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by 7402 11y ago
Full respect if you used it in the army. The giggling was probably because the GPS was thought to be "tacticool" ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tacticool ) as opposed to tactical.
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by 7402 11y ago
A Ph.D. is a union card for doing research. If you want to be a university professor, a principal investigator at a lab, a Chief Scientist or Chief Scientific Officer at a major corporation, then you need that union card. A Ph.D. program sh
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WiFi on Wheels Puts Two School Districts on Track to Access(thejournal.com)
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by 7402 11y ago
It's not uncommon for people who went to Harvard to avoid mentioning it right away, because of the way it can derail conversations or create weird expectations. (It's sometimes referrred to as, "Dropping the H-bomb.") [1
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by 7402 11y ago
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." attributed to Miles Kington
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Cartoon: “Hello creative person ”(oatmeal.tumblr.com)
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A guy tried to sweep leaves with a drone(washingtonpost.com)
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by 7402 11y ago
I guess for me it depends on whether the team lead is more of a peer or more of a supervisor. If the team is all senior people, then I'd agree, they should be more careful about interrupting and honoring the headphone convention. But i
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by 7402 11y ago
Your satisfaction changes from being happy that you've polished some nice bit of code to being happy that you've shipped a product and successfully run a group, and gained the admiration of the people on your team and in your comp
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by 7402 11y ago
Here are three rules I've followed: 1) If there's an exciting fun task and a messy unpleasant task, assign the fun task to someone else and do the unpleasant task yourself. 2) If someone on your team wants to ask you a question, a
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When parents of poor kids are given a little money(washingtonpost.com)
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Silicon Valley can be beaten(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
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New York Transit Museum(en.wikipedia.org)
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Dilbert: Startup idea(dilbert.com)
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Chimp attacked drone with a stick(washingtonpost.com)
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How the stock selloff could kill off some tech unicorns(washingtonpost.com)
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by 7402 11y ago
When I trained in aikido, "nage" was the thrower/defender. See, for example, http://aikido-west.org/handbook/uke_nage.html
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Data-Crunching Is Coming to Help Your Boss Manage Your Time(nytimes.com)
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Sure, I've been there, trying to do R&D under an imposed scrum regime. But, it's dangerous to challenge the current management religion unless you are in a position of power. The solution is the time-honored practice of keepin
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Eagle swats drone out of sky in Australia(cbsnews.com)
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Whole Foods removes $6 “Asparagus Water” from shelves(cbsnews.com)
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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Intermittent [power] grid storage(judithcurry.com)
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by 7402 11y ago
I am in-between on the extrovert-introvert scale. I have attended conferences by myself. It can be hard work for a shy or introverted person to deal with the 'social' moments. One solution is to ration your effort to be sociable..
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by 7402 11y ago
I've always found resumes to be quite useful in figuring out who to bring in for an interview - BUT, most of the people I've been involved in hiring have had between 5 and 15 years of experience, usually at at least 2 or more real
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Trapped in the Virtual Classroom(nybooks.com)
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How Europe’s climate policies led to more U.S. trees being cut down(washingtonpost.com)
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by 7402 11y ago
The emphasis on cultural fit seems so strange to me, since when I was hiring I wanted cultural diversity , not cultural fit. I did want everyone to have technical ability, communication skills and "character," by which I meant ho
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by 7402 11y ago
No, it's not OK. It's never OK to be "running late" according to however that is locally defined. Even at a place that says, "We don't care when you come in or work at home, just as long as you're on site
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by 7402 12y ago
I've been interested since reading this 1999 article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/02/books/think-tank-the-stoic... That article led me to Epictetus' The Enchiridion, wh

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