lkrubner

60 ms·

541.
by lkrubner 5y ago
My own experience convinces me there are many extra benefits to having written a book. My first book has been out for 4.5 years now. I know many people on Hacker News have read it and I'm grateful to all of you.I've enjoyed gettin
542.
by lkrubner 5y ago
General relativity is linear algebra? Has anyone called up Tullio Levi-Civita and told him that his services will no longer be necessary?
543.
by lkrubner 5y ago
This was true in New Jersey in the 1970s. When I was 5 years old, I had to walk to school on my own, just like all the other 5 year olds in my neighborhood. We would walk to school together. The school was not quite a mile away. At the time
544.
by lkrubner 5y ago
The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s was a bubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_land_boom_of_the_1920s But after 1935, Florida took off and grew like crazy. Even if you bought at the peak of the bubble, by the 1
545.
by lkrubner 5y ago
By far, my favorite book on this era, The World Turned Upside Down, by Christopher Hill: https://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down/dp/014199313... As the book summary says: "Within the English revolutio
546.
by lkrubner 5y ago
This researcher is claiming 30 eyewitnesses: "These include reports of sightings by more than 30 eyewitnesses, all of whom I spoke with directly." That's a lot of people. This not comparable to the 90 year old granny who squi
547.
by lkrubner 5y ago
"we have no reason to believe that they still exist" In the article, he's asking why we give so much importance to the bones. If we have 40 eyewitnesses, that would be enough to win in any court. An eyewitness account is evid
548.
Why have politics in the USA become so chaotic?(demodexio.substack.com)
2 points by lkrubner 5y ago|1 comments
549.
by lkrubner 5y ago
I have a life long interest in the phenomena where someone makes mistake after mistake, yet they retain 100% confidence in their decision making process. The terrible results of their previous mistakes never dent their certainty that they a
550.
by lkrubner 5y ago
For many years I was known as a workaholic, but I really enjoyed the work and sometimes I wrote code for 14 hours a day simply because I was having so much fun. But then I suffered an episode of burnout. I tried many things to cure it: I to
551.
by lkrubner 5y ago
But I wasn't really looking for any particular answer. This was not a quiz. I was trying to figure out what they knew, and what they didn't know.
552.
by lkrubner 5y ago
But I wasn't really looking for any particular answer. This was not a quiz. I was trying to figure out what they knew, and what they didn't know.
553.
by lkrubner 5y ago
I think one could build a much larger list simply by listing important Supreme Court rulings that are still in force, and then seeing which ones don't have an article. Over the last 20 years the Supreme Court has averaged 80 rulings a
554.
by lkrubner 5y ago
That is exactly what I'm going for. I'm actually looking for 2 things: * If they don't know how to debug SQL, I'd like to know that. * Do they simply say they don't know, or do they try to bluff? Are they confident
555.
by lkrubner 5y ago
Thank you.
556.
by lkrubner 5y ago
I did sort of touch on this in the essay when I wrote: "If these experts insist “I’m only willing to educate you on a Zoom call, I’ll educate you via video” then I have the option of hiring any expert in the world, I don’t need to hire
557.
by lkrubner 5y ago
This is a huge part of it: "finding out if people will start bullshitting or admitting the limits of their knowledge is a massive advantage to someone you might need to depend on" One of the best hires I ever made was a former K-1
558.
by lkrubner 5y ago
The point is to start with something open ended, so the candidate can talk as much as they want on the subject, broadly, and then, based on what they say and what they don't say, I narrow in on particulars: "Are you aware of any d
559.
by lkrubner 5y ago
My one big tip: One vice that I see among hiring managers is an unwillingness to ask tough follow-up questions. If you ask a question and there is any vagueness in the answer, you need to drill down deep until all vagueness is eliminated, s
560.
by lkrubner 5y ago
He explained that an expanding __________ (I can't remember this word. Maybe he said "network"?) meant that each person in the __________ was exposed to a greater variety of choices, however, the total number of choices decre
561.
by lkrubner 5y ago
We focused on the "unfairness" and we thought there might be a technical fix, so we focused on new discovery mechanisms. But our solution did not get traction, so we eventually pivoted towards tools for building commerce sites, an
562.
by lkrubner 5y ago
In the early years, some of Putin's speeches almost seemed liberal, and yet now, looking back, it is possible to see the imperial signature in his speeches, in particular, how his logic might lead to the erasure of an entire people. He
563.
by lkrubner 5y ago
"for one consisting of a few mass produced, single sourced things." Clay Shirky made the point that something like the Internet expands the total number of offerings available to one person while decreasing the total number of off
564.
by lkrubner 5y ago
I read this essay in 2003 and it influenced how my business partner and I built our startup. It influenced what possibilities we chased after. But Shirky.com is now off-line: http://www.shirky.com/ I'm not sure when th
565.
Shirky.com is gone(web.archive.org)
331 points by lkrubner 5y ago|143 comments
566.
by lkrubner 5y ago
This is an important issue. My own experience is limited to New York City, so I can only comment intelligently on what I've seen here. Over the last 18 months I spoke to 30 entrepreneurs about this issue, and I've tried to synthes
567.
by lkrubner 5y ago
This is Japan, in a nutshell
568.
Impulsive psychopaths like crypto: dark personality traits and crypto enthusiasm(theconversation.com)
15 points by lkrubner 5y ago|1 comments
569.
by lkrubner 5y ago
A contrarian take focuses on the increasing specialization of knowledge and the increasingly fine-grained international division of labor, which has had increasing impact on a government that fails to keep up. A rough history of that: In th
570.
by lkrubner 5y ago
Language took a huge step forward the first time a girl wanted to tell another girl about a boy she met, when the second girl had never met the boy. Many, many concepts had to come into play: a boy you've never met can exist other peop

More ›