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by dlwdlw 10y ago
A misconception is that Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, etc... were more lifestyles or beliefs than religions. In terms of influence over life, they were very much like religions historically.
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Agree. In China people request help and protection from "Heaven", "God", or "Buddha", but something I noticed is that the behavior is very similar. The protection and good fortune is asked from forces of nature
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The essence of linear algebra series on youtube is great as well. It provides a intuitive guide to what linear algebra is about in 2d and 3d space with "arrow" vectors with great animations. Once an intuition is provided about mat
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There's a joke somewhere about rowing teams and how the US tried to improve performance by replacing all the rowers with rowing managers. Almost all structure is organized into log n tree structures to manage complexity. There's l
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In a way, cushiness was forcefully taken away via democritization. Just as a rich father may gives his son a sinecure, a rich country gives its citizens sinecures out of excess wealth. Competition amongst people though rapidly reduces the s
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Thanks for the feedback and praise for the initial thoughts! I'm not sure how quite to express the last idea yet, but basically I'm trying to say that people in countries like China/India are worth just as much as people in t
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The world has always been dividided into regions with unfair allocation of resources. The control of the resources is allocated to those who believe more in the boundaries. A large company for example is an institution that contains resourc
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The issue with silicon valley interviews is that it's leading a new paradigm of management styles that deal with knowledge and creative work This shift MUST be accepted by everybody ornostracism is risked. (Like trump supporters) But p
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I think one issue is that interviews are often confused about whether they are checking credentials or checking for fit. That is, are they looking for people who will thrive in the environment, or are they checking that someone has the skil
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The danger here is that this ideal environment created requires external meaning and tasks. Exploratory movement is messy, painful, and inefficient. It often requires you to learn new things on the fly and punishes severly for understandabl
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Flexibility vs efficiency. Agile vs high momentum. As a rule of thumb, start-ups need to be more agile as they are mostly exploring new territory, trying to create new value or re-scope valueless things into valuable things. Larger companie
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One of the reasons radicals have amassed so much power in the middle east is because they were the only ones willing to stand up to the west as the more reasonable people realized they couldn't do anything. A bit of craziness can creat
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People argue about whether or not 10x proframmers exist yet mostly agree on the 80/20 rule though. But aren't they actually the same thing? Given 100 units of output and 10 people and the 80/20 rule, 2 people provide 40 each
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You're just stating laws of physics though which isn't helpful. The idea behind diets is that your body processes different sources of energy differently. For example, it doesn't process antimatter at all despite its numerous
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I agree, while there certainly are tasks that can be similar to building a tower of cards, most programmers who have a no interruptions attitude come across as arrogant. This creates schisms for new developers and non-developers. Seeds of
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Memorization is difficult but it doesnt differentiate enough to escape into a smaller pool of competition. The more people you are competing with, the less you get for the same work. I think the barrier to entry for tech, which is highly pa
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Heres a model i though of: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/02/20/the-cactus-and-the-wea... The core is a 2x2 with strength of views on one axis and holding strength on the other. A fox is someone who knows ma
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The article's premise is that war is vicious yet moral, so something less vicious like wall street has no right to complain that morality is a second level concern. A king not killing another king is moral between kings, but those that
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This is just myopic and naive. The complexity of the problems in China as well as the solutions can't just be summed up as good or bad. Based on population alone, governance needs to be different. Tech workers especially should know th
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A lot of these bad practices come not from a broken process but from the programmers themselves. There are many people who have an ego to protect or some concept of fairness to enforce. Some examples: (1) successful startup lead engineer wh
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My theory is that many immigrants, mainly Chinese and Indian, study very hard to get into these companies. So they expect the same level of effort from everyone else. It's not even expectation, it may be that someone who has obviously
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I agree that there is a Java culture, but I also think that it developed into the way it is because it was so popular during a time when there werent very good engineering practices by non-technical people. The movement towards wanting mana
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Follow your heart, but realize when you're just making an excuse to be self indulgent.
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A thought occurred tine that maybe these types of interviews aim to filter for specific people. An H1B from Asia will have the motivation to memorize "Cracking the Coding Interview" as well as the pressure to stay and say yes to e
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Many executives cultivate this ignorance. When you kill someone accidentally its manslaughter, when it's purposeful it's murder. A person is dead either way, but the punishment for incompetence is lesser than that for malice. By c