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811.
by incision 14y ago
Anyone thinking about enabling further crowdsourced investigative work would do well to read that thread [1] with an eye to how quickly it got out of hand. In my opinion... Efforts to help with this should focus on helping people to submit
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by incision 14y ago
About 13 years ago, I was unemployed for about four months. I've had a few people positively grill me about that blank despite the length of time that has passed and evidence that I didn't spend the time idle (Obtained a certification, did
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by incision 14y ago
Sounds about right. The friends I've had spend time in games industry have either left or transitioned to design consulting for all the same reasons cited. However, I tend to think this problem is in the process of solving itself through th
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by incision 14y ago
I like bitcoin as a robust, validated communication network with the currency function incentivizing its operation and creating noise to mask the murmur of its true purpose.
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by incision 14y ago
>My Gmail address is really generic (my first name and a number), and I too get signups all the time - I even currently have two different people's bank accounts sending me email. We've seen the same. Of all places you'd think (hope) th
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by incision 14y ago
Tilting at windmills. More accurately, asking the most ardent followers of bitcoin to help launch an investigation into their prime diety. This discussion and variations of it has been going on for years now. Each new attempt has/will be di
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by incision 14y ago
I'm routinely amazed at the number of sites which don't perform any sort of email address validation. My wife has a rather common name and a straightforward firstname.lastname gmail address. As a result, she's continuously peppered with all
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by incision 14y ago
Clear sky and good transparency here in MD with no sign of aurorae.
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by incision 14y ago
As I wrote that I was thinking it's the kind of topic that's best discussed in person. Unfortunately, I'm in DC, but with a little luck I'll end up out there eventually. I've visited several times and love it.
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by incision 14y ago
>I'm curious if anyone has tried anything like this before? I'd love some guidance or thoughts. This is proving quite hard to articulate as I try to find a way to visualize it. To me... Thoughts are like threads to follow and your wall
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by incision 14y ago
I'm not sure I've met any, but if I extrapolate from the blue-collar folks I was exposed to I'd think it might be hard to tell. Anecdotally, of course... You've probably heard of high-functioning alcoholics, it's entirely possible to a high
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by incision 14y ago
I grew up in a place where lots of people including some I knew personal literally smoked and/or sold crack. I tend to groan a bit inside where I hear someone make a remark about "smoking crack" because it's often used to describe behavior
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by incision 14y ago
I'm a man, I can't claim to have experienced the first example specifically, but I've faced no shortage of stereotypical assumptions about my role and abilities. I've experienced the second two examples more times than I can count. In place
824.
by incision 14y ago
This reads a bit like a hyper-condensed version of Liar's Poker [1]. 1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/039333869X
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by incision 14y ago
>That’s a relatively new concept in the enterprise world, where traditionally software had been built for the buyers, most often IT. That has resulted in years of overly-complex software built with many widgets and checkboxes that IT ad
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by incision 14y ago
I'm reminded of this paper [1]. 1: Envy on Facebook: A Hidden Threat to Users’ Life Satisfaction? - http://warhol.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~hkrasnova/Ongoing_Research_...
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by incision 14y ago
>I love the idea of Wall Street jocks vs. Internet Nerds in FOREX. Wall Street has had its own nerd contingent for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst
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by incision 14y ago
I'm routinely blown away by how prevalent the idiocy of texting while driving has become. I see it multiple times every single day . I've witnessed accidents and been run off the road as a result of it. Manual enforcement is always going t
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by incision 14y ago
I can't speak about programming specifically, but for more general system engineering/administration I think I fall in this category and it has yet to hurt me. I've had an interview or two over the years in which I surely lost out due to my
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by incision 14y ago
>And now Pulse. Who would go to LinkedIn for news?? If I had to guess... I expect that right now some large number of LinkedIn users only engage with the site when they have an active job search going - not often. The majority of Linked
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by incision 14y ago
>It's like the GitHub for MBAs when it comes to professional networking/reputation. I think that's a very good analogy which applies to a lot more than MBAs. In my experience, the site is incredibly popular with people who work by way n
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by incision 14y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. > "It becomes tougher when it’s necessary to fire someone who’s performed well at their job, but isn’t able to grow with the company. For a startup to scale to a successful larger company, the people nee
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by incision 14y ago
I think the parent addressed this pretty clearly. "If you say something dumb in a conversation, it floats away on the wind unless someone else involved makes a concerted effort to tell people about it."
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by incision 14y ago
>Or at least that is what it looks like, with the focus on gathering new portals at points of interest. Yeah. I played Ingress pretty heavily from launch till the beginning of this year. As best I can tell, it's just what you describe w
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by incision 14y ago
>There's a few ways to do it, but what's usually done is to have a large bitmap filled with random values that's accessed by a function of threadID and current pixel (or whatever other info you have handy). Do you have any good links th
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by incision 14y ago
I think of the headers which identify an oncoming comments section as the online equivalent of a bleached skeleton - a final warning to turn back.
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by incision 14y ago
As I'm sure I've said before on HN I've worked for people who were quite open about discriminatory hiring and their underlying prejudices. However, given the specifics of this story, my first thought is that the discrepancy here has more to
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by incision 14y ago
>“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” — Malcom S. Forbes Think that over the next time you find yourself in disagreement with someone over differing opinions of a third person.
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by incision 14y ago
>So the game becomes not about absolute productivity, but relative productivity. It certainly could be, but that's not what I take from the examples or experience. I think this particularly game is more often about perception, not any a
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by incision 14y ago
This happens with every profession that takes on the perception of guaranteeing a nice salary. I expect the big difference with law is that the profession is taught/promoted by established universities which have managed to keep the notion

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