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by cloudier 6y ago
The book "The Trap: selling out to stay afloat in winner-take-all America" discusses the effect of healthcare on entrepreneurship:[1] > It's a truism that American culture celebrates entrepreneurs. The opinion polls show e
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How to Promote Startups (2008)(aaronsw.com)
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Connascence: A software quality metric and a taxonomy for types of coupling(connascence.io)
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Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary#Phone...
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> Not only did competition not end discrimination, there was enough discrimination that the act of not discriminating provided a significant competitive advantage for Townsend-Greenspan. And this is in finance, which is known for being c
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What are your thoughts on pinboard and other delicious replacements?
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The Soul Gained and Lost: Artificial Intelligence as a Philosophical Project(pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
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by cloudier 6y ago
I think this is the transmissionism versus constructivist view on teaching.[0] This is something that is well-known in education and I wish more people knew about it! Lay people commonly think of education as transmission of ideas from teac
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Do you remember the bipartisan consensus on SOPA/PIPA? "This bill, COICA, was introduced on September 20, 2010, a Monday. And in the press release heralding the introduction of this bill, way at the bottom, it said it was schedule
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A Non-Programmer’s Apology(aaronsw.com)
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For a similar example in a different site, see https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre... “In this endeavor, deniers focus on many minor and obscure details and leave out crucial context.
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by cloudier 6y ago
I mean, it’s not hard to see why feminists think that: just read any thread on Hacker News about gender.
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I also saw this advice in “How to make friends and influence people” but I found that following it alienated people: they often felt like they were being interrogated instead of enjoying a conversation.
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by cloudier 6y ago
Google Wave: too early to market.
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Early detection of Twitter trends explained(snikolov.wordpress.com)
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“Shortage of programmers” almost always means “we don’t want to pay full price for programmers”.
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Also America's Test Kitchen. But IMO not a bad thing.
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This is exactly my pain with Notion for personal knowledge management and why I switched to Roam Research. In Notion, I have all my pages in one table, plus tags, in order to manage the hierarchy without sinking a huge amount of time it. Bu
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Should I join a startup or a FAANG company?(my.causal.app)
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by cloudier 6y ago
I’ve found some companies use the rating systems to tailor interviews to your strengths by providing descriptions at each level (e.g. “10 means you wrote the book about it”). It’s not always useless.
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by cloudier 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this — I needed it. I think this explains why I often say “I get it” when I really don’t: I don’t want to look stupid. But being able to admit ignorance means that I can test my mental models and make them even better. I
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In one section of the book he implies that parts of it are written by his virtual assistants (although he provides the outline).
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Agreed, I also found this to be the case for my CS degree. When I realised that some courses were essentially facsimiles of courses I could take on a MOOC, I changed the way I chose my courses. Why take a copy-pasted course, when I could ju
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by cloudier 6y ago
“The first step is to find someone on the team and ask for 30 minutes with them. In that meeting you have a simple agenda: For the first 25 minutes: ask them to tell you everything they think you should know. Take copious notes. Only stop t
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by cloudier 6y ago
I see, thanks for the clarification. I agree that coding has long-term intangible goals that are difficult for a non-professional for to evaluate, and it makes sense that this isn’t something that people face in many writing-focused profess
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This is something I’m interested in. What did the course cover — things like active and passive learning, and constructionism? Does the book Ultralearning cover most of the same things? (Here is a summary: https://www.njlifehacks
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by cloudier 6y ago
Having a diversity of languages not only helps preserve culture and human knowledge, but also gives linguistics more examples to test hypotheses against. Is this language feature a universal feature of all languages, or did it just spread f
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How do you prove to others that you can write? I’m assuming that you have a portfolio that shows your writing — is that the case? How do you tell if your writing is good quality? Are your clients able to evaluate that too? I suspect the iss
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by cloudier 6y ago
This covered a lot of what I was planning to cover. +1 on figuring out your goals. A while ago I read an article about this as well as other parts of learning a language but I can’t find it anymore. I also want to mention that there are hea
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Thanks, I hadn’t thought to try beginner language courses as an alternative to Duolingo and similar apps! (I’ve done an intermediate-level university course on pronunciation which was pretty good.) I agree that Duolingo isn’t very useful —

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