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SethKinaston Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job

My interview at Amazon (where I am currently) fit those requirements.

* It lasted 3 hours, not all day. They suggested business casual dress.

* No trick questions or trivia puzzles. Just coding on whiteboard.

* The interviewers had clearly looked at the work I'd been doing (no one asked "what do you do currently," etc.

* I had an offer, with numbers, about 50 minutes after the interview.

* I countered, they took less than 24 hours to respond and accept.

It was really enjoyable.

SethKinaston Mint.com lost my data

"...including transaction data and historical information."

I don't know how much more clear that can be.

SethKinaston I like to see hands, do you turn off your cellphone in flight?

I put mine into airplane mode. There is no scientific reason to need to turn it completely off; the announcement is just because it's an easy common denominator.

SethKinaston Quitting smoking increases life span up to 10 years

This is a rather indirect link to a fluff piece. The direct link to the study might be more appropriate:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1211128

SethKinaston Ask HN: How have HN readers bought diamond engagement rings?

Similar to BlueNile, I used Since1910: http://www.since1910.com/create-your-own-engagement-ring.asp...

It appealed to me mainly because it was very entertaining to be able to go through pages of raw diamonds and view their exact characteristics (measurements and all) and compare different ones. It's easy to drill down based on certain criteria.

I did call them after narrowing down to a few and talked about the different options. I learned that there are non-continuous price steps as you approach certain round carat sizes (0.5, 1.0, 2.0, etc) and so it can save you some money if you go slightly below a round-number size.

I got a 0.94 carat diamond with excellent characteristics for significantly cheaper than anything I found at $JEWELRY_STORE.

They ship free, and if you're not in NY, no tax, which will save you hundreds right off the top.

SethKinaston Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more)

I just don't feel the magic in "Humble Bundles" anymore. They used to be such a special event, infrequent enough that you eagerly anticipated the next.

Now, it feels as if they churn them out as fast as they can collect enough games to do another.

(This is not to disparage the excellent quality of the games in this bundle; indeed, I already own most of them.)