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I get the feeling that most jobs advertised here on HN are onsite, overwhelmingly often in the Bay Area. I've only had experience with remote work in my programming career so far (…

> Management is the difference between your work seeming like its a valuable contribution to a bigger picture, or that it's a pointless sisyphean exercise in futility cynically dri…

As a kid I really enjoyed the Winnetou stories by Karl May

I second That Which Is Seen by Bastiat, nice and short intro to economic way of thinking

But without mortar, you'd just knock it over with one clumsy stumble, right?

Who claims that "humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals"? And what do they mean by "most" evolved? Without this information it's hard to answer the question why they're sayin…

Sounds weird, but someone actually did exactly that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x594yMPSFqk

I understand that fashion is a pure coordination game, so you would expect every website to look the same, but man, this style of illustration that is absolutely everywhere gets an…

> Additionally, the bill makes it unlawful for a large employer to ask employees whether or not they qualify for federal benefits. …But then how would the employer's tax department…

On the contrary, I think most other industries do this (i.e. hire people based on mostly insane criteria). I think programmers are more reflective and analytical than people from o…

Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.

I'm also in the Harry Potter generation; I was 8 years old when the first book came out. I remember my grandma recommending it to me at the time. It sounded like "kid stuff", so I …

I don't read fiction much anymore, but when I was a teenager, I reread both The Hitchhiker's Guide and Youth In Revolt a few times

If you read one thing and one thing only, it should be this. It's overwhelmingly long, but it's really, really, really worth it.

Everything has been written about multiple times, don't worry about it. If your blog is the first place where a reader runs into a particular information or insight, they will find…