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by grue2 9y ago
This has a certain genius to it. The same genius as sleep sort.
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by grue2 9y ago
I use a work sample (short paid contract), but it's not perfect and boy is it labor intensive. As a hirer, you really can't win. There's not one hiring process nor guiding principle that doesn't seem to bring out the pit
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by grue2 9y ago
Is sleep a death sentence? To boil it down, "I" am made of two things: qualia and memories. During unconscious sleep, those mysterious qualia disappear, except for brief chaotic flashes which we call dreams. Meanwhile a physical p
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by grue2 9y ago
Did you read the book?
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by grue2 9y ago
This article is borderline "Millennial bait," but: Suppose I invite you over to my apartment to hang out. I offer you a beer. You accept, so I tally "1 beer" on a little notepad. You have some potato chips. ("13 chi
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by grue2 9y ago
Suspension bridge cables are made of smaller cables. And those smaller cables are made of yet smaller cables. For example: http://regex.info/i/JEF_042406.jpg That's my guess.
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by grue2 9y ago
RIP. This hits hard. Before my career as a programmer I was an aspiring fiction writer. Johnson was my Radiohead of writing: an artist working at a seemingly unattainable level of skill, and very nearly transcending the art, as far as my ta
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by grue2 9y ago
Look into The Tourist/Milo Weaver trilogy by Olen Steinhauer. The third book (An American Spy) is where you'll find the US/Chinese intrigues (and an incident that has a similar ring to it as the above news article). I recomme