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Exercise More to Hack Better
Wherever the image came from of a productive hacker being a vitamin D deficient couch potato, fueled entirely by Ramen and Jolt, it needs to die.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)
Interviewer: Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just
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Introducing Facebook Deals
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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The time I hacked my high school
When I was in high school, I started the Chess Club. I needed money to buy chess sets and chess cl...
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Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
Hansard is the official printed transcript of the proceedings of the houses of parliament — in other words, the working log of the British government.
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Why airlines tend to be unionized
The explanation lies in the interaction of labor laws and aviation regulations. Let's consider labor laws first. The law compels a company to negotiate with a labor union. If it cannot reach an agreement, however, and the union goes out on strike, the company is able to hire replacement workers and continue its…
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Mathematically correct but psychologically wrong
The snowball strategy says to pay off your smallest debt first, then the next smallest, and so on until you're out of debt. When I first heard of this I thought it was silly. Clearly the optimal strategy is to pay off the debt with the highest interest rate first. That assessment is mathematically correct,
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Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
Landing page optimization (LPO) is the process of optimizing landing pages to boost conversions. Learn tips & examples in this guide written by experts.
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Introduction to Pyjamas
Create, build, and maintain websites and web apps that run in a browser.
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How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) His Dot Com
Update 6/22… It’s 12 years later and I just recently was able to get KhanAcademy.net and KhanAcademy.us to the folks at Khan Academy! It’s great to be able to support my favorite non-profits in a meaningful way. If you’re into domains and watching the drop, add a few of your favorite non-profits to your monitor list…
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Build your own Startup Death Clock
Here's a simple, powerful trick for focussing your mind on one of the most important things about your startup: The date that you run out of money.