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daspianist

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    Ask HN: How do I find a coding mentor outside of work?

    For background, I have been in the iOS space for nearly 10 years, am self-taught, and have solo-built two App Store "App of the Day" apps. However, despite these the App Store vali…

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    Maker of app here. Thanks for posting! That's precisely one of the goals. SLEEP is a massive musical landscape and there is so much to explore. I hope this app will allow me to hea…

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    Great concept and nice write up. However, while its potentially satisfying to calculate things like "2x" happy or "0.5x" marketing spend, it is simply a (self-masturbatory) abstrac…

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    John McWhorter, the Columbia linguist who pinned the article, makes a conniving argument. However, the counterargument is that Shakespeare plays are just that - plays, which are me…

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    And if you enjoyed that bit, this is positively rockin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk84d0s5ANE (Beethoven's Moonlight 3rd movement)

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    For optimal visual experience, set the pixel size to 1x1. The gravitational lensing near the wormhole and Gargantua was amazing to "see" as one moved closer them.

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    Its interesting that many of my post-college friends are finding content on Facebook increasingly less relatable, and therefore using it less. I think part of Facebook's appeal to …

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    Comment #5567256

    I would also echo this: "Make learning a competitive advantage" is vague. It was only until I clicked on "customers" that I got a rough sense of what your product is trying to acco…

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    As someone who has just begun to learn to program (I finished JS lessons on Codecademy two weeks ago), I could attest that the Rails installation was quite daunting. Had I read abo…