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Months ago -8 was the limit. Really, what's the point in limiting the display to -4 if it's really minus n? Why not just show minus n?

And 1 point is actually zero. Now I'm down to 4, so 15 minus "5" plus 2 = 4 in hackernews math? For the record, I don't care about karma points, I care about whether or not the sys…

Yeah, I know the "rules". Point is, everything at big think is a video. Funny how I had 21 karma points before I posted that comment, which got 4 down votes and another comment got…

everything at bigthink is a video.

1) The students who are currently being misled into believing $125k in debt and a piece of paper are a sure ticket to financial freedom. 2) Startups who want students to eschew sch…

I was reading a book about Roads that talks about roads from brazil to the pacific. The author mentions a story about seeing a teen in South America, Venezuela iirc, wearing a t-sh…

That is one way to look at it. Another way would be to create a portfolio . Spend $25/mo or whatever on a web server, build some web apps and put them online for people to see. Don…

The value of a printer is easy to understand. The value of a programmer with no portfolio is not.

None of these are competitive advantages that are the opposite of the suggestions from the previous post about things that are not competitive advantages. There are plenty of peopl…

So basically, practice makes perfect.