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There's a service I tried once called blinkist.com where they have a large library of books that they condense by summarizing them into a smaller package. As well, most books also come as audiobooks. I used it but found it was hard to come away feeling you had absorbed much from the books when they had been shortened the way they were. But yes, definitely other people feel the same way you do.
> Work and self-actualisation can be rewarding and meaningful, but looking at the sea from an hammock and drinking too much beer with friends three times a week is also a completely respectable way of waiting for the gravitational swallowing of the planet.
Part of wants to accept this from the author and the other part of me is wary. I didn't have a child because I wanted to be happy, I did it because I wanted a more meaningful life. It was the greatest decision I ever made.
Yeah, maybe I heard wrong
Posted by
jcroll on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Example sites:- HackerRank- LeetCode- Triplebyte- TopCoder- ...etc.As I understand it, companies actually hire off of these sites. If you're going to spend your time doing all these tests which sites offers the most opportunities? Why would you pick one over the other?
Audiobook meta search:
https://www.audiobookmate.com- Backend: Flask + SQLAlchemy + Celery
- Frontend: Angular + Bootstrap
- Database: MySQL + Elasticsearch + Redis
- Deployment: Kubernetes on GKE
I like your answer I just wonder: I used this project to teach myself kubernetes. If someone asks me how I know kubernetes what do I say? I suppose I say it was on a side project I did
Posted by
jcroll on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:18AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I worked really hard on two side projects during the pandemic that I am quite proud of (here you can take a peek if you like): www.hopupon.com, www.audiobookmate.comWhen I was younger I used to list side projects on my cv and employers used to take notice. I find now they don't seem to care, usually are only interested in employment history and tech tests.I also wonder whether side projects...
you wanna have a goat debate on hn
How do you do site analytics?
A condo? Houses are still insane
What can we learn from that bubble to help us tell whether this one is close to bursting?
Judging by covid I wonder if climate change will have to begin to affect every state, not just the coastal ones, before the U.S. has the political capital to take true action.
My argument is you can't have it both ways. You want to collect $500k salaries you're going to have to live with your employer pursuing immense profits
Facebook makes decisions on a profit basis and by that metric is meteorically successful. These Facebook employees that spent years collecting their $500k pay cheques might want to consider this before posting their videos criticizing the company's direction
https://www.hopupon.comHopUpon is a Cheap Multi-City Flight Generator that allows you to explore new cities as you "hop" along to your destination. Our algorithm creates itineraries that are often cheaper than a direct flight.
It was also done in the HBO John Adams miniseries
Democratic elections are supposed to be the failsafe for that no?
This is true but I think getting less so as Joe is getting more confident in opining his ideas, look no further than his latest takes on the covid response
The only support for basic accounts is for billing
The owners of giphy don't feel the same pangs I'm sure
Link for making a mask is broken. Anyone have a good link how to make your own?
I feel like that was the original point of having to login through Facebook to access Tinder, you could see whether your matches had shared friends. The idea being this was a potential indicator you might be a good match or not
> Don't go looking for beefs.
You can't even post a question on StackOverflow without creating a beef (e.g. "Why would you want to do that?")
Agreed, it's terribly cynical