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by nsheth17 11y ago
The impact of this is going to become so obvious when interest rates start going up. Let me explain. Ultimately, how much money the workforce is making matters to consumer spending. People may be ok not having a job, because they have some
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What Googlers think of the company’s huge restructuring(qz.com)
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On Necessity(blog.codinghorror.com)
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How high school makes people bad writers(economist.com)
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Study Credits Uber with Decline in California Drunk Driving Deaths(ww2.kqed.org)
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by nsheth17 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems These are mostly sorted by academic fields, but it's a good place to start.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to go from R to Python for data science?
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On PPK’s moratorium on new browser features(dev.opera.com)
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Zynga Revenue Rises Despite Fewer Gamers(wsj.com)
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Weaponized marijuana(reuters.com)
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by nsheth17 11y ago
> Axiom has been in development since 1971. At that time, it was called Scratchpad. So actually 44 years??
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Ask HN: What's the longest you've worked on a side project, without finishing?
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White House Demo Day Live Stream(whitehouse.gov)
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by nsheth17 11y ago
Former professional writer for the Wall Street Journal here. The dirty little secret of writing is that it never gets easy. It might look like other writers can bust out beautiful seamless prose without breaking a sweat, but what you don&#x
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Why Aren't There More Women Futurists?(theatlantic.com)
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by nsheth17 11y ago
> "Even though the remnants of old projects can sometimes feel like tombstones or failure markers, for some reason we don't feel the same way about, say, an old save game file." Very true. We beat ourselves up over leaving
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Why Do Side Projects Die?(codelympics.io)
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by nsheth17 11y ago
Do teams have to pay taxes on the grant money? I'm asking because I know prize money from things like hackathons are taxed. $12k can last 2 months full-time for a team of 2 ($3k/mo/founder). But if there are taxes, taking hom
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Show HN: Codelympics – Finish more side projects with friendly challenges(codelympics.io)
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by nsheth17 12y ago
A lot of people here are saying maybe poor people should just move away to where it's cheaper. Supposedly, the economic arguments are in their favor. If you can't afford to live here, why don't you just move to where you can?
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by nsheth17 12y ago
Great point. It's happened before. For example, at many companies, HackerRank-esque code tests were meant to replace the technical screen, but just ended up being an additional step you have to do. More red tape happens because compani
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by nsheth17 12y ago
tptacek: ever heard of Cicada 3301? It's this mysterious group that has anonymously posted very involved cryptopuzzles. Not clear why, but one theory has been for recruiting people into intelligence agencies. http://en.wikip
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by nsheth17 12y ago
The Common Job App For Programmers Our goal is to fix a broken hiring system. Too often, talented programmers don’t get the chance they deserve, just because they don't have the typical resume companies look for. We think that’s wrong.
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Introducing the Common App for Programming Jobs(symni.com)
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Ask HN: Good/bad idea to hire programmers from coding bootcamps?
1 points by nsheth17 12y ago|1 comments
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by nsheth17 12y ago
How did you get your foot in the door? (I'm trying to get my first job as a programmer after teaching myself and building things over the last year to year and a half.)
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by nsheth17 12y ago
And a follow-up. How did you get your foot in the door? (I'm trying to get my first job as a programmer after teaching myself and building things over the last year to year and a half.)
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Ask HN: Has your company ever hired a self-taught programmer?
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by nsheth17 12y ago
You're technical. And watching them day to day, like if you were their (technical) manager
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Ask HN: You watch as someone codes. How long until you know how good they are?
5 points by nsheth17 12y ago|5 comments

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