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by klenwell 7y ago
> Regardless of whether you use work-sample challenges or scripted, structured interviews, a bit of low-hanging fruit that nobody seems to pluck is: relentlessly keep candidates informed about what to expect in your process. Amen. And I&
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by klenwell 7y ago
This is the role of code comments for me: - Point It: Comment itself - Call It: Comment explicates why potentially surprising or ambiguous thing that follows is the way it is. - Get It Right: Eliminates potential error in future. (Or maybe
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Carrefour says blockchain tracking boosting sales of some products(reuters.com)
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There was an amusing comment related to this over on the Metafilter thread on this earlier today which included this impressive detail: Naturally, we did what any self-respecting half-in-the-bag Americans would do upon meeting so-called ch
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by klenwell 7y ago
In the Company Hierarchy chart that is the cornerstone of the Gervais Principle, I take it these passionate employees make up the Clueless layer that is the essential middle of the pyramid: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009&#x
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A while ago, my wife and I were in the mood for dumplings so we headed to a nearby shopping center here in Southern California with a lot of Asian shops and restaurants and not enough parking spots. It's popular among locals and visiti
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Those workers have yet to show up. And hundreds of thousands of young Hungarians who left in recent years for better-paying jobs in Europe’s big cities are not heeding Mr. Orban’s call to return and serve their homeland. The labor shortage
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by klenwell 7y ago
As an American who enjoys drinking, I find it shocking, too. Not that people do it, but the extent. I've had few experiences as miserable as being hungover. I've been really hungover twice in my life. After the first time, I said
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by klenwell 8y ago
Yes, that's recognized. It's a gotcha answer. If it's picked, we have a discussion. Though I suspect, much like the age bias noted in the article, it's a factor that, consciously or unconsciously, influences a lot of int
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by klenwell 8y ago
Like a lot of people here, I've been on both sides of the table. Currently on the hiring side of the table interviewing web application developers. I agree with a lot that's said in TFA, especially as someone who's suffered t
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Smaller vocabularies in some areas. Probably much richer in some others. As an example, I'll cite one of my favorite passages from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: One day, when my companions of the Fore tribe and I were s
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by klenwell 8y ago
With the help of some friends, he created a wired buzzer that timed his buzzing speed, and over the course of some 27,000 tests, he managed to lower his reaction time from .228 seconds to as low as .126 seconds. Holznagel’s trials led him
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by klenwell 8y ago
I don't know that this is the case. I was just speculating in response to the claim upstream that Gawande "chose to overlook the studies about how transient the benefit of checklists is." I too would like to see the citations
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A speculative hypothesis related to this (based on my own experience as someone who has read the Checklist Manifesto and is a big advocate for checklists): Over time people internalize the checklists because they unwittingly conclude the re
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I think I've got one of these in a planter on my back balcony. There is something alien and amazing about the flowering of succulents. If you're in Southern California (or planning a visit), I highly recommend the Huntington Libra
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by klenwell 8y ago
Your comment brings to mind a passage I highlighted years ago in Robert Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress-induced displacement of aggression: the practice works wonders at minimizing the stressfulness of a stressor.
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On this topic, one of my favorite HN comments compares magic tricks to hacking someone's brain: Magic tricks are hacking! You are hacking someone's mind, particularly their assumptions and attention. The exploits to human psychol
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We had a bank teller who would drive around all the new home construction areas in town, and take photos of houses under construction, especially in middle to upper income areas. She did this for a year, with a plan in mind. ... It was ALL
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I feel Jared Diamond illustrated this beautifully in his prologue to Guns, Germs, and Steel: From the very beginning of my work with New Guineans, they impressed me as being on the average more intelligent, more alert, more expressive, and
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by klenwell 8y ago
Interesting story. I'm curious about the "petty shit" part. Did he step on the owners' toes? Did he have an abrasive personality? Was he fudging his expense reports? Also curious what happened after he left. Did sales&#x
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There was an NPR interview with a director or journalist with the Kaiser Family Foundation in which she addressed this in a slightly different way that presented a variation on this theme to me. She said when you go to a hospital or medical
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So having read the article, why does limiting work-in-progress work? Because it allows you to finish more work that you start? I struggled a little bit initially with the generic concepts used for modeling. But I suppose the real insight is
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I remember reading an article years ago (I want to say in the New Yorker in the late 90s?) that made something like this point and kinda alarmed me. It pointed out that a second generation of anti-depressants (SSRIs like Prozac) had emerged
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That last one is funny. Basically: expect anyone photographed at this angle to be wearing one of those TED-talk wireless microphone things usually . Rendered probabilistically?
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The headline leaves out important context that would settle some of the incidental questions commentators have fixated on in this thread and the article frankly buries the lede (perhaps by necessity): Rappler has been subject to harassment
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Great article. What a life. I enjoyed the Big Star documentary from a few years ago but had no idea how extraordinary his life was. I always loved this Alex Chilton line from a Rolling Stone interview years ago (as article notes, Chilton wr
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For a comprehensive scholarly treatment of this argument (with which I wholly concur), see Judith Rich Harris and The Nurture Assumption. Her Wikipedia article offers a quick summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit
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Here's the introduction at the top of the ProPublica page cited by the GP: Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are required by law to release details of their payments to a variety of doctors and U.S. teaching hospitals for pr
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by klenwell 8y ago
The distinction you mention here (idea-to-dev vs idea-to-live) could be really useful for us as we've been debating two paths for an MVP that we're currently working on. It's actually the management team that has been putting
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This reminded me to look up the "Metrics for Flow-based Product Development" that Donald Reinertsen lists in Principles of Product Development Flow (Figure 8-6). The difficulty would be in defining and quantifying these concept --

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