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How to Get Meetings With People Too Busy to See You(women2.com)
2 points by jlees 13y ago|1 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
I'd love to combine this with sentiment processing to play happier sounds, sad sounds, etc. Brilliant world of possibility. Love the product!
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by jlees 13y ago
A friend and I were thinking of doing something similar to this for Smash and League of Legends. We probably should!
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by jlees 13y ago
Heh. Me too. I suppose at any given time there are a certain number of people in the same boat so this shouldn't feel like so much of a coincidence. Interesting post (and fellow Crossfitter, too!). Kudos on building up that much of a s
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by jlees 13y ago
Important parts of my compensation (involvement, agency, sense of ownership, diversity in work effort) were just inadvertently phased out That's a neat observation, and a pattern I've seen before. As the company (or team, within
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by jlees 13y ago
It could be viewed as a red flag, but should you be interviewing this person, you'd likely not hear the story framed this way at all. The folks he leaves behind, should you pursue a reference, would probably also have a different versi
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by jlees 13y ago
Interesting approach, and congrats on the coverage. I just signed up as a coach - I've found informal mentoring (in both directions) very helpful on other sites, e.g. Nerd Fitness.
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by jlees 13y ago
I really like the idea of a more content-based approach to book discovery. It feels like a complex problem to me, since there are so many dimensions one could pivot on; and how to find them in the first place? As an example, I dislike first
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Game developer salary trends and forecasts(expbonus.tumblr.com)
1 points by jlees 13y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
The bloat argument I was given - and I may be rephrasing it incorrectly - is that for Bootstrap, you include the base CSS and then override a bunch of stuff, so you often end up with elements that get defined in multiple places multiple tim
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by jlees 13y ago
Developer salaries in the UK are a lot lower than even your average entry-level Silicon Valley* engineering gig. *I haven't worked elsewhere in the US for comparison.
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by jlees 13y ago
The timing of this post is fortuitous, as I'm looking at building a landing page and had a long discussion last night with a front-end developer about using Bootstrap to do it. He's urging me to use Foundation instead. I haven&#x2
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by jlees 13y ago
Meta-comment on the article itself: Story 2 seemed unrelated to passive income until I clicked through to the original HN comment and realised the blog post author hadn't quoted the line about Ziad being a passive income hacker. I find
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OAuth of Fealty: Resignation beyond sorrow on the Facebook Platform and beyond(m.bogost.com)
181 points by jlees 13y ago|45 comments
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The Myth of Willpower and “Eat Less, Move More”(fitocracy.com)
33 points by jlees 13y ago|63 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm not the parent but I have to say that's an over-generalisation. The costs involved with buying mean that the balance between renting and buying can be tipped firmly in favour of renting even for 10+ years. I ran several calcul
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by jlees 13y ago
I completely agree; in my time as a PhD student and looking at my friends who did and did not finish, the only ones who made it through had a fantastic relationship with their supervisor; except for one, who was extremely driven to finish d
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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations(m.guardiannews.com)
8 points by jlees 13y ago|1 comments
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Books for Game Designers(manojalpa.net)
1 points by jlees 13y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 14y ago
You've missed my point entirely. To restate it more bluntly, being a presenting female at a conference can cause a mental impediment. Would I prefer to listen to a female speaker than a stutterer? Not if she were so paralysed by self-doubt
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by jlees 14y ago
The gender infers the audience whether it in fact exists or not.
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by jlees 14y ago
Sorry, I missed that specific point in amongst your others; the main argument you made seemed to specifically ignore this, so I guess I just edited it out when I read it. :) Women do plenty of obsessive hobbies. I know women who can spend a
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by jlees 14y ago
Look into LKB, if you haven't already. I used it extensively in my master's (computational linguistics) and though I've forgotten most of what I knew, you might find it an interesting rabbit hole in terms of sentence representation formats.
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by jlees 14y ago
Agree, that close to the finish line I would have done the same. Especially as everyone would be pushing so hard because it's Boston.
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by jlees 14y ago
Agree that forcing the balance is not the right approach. However, making people aware of it is not a bad thing. Sometimes organisations may (unconsciously) have bias in their selection process; having an invited speaker decline because o
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by jlees 14y ago
One of the problems in the hierarchy underlying this is simply that women (empirically) don't take that first step of reaching out to a small conference to speak. It's similar to data about self-nomination rates for promotion. Simply raisin
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by jlees 14y ago
You are assuming that the curve of ability distribution is equal between the sexes, i.e. that X% of male pitches and X% of female pitches would be "good". What if the females who have the courage to pitch, or to stick around in programming
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by jlees 14y ago
It isn't? Being on stage in front of an audience who are tweeting about your physical attributes, not what you are saying; who are snarkily commenting about you being the token blonde; who are assuming you got there because of your birth, n
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Apply for the National Day of Civic Hacking at the White House(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by jlees 14y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 14y ago
Very useful post. It's great to see these kinds of processes documented, might be nice to see some funnel metrics too - talking to some folks that also do (or need) small business customer acquisition, it seems there are a lot of sticky poi

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