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by hughdbrown 9y ago
She thought it was important that the company was talking down to her. It's not a matter of accident just in the salary negotiation. It's a leading indicator of how they thought of her and what she could expect on the job. It&#x27
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by hughdbrown 9y ago
I can count a long way down by ones. The pattern is too obvious -- as it also is with even numbers, three, five, nine, ten. I find that counting down by 7s from 1000 does the trick. I can never get to 600 like that before I am asleep.
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
When I generate all the English words that are in a UK dictionary that use the letters "acehijopsx" exclusively, and then test which are reachable domains, I come up with only about 500. Other than epic.com, the most significant o
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
> you won't have repeats until you've fully gone through the playlist The question is whether you will have runs of songs by the same musician or band. Or from the article itself: "At first we didn’t understand what the us
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
> Pearson and Spearman rank correlation are the same I don't know what this means -- like you'd get the same value if you calculated the correlation by Pearson correlation and Spearman rank correlation? Or are you saying there
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
As near as I can tell, you can apply to only one with the same email address. The best dodge is to use use a gmail.com address with a plus-address. If your usual gmail account is rhizome@gmail.com, you can try rhizome+oracle@gmail.com and r
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
The Spearman rank correlation of your two sets is 61% (after dropping cities that are not common to both). https://gist.github.com/hughdbrown/94016d0f477b855a893514131... Sadly, Salt Lake City is dropped from the set b
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
Taleo's particular talent is in interfering with applications to other companies that use Taleo. Suppose you use Taleo to submit to Oracle. Great! But when you use Taleo to submit to Cisco, you need to use a different address because
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
It's right there in his profile ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chollida1 ): > Former compiler writer, currently head of algorithmic trading for a hedge fund, still write code for 80% of my day.
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
They are listed from left to right on the video as Pregerson, Tallman, and Nguyen, IIRC, but at one point the judge on the left speaks of the middle judge as Pregerson. I think Tallman is the one on the left.
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
What do you think the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is? I don't see how it is remotely applicable in these circumstances. It's not about words or diction. It's about language as a broad, thought-influencing and -limiting tool. It&#x
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
> This lopsidedness, according to Mercier and Sperber, reflects the task that reason evolved to perform, which is to prevent us from getting screwed by the other members of our group. Living in small bands of hunter-gatherers, our ancest
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
> The worst part is having to create a new account for each of these career "portals". Oh it gets way better than that. How about when you are applying to XXX company through a portal and YYY company also uses the same portal?
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
> Now, every final candidate that makes it that far works for the company for three to eight weeks on a contract basis, doing real tasks alongside the people they would actually be working with if they had the job. > The goal, says Mu
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
By coincidence, I was viewing this today: http://bestfunny-videos.com/video.php?vid=ObZDipKRH0c&13-558... My understanding of court procedure is limited, but it is pretty clear that the appellants are making some pretty
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
So you set your account to some string selected by your password manager and you don't have the password manager on your phone/computer. Then the agent says, "Fine, why don't you: 1. install the password manager on your
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
It looks to me that the map goes from the modern Turkish-Bulgarian border across to the Albanian-Montenegran border in the north and includes all of Greece and 20-25% of Turkey. I'd say it is 100% Greece (51 000 sq miles), 20% Turkey (
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
Can someone clarify for me how the training and testing sets were constructed? One problem is that cancerous and benign skin are unbalanced in a representative population. How was this imbalance handled in testing? How was the testing set c
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
"We werent personal friends with them, so it wont affect our lives in any way" Life is about the search for value, and most often you find that in other people, their ideas, and their lives. Singers and other artists selectively c
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
So sad. I saw him in Manhattan. My wife got tickets as a Christmas present, knowing I had been excited when we were traveling in Barcelona and he was there that week. (Couldn't get tickets -- didn't even try.) So we showed up at M
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
"This same pattern of explosive growth is happening in cities all over the world. In fact, Uber is now in 40 cities and 70 countries." Um. Stopped reading at this point.
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
"The call-center workers had a complicated and long script to direct the victims to nearby stores to buy $500 Apple iTunes gift cards. The victims were then instructed disclose the registration numbers of the gift cards, giving control
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by hughdbrown 10y ago
The only occurrence of "clin" in the article is in "decline." It's not like he is going out of his way to specify who this person might be: "We need a president who will vigorously support international coopera
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
I knew this article would be about Toronto before I clicked on the link. On a typical visit to Toronto, I will see more raccoons than police officers. The city is either over-raccooned or under-policed, depending on your perspective.
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
That's not the way I read it. I read it that the husband threatened the would-be adulterer, not that the police officer did: "When a Colorado man thought his wife might be having an affair, he asked a Denver police officer to dig
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
The second meaning is an error, really, and gets flagged with usage notes. "4. The use of flaunt to mean “to ignore or treat with disdain” ( He flaunts community standards with his behavior) is strongly objected to by many usage guides
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
The extent to which this article is recrafted according to where it geolocates you is surprising: "Consider Denver, our best guess for where you might be reading this article. Spending on Medicare patients is about average in this area
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
So someone tried it once and got a score higher than the next two combined? I am calling shenanigans. And I got the 280.
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
Does anyone from Denver also find that the relationship is overstated? I don't know of any Denver offices for Apple, Facebook, or Amazon. The only Twitter or Google offices I am aware of are in Boulder. Boulder and Denver are connected
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by hughdbrown 11y ago
I believe Dell did agree to that. I am talking to the tech group and their case notes say they were not to reimage the hard drive or reinstall the OS. And I did back up the data. I just never imagined they would go so far out of their way t

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