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steindavidb

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    > The most underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to document. Fuck, someone please teach me how to write good documentation. Seriously, if there's any recommendations, I'…

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    Comment #26864252

    tl:dr; "I want to be a postdoc"

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    Comment #24887543

    Do you mean blockchain or technology inspired by blockchain? Lots of cool merkle tree stuff (trillion, certificate transparency); also several international shipping supply chains …

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    Comment #24201509

    Hi cs-szazz. I remember being in your situation; it's frustrating because you can't Google for answers. Here is advice I was given when in a similar situation. - Find the other peo…

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    Comment #22826969

    Senator Feinstein (D-CA) is a do’s-onshore of the bill. Here’s the form to contact her office and encourage her to not support the bill: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/ind…

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    Comment #20891200

    obligatory thread naming good open-source password entropy checkers. I'll start. zxcvbn: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

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    Comment #18777860

    (for a single filer) at $100k income, this lowers the effective state income tax to 0.8% at $200k income, this lowers the effective state income tax rate to 4.4% New Hampshire is l…

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    Comment #17050418

    this works fine over http instead of https. is there a way to fix the link?

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    Comment #16977272

    It has to do a lot with reliability and cost. A smart car has a lot of expensive sensors and an expected life of a few years with regular maintenance. There's also a huge market op…

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    Comment #16927499

    My SO and I have three MBPs between us. Two have had keyboard failures (one the "8" key, the other the space bar). Both took about a week for Apple to repair.

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    Comment #16896273

    This website is unreadable on iPad, the font size changes every time I scroll.

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    Comment #16672620

    Commonmark is a wonderful and well defined markdown standard (ie the one GitHub uses)

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    Comment #16668920

    I taught myself 18.100a from the book and website when I took it because class was too early in the morning and found them sufficient to make up for the missed lectures. Wonderful …

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    Comment #16621161

    I did this by running a sikuliX script. Took about 5 minutes a day for a week to iron out all corner cases it got stuck on.

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    Comment #15803217

    Travels with Charley in search of America

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    Comment #15494996

    this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro

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    Comment #15330190

    Going straight to the spec is really great for HTML/CSS. Also worth looking at the CSS snapshot from w3 https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2017/

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    Comment #14238168

    Appboy | New York City | Full Time | ONSITE Appboy is currently looking for full time software engineers to join their team! Appboy is a NYC based start-up specializing in smart ma…

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    Comment #14025867

    Appboy is also looking for someone to head up technical recruiting - https://boards.greenhouse.io/appboy/jobs/571121?gh_jid=57112...

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    Comment #14023209

    Appboy-New York-Full Time-ONSITE Appboy is currently looking for full time software engineers to join their team! Appboy is a NYC based start-up specializing in smart marketing aut…

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