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Issac Kelly
Personal blog · issackelly.com/blog · on HN as izak30programminghardware
Issac Kelly's personal blog at issackelly.com covers programming and hardware. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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I'm glad you responded. Not all positive indicators are created equal. It's totally true. An Ivy league degree is recognizably hard, and it's an easy quantifier, if . If your work is equally hard, you need to figure out a way to show that. You may also have to work harder to find connections in small tight circles that are slightly more immediate if you went to an Ivy League school (that's part of what you're paying…
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on “All Rockstars Went to Julliard”Submitted Philips Hue API Hacking as a story · 45 points
HN discussionExcellent point. This is something that I'm very passionate about. Great developers are most often horrific designers; but they say things like "I like minimalistic designs", which, while true for us developer types (when we're looking for high-volume content), doesn't scale. If Web 2.0 is about the experience, a great design is just as important as a good idea. (that is not to say that one type of design IS web 2.0…
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on “How to Destroy the Web 2.0 Look.”Submitted How Fog Creek Saved me half a grand OR Great Customer Service as a story · 15 points
HN discussionWritten while at my last job: http://issackelly.com/blog/2007/04/815-am-daily-battle.html note: <-- just a joke, obviously
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on “Ask YC: Getting In the Zone?”Submitted Things I Can't Say [in my YC Application] as a story · 9 points
HN discussionMicrosoft put out Small Basic a little while ago. It's actually a lot of fun, and really simple (well... for me... the kid would be the real test) to pick up. I did a quick overview here http://www.issackelly.com/Blog/entry/Hands_on_with_Small_Bas...
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on “Ask HN: Programming and Shaping Minds?”Submitted You write like a programmer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless Plug: http://issackelly.com looking for general freelance work to help fund my bootstrapped startup. I've worked extensively with each of those technologies.
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on “Any suggestions on good places to find freelance developers?”Submitted Hacking your Belkin Wemo switch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Prime is awesome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Plea to Pass to your Friends and Family using IE 6 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Image Processing Troubles. as a story · 2 points
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