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by jlees 13y ago
A lawyer has to produce a draft of a brief or of a contract in time to meet a deadline set by the client's schedule, so the work output just has to get done. But the draft brief or draft contract works best to meet the client's n
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Production consistently rewarded fire-fighters without realizing they were in fact encouraging arson This is delightful phrasing. I'm totally going to steal it. :)
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The visa types it affects are generally those which allow immigrant intent. Non-immigrant intent visas are OK. The principle is that you're here for specialised training, and have to take the knowledge home before immigrating. But yeah
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Yes, this. Dealing with the upstream is the part of product management that most engineers severely dislike. Also, dealing cross-functionally with all the parts of a product team that aren't engineering (are marketing up to date on the
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Well, the PM job is so fluid depending on the product, the team, and what's needed to get it shipped. I've worked with engineering teams that just needed project management from me, although I think PM-style project management may
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by jlees 13y ago
I didn't see this point in the article, but I might have missed it: On a J-1 visa you may have to return to your home country for 2 years after it expires -- you can only visit on tourist/student visas in those two years, not work
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Both are good recommendations. Building ML systems isn't really about building ML systems, it's more about introductory machine learning techniques using Python libraries, and covers much of the same ground. I found Programming Co
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I'd made the same assumption, and even complained about the lack of salad cream in America. I'm sure there is a synthetic whipped cream, though...
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Fat City - What can stop obesity?(themonthly.com.au)
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Nice work! How about caching the number of upvotes and estimating the potential popularity of the generated titles, then for the most promising, getting a ghostwriter to actually create them? Could turn out brilliantly.
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TED talk link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaW2bFieo8
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I like your idea of letting buyers express interest in things that aren't actually for sale yet, which helps sellers gauge what demand there is. But you do need to follow up quickly with sellers or the buyers will end up going elsewher
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The most frustrating thing with these popups is when they come up after clicking through from the site's email newsletter. Some sites I visit do it on every single page load, which is a really good way to make an engaged subscriber un
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The point on dress patterns not scaling linearly is an important one, especially in the plus size range. It's also true that proportions vary even within the same dress size. I'd love to see Stross' model of the store-as-scan
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Well, the wealthiest - the Oscar red carpets of the world - do wear hand-sewn, one-off custom-designed couture. That opens up a whole marketplace of cheaper knockoffs "inspired by" it, as well as the original designer's rea
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It's not very good. I had that idea around the same time, tried to use MealSnap, gave up and decided the problem was on the wrong side of the difficult/interesting balance for me. After looking at the photos I took for ~a week, I
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by jlees 13y ago
Neat story. I guess cheating by trial and error doesn't work so well when the impact of an error is physical... I got into programming through cheating. When I was a little kid I wanted to win at some ZX Spectrum game - Treasure Island
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It's satire.
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I did exactly this in July. My colleagues and friends were surprised that I didn't have something else lined up, but I needed to take a full break from the 9-5 world. Funnily enough I had about 6 months of runway too. Several comments
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It varies from individual to individual. Some people can't focus well on a side project while working full-time, either because the full-time work eats up all available energy/time or because dissatisfaction at work leads to a low
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by jlees 13y ago
Here's a recent paper: "Civility 2.0: A comparative analysis of incivility in online political discussion" by Ian Rowe of the University of Kent. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/events/epop2013&#x2F
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Are there people alive in the USA who contracted polio in the 1950s? There certainly are in the UK, and post-polio syndrome is hitting them now. I can understand folks simply not knowing someone who had polio -- it always seems to surprise
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Everything counts, but you can be strategic about usage - dialing via Google Voice from a laptop keeps me well under 100.
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The issue is that of avoidance. If I have to tell an app I've been bad, I'm more likely to avoid telling it at all. (Like not getting on the scale when one knows the weight won't be good news.) Sure, highly motivated users wi
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by jlees 13y ago
This is genius marketing. I've already seen a bunch of friends go nuts over the idea and I hope those kittens find great homes through the initiative!
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I'm the same, though I have definitely adjusted to warmer temperatures over nearly 4 years of living in California, and the general elevation in mood from the sunlight exposure (and everyone else's elevated mood too) makes up fo
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I'm from the UK, and while I wasn't particularly aware of SAD for many years, it's clear it affected me to varying extents each winter. Moving to San Francisco definitely lessened the impact, but it isn't completely gone
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In the UK, many of my peers finished somewhere after 3 years but before 5. The writing-up phase tended to drag on, I had a couple of friends who ended up working while writing up as their 3-year funding ran out.
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I think you'd be better off getting folks who are actual interviewers (or ex-interviewers) from Google, etc, to conduct interviews; your site focuses on that as one of its selling points but your resume doesn't match up (in fact y
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As a Brit living in Silicon Valley, I look at these numbers and think that perhaps I should move back to London. I'd certainly save a lot of money on rent. (But, of course, the income scales are very different!)

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