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"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it" - Voltaire

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love this app

this exactly. I started buying packs again recently for fun and immediately was transported back 20 years

I second Rick Rubins book

The Design Of Everyday Things by Don Norman might be something of interest https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/840

open tabs in chrome I never close... hundreds of them

mea culpa. I suppose my enthusiasm got the best of me.

Hey guys A few months back I posted an Ask HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16885344 ) trying to get general input on what people knew or thought about Oak Ridge National …

Very cool idea. I haven't seen it mentioned in here, but the GDELT project is something you might be able to use https://www.gdeltproject.org/

Very good point. I may wait a view days and try again with your title suggestion. I originally had "Ask HN: Software Engineers..." but I ran out of room. Thank you for your feedbac…

In my experience that is probably a true statement. Typically the application process is a little verbose, but I think ORNL isn't the worst of them. Combine that with the inhumane …

The salaries are actually pretty comparable (that's why I mentioned that NLs aren't on the GS scale) no stock options of course but you are correct that PhD researchers run the lab…

If it did work for you, it would be even worse. It's a brutalist SAP interface that would scare away anyone with a hint of creativity

Also I was ran out of room in the original post, but wanted to add even just commenting, "I've never heard of ORNL" is probably the most insightful of all :)

I am a research data scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and I am trying to get some insights into what the level of awareness/perception that the software engineerin…

Probably not clear from the pictures, but the Tiny Titan sits on the observation deck directly in front of the actual Titan supercomputer at ORNL. It's used as a hands on demonstra…