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I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than it used to be. Here's a good article by one developer on his experience: https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a18...

Good recommendations.

I would add that once you've understood the basics, subscribe to the economist magazine and try your best to understand the articles. Look up what you don't know until you feel comfortable reading and discussing the issues.

Whatever you do, avoid zero hedge. While there can be some intelligent and cogent analysis on there, it's mostly doom and gloom.

If you find this interesting, do a google image search of Man Plastic Surgery Dog.

Warning: Graphic and way worse than it sounds. That is, if it's real.

For sure this is interesting, but it's curious that articles of this sort are appearing on HN with increasing frequency. There used to be purely tech news, now it seems that anything interesting qualifies for an up vote.

This has been one of the recommended readings for our workshop students for quite some time: https://reactweekend.eventbrite.com

We also recommend the following:

9 things every React beginner should know. Take it with a grain of salt, but it's a good intro to some common React best practices. https://camjackson.net/post/9-things-every-reactjs-beginner-...

ES6 Guide. A nice resource for anyone new to ES6. Only sections 1-5 recommended. https://mrzepinski.gitbooks.io/es6-guide/content/

Edit: add additional recommendations.

> The material standard of living of a homeless person in modern-day Manhattan is several dozens of times higher than the wealthiest of kings ten thousand years ago.

It was here that I stopped reading.

If I had the resources zuckerberg has, and the access to information and data that he does, my posts would be optimized to show asynchronously by region, and to show first in the region most likely to respond positively to my post. That way it sets a tone of positivity for the rest of the commenters. At least in theory.

Cancer articles have been trending on HN lately.

So all of those knots in my back and side rib muscle - where oxygen is constricted - will become cancerous?

Except that it wasn't an agency at all. Kalanick headed the redesign himself, despite admitting that he didn't even know what kearning was when he started. From wired: >>> Most CEOs hire experts—branding agencies that specialize in translating corporate values into fonts and colors—or tap an in-house team. Not Kalanick. For the past three years, he’s worked alongside Uber design director Shalin Amin and a dozen or so others, hammering out ideas from a stuffy space they call the War Room. Along the way, he studied up on concepts ranging from kerning to color palettes. “I didn’t know any of this stuff,” says Kalanick. “I just knew it was important, and so I wanted it to be good.”

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-inside-story-behind-ubers-c...

Not surprising to anyone who follows greenwald. Read his book With Liberty And Justice For _Some_

I learned my lesson to not develop an entire business on the buzz of a new product https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bendunphy/numis-the-coi...

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