apotheon

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by apotheon 17y ago
They probably look for people who can do the job well.
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by apotheon 17y ago
The intuitive and colloquial uses of those terms tend to stray significantly from the "correct" denotative uses, too. That might be worth keeping in mind while you champion those uses of the term. My sympathies definitely lie with the pres
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by apotheon 17y ago
That's an idiotic job, as you described it -- and really only makes my point for me.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think this mostly proves that while HR people may not be idiots as big as we feared, they're bigger idiots than we hoped.
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Write Your Own Regular Expression Parser(codeguru.com)
24 points by apotheon 17y ago|7 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
Since it got deleted when someone else posted the linkjacked version, I posted this one to fill in the gap. Enjoy. Note: I feel similarly pretty much every time someone asks me to read something he or she wrote. The common exception is wh
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by apotheon 17y ago
The first page of stuff is all superficial and pointless. My favorite is the one that suggests leaving the "http" off URLs when typing them into the address bar, so that you enter ://example.com instead of http://example.com . I'd really
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The mysterious equilibrium of zombies(boston.com)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
One cannot be purely stupid or purely intelligent all the time. There are times when someone is simply standing around in the restroom brushing his teeth, for instance. This doesn't change anything about the accuracy of the core thesis as
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think you and Cipolla are using these terms differently. He uses "intelligent" and "bandit" (and "stupid" and "helpless", as well) to refer to patterns of behavior , while you are using them to refer to the basic character of the indivi
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I'd add more, but the web already has too much ADD(chipsquips.com)
2 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
Certification is much better than licensing, because one can always choose to ignore certification, or shop around for the best certifications. This, in turn, is important because licensing and certification both sometimes fail utterly t
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by apotheon 17y ago
> it's pretty hard to argue that he wouldn't have been better off with a paid internship. . . . if the internship existed at all. Your argument seems to take the form "The downside you suggest is doubtful to me, but it's pretty hard to
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by apotheon 17y ago
Whoosh. Jesus, people. It's not like he refuses to pay anyone for anything at any time . The core of his complaint is that a project won't happen and people won't get work experience (how much you think he weights each of these relat
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by apotheon 17y ago
Why does everyone seem so insistent on ignoring the claim that it's too expensive to pay regular employees for this work, and as a result, without interns, the project won't happen at all ?
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Strawman in a sense were the party offering the unpaid internship distorts the value of the compensation through gaining experience. So the argument of the first party not being paid can be refuted by saying that compensation occurs t
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by apotheon 17y ago
Are you now saying that all you did in the first place is affirm that something exists -- something we all know already exists -- in the midst of discussion of whether it should exist? WTF is the point of that?
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What's the point of a Scheme standard?(lists.r6rs.org)
1 points by apotheon 17y ago|0 comments
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by apotheon 17y ago
True. Think of this as a case of pure win, though: 1. Government won't get its fingers into something it should (have to) do, and thus won't spend tax money unnecessarily. 2. You have more ways to evaluate the corruption and dishonesty of
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by apotheon 17y ago
Who's crazy enough to try to compete with the government on something like that? As long as the government looks likely to do it, private efforts probably aren't going to happen -- unless it turns out that there's strong public dislike for
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by apotheon 17y ago
> If it even has the potential to turn a profit, then he should foot the cost of the risk, not the interns. Do you think he's not paying a bunch of money to make a project like this happen -- even if he doesn't have to pay all of his
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by apotheon 17y ago
Did they get what they were promised? If so . . . where's the problem? Is it that people just assumed they'd get more than they were promised?
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Have you never worked somewhere because you hoped it would pay off huge in the end, even though you had other and higher paying options? That's called a "gamble". The potential for loss is inherent in that type of decision. Does the
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by apotheon 17y ago
Not necessarily. It can also make society worse off overall in part because certain types of work just don't get done .
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Not every company is ethically responsible What annoys me most about many of the opinions expressed in this discussion is that people think it's okay to punish the honest employers, and the people those honest employers would like to
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by apotheon 17y ago
I'm not sure I see how your example is similar to Mark Cuban's example. For instance, conducting surveys (one of the tasks Cuban was talking about having interns accomplish) is part of a wide range of professional fields -- including exper
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by apotheon 17y ago
I disagree with the idea that the possibility that one set of people might be more "advantaged" than another is good justification for ensuring nobody gets a leg up. . . . and claiming otherwise, specifically when those sets of people are i
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Sexual competition is not nearly as simple as job competition, for several reasons. I think you have an oversimplified view of the employment market. > Many people have multiple sex partners, but a single job is staffed by a singl
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by apotheon 17y ago
I'm aware of the metaphor. What I find ridiculous is that you're part of the attempt to argue that sex between consenting adults behind closed doors has no larger socio-economic effect, and when someone points out a larger socio-economic e
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by apotheon 17y ago
I have a very difficult time associating the word "efficient" with the California DMV.

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