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Yeah that's what I've been doing.

I haven't the faintest idea how to use it besides just setting it and forgetting it. I tried digging in settings and whitelisting and whatnot but couldn't get it working.

EC1on Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

Sorry I sounded like a bit of a dick there.

>but I would like the benefit of having someone outside of myself and my work stand behind my resume

Well it looks like you already solved that then.

EC1on Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

>The places I'm interested in working at probably wouldn't care much about me not having a degree in CS, but I would like the benefit of having someone outside of myself and my work stand behind my resume.

Work remotely for someone, work for some clients. I honestly can't think of a reason to attend GA. It's like the anti hustler attitude. Everything prettily packaged in a nice little box to be "an epic programmer!"

EC1on Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

Just got to meetups and learn on your own time man. Save yourself a ton of cash too. See if you can mentor/teach/assist there instead of attend as a student, that way you get way more connections, and you don't pay + you still consume course material. I did that, and it was wonderful.

EC1on Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

I'd lose way more if I signed up for a course. Losing money on rent, no income, + school fees.

EC1on Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

Are these types of schools worth the cost for people? I'd love to hear from a student. I took a couple months off work to learn new skills and it cost me nothing (except rent and no income), just a lot of Googling and frustration. What's different about this? Is it the class setting + mentor structure that makes it worth it?

EC1on Employees at Airbnb, Square and Stripe Are Spending 50%+ of Income on SF Rent

The whole context of this thread is insane rent prices, aka losing money.

EC1on Employees at Airbnb, Square and Stripe Are Spending 50%+ of Income on SF Rent

So I should keep losing money for the possibility to find another job similar to my last one so I can keep losing money?

EC1on Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard

That's really all it is. Me and a couple others were the only "outside" students to get internships at a big bank. Rest of the interns had parents working at the firm. They all went on cruises and to their multi million dollar cottages every weekend. It was like some weird sick incestuous extended corporate family.

EC1on The cure for procrastination? Forgive yourself

I forgive myself by embracing the mundane tasks. Haven't procrastinated since. Work isn't work, they're just building blocks that when I get done, I feel good.

EC1on Ask the algorithm: Human wealth advisers are going out of fashion

That's shitty. I have some savings but have no idea how to go about investing them into anything. All seems so complex.

EC1on Ask the algorithm: Human wealth advisers are going out of fashion

What app is this? Is it available in Canada?

EC1on Oyster is shutting down

AWS

EC1on Show HN: %%30%30: A Game

Don't think I've ever heard or read anyone claim this, just that they live in a native wrapper.

EC1on The Death of the Party

Everything has been commercialized into absolute death.

EC1on How David Hume Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

I always understood "I think, therefore I am" to mean that you have the power over your own destiny, like if I wanted to be a professor I could totally become one, think like one, act like one etc.

I just reread it in this article and realized it means if I have the ability to observe myself, I must exist.

EC1on The xkcd survey

Been wearing all black every day for a few years now. Knowing I don't have to fiddle with the world of clothing at all ever is comforting.

EC1on Aphantasia: A life without mental images

On the opposite end I remember every face I've ever seen (that has been put to a name). I remember most names and faces from each of my elementary classes including pre-school. Completely useless skill as I can't remember other things to save my life unless I read them 100 times over.

EC1on Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (2012)

Really? All I can think about is how to not die. The thought terrifies me. It got to a point where it's my main motivator in what I do. I used to be lazy and play video games all day and when I realized how finite and easy destructible our lives are, I get crazy scared and work like crazy so I don't waste my time. There's so much I want to learn and do. The only problem is the limit of time.

Death is incredibly terrifying. I don't understand it and I don't want to, I just want to live. Forever preferably.

EC1on Applications for YC Winter 2016 are now open

Facebook is dead anyways. Most of my friends don't have online personas. Facebook's new thing of only showing what your friends liked and commented on is extremely annoying and makes the site pointless. Lots of have realized this.

EC1on A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013)

The 300 line node.js script I just got running after two days is WAY more impressive.

EC1on How to Onboard Software Engineers

I too had a similar experience. Senior dev at our open office rushed to my desk after I asked him to clarify about some email instructions he sent me. Told me to read the instructions out loud in front of the entire company. I laughed it off but he was really persistent. Just disconnected my laptop, and told him he can explain to the CEO why there's no longer a frontend department (I was lead frontend, and I got friends hired who I run a sideproject with, so we all just up and left, but we've been planning to for some time. This was the final straw.)

Felt amazing but I was also super broke.

EC1on AirBnB's Pricing Algorithm

I can't stand AirBNB. Prices are ludicrously high. I feel like prices are higher just because it's a nicer cuter interface than Craigslist. Obviously I can't prove this. Also wish I could filter by monthly for everything not map a certain daily range to a monthly range in my head.

EC1on Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

You need a constant "stay awake" feedback loop. Just power through it.

EC1on Saving 25,000 Manuals

I'm suffering the same problems as I'm getting into using old vintage gear for music production.

EC1on Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)

I stayed awake for two weeks once. After the first 8ish days you start hearing and seeing odd things. Really helps with music production. Ventured into soundscapes I'll never come back to.

EC1on I am tech – Real stories from women in technology

What if that's their perfect team? Stop trying to force diversity for the sake of diversity. Some companies/teams are diverse, some aren't.

EC1on A Miserable Debt-Free Life

https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22remote%22%3Atrue%2C%22sal...

you have to login to view this link, it's just filtering jobs by REMOTE + $125k+ = 255 startups.

EC1on A Miserable Debt-Free Life

What's hard about it? Assuming the average here on HN is making $150k USD at a cushy programming job, let's say 100k after taxes. You're telling me you can't live off $4100~ a month? I live off $2500 a month easily (1500 rent, 500 food, 500 fun, debt free - no car - no other expenses) and the rest goes in the bank.