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Spendar89

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Software Consultant. Javascript, Ruby, and Clojure.

Email: jakesendar@gmail.com

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theringer.com 10y ago

The Day the Internet Became “internet”

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Roman Numeral

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Postmates launches Amazon Prime-style subscription service

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of a Tribe Called Quest, Dies at 45

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

Yes, 14th Street may be better these days, but something vital is missing

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docs.datomic.com 11y ago

Datomic Best Practices

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blog.cognitect.com 11y ago

Clojure 1.7 is now available

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: What's Your Preferred CSS Grid System?

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

Heres why HBO's 'Ballers' can legally use NFL logos without the league’s consent

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clojurecup.com 11y ago

Clojure Cup

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

Cars of the Rich and Famous in Tech

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www.gamespot.com 11y ago

Why GTA IV keeps looking better on PC

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brojackson.com 12y ago

How we got our lebronjames.com intel

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

TaskRabbit users revolt as the company shuts down its bidding system

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How Does Your Team Handle Knowledge Fragmentation?

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vimhelp.appspot.com 12y ago

Vim Faq

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www.policymic.com 12y ago

These Tattooed Seniors Show That Aging With Tattoos Looks Amazing

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www.demilked.com 12y ago

The Architectural Density of Hong Kong

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www.cnbc.com 12y ago

The largest online college course has over half a million students

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www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

'Legitimate' bitcoins value soars

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ESPN introduced a stat called real plus-minus in 2014, which adjusts for teammates and opponents. It also takes both offensive and defense plus-minus into account. The top two players in RPM this past season were Lebron James and Draymond Green, followed by Chris Paul and Steph Curry [1]. It was received with a lot of skepticism back when it was introduced, but that shouldn't surprise anyone.

1. http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

The world is very much mutable

This depends on your definition of "the world". If time and memory are taken into account, you could easily make the case that the world is very much immutable. For example, if your friend changes his email address, its not as if his old address no longer exists. Even if it only exists in memory, it still exists somewhere, and you're still able to reference it.

If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend Rich Hickey's talk "The Value of Values"[1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values.

"I therefore find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving these problems, instead put their efforts into something like Yo."

Since when is this stuff zero-sum? Yo allegedly took 8 hours to build. Sure, during those 8 hours, Moshe Hogeg wasn't out solving the "big" problems, but in that day alone, he had 16 other hours, to do things the OP might deem worthy of his time.

I think this is a decent strategy for an aspiring marketer, since it shows off actual marketing skills.

For a software dev, however, not so much. I think it could come off as insincere and/or spammy.

If I'm emailing a company about a job, its because I'm particularly interested in working there. Therefore, I really try to be as personal and specific as I can when reaching out to the company. Especially in the initial email.

Otherwise I'd risk misrepresenting myself.

I have all except github as all I do is actually on my own repos

I would suggest making one or more of your repos public. Even if you're the only one contributing, potential employers will still get a sense of your ability and/or experience. Another idea is to make a repo of just code samples. Nothing demonstrates how you code better than your actual code.

I think a relevant issue that is the direct result of spotify/pandora/itunes is that we no longer consume albums, but rather individual tracks. Artists used to (and many still do) value producing a collection of songs that when listened sequentially meant something much more than listening to each song individually. Therefore, albums should theoretically be worth significantly more than the sum of the value of each individual track, but today's services have essentially destroyed this model. Don't get me wrong, there are obvious benefits of being able to consume only the tracks you like most, and I understand that we can still choose to listen to albums in their entirety, but the vast majority of people do not. A serious consequence of this is that consumers value music and the music industry as a whole significantly less than they once did. I also think there is an opportunity within the music-tech space to recreate the album-listening experience in an elegant way.