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daggerdroneon Singapore is paying people to read books – can it fix the reading crisis?

If you are wondering how much is the government paying ...

> Under the scheme, readers accrue points that can be redeemed for a few cents. People will have to log 50 daily reading sessions on a government website to earn S$1 (approx 80 US cents). A session of 15 minutes or more is rewarded with 20 virtual coins, with 1,000 coins needed for a dollar payment. One reading session is allowed daily.

daggerdroneon Being ambitious and being a dad

Isn’t it unhealthy to skip both breakfast and lunch? How are you getting the energy to do stuff without eating?

daggerdroneon Baby Steps into Genetic Programming

Ants was really interesting. Humbling indeed.

Link to Ants AI Challenge: http://ants.aichallenge.org/

Winner's post mortem: https://web.archive.org/web/20151117155824/http://xathis.com...

daggerdroneon Read Hacker News on Kindle (2022)

Don’t you think some users may want this as it puts less strain on your eyes? Especially, if they spend a lot of time reading Hacker News.

daggerdroneon Books to Dive in into Fullstack Development

I would recommend these two courses by Harvard in order:

1. CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

2. CS50's Web Programming with Python and JavaScript

Even if you know programming, you should still go through the first course. You can choose watch the lectures on 1.5x or 2x but definitely do the assignments. The assignment and project based approach of these courses will definitely make you learn the stuff deeply and will make you a good full-stack developer. All the best!

Links:

1. https://www.edx.org/learn/computer-science/harvard-universit...

2. https://www.edx.org/learn/web-development/harvard-university...

daggerdroneon Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit

This is definitely better for employees who are on H1B than a regular lay-off. At least, they have the option to keep their job while looking for a new one. Otherwise, the 60 day clock starts and the employee may have to leave the country. Which is much worse than relocating to another state.

daggerdroneon Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)

| I can think of few other books I’m interested to know which books …

daggerdroneon Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco

Isn't that a good solution if the alternative is to pay $2,000 for a studio in a bad neighborhood in SF or find something else 1 hour away?

daggerdroneon How Duolingo reignited user growth

Was that app Livemocha?

daggerdroneon Tell HN: You can't hire because you don't post salary ranges

Sorry but that's not how it works. $500k/year would mean roughly $250k base+bonus and $1 million of stocks vested over four years. And at most companies, the vesting starts after 1 year. So at the end of year one, you would have made $500k in base+bonus+stocks. And after that you would usually get the stocks every quarter so $62.5k worth of stocks every quarter. I am not sure where is your figure of 200-250k Total Comp coming from?

daggerdroneon The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

I wonder why they didn't just call it the "Indian Switcheroo". Why would it be named after a religion?

daggerdroneon Approved Cameras

How does that matter? They are just stating how much value they are getting out of $10.

daggerdroneon Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

Couldn't you ask someone to mail it to you?

daggerdroneon Useful iOS Things GitHub Repository

The title should be "Useful Swift Things". I assumed it would be about useful tips and tricks about using iOS on an iPhone.

daggerdroneon Major employers scrap plans to cut back on offices – KPMG

Also, it is possible that employees were putting in extra effort so that they won't be one getting laid off in case their company decides to do a layoff. It was a scary environment in the beginning with a layoff being announced almost every day.

daggerdroneon Duolingo's language notes all on one page

How come Spanish is so short as compared to French. Even German and Dutch pages are really long.

daggerdroneon I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language

> but in the UK we don’t even get taught the grammar of English

This is interesting because in India schools do teach grammar and grammatical terms. I thought they copied it from the UK school system. May be UK used to teach grammar before 1947 (when India got independence) and then they stopped teaching it.

daggerdroneon Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts

Just out of curiosity, if there was shortage of coconut harvesters, why were they poor? Can't they demand more money for the task?

daggerdroneon The technical interview is an ego trip

Fourth quality: ability to count

daggerdroneon Top Paying Tech Companies by SWE Level

What uncertainties exactly? Just interview normally and if you get an offer then you can accept the offer and they will start the H1B process. You will get the H1B approval in about three weeks. Then you can put your two weeks notice. Overall it will take around 5 weeks from your offer date to your joining date which is pretty reasonable. If there is a delay in the H1B or it does not get approved, then you can continue to work at your old place. Pretty much everybody on H1B these days is following this process.