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Re:Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?
on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:26PM (#40942520)
My whole career in technology is because of a "Who's Hiring?" thread back in 2012 or so.
Emailed the hiring email address in the thread for a company that seemed to suit my interests and abilities at the time and was off to the races. I moved from a rural area to a Midwestern state for the gig. Every job I've had since that job has been with companies comprised of permutations of those same coworkers from the first gig.
I'd probably still be doing roofing or something if I hadn't been an HN reader at that time.
Re:Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)
on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:35PM (#35221462)
I was lucky enough to be resupplied by a Super Cub air taxi service multiple times while on a long mountaineering trip in Alaska many years ago. It was incredible to see all the random places that the pilot could land, including a gravel bar similar to the video in the article.
Re:The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago
on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:54PM (#24231812)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Re:Firebase as a React Hook
on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:51PM (#22059139)
PostgREST does this fairly well.
Re:Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @11:20AM (#19615540)
>by 2021
Re:Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:24PM (#17983853)
There’s one of these in Portsmouth, NH: Gilley’s.
Re:Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal it...
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:51PM (#14259939)
Thanks for that perspective. I feel like we're constantly looking through the lens of "Uber is doing something shady", so projecting a large scandal onto the company is very easy. The inverse of that being that it could be quite easy for someone, Levandowski in this case, to orchestrate something for himself illegally.
Re:Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal it...
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:58PM (#14258941)
"Here's the thing," [Judge William Alsup] said. "You didn't sue him. You sued Uber. So what if it turns out that Uber is totally innocent?"
This is going to be a very interesting case.
Re:Teach Yourself Computer Science
on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:14PM (#13862457)
This could do without the "Why learn computer science?" section entirely.
Re:The Talented Mr. Huxley (2015)
on Monday February 13, 2017 @02:19PM (#13637912)
Yeah, as an English elective. It was great; I loved it.
Re:The Talented Mr. Huxley (2015)
on Monday February 13, 2017 @02:09PM (#13637836)
One of my favorite assignments in high school (2007) was after reading 1984 and Brave New World. The teacher of our Dystopian Literature class prompted us to elaborate on who we thought was right overall, Huxley or Orwell.
It was a sobering exercise realizing that there's a fair amount of Orwellian and Huxleyan prophecies in our modern world, but we tend to focus more on the 'scarier' Orwellian ideas.
Re:How Does the SQL Server Query Optimizer Work?
on Thursday January 19, 2017 @04:52PM (#13439796)
thanks for that!
Re:New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up
on Monday January 09, 2017 @06:47PM (#13361112)
I've used my Project Sputnik machine for years and loved it.
Re:Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it
on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:22PM (#12903589)
there goes my winter.
Re:H-1B bill pulled from House committee vote amid complaints
on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:05PM (#12501968)
Both critical hires probably cost the same as one of those hires would have for a local hire.
Re:Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub
on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:03PM (#12291703)
Re:I Love Go; I Hate Go
on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:26AM (#12208127)
Weak opinions are what turn languages into unreadable mishmashes of overlapping mechanism.
Go's opinions were, for me, especially helpful while learning the language.