nicolethenerd

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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
Yup - credit cards offer incentives (for example, 2% cash back) - I can't think of any good reason not to get one and have it set up so that it automatically deducts the balance from your bank account once a month - this makes it effec
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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
Startups fail all the time. Just say it didn't work out - you don't need to give all the details.
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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
There is a distinction between the pressure that comes from growing up in a "tiger family" and the consequences of growing up with the "smart" label, and I feel like the author is conflating the two. Personally, growing
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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/
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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
With my HSA, auto payment is apparently a setting you can turn on or off. I highly recommend having this turned off if your HSA allows.
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by nicolethenerd 7y ago
I keep hearing this "negotiate" thing, but I tried it when I was billed $254 for a strep test (after being quoted $25 at the walk-in clinic), and the provider refused to negotiate. I appealed with my insurance, the appeal sort of
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by nicolethenerd 8y ago
I think the trend these days is to use People-first language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language (that is, saying "person with autism" - because it puts the person first)
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by nicolethenerd 9y ago
"Affordable housing" is a very specific term - it means city-subsidized housing that is restricted to tenants within a certain income bracket (and usually applicants are selected by lottery). There are sometimes requirements that
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by nicolethenerd 9y ago
Real academy, fake COBOL bootcamp. It's just that one page that's the joke - the rest of the site is about their real JavaScript bootcamp.
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by nicolethenerd 9y ago
In case people are confused - the Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy is a real bootcamp. They do not teach COBOL - that's the April Fool's joke.
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Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face(theatlantic.com)
1 points by nicolethenerd 9y ago|0 comments
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What Does 'Middle Class' Even Mean?(theatlantic.com)
2 points by nicolethenerd 10y ago|0 comments
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by nicolethenerd 10y ago
Thanks! Or a turtle being drawn by a turtle being drawn by a turtle... turtles all the way down! ^_^ Seriously, though - I appreciate the suggestion - I was thinking of triangles drawing triangles, and turtles drawing turtles - but it didn&
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by nicolethenerd 10y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but you guys seem like the right crowd. Logo has been on my mind the past few days, as I'm rapidly approaching my 20th "codeversary" (ie. 20 years since my very first programming lesson, in what I
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Clicked through to her site, and the tagline is "True && False of two Female Developers"... True && False evaluates to False... so, lies by two female developers? Not a criticism - I get what she meant, but it&#x27
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the code(medium.com)
1 points by nicolethenerd 11y ago|0 comments
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Or just have people mail you a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE)? Then you can just put the stickers in it and drop them in the mail (plus, you don't have to buy or address envelopes)
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
This is great, thanks!
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Interesting analysis, but would have also loved to see a breakdown of salary by years of experience. "Average salary" doesn't tell me much about how much I can reasonably expect to be making in those cities - how many of thos
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
MIT Mystery Hunt - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/ happens every year in January. Afaik you don't need to be an MIT student to participate
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Nice to see this again - I've told this story to many of my web dev students. :-)
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Not to knock the work that they're doing at all, but that website has the first use of the <marquee> tag I've spotted in the wild in a long long time! I had no idea Chrome still supported it!
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Hooli XYZ is a reference to the HBO show Silicon Valley. It has no relation to Google (other than that Hooli is basically a fictional parody of Google). Looks like some developer added that to this press release as an easter egg.
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
>> Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth. Is this supposed to say Sundar? Kind of an awkward mistake to make.
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Joined the registry in 2012, but your post prompted me to make sure they had my latest address info. Good luck w/ everything! I hope you find your match!
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
One more note - I'm guessing that 2.1 is 2:1, as in "second-class honours, upper division", right? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_cl... ) But to an American reader, it looks li
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I would have hired Doug, but...(liveblog.co)
505 points by nicolethenerd 11y ago|238 comments
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
Funny coincidence - I was just reading about DragonBox this morning in The Game Believes in You (a new book by Greg Toppo about educational games) and here it is on HN! The book is a good read (so far) if you're interested in this sort
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
> A computer will never live as long as The Trial. … What if Amerika was only written for 32-bit Power PC? This line kind of got me, and made me think about the transience of my own work. I build educational software, and I entered this
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by nicolethenerd 11y ago
There's codebuddies.org, which hosts free study sessions on Google Hangouts for a variety of programming topics.

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