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I built a tool that generates custom visualizations to prepare for big moments: http://bevictorious.co/ I'm an avid weekend golfer trying to improve. I noticed a lot of negative se…

Absolutely. There's room for a complementary article critiquing all the same issues with most job descriptions.

This is the second (that I've seen) submission of this horrifying idea. Classifying the commodification of homeless people is beyond politically incorrect- it's inhumane and repres…

I agree with many of the points you raise, but I think you're trying to unite tangential concerns around a single issue. The excerpt from your father's paper suggests that our prob…

All the narratives I encounter about non-techs learning to code stress the importance of learning by working on a product you care about. After a 2 week crash course in Rails and R…

Lost mind of Dr. Brain anyone?

http://wannabetechies.tumblr.com/ A lot of posts that come through HN are concerned with non-techs learning to code. This blog is the continuous chronicle of my co-founder and me's…

Founder Dating claims to do that to an extent, but you have to apply and be accepted to one of their events. As a non-tech looking for a technical co-founder, I got fed up with thi…

Those spike traps were brutal.

Definitely- I was just thinking about whether and how this would be possible the other day- it's like gps on a micro scale. For those of you who've read joshua foer's 'moonwalking …

Really no flutter on this list? These are all great companies but I think flutter deserves a spot as a company with potential to really change how we interact with our devices. It …

As a non-technical learning to program on my personal time, I think this article captures the rise of programming tutorials accurately, and hints at the greater trend of the intern…

big ups for crowdtilt- going dutch for activities with your friends is an awesome idea