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Pretty simple hot take: This period in Apple’s history will be the cold ice bath post Jobs. There may be serious fanboy energy to this but Apple has so much dry powder going for it…

While I support the GEB being on here... It's ~750 pages ;) Gleick is great across the board, and Feynman's life + writings are a great choose your own adventure, regardless of you…

One of the most overlooked strategies I've found for lining up new work is to be always helping others find gigs when they need them. This is a great long and short game (and it fe…

https://github.com/withuno/identity

Like some of the other comments, I’d focus on developing skills in web accessibility and areas that will help you be more productive. I’m not sure how severe your hearing loss is b…

Some more meta-questions: are there some HN-esque sites that are more popular in Europe/ Germany? Even between major cities in the US I've observed a lot of variability in job post…

Yeah, definitely had the rose color glasses on for that one. CEFR seems like a really good benchmark, I've been using a combination of the Assimil method (books/ tapes) and Duoling…

Touché. My original sentence said reasonably conversant. I probably should've left it at that. "Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud. - Kanye West"

As an aside: I kind of wish this thread had kicked off at a reasonable hour for those actually in Berlin right now :)

I'm moving to the Berlin in the fall myself. Planning to use it as our home base for work/ exploring Europe from early Oct '17 to late Aug '18. I freelance as a software dev (prima…

Well that was fun! The last level took me a couple minutes (maybe have brute forced the prior fr example).

What the....?

My favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. My 2nd favorite: 950% of 0 is 0.

Is that sustained website growth since then? Also can you make that distinction clearer on the site? It's definitely misleading some people.

Don't camera systems beat this in pretty much every way? http://www.placemeter.com/ comes to mind. You don't have to resort to infrared sensors in order to provide anonymity, but t…

Isn't there a company doing this called Pied Piper...