drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
I think the root problem is that a lot of people want books to tell them how to think. I think that's why I hate things like Oprah book clubs, complete with quizzes to make sure you think the right things now. My best reading experienc
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2010/07/25/fdr-s-surprising...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I also remember some of these: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045458/
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That approach also keeps you from hiring disgruntled devs. It's hard to know from an interview what the quality of your Haskell code is. It's probably relatively easy to find out in an interview that you had a lot of trouble with
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Framing! Why does the author insist that not littering is the neutral state?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I really wonder about submissions like this. Is it real? Is the poster a hiring manager who takes staffing problems to an internet forum instead of HR? Is the poster someone else on the team hoping to generate responses on HN to try to coer
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That's not exactly what police profiling by color means.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Or maybe we have to read the article to find his opinion: > Debating whether Moses’ bridges discriminate is an unhelpful distraction. But can a bridge be discriminatory? Absolutely. Personally, I thought the author was a bit offensive in
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Is that a standard egg or delicate? Is it hand wash? Maybe dry clean only?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Anyone using a washer, listens for it. Currently, I have to set a timer on my phone to go check the washer and dryer because my laundry is in the basement and I'm probably on the 2nd floor or outside. I would love it if these thin
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by drewcoo 2y ago
nods to Crocodile Dundee . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Feynman confused pedagogical skill with expertise in a given field. He insisted that experts could explain things. No, that's what a teacher does. Feynman was good at both and apparently had no one to challenge him on his claim that th
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Because the best solution is to try to keep the cars in their illegal parking spots. This is the dumbest thing since providing newly painted large swaths of wall in response to taggers.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Do people not talk about "red ocean/blue ocean" anymore? https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/tools/red-ocean-vs-blue-oc... The author's point is that a blue ocean strategy won't work in a red oce
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Lotta retconning with Henry Ford. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-hundred-and-th... > In 1913 alone, Ford had to hire more than 52,000 workers for a workforce that at any one time numbered 14,000, writ
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> just the nature of how conversation works Than I am also annoyed by your conversations.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Adorno was Frankfurt school. He opposed "culture industry." He loved Schoenberg's music because it was challenging. He hated pop music of any kind because it was the opposite - an easily pleasing pablum to sell to and control
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> o you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation? Stock valuation is based on speculation. I don't think I understand the question.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
So the Guardian runs a similar headline accompanied by an illustration of reddened bowels. The BBC, however, runs this headline accompanied by the headshot of a young woman. As if to imply that she's some kind of Bond villain responsib
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by drewcoo 2y ago
SCIFs are supposed to be tamper-evident.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_inform... There are many aspects to "physically secure."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
https://jakeeshelman.com/about > Jake is currently pursuing his MA in Ecology & Spirituality from The University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Ahh. That explains it!
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by drewcoo 2y ago
You were on to something with the GP's unprovable assertion. Then you provided your own false dichotomy and the argument went all wrong.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Then over time these grinders get high enough up they start becoming interviewers themselves and they don't understand that they're even supposed to screen for talent, they conduct the interview like a memory test since to th
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> something horrible based on timezones, or phone number validation What? Do you have something against zip codes and email addresses? I like to ask something to do with strings - English sentences. I tell them it's intractable in t
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by drewcoo 2y ago
If, after all of the normal interviews, you randomly selected candidates who passed and do not make them offers . . . you generally produce false negatives (assuming the interviews mostly worked). But it's entirely pointless.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I can't even eat dog testicles anymore! Tell me that's not somehow disturbing . . .
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Redefinition of information to fit the thesis. Ironically vapid.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> A culture without writing doesn’t produce a written record of its history But it can transmit an oral record, which seems to be the author's point. Paper, skins, and stone are not the only mediums for language.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
For software, prehistory would be design discussions before any code was written or there was anything in the ticketing system.

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