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by bartonfink 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you took that approach to American football, you'd wind up with a greater chance for injury on the short side. Physical contact is nearly ubiquitous in American football, and a team with an extra body to throw around
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Why is having people driven to fulfil their potential a bad thing?
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I suspect that the average "rich" environment is lacking plenty of things that a perfectly nurturing environment would have. If you look at this through the lens of Maslow's hierarchy, a kid growing up in a poor environment is going to lack
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Sign me up. I'd love to know what the hell A Serious Man was really about.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
If you have enough karma to vote a negative post down, then do so. I don't see how bringing up anyone's account creation date adds anything positive to a discussion, and I'm sure it occurs as a blatant ad hominem more frequently than not. U
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I used to like the Joel on Software fora about 2-3 years ago. They weren't overly technical, but they had more than a few people who always seemed to have something interesting to say (Bored Bystander comes to mind). Unfortunately, Joel kil
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I can't say it would really make a big difference to get a "thank you" and I've never sent more than cursory thanks. One thing I have done, though, when interviewing for a job, is to not ask all my ?'s when the interview enters the "what do
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I'm not convinced most job postings are that clever.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I have a daughter on the way in May, and of all the parenting books I've read to try to prepare, that may be the most insightful thing on the subject I've seen. You just floored me. Good f'ing show, sir - good f'ing show.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
"Like it or not, academia is a meritocracy. It may be a highly flawed meritocracy susceptible to overvaluing labels or fads of the day, but ultimately tenure is bestowed on those who earn the respect of their peers..." I wonder whether thes
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by bartonfink 16y ago
What can this do for me that I can't do myself with wget + cron?
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Just let lazy evaluation deal with the problem.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Regardless of why he turned down the job, why would you bash or judge him at all? Especially since you aren't 100% sure that he doesn't have a good reason for turning the offer down, it doesn't seem productive at all to say anything bad abo
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind when you said "search" was "search space" - an abstract Cartesian landscape like something out of Tron. I'm probably abnormal...
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by bartonfink 16y ago
My day job is with a defense contractor doing service integration for a surveillance system. This is cool, and highly stable (good for the kid), but probably not amenable as experience for part-time work. The night job I was doing for a whi
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Ask HN: Where to look for side work?
16 points by bartonfink 16y ago|7 comments
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Black athletic socks (all I wear) and a continuation of my membership to Netflix.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
One thing I'd love to see would be a system that detected when I used the mouse to run a command that had a hotkey shortcut and displayed the shortcut while performing the action. For example, if I used the mouse to click the File menu in n
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by bartonfink 16y ago
What position are you interviewing for? What level of seniority? What do you need this person to be able to do for you?
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by bartonfink 16y ago
My first point of advice is to not lose the forest for the trees. Life is about destinations, and not so much the paths we take to get there. You say you want to study environmental engineering and industrial design to solve problems, which
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy options.
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I'm not sure I follow the logic in using a URL shortener to generate a link for the LinkedIn profile, unless you're accepting job applications solely via Twitter. Can someone explain a bit further?
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by bartonfink 16y ago
I've heard it phrased as "money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy options."
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by bartonfink 16y ago
Assuming average sleep quality, I feel that I need 6 hours if I'm going to be productive for a full day. I can do that for a 5 day period (e.g. Mon-Fri) but I'm going to need to get at least 8 hours the next day (e.g. Sat) to pay back some