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Former Hacker Schooler and also a novice programmer at the time of applying. Nicholas' edit is true in my experience: HS cares more about your desire to become a better programmer,…

I just got Trader Joe's Instacarted yesterday. I had no problems with produce - the shopper picked out possibly the best red bell pepper I have ever seen. I also received a free up…

I have flagged articles by accident before due to vimium + my sausage fingers. The flagging might have been unintentional.

I was in the batch with dillonforrest. Like him, I was a beginner. The only code I had written was in MATLAB. I am not sure if I am a rare exception or not, but your level of progr…

Former student here from last summer. My only programming experience was in MATLAB and I did not have a github account before my application. If you can code FizzBuzz and you want …

I may be misunderstanding you, but you may want to opt for a noise-canceling headset or IEM + white noise rather than complete silence. The reason is that if you have just quiet, a…

This reminds me of Derek Sivers' excellent "There's no speed limit": http://sivers.org/kimo

Could you please explain your reasoning? It seems to me that a bubble implies that there is a surplus of available capital, so that good and bad companies alike are funded. I'm not…

The cost is negligible with respect to the total carrying capacity of your brain. I don't have a source, but I've seen this stated in a few books. It is often mentioned that there …

Interestingly, Godel gave a presentation somewhere within 5 - 7th September at Koningsberg presenting the first incompleteness theorem. At this time, he did not have the second. [1…

The following was a real eye-opener for me, as I always thought from someone's speech, you could infer how much mental horsepower they had [1]: " "Spontaneous eloquence seems to me…

There is something slightly ironic about Gladwell using quotes from other people's work to describe Jobs as a 'tweaker'.

I'm sorry if this was intended to be facetious, but I think Yegge's point was that you need to remove some of the information so that Bezos can fill it in himself and not get bored…

If you are interested, you may find the second and third installments here: http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010/November/Unwritten_... http://memagazine.asme.org/Articles/2010…