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I have a wonderful colleague who has a PhD in mathematics and never tells anyone about it. I sort of love calling him Dr. just to push his buttons because he is the opposite of a p…

Oh! The tubes from Cento, which is a particular good brand, are metal. I understand the acidic substance from plastic concern. Though reducing your own is a good idea as well. If y…

They make lovely squeezable tubes. I would suggest giving them a try! They are much better.

Wait... You wrote it with him? Are you Dave Bayer? That's amazing! What was it like working together? And absolutely fantastic paper! I have so many questions lol

One of my absolute favorite mathematicians is Persi Diaconis who is mentioned in this paper and was the original basis for this area of research. Well worth learning about. He was …

You make a great point and one thing I posted a bit further down was when I was a director level I did a really poor job of leading by example when it came to vacation. I would lit…

I don't disagree. And I mean this much more generally, I have worked quite a long time for quite a lot of companies. The amount of PTO that is given up, which I was privy to, was s…

I guess my point on vacation is more around the culture of using it. As a senior level engineer/architect with maybe a small team leading role, when was the last time you took a so…

I am a W2 employee for a consulting firm. They pay me a salary with some benefits and some vacation time and bill be out to clients. I'd say it's a cultural thing why we don't use …

I'm pretty much at the top end of the salary range where I live. I don't make an extra $150,000. I make a sizable amount. But outside of a few niche places and a few niche companie…

I make pretty good money as a consultant. Last year I had 180 hours of saved vacation time (4.5 weeks). I gave up 115.5 hours of that on January 1 because I didn't use it. I expect…

Do you mean a particular part of Europe? I only ask because there are more factors than salary. I have friends who have moved to work in France, Norway, and Germany. They do make m…

Does it bother you so much that he would put in a link that had an affiliate? I doubt he was trying to hide anything nefarious. I am linked to a few affiliates and when I share a l…

> "alternating with short bouts of motivation" I think you might have pinned it here. It may be that you are just fine as a developer but that you have burn out or some other menta…

The problem I have with it, and I would imagine a good percentage of people who frequent Hacker News, is that I know how to build websites, and Wix, Squarespace, etc. just slow me …

We don't. But the reason why isn't because politicians don't like to follow rules, it's because they are following the rules that their constituents provide. Even if you disagree t…

To be a partner at a VC you have to have money and connections (though with enough money, connections is a pretty easy problem to solve). To be an intern/employee for a VC you need…

You can make a very good business of consulting people off of Stripe. Developers do love it, and for good reason (as the article points out). But it is expensive. If you are runnin…

You know, I'm trying to steer this towards a conversation. I guess I missed the mark. But I am undeterred. I will still try to pull something educational out for myself. According …

I don't love fighting over these sorts of things, especially on Hacker News. So I am not trying to fight at all. But I am genuinely and honestly asking, where do I find research to…

A number of people will probably tell you to be your own boss, try herbal remedies, change your sleeping habit, etc. And those are all really good answers. But let me suggest one o…

The current annual cost for Harvard is US$50,420. So the other poster who said many are more than double is, well, off by a bit. So the "best" University (by their own marketing) i…

Learn to Knit or Crochet. There are a bunch of fun benefits! First, it's not hard. Second, you really can make nice things that last a long time and are useful. I personally have b…

So, I am also not a lawyer, and also not giving you legal advice. I do have some legal background and some HIPAA background. This tool would fall under HIPAA compliance. In that, i…

So this isn't so much a "Startup CTO". This is DHH, CTO of Basecamp and created of Ruby on Rails. Not that that entirely matters. But that's why he has a large group of twitter fol…