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by mathattack 13y ago
Projecting confidence leads to people believing.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Yes - lawyers have just the downside. If something gets missed, blame the lawyer. As a result they get very aggressive on protection, and nitpicking. This behavior gets worse because they're incented on billable hours. They also do
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's really a 1 step process - the engineering lead has to work with whoever is making the requests to reasonably document expectations. It helps immensely to have a paper trail. It also helps to say, "If this goes in, what goes
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Intel ships Haswell, the low-powered chip that could save Windows tablets(citeworld.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
Good for the schools that rank high and students that go there. It's a reinforcing cycle. (As opposed to being static, "You're ranked high based on an old reputation) Certainly one can take a step back and say that employer
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by mathattack 13y ago
Your point is correct, though I think it's more like hundreds of pitches a week if you count written ones.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Rankings systems are a necessary evil. If the US News didn't create them, someone else would. And they have flaws, as do all single measurements. (Stock price, imperfect. Page clicks, imperfect. IQ, imperfect.) That said, the arti
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Sexist, Juvenile Stage Acts Stun The Crowd At Big Tech Conference(businessinsider.com)
3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm sorry - I misread the following quote as the OP offering suggestions to the teacher to turn it into a teaching moment. Upon a second reading I realize that your interpretation is correct, they didn't raise it to the teacher.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The one salient point of the piece was the fact the teacher did not respond properly after the harassment occurred. We can all agree on that. This is the key. People don't expect teachers to control what comes out of the mouths of t
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by mathattack 13y ago
The answer? “I really blame the board,” said Sculley, who was recruited from Pepsi in 1983 to bring order to Apple – and Jobs. So much for the buck stopping at the CEO. At least he shows more humility in the end. Sculley’s biggest regre
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by mathattack 13y ago
The danger of some meritocratic systems is that weak leadership will put up with bad behavior just because someone is clearly a star. "Yes, he's hard to work with, but the code would fall apart without him." This is even wo
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by mathattack 13y ago
I agree with you that it's part psychological. I think another piece is an Agency problem. It may not be in the best interest of the people paying the bill (taxpayers) but it may still be in the interest of the organizer. When Chicag
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by mathattack 13y ago
I agree, the better thing is to be selective. Dump the TV, and control the other devices. Sign me up for the most modern MRI that my health plan (which I hope doesn't have a tape drive for my records) will pay for.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I thought that was the original point that was missed too. Don't do it because the provider is telling you not to. At least in this cited case, it was a throwaway project that won't be around, but folks who copy the code may be i
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by mathattack 13y ago
There are two topics here, and the more important one is getting neglected. Almost by definition of being on this website, all of us are well advanced of our pre-college computer science teachers. My first was actually a chemistry teacher.
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by mathattack 13y ago
One could argue similar on wine. Only a very small subset of people can actually detect the provenance. Most of us can't. There is a big gap between trained Sommelier and so-called expert. They may sound the same, which makes it co
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by mathattack 13y ago
It's actually in addition to all of that. Treating your body better also helps with self confidence and coping with stress. The routines can last after the job search is over, though perhaps just not with as much intensity or duratio
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Grocery stores adding tech features to stay competitive(latimes.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Quantum chip connected to Internet is yours to command(newscientist.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
The pricing actually isn't that high if the target is Finance. If anything it may be too low. These are folks who pay ~$20K per user per year for Bloomberg.
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by mathattack 13y ago
That's exactly the point behind "Crime Doesn't Climb" - it's a reference to the wealthy being "Up the Hill". Though there are some flatter high wealth areas in the city, the hills are much more exclusivel
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very few people consider themselves jerks, or go out of their way to be that way. You could argue that I'm wrong in Finance, but I think I'm right in Software. A lot of the solution is getting inside of other people's heads
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by mathattack 13y ago
In a prior life I used a lot of VBA to process some scenario modeling Excel spreadsheets. Python would have been much better. Python is also becoming more and more common in Financial Services. I haven't used DataNitro, but it would
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by mathattack 13y ago
You hit the key point of the OP. I view his message isn't that everyone should do it. It's that starting a company has gotten so much easier that everyone serious about it should. Taking his reasoning a step further... Look wha
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by mathattack 13y ago
Will it come back to bite Yahoo if they are the only ones doing this? I can't see them going alone.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I like the original title Political Strategy Master Session in 6 Minutes better than this one, but so be it. Deeply understanding prisoner's dilemma helps explain a lot of office politics. Why are people at software firms more willi
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm with you. The fun part of funemployment only lasts 2 weeks or so, or when the first rejection comes in. That said, I found unemployment to be a great time to get fit. It's a rare time where working out for 90 minutes doesn&#
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by mathattack 13y ago
I sort of feel I need to dedicate some time to understand this. Not great for a short attention span morning.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm from the "one set of friends childhood through high school" crowd and I have to admit that it took a few instances of getting dumped into situations where I didn't know anyone (college, first job after college) to ge

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