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Ask HN: Can you take more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?

For context, I work in a US startup. I wanted to take 3 weeks of vacation to visit my family on the other side of the earth. But I was told by my manager that I need to work remotely during 1 of the 3 weeks, in order to follow the convention.Is there an unspoken rule/etiquette to take no more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?

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Ask HN: Do you pay someone to install self-hosted apps?

Last week I set up a self-hosted private analytics app following the project's Github readme, it took me more than 2 hours to get it working properly. I'm not really into devops. I thought it took too long, and maybe I could have hired someone to do it for me.Do you set up all of your self-hosted apps? Do you know if there's a place to hire people to set things up for you? Would you pay for...

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what would be a safe assumption?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014) on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:55PM (#7835151)
New York City, Remote|Local, Full Time|Part Time

Stack: Scala/Java, R, Python, Numpy, Scikit-learn, C, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Regex, Javascript, D3, HTML5, Markdown, LATEX/TEX, Git, Vim, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, Yourkit, Apache Tomcat, AWS, MongoDB, MySQL, Matlab, SAS, Stata, SPSS, Linux/Unix, docker, Windows

Resume: http://lnkd.in/mkKdAx PDF resume available upon request.

Contact: [email protected]

Currently a Data Scientist at a NYC startup focused on fraud prediction. Looking to be part of challenging project/venture, solve interesting problems within a solid business model/framework. Background in Statistics and Machine Learning. I love working with data.

Re:Ask HN: How do experienced programmers learn new things? on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @09:19PM (#4695899)
Indeed, Practicing and Googling are essential in learning. I guess books and docs come as references, I once thought they were the first thing to go to. Thanks for the comments.

Ask HN: How do experienced programmers learn new things?

Since I'm a novice, I enjoy novice friendly online education but feel reading hundreds of pages of programming books or documentations daunting. I'm curious how experienced programmers learn new things. Do you ... ?* Read the docs* Read programming books (such as those by O'reilly)* Go through online courses* Other ways (comment if you like)

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