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If you must apply via online job applications, definitely change your resume to include as many of the keywords in the job description as you can, while still being truthful. If yo…

And why should we trust their judgement about anything, after they put money into Adam Neuman's new company (after the WeWork debacle)? CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/a16z-t…

Agreed! I spent a lot of time evaluating frameworks a year ago, and this article sums up much of my research. I had to mention it, in case it hadn't been covered here on HN.

In the U.S. where I am, officers have a "badge number", literally on their metallic badge affixed to their uniform. These are hard enough to read during a non-confrontational excha…

Radiohead's "OK Computer" box set contained a mix tape with ancient computer code on it, in much the same way: https://ledgernote.com/blog/interesting/radioheads-secret-co...

As a former developer, and as a manager of development teams, I feel that engineers tend to underestimate how long a task or a project will take them. This is due to several factor…

This is a cool optical illusion, but it's deceptive at best to actual drivers. I could see it causing rear-end collisions when drivers first encounter them. And what about cars com…

Do the rebranding now, before you get so big that you have to spend HUGE sums of money to get people to understand the pronunciation. Don't be Rakuten, who spent millions on a Supe…

Cool twist on an old problem. Here are two others, using different tech to automatically open the door for the pet. Facial recognition: https://www.hackster.io/windowsiot/cat-door-…

Test your system (and your room) with this audio quality quiz, comparing lossless audio with several compressed bit rate streams [1]. With my 50-year old ears, and an outboard DAC/…

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