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by jpwagner 14y ago
No way. In most cases, the company would much prefer to have the candidate work on technical problems that the company actually has, but that almost always requires significant background context and disclosure of not-so-public info. The r
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by jpwagner 14y ago
[best test takers] is unlikely to be strongly correlated with [best teachers].
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by jpwagner 14y ago
The article addresses this. Do you have an argument to make?
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Do we need a course in "idle conversation"?
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by jpwagner 14y ago
That's why I reference politics and religion. Choose your own analogy.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
If I'm having a bad day and a stranger asks "how's your day," I don't invent a good day.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I hope I'm not insensitive, but if I'm having a bad day and my cab driver (or just about any total stranger) asks "how is your day" I am not compelled to tell him about the intricacies of being me. It's not about fighting for "the truth",
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by jpwagner 14y ago
this is not really a convincing response; starting a company doesn't have to be capital intensive and you could do it with someone else's money.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
If there was no "carried interest loophole" people would have no incentive to invest money in their own business. Wouldn't this be a bad thing?
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by jpwagner 14y ago
formal notation and esoteric naming conventions is _exactly_ the bullshit i was expecting to be left out. i'm not sure this will actually work for the audience it was intended for.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
no idea
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Netflix CEO Hastings faces SEC action over Facebook post(businessweek.com)
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by jpwagner 14y ago
seems a leap to treat life on Mars as totally independent of life on Earth.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I'm having trouble following your point. He says the "input is very large" and you're arguing that the input doesn't have to be large?
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I don't know, but I would guess it is, if only because "Gordon Shumway" is the alias of ALF from the 80s tv show.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I agree. Has no one here used a touchscreen on an airplane seat before, it's usually more than one finger width offset...
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by jpwagner 14y ago
It would be easy to assume that he made a mistake, but if he did this on purpose (more likely) I suspect the reason is that the "439 miles" is supposed to be imagined, whereas the "39 km" is a measurement. Suppose I made an example that if
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This is unbelievable. Is there anywhere to find all of the facts? This article doesn't give background info. It took some digging to find that indeed the scientists had given a reassuring statement, though it had an expected but-we-cant-be
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This was the headline in all aggregators (see url), I could update to my own take on it :P
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This is really neat, but isn't it odd that this trait evolved in fish given that other modes of detection are effective underwater?
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Fish can become invisible to predators(news.discovery.com)
17 points by jpwagner 14y ago|11 comments
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by jpwagner 14y ago
It's about quitting smoking...
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Josh Waitzkin (of chess movie fame) wrote this one: http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Learning-Journey-Performance/d...
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by jpwagner 14y ago
he says "venture backed". your example would not be measured by this standard.
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Nintendo TVii tries to succeed where GoogleTV has failed(reviews.cnet.com)
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by jpwagner 14y ago
great point about the sources.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Pulse looks like a neat idea, but I can't stand the layout. Where should my eyes go? I'm a big fan of "significance", "buzz", and "personalization" in theory, but I find it easier to skim some text myself.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This is cool. Can you make the HN links point to the HN pages? Besides getting easy access to the discussion, it sorta de-dupes the links.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
The US is supposed to be a representative republic. I suppose this is mostly theoretical, but we shouldn't be voting for Pepsi vs Coke, we should be voting for an individual to serve in our region as representative. In direct response to t
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by jpwagner 14y ago
sigur ros - staralfur yes yes yes yes

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