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by joelgrus 12y ago
I have a three-year-old, and I think this is on the whole a great list, but I also find it very hard to believe that reading to your young kids causes them to be high academic achievers. (I think also the goal of "high academic ach
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by joelgrus 12y ago
This. Think about how hard it is to figure out who is going to be a good developer, and then think about how much harder it is to figure out who is going to be a good teacher.
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I very much do want to bike, but my family (and some of my bike-commuting friends) seem to think I'll get hit by a truck and are very against the idea. :P
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I am starting a new job soon about 3 miles from my apartment, which is a little too far to walk. (I can walk that far, but I don't really want an hour-each-way commute.) One thing I've been considering is using Uber / Lyft
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Why Airless Tires Might Be the Future of Driving(yahoo.com)
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by joelgrus 12y ago
If it were me, I probably wouldn't mention my intent to finish the PhD, since that says "if you hire me, I'm planning to leave at some point." Not that everyone isn't planning to leave at some point, but it's p
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by joelgrus 12y ago
We're just lucky that this sort of boondoggle only happens in the military. Imagine how much trouble we'd be in if the rest of our government were engaged in this kind of corruption and/or ineptitude!
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I always worry that they're getting harder because I'm getting old, so it's comforting that an arms race against bots is the real cause! :)
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by joelgrus 12y ago
Based on the English (and other humanities) courses I took as an undergrad, in which the key to getting good grades was not rigor but repeating back what I imagined the professor wanted to hear, and based on my friends who were English (and
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by joelgrus 12y ago
It's not that you can't learn rigor and critical thinking skills as an English major, it's that it's not all that hard to complete an English degree without learning those things. Hence the word "signals".
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by joelgrus 12y ago
I've read the Kickstarter page twice, and I still can't figure out what they are going to spend the $1M on (or how they arrived at that number). I know it doesn't cost $1M to build a website.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
We should have been clearer that none of this is going to change with Dr. Rice’s appointment to our Board. i.e. "We should have been clearer about how this isn't what it looks like."
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by joelgrus 13y ago
For me, the ad at the bottom of the page is "How To Patent Your Idea".
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Why don't designers make their stacked area charts really oddly proportioned and with muddled palettes so that they're difficult to read? Oh, wait, they do!
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by joelgrus 13y ago
It's also the case that a lot of people at the NYT disliked him already (see e.g. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nate-silver... ) and now they no longer have any reason to hide it.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
At least in the tech community, "crowdfunded" usually means "crowdfunded using voluntary contributions".
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I know those guys are super smart and all, but I can't read any of their marketing materials without my bullshit detector going haywire.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"Eligible businesses must not locate in an area in which they would compete with existing local businesses."
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Please, let's return to the golden age of when I was in college and professors had to write things illegibly on the chalkboard before just reading them to us!
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by joelgrus 13y ago
In my mind the "hacker mindset" is something along the lines of "I want to do X, so I'm going to go off and do whatever it takes to figure out how to do X". Not "I'm going to complain that no one is teachi
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Expecting Harvard to teach you how to be a hacker is about as far from the hacker mindset as you can get.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
"She still embodies all the awful stereotypes she did before!" "But she's got a new hat!"
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Those are all good questions. (I have been asked all of them by people I've interviewed.) Also, necessarily all the people interviewing you have already made the choice to leave whatever they were doing before and join the startup, yo
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Ha, mostly because I didn't know about it. The big feed is not all that discoverable.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I don't know that vanilla HN is better now. I abandoned it for two main reasons: 1. The Hacker News API I was using was very unreliable and would go down for days / weeks at a time, which made the whole pipeline unreliable. 2. I
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Also, FYI, I don't even use this anymore, these days I just read the HN frontpage. :)
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Oh jeez, who submitted this again? I learned my lesson a couple of years ago, everyone hates this. :)
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Mostly by encouraging her to regularly try things that are well above her capabilities or that have low probabilities of success, and then being totally accepting/encouraging if/when she fails at them.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
Is being on a stamp even a good thing anymore? I'm not sure I'd want people to associate my picture with snail mail.
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by joelgrus 13y ago
I grew up as one of these "terrified to fail" kids. Now I have a kid of my own, and one of my primary parenting goals is that she not end up like that.

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