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Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:38PM (#38512758)
I'm now with the sibling commenter in that I can't tell if this a troll account.

In case it's not, there's an extension of Cunningham's law. If you're wrong and disagreeable to a sufficiently high degree, people will just ignore or quietly ridicule you rather than try and correct you.

Re:Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? on Sunday December 03, 2023 @06:54PM (#38512059)
Not everyone on this site is a student with nothing on their resume.
Re:The Machine Learning Job Market on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:49PM (#31158316)
People are conflating SWE (or "research scientist" in name) bands with research scientist bands at labs like Brain. This guy is an outlier.

"You can only be level X with compensation Y after Z YOE" is one of the greatest infohazards in tech.

Re:FTX Future Fund on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:11PM (#30508910)
Dang, I wonder how easy it is for the Alameda EA folks to rationalize this as being for the greater good.

"We're reallocating surplus speculator dollars towards AI safety?"

Probably helps that many token founders don't seem too virtuous when many are just looking to make a quick buck through copycat apps. But sounds like some earnest people are getting burned, too.

Re:FTX Future Fund on Monday February 28, 2022 @08:32PM (#30508011)
Good explanation. I wasn't aware of that part of Alameda's reputation though, where can I find more data?
Great app, but I find myself accidentally bookmarking sites via the Chrome extension with no way to undo except for manually deleting the entry in desktop.

Any consumer app would've had this implemented by now but that's the tradeoff of being FOSS.

https://github.com/zotero/zotero-connectors/issues/301

Re:How you play Spades is how you play life on Monday August 30, 2021 @02:52PM (#28359431)
I had no idea about this cultural history. A bunch of us in high school comp sci used to play the online version bundled with Windows XP once we were done with our assignments...we'd try to queue up at the same time to get matched in the same game.
Re:How to Center in CSS on Sunday April 19, 2015 @08:44PM (#9405539)
Would have been great to have this when I was first learning CSS. Problems like this one are what made me so reluctant to touch frontend for a long time.