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by 3minus1 8y ago
Interesting statistic in the article about a 25% reduction of Fortune 500 female CEOs in the last year. They have discussed female CEOs on Freakonomics podcast a fair bit including the theory that shareholders and employees prefer a CEO wit
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Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo C.E.O. Behind Health Drive, Steps Down(nytimes.com)
1 points by 3minus1 8y ago|1 comments
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by 3minus1 8y ago
also known as "cargo culting"
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by 3minus1 8y ago
> there are excellent Uber/Lyft drivers, there are others who are simply cosplaying taxi driver. I completely disagree with this. 99% of Lyft drivers pass the very low bar of being able to drive somewhere without getting into an acc
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by 3minus1 8y ago
pre-backlash
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by 3minus1 8y ago
What about a company that happily sells guns and bombs to both sides in a Civil War? They are filling the needs of individuals to decimate society.
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by 3minus1 8y ago
Most everyone would agree that it's not really a passion if you don't devote much time to it.
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by 3minus1 8y ago
> the rampant counterfeiting going on right under their nose. This is news to me. Can you link an article about it?
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by 3minus1 8y ago
Would you say that scientists should jump immediately to human trials on life-saving drugs since it will speed up progress and save lives, and that any deaths incurred along the way are worth it?
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by 3minus1 9y ago
Your comment is really pedantic. Obviously the concern is whether using monads is a waste. If I say "television is a waste of time" are you also going to correct me that tvs just are ?
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by 3minus1 9y ago
average income is typically a median, with 50% of people following above and below the median. it's specifically used because outliers can't throw it off.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
Does anyone who's downvoting this comment care to explain why?
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> considered by many It's the first definition in the dictionary.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
It's not a sexist thought. It's an explanation for why marriage rates are lower among poor adults. Do you have a better explanation?
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by 3minus1 9y ago
Quite a bit of negativity in the comments here. I liked the article. Typically I rely on code samples in articles like this, but I found the paragraph descriptions very readable.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
Misleading title. Should be percent of people who hate their job increases from 8% to 17% after age 35.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
this sounds really cool. some of my favorite games are essentially sandboxes (mount & blade, pirates), and I like the idea of taking the sandbox and building in non-trivial, non-artificial non-deterministic stories.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
This whole piece strikes me as rambling and misguided. > “Woman in tech” is just another label I don’t need The author agrees there is a shortage of women in tech and that it is a problem, yet how can you address a problem of underrepres
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by 3minus1 9y ago
why is API gateway so bad?
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by 3minus1 9y ago
it took me a while trying to figure out what you meant by a collage of critical thinking.
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I think spelling is like typing where you gradually improve. Even with a spellchecker you still get a lot of practice typing words and seeing when they are wrong.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
> let my code do the talking this is really it in a nutshell. we're here to make software, not to make friends. if you have the technical skills then you can do just fine for yourself.
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by 3minus1 9y ago
Yes, social anxiety can be crippling. But as you say, you are fine talking with people you are comfortable with. Well guess what? In software engineering over 90% of your interaction is with team members who you will be comfortable with. Al
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by 3minus1 9y ago
I hope this advice is not taken seriously by anyone. There are plenty of successful introverts in software development (myself included).
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by 3minus1 9y ago
exactly. this was driven home for me when I read babbit by sinclair lewis [1]. It's all about "keeping up with the jones's" consumerism in America. It's amazing that it was written 95 years ago. [1] https:/&#x
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by 3minus1 10y ago
peace in our time
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by 3minus1 10y ago
mind linking to the blog?
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by 3minus1 10y ago
Some things are proven to be very bad, like cigarettes or morbid obesity. There's really no question that those things kill people, and will drastically affect your life expectancy.
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AI program beats humans in poker game(bbc.com)
3 points by 3minus1 10y ago|0 comments
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by 3minus1 10y ago
Hi, it's something I learned about when I took this class: https://www.coursera.org/learn/bible-history It looks like it's actually being offered again, and just started this week if you're interested.

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