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by lsc 8y ago
I personally think we'd be better off if there was more focus on these puzzles and less focus on 'cultural fit' - but that's just me. If nothing else, interviewing is an important part of your working life. To get a
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by lsc 8y ago
>IMO solving this problem is by no means "simple". I think providing people housing is simple. It's just expensive.
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by lsc 8y ago
so, just a datapoint, but I personally am much more consistently happy with my situation at large companies. Smaller companies tend to be dominated by how good your boss is (or isn't) - and even when you get a good boss, the small
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by lsc 8y ago
so, from experience? Interviews can be the best way to learn algorithms for the interview. First trick? there are fads in interviews. When I go through a round of interviews? there is always a lot of overlap between one company and ano
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by lsc 8y ago
Eh, as a datapoint, I also have no degree. I worked at google for a few years as a contractor (with 15+ years industry experience before that) - A few months back, I interviewed and was hired on as a L4 (L3, as I understand it, is where
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by lsc 8y ago
You and I take the same situation and see it very differently. My impression is that most people don't see intelligence as a good thing; not socially, at least. 15 or 20 years ago, if I said I was a programmer outside of my chosen pee
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by lsc 8y ago
Is it? I mean, practicing medicine on other people is illegal in the US, as I understand it; and you can't obtain certain drugs. But I think everything else the doctor does, you can do to yourself without fear of legal penalty?
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by lsc 8y ago
This is not my experience of the tech industry? I'm not sure I've had any job in the last twenty years where I met all the listed requirements. My impression is that employers want some skill that it's sometimes possible to p
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by lsc 8y ago
A better comparison to reading is writing. My handwriting is terrible. Like not doctor-terrible; there's at least dignity in that. It's a grade-schooler's block letters. It's terrible. And I spent so much wasted ti
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by lsc 8y ago
My own personal view is that some attributes are mostly fixed, and some are not, and it's pretty hard to tell which is which. Sometimes you need to struggle for a long time through stuff you aren't any good at to get to something
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by lsc 8y ago
>My experience is that "you either have it or you don't" is more accurate than not. Maybe that's correct, but is it more useful than the nurture view? It's a debate; I mean, clearly, you don't want to spend
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by lsc 8y ago
As a former technical founder? The advice I would give my past self is "get a business co-founder." - reading business books and business advice is all well and good, but you actually need someone who is good at that sort of th
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by lsc 8y ago
>One advice we can't act upon is "work less". We can't win. I think most of the people on hn (or at least most well-paid tech workers... do those still make the majority here?) can work less fairly easily, if that wor
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by lsc 8y ago
> You don't eat straight lecithin. Or high fructose corn syrup. You need a lot of other ingredients and a lot of processingto turn that corn into edible food products. That's one reason why it would be very challenging to doub
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by lsc 8y ago
I thought most people used wrappers. sort of like SQL in the '90s, and then you limited yourself to features that both of the providers used
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by lsc 8y ago
Yeah, I've got a A4-sized reader for scientific papers and other things that come in PDFs that are sized for a full page. But the vast majority of my paper books have pages closer to the size of a kindle screen than a A4 sheet of pap
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by lsc 8y ago
it seems so weird to me how many companies seem okay with choosing just one cloud vendor, when operating across two isn't that much extra overhead, if you limit yourself to products that two companies provide, and gets you a lot of
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by lsc 8y ago
>Each farmer might be less happy than the average hunter gatherer, but the farmers' advantages meant that there would be way more farmers anyway. If we started out in an area with 500 farmers and 500 hunter-gatherers, in a 1000 year
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by lsc 8y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees with the idea that oil is a limited resource and will become more rare and thus assuming continued demand, more expensive as time goes on? That's not what 'peak oil' was about. Peak oil w
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by lsc 8y ago
sure, But so far, that's not really how amazon operates; I mean, when I hook up my kindle I can actually copy most (maybe all? I haven't checked exhaustively) of the books off the kindle on to my computer, and then restore the
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by lsc 8y ago
I'm putting it off as long as I can; everything I hear is that a properly working set of factory equipment works better than a cochlear implant. Still, several of the older people in my life have gotten them, and they were a huge impro
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by lsc 8y ago
you can connect your kindle via usb and access it like a mass storage device to add new books, if you want. I've tried this on a ubuntu box and a fedora box, both default installs, and it just works with no extra drivers or anything.
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by lsc 8y ago
>politically enforced sustainability and diversity This is important, and politically difficult. I mean, we subsidize farms to farm in America because it makes us much more secure against all sorts of potential problems. I, for one, t
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by lsc 8y ago
My understanding is that it was hydraulic fracking that made the difference. See, the 'peak oil' people were wrong; turns out that if you are willing to pay more, there's a lot more oil you can extract (albeit at a higher co
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by lsc 8y ago
>humans can't survive on what is currently being grown. In other words, we can't just stop feeding all of that corn and soybeans to animals and give it to humans instead. We can't live off of a diet that is 75% field corn
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by lsc 8y ago
> I doubt people would transition to agriculture if it was harder than living off the land. I'm mostly with you, so I'm not good at summarizing the other side's point. But I think there are several reasonable assumptions
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by lsc 8y ago
sure, but my point is, who decides what ethnicity you are? I mean, your average man on the street, when asked to identify ethnicity is still pretty much with Blumenbach; "what do you look like?" Functionally, there is what ethn
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by lsc 8y ago
>Yeah, as if in the age of the selfie, Instagram celebrities, vanity blogging, social media status games, and so on, "genuine enthusiasm" even had a chance... eh, I do think, in some ways the "genuine enthusiasm" or
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by lsc 8y ago
The theory goes that hunter gatherers have to spend a lot more time just getting enough food to survive, and don't generate the surplus food to dedicate people to medicine or to manufacturing. My understanding is that this is not very
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by lsc 8y ago
>I’ve heard about converting to Judaism. If it is an ethnicity how can that be possible? I am not qualified to offer an opinion on Judaism specifically, but people have been "converting" to different ethnicities for all of reco

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