sultanofsaltin

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by sultanofsaltin 5mo ago
Pretty simple hot take: This period in Apple’s history will be the cold ice bath post Jobs. There may be serious fanboy energy to this but Apple has so much dry powder going for it still, and to put that in the hands of someone who actually
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by sultanofsaltin 4y ago
While I support the GEB being on here... It's ~750 pages ;) Gleick is great across the board, and Feynman's life + writings are a great choose your own adventure, regardless of your background. I personally really enjoyed "Pe
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by sultanofsaltin 4y ago
One of the most overlooked strategies I've found for lining up new work is to be always helping others find gigs when they need them. This is a great long and short game (and it feels good). If you help someone land a dream job and the
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Uno Identity Manager(uno.app)
5 points by sultanofsaltin 4y ago|1 comments
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by sultanofsaltin 4y ago
https://github.com/withuno/identity
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by sultanofsaltin 6y ago
Like some of the other comments, I’d focus on developing skills in web accessibility and areas that will help you be more productive. I’m not sure how severe your hearing loss is but if podcasts are your style check out https://d
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
Some more meta-questions: are there some HN-esque sites that are more popular in Europe/ Germany? Even between major cities in the US I've observed a lot of variability in job postings/ language usage trends, services used, e
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
Yeah, definitely had the rose color glasses on for that one. CEFR seems like a really good benchmark, I've been using a combination of the Assimil method (books/ tapes) and Duolingo just for the benchmarking / competing with
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
Touché. My original sentence said reasonably conversant. I probably should've left it at that. "Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud. - Kanye West"
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
As an aside: I kind of wish this thread had kicked off at a reasonable hour for those actually in Berlin right now :)
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
I'm moving to the Berlin in the fall myself. Planning to use it as our home base for work/ exploring Europe from early Oct '17 to late Aug '18. I freelance as a software dev (primarily Python, JS and PHP work) in the US
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by sultanofsaltin 9y ago
Well that was fun! The last level took me a couple minutes (maybe have brute forced the prior fr example).
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by sultanofsaltin 11y ago
What the....?
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by sultanofsaltin 11y ago
My favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. My 2nd favorite: 950% of 0 is 0.
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by sultanofsaltin 11y ago
Is that sustained website growth since then? Also can you make that distinction clearer on the site? It's definitely misleading some people.
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by sultanofsaltin 11y ago
Don't camera systems beat this in pretty much every way? http://www.placemeter.com/ comes to mind. You don't have to resort to infrared sensors in order to provide anonymity, but they do inherently limit you poten
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by sultanofsaltin 11y ago
Isn't there a company doing this called Pied Piper...