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kcole16 | 5 years ago | on: Australian Government and businesses hit by state-based cyber attack, PM says

Technically, Catalonia is still a part of Spain, but I appreciate you recognizing their sovereignty!

kcole16 | 5 years ago | on: Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%

This is referring to StackOverflow's Talent product, which is a software engineering focused hiring platform. Seems like they furloughed the sales and marketing team for this product, due to an expected slowdown in market-wide hiring.

kcole16 | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency

This is due to how cryptocurrencies are classified by the IRS. Currently, they are classed as assets (property) as opposed to currencies, and thus any "realized gains" are taxable events. This includes the above example, where you may have technically "realized a gain" while buying a grilled cheese with Bitcoin.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

kcole16 | 7 years ago | on: The Bleak Reality of the Instagram Experience

I've found that Instagram use is growing amongst nearly all of my friend groups (including HN demo and non), while use of all other social apps is fading (not counting WhatsApp). For reference, mostly age 24-32 in the US and Western Europe.

kcole16 | 8 years ago | on: Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans

Same! Python requests is one of my favorite libraries of all time. Kenneth Reitz is a treasure.

kcole16 | 9 years ago | on: Pop up pour over in front of YC office

Fantastic idea. Pour overs are the fastest decent brewing method, and usually the cheapest. Making it portable is really cool little innovation. If the coffee is good, I could see this really selling

kcole16 | 9 years ago | on: Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards

In Portugal, very few places accept credit cards, or even debit cards in many cases. This is mainly so the businesses can avoid the crazy fees. It's inconvenient, but the prices are probably slightly cheaper, so people don't really complain.

kcole16 | 9 years ago | on: Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World

Nailed it. Traveling is amazing, but it certainly loses its luster after a while. I must say we're extremely fortunate to have been able to even make it to this point though.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

What exactly is the benefit of Elsevier for researchers? Is there no free way to publish papers?

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: React Native for OS X

React Native doesn't deliver a poor user experience though. It's not the right choice for every project, but in most cases users won't be able to discern between RN and native.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Another Vietnam – Unseen images of the war from the winning side

I've lived in both Chile and Vietnam, and Chile is light years ahead of Vietnam in every respect. I love Vietnam, but it has a long way to go before it reaches the standard of living of most South American nations

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?

That's basically the point of most law and financial firms (at least when they start out). Until it went public (and still to a large degree), the whole point of Goldman Sachs was to make its' employees rich.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Rent Your Place on Airbnb? The Landlord Wants a Cut

OP makes it clear he would work together with the landlord on this.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: They Are Us

This article makes a great point regarding ISIS aim to turn western nations against the refugees. I can't even fathom how it feels to be forced from your home, then be greeted with hostility just about everywhere. It's not hard to imagine developing the sense of hatred that leads to irrational decisions (like joining ISIS), especially in the younger refugees.

I have no idea what the solution is, but I think it's clear banning refugees isn't it. I understand the fear, and I'm as scared as anyone about the potential for new attacks. Still, we need to unite everyone against ISIS, not drive new recruits towards them.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Google Launches a Developer Boot Camp, Promising Jobs for Graduates

I know amazing engineers without CS degrees, and bad engineers with them. It's certainly nice to have one, but it's hardly a prerequisite for becoming a good engineer.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade for young people

Eventually, creditors might write it off, but the borrower would be liable if they ever return to the US.

Also, given how annoying it is for international banks to work with US expats, I can't imagine they would look past that kind of dent in credit history.

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Tsunami alert as Chile hit by powerful earthquake

Currently in Santiago, building shook for well over a minute. No damage here though

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: HawkHire – Apply to European Startups with One Form

Hey everyone!

I am the cofounder of HawkHire. We currently offer positions in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Paris.

Happy to answer any questions!

kcole16 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Python Enthusiast – How to get my foot through the door?

Start talking to local dev shops and startups that heavily use Python and offer to work for free (as you mentioned).

Most will probably deny you due to lack of resources (onboarding volunteers still takes engineering hours), but one might take a chance.

Shoot me an email if you want to chat (address in my profile). I was in the exact same spot as you 18 months ago, and have been employed as an engineer since then.

kcole16 | 11 years ago | on: Rapydscript: Python-like pre-compiler for JavaScript

As much as a love Python, JS really isn't that bad. Seems to me like you could become competent with JS (at least for simple frontend tasks) in the time it would take to familiarize yourself with Rapydscript.