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>'I think exclusive contracts should be abandoned anywhere they can be. Why should there only be one monolithic Healthcare.gov?' I completely agree with the first sentence conceptually, but think the second is a terrible fit
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>'In my experience, that's only a part of the problem - good people usually don't stick around for too long (since they don't want to deal with the inertia and other difficulties of this environment).' In my ex
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* On top of the direct impact of interruptions and distractions, you'll want to be aware of the way you are seen to react to them. Pay attention to who the rest of the office does or doesn't attend to when that person decides to c
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What really matters: Actually reading the article. The entire point, beginning with the very first paragraph... "This is despite the fact that there are many high school seniors from low-income homes with top grades and scores: twice
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Now we just need an app turn off Android devices used by annoyingly entitled people running this app. Better yet, everybody just comport themselves like considerate adults in public from the start.
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Absolutely. On one hand, it is entirely to easy to look back or even laterally at the decisions people make and fault them for choices driven by circumstances that may not be obvious. On the other hand, there are plenty of people whose just
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As usual, I see the same old sort of one-sided thinking out of you [1][2][3]. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7939710 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829019 3: https://news.ycomb
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In happier news, Cosmos (2014) is now on Netflix. What I really wonder about the devolution here is if/how the viewership has changed? If people who are interested in the sort of material that Discovery used to show have simply moved o
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Personally, what concerns me most often in argument these days isn't any sort of peer to peer inconsistency, but that argument often takes place in and is hurt by the broadcast mesh of blog posts, responses to blog posts, comment secti
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A summary for us laypeople [1]. 'The authors suggest that people who deliberate less are better at implicit learning because they have a wider span of attention and focus on a wider variety of stimuli. In turn, this makes them more li
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>'The end result was that you were constantly getting immediate feedback about how well you understand the material...It really removed the stress of the class and gave me an opportunity to focus on the material itself, instead of
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>'However, to really determine whether a company is being as diverse and open to equality as possible, the same measurements should be applied to the applicants as well as the employees.' That impresses me as the sort of info
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I would certainly like to see the data, but I'm not sure what I think about the topic. Age discrimination feels like it could be the other side of the coin that presents so much opportunity in this field to begin with - a system that v
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This explains everything. I hadn't frequented Ars for ages when I downloaded one of their podcasts last fall. I listened for a while before I realized the cacophony of giggling and memes wasn't pre-show foolishness - it was the wh
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>'Why did Sony keep creating such hard-to-code-for devices and yet end up with such a monstrous install base?' * Exclusive Titles: They managed to lock down some of best regarded franchises in each era. * Backwards Compatibil
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>'What's going to let them succeed is by their being successful time after time. Only then will the heads of those other agencies call them up and invite them in.' Right. I think that possibly the greatest value in somet
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>'Or is the drawback to working for the government something other than that?' I would say yes. Getting paid is not the big challenge in Government work. It's the lack of urgency, political infighting and general stigma.
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> 'Is he hiring?' No idea. I'm thinking 'small team made up of our country’s brightest digital talent' suggests something that people would be recruited for and appointed to moreso than traditional positions to
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Great move. In my experience it can be very hard spur change from within Government, but he's coming in at a point high enough that he should be able to simply set the example. Shame I don't know the guy, I'd love to work for
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>'Some of us deal with BEE requirements, others with a lack of experience.' It seemed a bit aloof to give a dig to programs meant to address the harm caused by decades of Apartheid in a post on 'how not to be bored'
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>'I think some big co should sell a modified android phone (like telcos do) with a preinstalled adult app store.' I expect that selling a porn phone would be like selling vibrators. If you really want to move the later you ne
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>'BUT it is interesting that a lot of people missed the possibility of personal technology in their imagining of the future (2001, Floyd using a video phone to call the kids, Gibson, Asimov et al)' Yeah. Personally, I disagre
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I'm in tech, as a sort of sysadmin / strategist, not a developer which based on the HN polls I've seen puts me in a small minority. Though, I'm fast approaching the halfway point of a CS degree as an adult student. I can
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>'My point is that the analysis of this data is not particularly cost prohibitive. If you want to take all the emails you have recorded and figure out if people are talking about unions you really really do not need something like
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>'With all the nonsense coming out of Google, Microsoft and others regarding wage warfare against their own employees I'm shocked that developers haven't unionized.' I think it's a whole mess of things - outdat
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>'The truth is people mostly trust each other and don't do shit like that. At some places they will, but watson is not the enabler here.' I'm not sure we're talking about the same things here? Perhaps in the st
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Sounds like a very cool demo, but the optimism of some of these ideas is quaint. If Watson is good enough at speech and context recognition to accomplish these things IBM can/will sell truckloads of Watson as a Service for the purpose
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>'oracle database instances that were using EMC SAN boxes for storage.' I can only imagine what the bill for that setup looked like. Did they jump all in with a Symmetrix? >'It was the only game where the social aspe
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>'What's the definition of a blade?' I'm not sure there's any hard and fast definition. Generally, a blade is going to share power at least, likely network uplinks as well. Diskless configurations are common, w
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> 'I'm fascinated by this stuff.' Same, I'd be most interested in seeing how WoW was initially built to mitigate the lag that plagued MMOs at the time. Handling that well was key in my decision to play the game at al

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