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by jordanpg 6y ago
A related concern that this brings to mind is the act of teaching complex rulesets to players who are playing for the first time. It's not unusual for only one person in a group to have taken the time to learn the rules, by reading the
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by jordanpg 6y ago
Perhaps impolitic to mention, but to the extent that it's possible, appearing younger can affect perceptions. Consider everything: clothing, haircut, facial hair, smells, and especially fitness. My intuition is that the appearance of
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I don't disagree, but I maintain that it isn't something that most of the best and brightest spend a lot of time thinking about. The fact that the acquisition of lots of money is an end in and of itself pursued by a class of skill
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by jordanpg 6y ago
I think the word "hard" is a bit overloaded in this thread. Yes, I'm sure VCs "work hard" in the sense of putting in lots of hours or doing demanding work, but really, who cares about that. Lots of people, up and d
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It's a stupid business model that involves bad UX by definition. Not ever do I want to see an unsolicited appeal to buy something. Ever, ever, ever. The sooner it goes away, the better. I do not hold to the proposition that there is
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It is still an extremely frustrating experience. All of them: Google, Amazon, Apple. That it gets it wrong, ever, is too much for me. The first time I ever had to repeat myself getting directions on the road I was done. I don't u
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I always go into interviews with a prepared list of thoughtful and insightful questions to ask for this moment. Not because I care about the answers but because it’s part of the script. In real life, if I have questions I’ll ask them and i
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Yeah, but then how would you accomplish the real goal of (American) education: ranking students and teachers according to some number? /sarcasm
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Well, it's fine that they are in the early stages, but Wolfram went ahead with a press bonanza to announce that he had solved physics without the corresponding predictions that would demonstrate it. That's why it's important
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Pure conjecture, but I get the impression that this was an emergency cost cutting measure forced onto this team by the parent company, Canon. Perhaps COVID-related? In any case, I’m glad they are at least going to be able to try to make it
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Lifecake will be closing on 30th June, 2020(lifecake.com)
4 points by jordanpg 6y ago|4 comments
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No, I've worked in places where it works just fine. The point is that, at the end of the day, it boils down elaborate processes to break things up into two-week chunks of work. That's it. That's the bit I thought was a conc
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by jordanpg 6y ago
> That’s all that Agile means to me. This is the most concise, honest summary of "agile" I've ever come across. Well put. The amount of person-hours spent bikeshedding about various sundry "agile" procedural det
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Ask HN: How often do you change your master password?
5 points by jordanpg 7y ago|2 comments
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What this project needs is someone at the center of it. A visionary. A leader. A genius. A prolix author. Can anyone think of someone???
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On the other hand, new streams of revenue as well as increases in existing revenue streams are emerging as a result of the lockdowns. The question is, will these increases fully offset the permanent loss of existing revenues + the cascading
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by jordanpg 7y ago
Reasonable people can certainly disagree about whether the cure is worse than the disease. That said, the world's governments have made a decision to react in a certain way, and I maintain that my intuition tells me that most people do
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I think that at least US governments have done a poor job explaining the motivation behind the drastic precautionary orders. For a brief period, there was much talk of "flattening the curve" but I doubt that many people understan
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by jordanpg 7y ago
> easy to destabilize public confidence in voting outcomes The last few years of politics in the US has highlighted for me how brittle electoral democracy really is, and how important the public's presumption of fair elections is to
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by jordanpg 7y ago
It's unfathomable to me that anything about the universe would be pinned at some integer value. My intuition is that particles come in infinite numbers of "generations" and we just so happen to be only able to measure three o
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by jordanpg 7y ago
In the spectrum of podcasts wherein the hosts insist on doing this kind of thing, Reply All keeps it to a tasteful minimum. But I agree in general; podcast hosts need to learn that their inside jokes are not really funny or fun to a broader
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by jordanpg 7y ago
This. Having something to actually accomplish is much more important than finding the ultimate book or online course. There are lots of those. Pick one and move on to defining a realistic project that seems interesting and achievable. Mo
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Indeed, this is the only genre of video game I really care for. And yet even as I keep buying and playing the games, I am always disappointed. I don't know what the future of adventure games looks like, but it definitely does not invol
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by jordanpg 7y ago
My instinct tells me that the fraction of the human population which derives substantial, enduring meaning from art, mathematics, fiction, music, etc. is extremely slim. These things are complementary or perhaps supplementary to a larger v
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The assume that form that this would actually take would likely be promised 2020 or 2021 tax credits -- anything else would be logistically too slow. This form is only useful to people who already have cash or ready credit available. Not ob
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by jordanpg 7y ago
> craving for a catastrophic scenario like that to unfold so they can feel part of something greater than themselves This reminds me of a recent piece in the NYT about despair[1]. I thought that a discussion of meaning was conspicuously
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It would be more useful to me if the authors of articles would provide the tl;dr themselves.
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It seems somewhat likely to me that a human has been cloned, perhaps by many governments, and just kept secret.
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NEH Statement on Proposed FY 2021 Budget(neh.gov)
1 points by jordanpg 7y ago|0 comments
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I'm saying that if software developers are going to be solving problems that are this closely connected with the public interest and safety then they should be held to industry or regulatory standards on par with the ones faced by engi

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