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crenchon Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

My whole career in technology is because of a "Who's Hiring?" thread back in 2012 or so.

Emailed the hiring email address in the thread for a company that seemed to suit my interests and abilities at the time and was off to the races. I moved from a rural area to a Midwestern state for the gig. Every job I've had since that job has been with companies comprised of permutations of those same coworkers from the first gig.

I'd probably still be doing roofing or something if I hadn't been an HN reader at that time.

crenchon Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013)

I was lucky enough to be resupplied by a Super Cub air taxi service multiple times while on a long mountaineering trip in Alaska many years ago. It was incredible to see all the random places that the pilot could land, including a gravel bar similar to the video in the article.

crenchon The Kush civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5K years ago

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

crenchon Firebase as a React Hook

PostgREST does this fairly well.

crenchon Bank of America is raising its minimum wage for employees to $20

>by 2021

crenchon Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons

There’s one of these in Portsmouth, NH: Gilley’s.

crenchon Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech

Thanks for that perspective. I feel like we're constantly looking through the lens of "Uber is doing something shady", so projecting a large scandal onto the company is very easy. The inverse of that being that it could be quite easy for someone, Levandowski in this case, to orchestrate something for himself illegally.

crenchon Google accuses Uber of creating a fake company in order to steal its tech

"Here's the thing," [Judge William Alsup] said. "You didn't sue him. You sued Uber. So what if it turns out that Uber is totally innocent?"

This is going to be a very interesting case.

crenchon Teach Yourself Computer Science

This could do without the "Why learn computer science?" section entirely.

crenchon The Talented Mr. Huxley (2015)

Yeah, as an English elective. It was great; I loved it.

crenchon The Talented Mr. Huxley (2015)

One of my favorite assignments in high school (2007) was after reading 1984 and Brave New World. The teacher of our Dystopian Literature class prompted us to elaborate on who we thought was right overall, Huxley or Orwell.

It was a sobering exercise realizing that there's a fair amount of Orwellian and Huxleyan prophecies in our modern world, but we tend to focus more on the 'scarier' Orwellian ideas.

crenchon How Does the SQL Server Query Optimizer Work?

thanks for that!

crenchon New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up

I've used my Project Sputnik machine for years and loved it.

crenchon Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

there goes my winter.

crenchon H-1B bill pulled from House committee vote amid complaints

Both critical hires probably cost the same as one of those hires would have for a local hire.

crenchon Setup Keybase.io, GPG and Git to sign commits on GitHub

Here's a few more:

https://keybase.io/inv/f36d2463f7

https://keybase.io/inv/902c91e375