crench

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Comment · 2 years ago

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.

Comment · 3 years ago

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.

Comment · 6 years ago

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Comment · 6 years ago

PostgREST does this fairly well.

Comment · 7 years ago

>by 2021

Comment · 8 years ago

There’s one of these in Portsmouth, NH: Gilley’s.

Comment · 9 years ago

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.

Comment · 9 years ago

"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.

Comment · 9 years ago

This could do without the "Why learn computer science?" section entirely.

Comment · 9 years ago

Yeah, as an English elective. It was great; I loved it.

Comment · 9 years ago

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.