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7,550karma·1,282submissions·January 21, 2016
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Yeah I had this idea too. I stayed with some people in a fancy apartment in Zurich for a week a while back. They all left to work and I worked from their home. It was the best office I'd ever had…
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I started scheduling any meeting I ran for 25 minutes instead of the expected and default 60. I told everyone at the start of each meeting that I aimed to finish in 20 mins and 5 mins was a buffer. Th…
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Interesting, I know the variation of this from https://www.remoteonly.org and didn't realise it was associated with gitlab…
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The requirements all look like they are leaning towards Slack?
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I know how frustrating it is for candidates but having been on both sides of this, I sympathise with tech leaders at startups who are on the hiring side too. We used to send out open-ended programming…
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You can keep trying to hack Google all you want, and you can definitely be successful for short periods of time if you invest enough time and money. But there's also the difficult but straight fo…
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> The Company has from time to time issued nonrecourse loans to certain employees for the exercise of stock options or for personal use. As of December 31, 2017 and 2018, the total outstanding empl…
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Funny how some of it seems like good common sense and then you get > Some men have a foolish habit of telling their business secrets. If they make money they like to tell their neighbors how it was…
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Considering this is a low quality listicle without much content and is posted by a new account the same username as the domain, it seems somewhat likely that it's using fake votes to get as many …
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This looks really nice, but it's functionality is similar enough to Google Data Studio (also connects to data sources) but different enough (an editor instead of a dashboard) that it's going…
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`ag -g <some fairly unique string>` I don't have a ton of files, but I'm impressed at how quickly silver searcher[0] can find things. `-g` if the filename is specific enough. A bit lon…
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unpopular opinion: the main point of these canaries is PR. As far as I understand (and I understand nearly nothing about US law, so pinch of salt blah blah), exploiting legal loopholes is something th…
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Strong disagree. Doing all the work is not leading by example. Leading by Example would be handling the first emergency with a more junior engineer following along, or doing a write up of how you hand…
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(2017). Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793
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I'm surprised at how negative a lot of people are around tutorial writers. In my (biased) experience, tutorial writers are a) relatively good at what they do and what they're teaching, even …
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This almost sounds like something that belongs on /r/fellowkids. Combined with the description in your profile with the whole "I'm on HN to learn from people out there in the trenc…
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https://web.archive.org/web/20181210191657/https://achainofb... …
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The "What is an acronym really and when should it be capitalised" debate is grey enough that it's easier to consistently use RemoteHttpIpAddr
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The science is still very young, but it's often called "fluid" and "crystallised" intelligence. Fluid is thought to peak at around 25 years old by some people. It's a rea…
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This kind of thing[0]. There are previous discussion threads on HN too. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa... …
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I published a video course ("Rapid Flask") and a book ("Flask by Example") in 2015 and 2016 respectively. I've made on average $100/month in royalties since. It wasn'…
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Interesting data but why did they show the breakdown of popularity by geographic area as a line graph and label it as a trend? It makes it look like eg python is losing popularity at first glance but …
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Is airpair still active? Their twitter account seems to have stopped and I can't seem to make their website do anything except show tutorials
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- If you want to find the most influential book, you should probably ask more than a dozen people the question "what is the most influential book". And you should probably look at how freque…
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> With this incident, we failed you, and we are deeply sorry. I'm always impressed when people actually apologize instead of dancing around an almost apology. Overall this is one of the best p…
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it is, see second last paragraph ;)
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For the people saying that incomplete knowledge of theoretical foundations will lead to dangerous or "bad" AI - go read some papers from respected academics and 'industry leaders'.…