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hcayce
14y ago
Sounds like an interesting challenge. Has anyone written a longer article or study about the issue?
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hcayce
14y ago
>A big problem with casual selling on ebay is you don't know what you don't know until you've already been screwed. Most of the big online sites (Paypal is the worst offender, but the others aren't much better) favor buyers over sellers
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hcayce
15y ago
And, depending on the field, one good way to get inexpensive reading material is to pick Latest.Edition - 1. For many courses, the incremental changes are small and the field doesn't advance fast enough to make the new book worth way more t
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hcayce
15y ago
I'm submitting this because of its similarity to Paul Graham's essay "See Randomness," http://paulgraham.com/randomness.html , and I think they came to the same conclusions independently of each other.
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See Randomness -- by Charles Seife
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15y ago
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You need to learn how to program
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15y ago
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hcayce
15y ago
It's really a mixed bag as to who is to blame. On the one had the committee coming up with this should have done some research (and asked themselves "why hasn't rms done any convocations before?"). I've known organizations entertaining the
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hcayce
15y ago
"Why is it that people are so fixated on IQ?" I suspect that people who ask about IQs say more about themselves than an IQ number says about any particular individual.
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hcayce
15y ago
I wonder if the test is closer to one writers face: you're probably a decent writer if people value your work enough to read it. Likewise, whatever else one can say of programmers, you might be a reasonably decent one if someone else values