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by jlees 17y ago
I could create a conversion calculator and it'd still be pretty meaningless. I just don't really understand how you can draw a direct comparison - it's not like the tests are that similar, although there is some overlap, and even using pe
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by jlees 17y ago
Official tours are only for 'official' visitors (and big parties). There's a program to get students visiting if you're in that boat, otherwise, I'm sure a HN Googler would be happy to host you if you're local. What sort of work would you b
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by jlees 17y ago
That's a fairly common thing to do though. "My IQ is 200, but I don't believe in IQ tests. By the way did I mention my IQ was 200?" (Joking aside, I think you conveyed it pretty well, though I have no real clue what a GRE score of nearly 20
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by jlees 17y ago
Heaven forfend one should use an attractive font on a Google product. Seeing the incredible engineering innovations going on at Google, and the incredible UI innovations going on elsewhere, makes me a little sad - never the twain shall meet
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Rolling Stone meets Steve Jobs: "I don't want to talk about Apple" (1994)(rollingstone.com)
60 points by jlees 17y ago|18 comments
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by jlees 17y ago
It's not actually that bad >.> I was pleasantly surprised by the number of other people around at 8.30am!
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by jlees 17y ago
The main difference I can think of between a marathon and shorter distances is the glycogen 'wall' - something that won't happen on a run of less than 20 miles. There's also the whole fact that four hours of stress and strain on your joints
818.
by jlees 17y ago
it's a Google product. it was quite good in 2001 or thereabouts..
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by jlees 17y ago
The focus is on engineers. Google seems to hire people with exactly the qualities you mention to work directly with the consumers, and leave the hyper-genius engineers where they prefer, away from real people ;) Although there is an element
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by jlees 17y ago
It's interesting that this is sort of self perpetuating, though. I was looking for python developers (I sort of still am; Python + NLP), and literally nothing promising came by. Part of that was being located in Scotland, but still. I chang
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by jlees 17y ago
Not just parking, apartments are a lot more expensive in SF too. Most events seem to be south bay but if you like driving then Berkeley/Oakland wouldn't be too bad I guess. I'd personally go for Palo Alto area but that's because university
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by jlees 17y ago
An interesting thing to think about even though the basic reaction is "wait, no, that's their industry secret/revenue basis/whatever". Google is so dominant right now that maybe it's going to get to the point where, in the interests of th
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by jlees 17y ago
I raised this point on Twitter and they got back to me very quickly with a DM. Unlike @Oreilly they were actually pretty nice about it! Basically "It's a laugh for Christmas". I do worry though, they're positioning against a very serious, t
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by jlees 17y ago
Worst, it isn't even his post. It's a direct copy and paste of someone else's without even the decency to google to credit the original source.
825.
by jlees 17y ago
A novelist's already done this to name characters: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robinsloan/robin-writes-...
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by jlees 17y ago
I very much doubt that I, personally, have contributed to this, being as I am on the 'receiving end' so to speak. Anyway, anecdotally, I can't say I've ever encountered this. I mean the last time I got hit on by a guy in a technical context
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by jlees 17y ago
to address that last point, here's an interesting discussion I saw recently on a women-in-$foo mailing list: "is it just me or do you get your hackles up a bit when there's another woman around" - with several posters agreeing, even though
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by jlees 17y ago
how do you get women in product management though? mostly it seems to be via programming careers/degrees.
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by jlees 17y ago
it's also a problem for men in the field who want to date nerdy women ;)
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by jlees 17y ago
There's a difference in the way women and men react to poor performance/failure, I read about it fairly recently (possibly on HN?) but can't find the link right now. Will be back if I find it. Anyway. Women who do badly in the first few wee
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by jlees 17y ago
Er, at least in certain contexts, calling a woman blokeish is implying she's a butch lesbian. I used to be a female computer scientist with a buzzcut (and the pockets thing). Everyone thought I was gay. (I'm not.)
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by jlees 17y ago
Because computers are so integral to how we as a society are evolving and functioning, and it's been pretty well stated elsewhere that men and women function/think quite differently, having software that powers society that's primarily writ
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by jlees 17y ago
I've seen guys leave their phones in jacket pockets on the backs of chairs, but that's way rarer than women not having a phone within arm's reach. To generalise, of course, but pretty much every other woman I know uses a handbag (purse) of
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How to pick a co-founder (interview)(venturehacks.com)
2 points by jlees 17y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 17y ago
I think personally I would start the PhD but use that to shoehorn my way into the university's innovation support, spinout funding, etc, take part in university entrepreneurship clubs, business plan competitions, so on. Really milk the le
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by jlees 17y ago
Deferred mine for a term (3/4 months) at Cambridge so I could go pretend I made video games for a living.
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by jlees 17y ago
My startup's based around the tech I was studying for my PhD (I dropped out to do the startup, my research was leaning more real-worldy than academic, and to stay in academia I'd have had to go in a direction I didn't like). I'm pretty sure
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by jlees 17y ago
decidedly underwhelming both in interface and quality/clarity of results, hard to figure out why certain things were returned for my searches.
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by jlees 17y ago
If you regularly post on Twitter, and have a sizeable following, you're addressing a room full of (virtual) strangers. Doesn't that make you an extrovert, regardless of how you would react in a similar physical room? I just dislike the line
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by jlees 17y ago
Yes, Haystack encompasses quartiles 2 and 3, quartile 1 being unable to afford and quartile 4 not needing to list. Anyway, I was just summarising a view I've heard more than once of late; not being in the market for a designer, it's not act

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