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There's a site I use to sift through counterfeit items and fake reviews on Amazon (and other sites I believe). [0] It's made the headache of finding legitimate products on Amazon a lot easier to manage for me.If you actually look at a lot of the fake 5-star products and analyse the reviews, the majority are really obviously fake. They're chock-full-of buzzwords and they almost always come from verified purchasers with absolutely nonsensical names. I agree - it's gotten really difficult to find real things. However, I haven't found it to be very difficult to spot the fakes in the markets current form. You would think Amazon could internally flag the name patterns for review, but I guess that would take moderating human-power.

[0] https://www.fakespot.com/

Similarly, Runescape private servers and bots got me interested in programming and computer science from an early age. Young me viewed Runescape as an immutable truth that couldn't be manipulated, but teenage me got involved in botting, hacking, and even the development of a Runescape private server that had it's own rules and code. It was magical to see that technology could be tinkered with. It introduced me to java and configuring tools, collaboration, and most of all how to spot a scam and the intricacies of a (granted, fake) economy. It's amazing what that addictive game gave to me.

I'm reading this now!

There's an episode of The Dollop podcast that addresses the introduction of cars to the streets of America when horse and buggie still ruled the road [0]. It is highly entertaining and informative, and it touches upon why "jaywalking" and who "Jay" is supposed to be. I recommend it and the podcast in general to anyone who is interested in peculiar history.

[0] http://thedollop.libsyn.com/193-when-the-cars-came

I turned down an offer at a large agency in NYC after learning that they build what is basically malware for the browser. Toolbars for IE, weather widgets, etc. I thought the compensation and perks were good for a first job, and the work was full-stack which is what I had been looking for, but I couldn't bring myself to work for a company that builds products that I spent my childhood removing from friends and families computers.

If you don't mind me asking, if you already have a job you enjoy, what's driving you to the FAANG companies? I know there are a ton of valid answers to this question but I'm curious anyway!

I love privacy.com - I can kill the debit cards I generate and use with specific merchants when they have been exploited.

This is interesting to me as I've been trying to read books that I couldn't get into in high school like "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" and I had to force myself through both because the interest wasn't there. I will say that 1984 was more interesting to me because of the parallels in the world today (and i'm sure every generation sees the parallels which makes it such a classic), but I didn't feel it was an entertaining read. The book within the book section was torture for me.

That appears to be a soft requirement. If you check out the admission thread on the subreddit[0], there is always a decent amount of students getting accepted with backgrounds outside the realm of computing and mathematics. That being said, there are plenty that don't make the cut as well. It's worth a shot for a cheap masters from a well-respected institution though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/omscs

Since Peter Norvig has been topical this week, here are his great instructional ipython notebook solutions to last years AoC challenges[1].

[1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Advent%20...

Even after going to Jacquard's website, I'm having a real hard time understanding what this is or what this does.

> 10 minutes of ads

The last couple of times I've gone to the movies the ads total over 20 minutes if you include the previews for other films! It's absurd.

> There also is emoji and Giphy support, of course.

But why? It seems that Stride is trying to be the more productive version of Slack, and I think action items and decision notes have potential, but if I keep getting :partyparrot: instead of information related to my job, I'm going to keep basically ignoring my communications app.

I'm struggling to grasp the relevance also. In NYC, you'll have Subway sandwich flyers and comedy club flyers thrown your way also, but I don't think those have anything to do with VC. Why do bikes rentals strike you as a "VC cash burn?"

>>(How much would you care if someone told you they'd sat in on Stanford classes without enrolling? Not very much, right?)

Although this person didn't get accepted into an elite college, I think they're showing an immense amount of initiative and drive. They are aware of the quality of the education that Stanford students receive, and they want that same learning opportunities as those students even though they cannot attend for one reason or another. I think this signals a really strong desire to learn, which is something I imagine some people in recruiting "care" about.

Software engineers in NYC can make that out of college if they are competent interviews and negotiate their first salary

I have the second pair you listed, and find them terribly uncomfortable to wear for more than a half an hour or so. I've tried stretching them on a medium-sized cardboard box but didn't notice much improvement. They make my head feel like it is being crushed, and give me a terrible headache rather quickly. They crush my ears into my skull too. The noise canceling and battery life on them are great, but if you considering purchasing these and have a slightly larger-than-average sized head, this is something you should consider.

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Thanks!

I think what I was getting at is that there are no chains that compare to the small pizza businesses in NYC. I prefer Domino's to Papa John's if we're comparing chains though.

They also have an affiliation with the New York Rangers for 50% off the day after the Rangers score 3 goals. It's amusing to me how aggressively they advertise in NYC when all the alternative pizza is cheaper and better.

This is a bit off topic, but can anyone suggest a decent Django tutorial? I've just recently learned python, and would like to build a few projects using Django. I completed Django's official tutorial[1], but when it came time for me to actually start building something, I found I didn't really understand what was going on. I should mention I'm inexperienced in both web application development and python in general.

1: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/

Although it pleases me that they asked for the email after download instead of before, it bothered me that I couldn't navigate back to the page if I didn't want to include my email without refreshing the page altogether.