x easier! Your job is one not many could do.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
At least the way the comment read to me, gamache's meaning was closer to "this is bad marketing for YC / this dilutes the brand" than "YC doesn't fund anyone solving real problems".
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I seriously hope that happens with Acre. They could be amazing.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The thing that really strikes me about this list is how nearly everything on it is offered at a premium price. One thing I loved about the tech world while I was growing up was that it was consistently doing more with less. Wikipedia displa
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The really scary parts of this are 1) The popup at the bottom saying "Sign Up Now to Receive a Free Developer Career Cheat Sheet plus a Free Course to Help Get that First Coding Job! Let's make that breakthrough together" .
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If you read the article, you'll see there are 55 million Americans freelancing. Surely you don't think all of those people are highly paid designers or engineers like those visiting Rackspace in the video! Yes, a few fit that
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by xiaoma 10y ago
As you may or may not be aware, decreasing rates of labor participation in the US have pushed many who cannot secure full-time work to seek freelancing gigs in order to avoid starving and/or homelessness. Saying "they are not in a
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I've already seen that video. What does it have to do with the fact that many, many freelancers don't have $1250 to spend? Good for you. It's great that $2250 is a pittance compared to a single invoice you send. You sound lik
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I agree with your overall point, however... "You're always better off having your attorney send a letter..." If you think most freelancers have an attorney to send letters on their behalf, you have only seen a very small, v
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by xiaoma 10y ago
>" Comparing a bootcamp to random schools in developing countries is laughable. " First of all, your characterization of Taiwan is both laughable and offensive. It's a developed democracy of 23 million, a stronger economy
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "my primary career goal is no longer to earn more money. It is to never have to do another effing software-industry interview, ever again.: I feel exactly the same way, even though the existence of those interviews is probably th
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Hey, there. I also went to Hack Reactor. It's not a joke.My first job out of the program was Groupon and the algorithm-heavy style of the interview wasn't a problem. The hardest thing for me while there was CSS (because they suppo
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by xiaoma 10y ago
When you look past the ad, there's yet another pitch at the bottom and it's not along piece.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
"I’ve helped thousands of people — from NFL Coaches and Four Star Generals to best-selling authors and hedge fund managers — feel less busy and get more done. I get asked for advice on improving productivity so much so that I’ve packa
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by xiaoma 10y ago
I'm speaking from my experience of losing access to my YouTube account (same username as I have on this forum) due to having used my gmail address to sign up. Google later started linking everything to plus and somehow my gmail account

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