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Ask HN: Points or hours for time tracking and estimation?

I've been meaning to try and get better at estimating my work, but I figured I'd start tracking to figure out exactly how long I take on things to begin with. I've been on the fence of whether to track by time or hours so figured I'd reach out to the community to see what people feel as a good pick now? Whether it be on a team, individual, or what have you. How do you track progress? What do...

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Ask HN: What has worked for mentoring programs?

I was wondering what the HN group had to say on mentoring programs. Did you have a good or bad experience as a mentor or mentoree? What hasn't worked? If you had to create a mentoring program something, what would you do? Are there any key things to look at?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle your personal photo library? on Friday December 12, 2014 @12:19PM (#8741335)
This is the first time I've seen this service and it looks fantastic!

Ask HN: How do you handle your personal photo library?

I've finally accumulated enough photos in iPhoto that I believe it is time to move/expand to something else. I have the library sufficiently backed up, but more wondering workflows/software/services for managing large collections of personal photos.So I propose the question to you, how do you handle your photo library? What services do you use (be it cloud/local nas/etc...)? Best software for...

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