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by j_baker 13y ago
I would posit that part of the reason behind differences in illusory superiority are due to a difference in how you measure narcissism between cultures. You can't use the same test in a Western culture as you would an Eastern culture.
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What exactly are "Westerners" and what exactly are "Asian cultures" in the context of the research you speak of?
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Narcissism is the very definition of a first-world problem. As a personality style, it's far more prevalent in advanced societies. Once you get beyond mere survival, you start seeking self-actualization, which means people start trying
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Nit: Not all languages have a separation between statements and expressions. Most lisps just have expressions.
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The thing is that the literature isn't clear on there being a single agreed-upon definition of psychopathy. The PCL-R test certainly has been successful in a criminal setting. In fact, that's its chief disadvantage: it's too
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Oh no, I agree completely. Here's the question that's on my mind though: does the fact that someone's brain works the same way as a serial killer mean that they'll act the same way themselves? Or are there millions of Te
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This is a very good point. Generally, there's some element of nature and some element of nurture in a person's development. I mean you take two identical twins who are separated from birth and find that they're very similar i
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It's great that you point this out. Personality styles happen along a spectrum. You have some people who fit in well in society and do good things. Then you have some borderline cases where people can minimally fit into society albeit
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"Psycopath" has no clinical meaning. The closest equivalent is Antisocial Personality disorder. In extreme cases, an antisocial can be a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but that's not always the case. It's worth pointing ou
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I think this has more to do with the types of companies that outsource to India. They're not doing it because they view India as a source of talented programmers. They're doing it because they view India as a large source of cheap
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I think what's more likely is that MySQL goes the way of Hudson/Jenkins. Oracle strangles the open source community and pushes people to use a fork of the original software. Oracle's in the database business, and I just don&#
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The last bullet point strikes me as incredibly odd. No ratings? How will managers determine raises and bonuses if they don't have a rating to determine whether the employee is meeting expectations or not?
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I really like the way github is doing this. I'm irritated by the way other sites (linkedin, quora) automatically assume I must want their emails every X interval. I like that with github I can choose how frequently I get emails and t
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You're missing the point. The purpose of this post was to illustrate how silly little differences in coding style cause lots of unnecessary work. The agnostic's version was the best in this illustration because they knew what the
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Is moving to Seattle a requirement? I'd imagine Amazon has more offices than just that.
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Is it just me, or does it feel like the tech sector can't do well without someone crying bubble? This article in particular starts off with some relatively good data, but the rest of it is just anecdotal hogwash. Particularly the wage
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I seriously doubt that the problem here is that Facebook is trying to make you a cog in their wheel (at least not with respect to the coding puzzle). Rather, I think it's just because they feel that requiring this work will lead to bet
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by j_baker 13y ago
I don't really like the author's attitude. But there is some truth to it: Working 8-10 hours to get a job at Facebook is crap. I'm a professional with a job and a life. I already have to do phone interviews and in-person inte
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Now we just need to wait for someone to run Rhino on this so we can have Javascript hosting a JVM which hosts Javascript.
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I think the problem is that some ads are so heavy-weight. I kind of wish there were an ad-block tool that would only block ads that are too large (data-wise) or that take too long to load.
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by j_baker 13y ago
Perhaps Firefox OS in the future? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
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Are there any tools for building cross-browser extensions? What would be really useful is a tool that can help you build a Chrome extension, Firefox extension, and Safari Extension.
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I don't get it. Why are python dev environments broken by Mavericks?
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I don't think it's fair to say that SF "flops" on public transit. Look at the map. LA, Houston, Dallas, and Philadelphia are public transit flops. San Francisco is merely mediocre. And (as pointed out), this is during th
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What if your startup is a small shop in CO or WA? Not every startup will grow to be nationally known.
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Cannabis isn't illegal everywhere . Washington and Colorado legalized it recently, and other states will likely follow in the future. Not to mention that Cannabis is legal as a medical treatment in many states.
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I suppose that's true, but it seems like a perverse incentive to me. Drug companies have a financial incentive to wait for people to die rather than taking action that will prevent people from dying.
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It makes me think that the government will have to take some of the responsibility from the drug companies. If capitalism isn't working (which frequently happens in medical fields), we need another mechanism to make new antibiotics ava
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I get what the OP is getting at, but I still think being able to be your own boss is a good reason to start a company. The investor/founder relationship isn't the same as a boss/employee relationship. You get to choose how yo
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It sounds like you feel that Hacker News would be a better forum for debate if people followed this procedure. I think we agree that Hacker News sometimes has a troll problem, and I've learned from you that part of that problem is tha

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