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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) | Director, Information Systems | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation's largest grassroo…

National Alliance on Mental Illness | Arlington, VA (REMOTE) | Full stack web app developer | Full-time | $80,000-$95,000 DOE We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association that provides …

Here's a list of the Great Books of the Western World, which is a pretty good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

At St. John's College (back in the 90's anyways), we called this "teaching science and math historically" (as opposed to teaching the history of science and math -- which tends to …

A good history of where modern JavaScript comes from (from old school to webpack and babel). https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-... Helped me understand th…

Solar United Neighbors | IT Generalist | Full-time | Washington, DC | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veter…

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics tackles happiness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics "Let us resume our inquiry and state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and …

For those that like to mess around with the J programming language, here is what I believe is correct code to generate this parallax compression pattern. pack =: 3 : '+./ (r,y+1) $…

Sounds like Reid Hoffman's book "The Alliance". Good read. http://www.theallianceframework.com/

Star Maker was written by Olaf Stapledon. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Maker-Olaf-Stapledon/dp/148264446...

Pretty much any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

Mostly because I'm an APL snob. Haskell is great.

One of my favorite books is "Algebraic Models For Accounting Systems" -- http://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Models-For-Accounting-System... Fundamentally this book is about the applic…

At least in my communications department, we follow a style guide — like Bloomberg's — and capitalize for our own purposes, rather than to further the marketing of another company.…

Principia Mathematica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica

This is how I learned proofs: http://i.imgur.com/omXqvos.png Well, technically I learned proofs from Euclid first. But this book followed close behind. Clear and comprehensible (on…

See my reply to prostoalex at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679172

The same it applies anywhere. You want results from people in the restaurant business, hospitality industry, or retail environments, right? A Results-Only Work Environment isn't a …

That's a reasonable concern, adeptus. What's preventing management from imposing huge amounts of workload and telling you to get it done in 40 hours — or you're fired and they'll f…

That's a great question, tanderson92. Unless you've had a remarkable work experience, you'll find that bad management shifts the goalposts in a 40-hour work environment too. "Work …

Once again, I have to point to the Results-Only Work Environment — http://gorowe.com/pages/rowe-standards . ROWE isn't the only way of doing this sort of thing, but it's a good app…

Work hours are certainly a good proxy for effort spent. But companies don't (or shouldn't) pay for effort, they pay for results. Take 2 people: one a talented auto mechanic, one is…

I feel for you. Apparently you don't have a boss who can define what they want from you. This is not uncommon, and we're struggling with that ourselves. We've all spent so many yea…