danielna

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by danielna 11y ago
Hi Mehr, I'm a leukemia survivor (AML) and was diagnosed when I was 21 and in undergrad, roughly 8 years ago. I started www.cheekswab.org in 2012 to educate people, especially ethnic minorities, about the exact complications facing mi
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by danielna 13y ago
Please delete this. This is in poor taste.
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by danielna 13y ago
I was being sarcastic, which admittedly is lost on the web. Software dev is reduced as easily to an overly simplistic implementation as business savvy is. I think we're making the same point.
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by danielna 13y ago
I had a lawn mowing business when I was 16. I had marketing, a service and collected payments. What's the point of business school?
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Getting a Job as a Front-End Developer(blog.danielna.com)
1 points by danielna 13y ago|0 comments
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Cracker Barrel and Hackerschool(blog.danielna.com)
1 points by danielna 13y ago|0 comments
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by danielna 13y ago
I enjoy photography but not enough (at the moment and foreseeable future) to sink a lot of time/money into it. I don't even consider it a "hobby" as much as I just like to carry a camera around with me when I know I'm going somewhere inter
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by danielna 13y ago
I am a pretty strong introvert, not in the sense that I have a problem socializing with others or even communicating in a leisure/professional setting, but rather that doing so takes a lot of energy. I don't actively seek out opportunities
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by danielna 13y ago
I'm in the summer batch. I put in my notice yesterday at work and saved for many months to have enough money to live in NYC and not starve. Attending hackerschool is not solely a matter of circumstance but intention. If you want something e
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by danielna 13y ago
While it is a very easy "excuse" to hide behind, I believe in holistic admissions qualifications. I think charts of SAT score x race x admissions are as good of a metric of assessing a potential student as college GPA are of assessing a po
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by danielna 13y ago
There's an unbelievably popular froyo franchise in Northern VA called Sweet Frog[1] that markets effectively enough to stand out among seemingly a zillion competitors. They have a religious angle (Frog standing for "Fully Rely on God"), fr
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by danielna 13y ago
FWIW, a friend who writes for a popular online food publication says gourmet donuts are the new cupcakes.
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by danielna 13y ago
Cool idea. I'm a diehard Washington Wizards fan (sad, I know) and tend to unfollow a lot of players in favor of reports/beat writers/bloggers. The tweets are just more substantive for basketball junkies. A couple of random thoughts: 1) R
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by danielna 13y ago
I think part of the problem here is that many devs often don't understand how much power they yield over their own situation. If you're good enough to be depended upon in every panic situation, that means you have more say than you think i
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by danielna 13y ago
I have a strange sense of sadness for my friends who are "stuck" on Wall Street. Strange because it's weird to feel sad for someone making $250k+ per year, but I've heard their first hand accounts of how much they hate their jobs. If you'
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by danielna 14y ago
I still remember the all-consuming dread I felt as an intern when I ran an UPDATE and forgot the WHERE clause. I consider it part of the rite of passage in the web developer world. Kind of like using an image or text in a dev environment
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by danielna 14y ago
Sort of off topic, but I wish there was a better tool for pinboard user discovery. I love the self-selection bias of pinboard in that it's highly tech and the popular links are right up my HN/nerdy alley, but I'm starting to really enjoy t
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by danielna 14y ago
When I hear about the overinflated cost of medicine I can't help but think of ties to the overinflated cost of education. While I believe in paying specialized, skilled laborers a rate commensurate with the value they provide, pretty much
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by danielna 14y ago
God I love this. I like browsing the popular pins once in a while when I have time to kill, but it gets kind of boring when it's just a rehash of the HN frontpage or after the 100th jQuery plugin demo page. This has streamlined that kill-
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Ask HN: Why would Google release IOS maps?
1 points by danielna 14y ago|1 comments
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by danielna 14y ago
I really like the design of both the app and the website. Nice job! If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage the cross platform dev?
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by danielna 14y ago
Teespring does some really cool work with non-profits, launching kickstarter-esque campaigns for them (at no cost) and giving a cut of the proceeds to that organization. A few friends of mine who run an education non-profit in Philly ( htt
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by danielna 14y ago
I don't know if I'm more surprised by his English fluency, earrings or open-mindedness. To be honest I'm kind of worried for his safety after giving an interview like this... given what he's saying and his general demeanor, something makes
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by danielna 14y ago
I saved a link to my pinboard a while back about a couple who sold all their possessions and took a VW van through North/Central/South America and in and around Africa. Super interesting read: http://www.vwvagabonds.com/
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by danielna 14y ago
Seconding this!
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by danielna 14y ago
Haven't thought this through very much, but it'd address some frustrations I've been having lately. If someone can come up with a means of getting around domain squatters, that'd be amazing. Kind of like a redirect service for legitimate
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by danielna 14y ago
myBalsamiq is by far the most simple/cost-effective tool I've used for wireframing. Being distributed with version control was particularly unique and helpful, as far as potential competitors go. As a random usability thing, they also handl
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by danielna 14y ago
I don't see why a post like this provokes criticism. I think it was more "I've used WP for 7 years, here are some potentially helpful tips that I learned within that time span at some point." Not "I've toiled with WP for 7 years and it's
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by danielna 14y ago
I love how even simple adjustments can make a twitter-bootstrap site appear more personalized. Maybe it's the black bar, but I tend to groan a little bit whenever I see it on new sites I come across. This design, on the other hand, I real
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by danielna 14y ago
The more I experience it, the more I think the "pinterest-style" layout is absolutely the best way to consume visuals. Great idea and great execution! I would definitely use this. From the perspective of a dev who occasionally buys from Th

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