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aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: A good primer on cryptocurrencies?
Bob Murphy's free ebook http://understandingbitcoin.us/
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Does anybody else feel overwhelmed while reading HN?
There is a lot out there, you don't need to be an expert in every new thing.

Strive to be a helpful, open, honest team member, with a thorough understanding of core patterns and practices. (e.g. SOLID principles)

aaronhoffman··on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to D3.js
Great article, even for those with some experience already.

Thought I'd drop this here: site I helped create that uses d3 to create interactive visualizations from csv files https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/

aaronhoffman··on Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers
I wouldn't say taboo, it's just a "kids these days" type of story. Someone taking time to analyze something internet culture is doing just for laughs.

It's like critical analysis of an inside joke.

aaronhoffman··on Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers
found by /r/fellowkids https://www.reddit.com/r/FellowKids/search?q=npr&restrict_sr...
aaronhoffman··on U.S. Web Design Standards 1.0
Freedom isn't lost overnight.

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

aaronhoffman··on Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
@foob, thought you might be interested in this "visual front page" of HN https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/HackerNews
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Self-employed devs, how do you plan/think about your career?
I am able to stay aware of new technologies. I may not write in them, but I know where to go to learn more.

A good team will hire for personality fit first, and ability to learn, a programmers mindset.

aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Visualizing the Front Page of HN
We scrape the top stories off HN every 5 minutes and calculate these metrics. Interested in any feedback you may have. Enjoy.
aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning
Yes, could probably just grab the open graph tag data for most articles and display that. But this is a cool idea.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Are engineers biased to over-engineer solutions?
Fwiw, I tend to see little discussion of ROI, or weighing opportunities and risks, mostly just bikeshedding https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding
aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Finch, Simple and Open Source Scheduler for Your Apps
Great idea. I was thinking about writing something like this that could be deployed to Azure Functions that could replace their Azure Scheduler, which is pretty awful
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Leaving my job to boostrap my projects. Advice?
Yes, bootstrap at night while paying the bills during the day. As your side project starts to make money, contract less.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: What is the next bubble in your opinion?
And wsj linked here today https://www.google.com/amp/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/student-...
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: The WSJ paywall workaround no longer works. Why are their links allowed?
Hopefully by now your flag carries little weight
aaronhoffman··on Fired IT employee offered to unlock data for $200,000
I don't see this guy working in IT again
aaronhoffman··on MIT's Moral Machine wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident
I agree that in our current situation voluntary interaction is considered harmful.

But even in your description, it still boils down to Property Rights and Contacts (not described in those terms however). It may be that the programmers or business owners will be forced into contracts that hold them liable. IMO, that would be unfortunate.

aaronhoffman··on MIT's Moral Machine wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident
It boils down to property rights and contracts.

The decided to buy the car, they decided to operate it, they decided where to go and when.

aaronhoffman··on MIT's Moral Machine wants you to decide who dies in a self-driving car accident
Either way, the car owner is responsible, not the programmer.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Have you experienced completely loss of interest on everything?
Something that motivates me is knowing that I could easily be in a much worse situation. I'm working indoors on computers, and I'm not being actively shot at, so pretty good overall.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: What are some good (fiction/non-fiction) books about human progress?
Deirdre McCloskey has a series of books on "The Bourgeois Era". Here's an example of what they cover "1% of history, 99% of wealth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0nsKBx77EQ
aaronhoffman··on If you want to earn more, work less
Is their only evidence one line about how people who make more also take more vacation? Correlation != Causation
aaronhoffman··on App.net is shutting down
Still a good domain name. MS might be interested.
aaronhoffman··on The real reason my startup was successful: privilege
Strict definition of "privilege" being a special Right granted to a person, or class of people.

I accept his account, and I applaud him for reaching out to those he feels don't have the same opportunity that he had.

Often this type of thinking leads people to believe that violence today will solve the violence of yesterday.

aaronhoffman··on The real reason my startup was successful: privilege
I wouldn't call this "privilege" in the strict sense of that word. I think the "generational wealth" term that Jason uses is more accurate.

This helps illustrate that the basic building block of society/economy is more so the family than the individual.

aaronhoffman··on Show HN: Data visualization news
Is this a 100% community driven site, or are there some dedicated editors?
aaronhoffman··on Why Bitcoin’s $1,000 Value Doesn’t Matter
Aaand it's dropping fast. $960 and falling.
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: What mistakes did you make in your first software engineering job?
Wrote a static code generator that used a database schema as input. (this was a big design up front project, and other generators existed at the time the company did not want to purchase)
aaronhoffman··on Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (2009)
How trade creates wealth: "Trade is made of win" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0gGyeA-8C4
aaronhoffman··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)

  Location: Iowa, US
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Data Visualization, d3.js, javascript, c#, asp.net mvc
  Resume/CV: https://github.com/aaronhoffman
  Email: gmail hoffman.aaron.d
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