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New comment by johongo in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

johongo — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:22:00 +0000

Did the number of applicants go down/approval rate go up as a consequence?

New comment by johongo in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

johongo — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:59:14 +0000

What were some notable differences between H-1B before and after the fee?

New comment by johongo in "Take better notes, by hand"

johongo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:33:11 +0000

I have tons of different notebooks each designated for different purposes: notes on books I'm reading, my random thoughts, writing ideas, specific research projects, and many more. That leads to a lot of time spent trying to find and recall quotes, notes, and ideas, but with the system I laid out here, it's really no trouble at all.

This part takes the system beyond just needing ambient light to needing either to stay home or carry a backpack. Use perforated notebooks so you can tear out pages and sort them into binders. I prefer to categorize after filling a notebook for spaced repetition.

New comment by johongo in "A graph explorer of the Epstein emails"

johongo — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:56:31 +0000

Emil Eifrem (founder of Neo4j) has a talk about them doing this with the Panama papers

New comment by johongo in "We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds"

johongo — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:31:27 +0000

It was a typical attitude among my physicist and mathematician friends that memorizing was for suckers, even though it was often required to reproduce long proofs or derivations. These were people to whom mathematics came naturally; their understanding, memory, curiosity, and experience just compressed that knowledge until it was trivial to memorize. Unfortunately, many walked away with a sense of not needing to know things until they need them, but good luck with that in a systems design interview.

New comment by johongo in "Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)"

johongo — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:14:49 +0000

It sticks out. I prefer a subtle hook to the right at the bottom.

New comment by johongo in "Am I the only one that think Firefox has been getting a lot more buggy lately?"

johongo — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:03:52 +0000

Yeah, me too. I just went back to Chrome.

Science Integrity Digest: A Year in Review

johongo — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:42:42 +0000

Article URL: https://scienceintegritydigest.com/2020/12/31/2020-a-year-in-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25669161

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