blairbits

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by blairbits 14y ago
IANAL or anything even remotely resembling one, but it seems to me that this could be begging for legal trouble if an employee was fired for this. I could be very wrong, but depending on how you go about this it has elements of entrapment,
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by blairbits 14y ago
unless they taper a la MBA.
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by blairbits 14y ago
Shopify intern here. I've worked Unicorn in to my daily workflow. I can't say everyone (or even anyone) else uses my system, but Unicorn is my first stop of the day when I sit down at my desk. I look over all the unicorns from the previous
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by blairbits 14y ago
Posts like this pain me. None of the hearing among us will ever truly understand what this is like. Posts such as this one give us a glimpse in to what it must be like, but that's all. There's no way we can understand the difficulties exper
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by blairbits 14y ago
There is no doubt in my mind that if I had followed the advice in this book, I'd be substantially better off then I am. I read it when it first came out, and it's an amazing read. Short enough to could get through it in a day; funny enough
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by blairbits 14y ago
Thanks for the link! I had no idea this ever existed.
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by blairbits 14y ago
This seems to me to be a great example of hour DDG can gain an edge on Google. I don't think you'll ever see Google offering something like this; they're too big. A smaller option like DDG has more room to grow, and can take advantage of th
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by blairbits 14y ago
LissaExplains... Now there's a site I haven't heard of in a long time. Does anyone know what she's up to these days?
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by blairbits 15y ago
After a cursory glance, it seems a lot like Code by Petzold[1], or at least a similar concept in less detail. I loved that book, and I know most others did as well. I'd love to take a look at it. [1] http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/
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by blairbits 15y ago
I've been waiting for something like this for a long time; can't wait to try it out. I'll post feedback.
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Ask HN: Possible to become employable in five months?
2 points by blairbits 15y ago|3 comments
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by blairbits 15y ago
I'm sure this speaks to a fairly large segment of the potential audience. For some people (I might even say most - especially newbies), it's much more thrilling to dive right in to a project. Even if the content was the same as a class with