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by vgm 13y ago
Former Hacker Schooler and also a novice programmer at the time of applying. Nicholas' edit is true in my experience: HS cares more about your desire to become a better programmer, which is not a function of how good you are now.
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by vgm 14y ago
I just got Trader Joe's Instacarted yesterday. I had no problems with produce - the shopper picked out possibly the best red bell pepper I have ever seen. I also received a free upgrade because I ordered for three tomatoes and it turns out
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by vgm 14y ago
I have flagged articles by accident before due to vimium + my sausage fingers. The flagging might have been unintentional.
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by vgm 14y ago
I was in the batch with dillonforrest. Like him, I was a beginner. The only code I had written was in MATLAB. I am not sure if I am a rare exception or not, but your level of programming knowledge should not deter you from applying. If you
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by vgm 14y ago
Former student here from last summer. My only programming experience was in MATLAB and I did not have a github account before my application. If you can code FizzBuzz and you want to be a better programmer, there is a place for you at Hacke
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by vgm 14y ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but you may want to opt for a noise-canceling headset or IEM + white noise rather than complete silence. The reason is that if you have just quiet, any noise that makes it through is guaranteed to be a distrac
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by vgm 14y ago
This reminds me of Derek Sivers' excellent "There's no speed limit": http://sivers.org/kimo
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by vgm 14y ago
Could you please explain your reasoning? It seems to me that a bubble implies that there is a surplus of available capital, so that good and bad companies alike are funded. I'm not sure how a company would only be able to raise capital in a
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by vgm 14y ago
The cost is negligible with respect to the total carrying capacity of your brain. I don't have a source, but I've seen this stated in a few books. It is often mentioned that there is a cost in that an additional association seems like more
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by vgm 14y ago
Interestingly, Godel gave a presentation somewhere within 5 - 7th September at Koningsberg presenting the first incompleteness theorem. At this time, he did not have the second. [1] Von Neumann was in attendance and he wrote a letter to God
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by vgm 15y ago
The following was a real eye-opener for me, as I always thought from someone's speech, you could infer how much mental horsepower they had [1]: " "Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle," confessed Vladimir Nabokov in 1962. He took up
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by vgm 15y ago
There is something slightly ironic about Gladwell using quotes from other people's work to describe Jobs as a 'tweaker'.
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by vgm 15y ago
I'm sorry if this was intended to be facetious, but I think Yegge's point was that you need to remove some of the information so that Bezos can fill it in himself and not get bored. I don't think the implication is that this quality is uniq
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by vgm 15y ago
If you are interested, you may find the second and third installments here: http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/November/Unwritten_... http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/December/Unwritten_...