mathattack

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1. 6511.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Perhaps I'm biased because I've been in a few places where HR did the mainline jobs in the firm prior to becoming HR. Those scenarios turned out extremely well, though perhaps we didn't get the best deals in health insurance
2. 6512.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Isn't the unfortunate ending that very little greatness is achieved by the mean or median person?
3. 6513.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   At my prior employer I found that I was 10X more efficient than HR at screening resumes, so I would do it after hours rather than trust them. But... This would be inefficient if I were the CEO. And I've worked in situations where th
4. 6514.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   This sounds like a case of bad (Too centralized? Too incompetent?) HR, rather than an issue with having an HR department. You get what you pay for with recruiters, and more broadly HR. If you go to the lowest price resource for Java prog
5. 6515.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Exactly what I was trying to get across. It's HR's job to come up with general salary trends by seniority, geography and anything else that management wants. It's management's (really the CEO's) job to apply it. I
6. 6516.▲
   The tuition is too damn high - Part 2(washingtonpost.com)

   7 points by mathattack 13y ago|3 comments
7. 6517.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   Congrats!
8. 6518.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   42 floors is a great company, and I enjoy reading what they have to say. But with that said, I agree with you. And what's worse, the overuse "Cargo Cult" is turning it into a negative version of one of the meaningless buzzw
9. 6519.▲
   by mathattack 13y ago

   This works when asking someone else, but how about asking oneself? I try to come up with some objective metric. "I think I'm fast, how does my 50 yard dash compare?" "I think I'm smart, how were my grades? And st
10. 6520.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Or "do the most thing you can do that pays the bills based on a realistic assessment of your competence."
11. 6521.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    That's a good problem to have. I think waist size is a better measurement than bodyweight. If you get stronger, gain weight, and lose a few inches off the waist, you're doing fine. If you lose weight, but get larger in the midd
12. 6522.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    There's a sad reality, which is most fun things don't pay the bills for the median performer. Otherwise more people would be doing it, driving the wages down. The exceptional guitar player makes a killing doing what they love.
13. 6523.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Let's agree to disagree. My view on the small company CEO is that most of their time should be spent on products, customers, fundraising and hiring. Within hiring it's mostly analysis of candidates and selling people on joining
14. 6524.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    "FYI before starting this I weighed about 310lb and have got myself down to 275lb within a year without focusing too much on what I eat." Keep it up!! Every incremental pound gets harder as your body gets smaller, but it's s
15. 6525.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I disagree very much. There are many bad HR people, and many HR people who are given bad direction. It's very hard to imagine a company of over 30 or 40 people surviving without one. Is the CEO supposed to be up on all the HR rules?
16. 6526.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    "Also, there were some candidates who managed to get 95% and above - but would then just be absolutely awful during the interview - we would later discover that they were paying someone to complete the technical test on their behalf.&q
17. 6527.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Makes sense, but does it confuse the for profit and non-profit?
18. 6528.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    When I went to the nearby Western Beef I was very surprised to see all kinds of sections, and then a Goya section. Over time I learned that I could find things there that I couldn't find for recipes elsewhere. But there wasn't a
19. 6529.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hope you're right. I plan on working until I'm 80 or 90 to be able to afford one.
20. 6530.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    This made me want to revisit this -> http://imgur.com/tUzAL
21. 6531.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes, though it's a low 30s %. (The school in my neighborhood was low teens %) The 20% is kids passing the 97th percentile of past test takers. And this is very much an exam that is taught to. That's the real point - that there
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    Don't blame Balmer for Microsoft's misery(bloomberg.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
23. 6533.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was including me in the We. I haven't hooked mine up yet.
24. 6534.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    I always assumed we'd have private spaceships before we could decode the brain well enough to do something like this. Wow!
25. 6535.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    By this argument, culture can be imprinted into DNA too, no? This also implies that it would be much tougher to do a Jurassic Park recreation, because the environment is different. You can't just start from scratch with the DNA. Or am
26. 6536.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    A lot of financial services academic modelling is still done in Fortran too. The old programs still run, and new results keep coming. It was interesting that the NCAA doesn't include scores in their methodology, just wins and losses.
27. 6537.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    It references this source -> http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
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    How many people are in space right now?(kottke.org)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|1 comments
29. 6539.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    People in the education business have incentives to increase what we should learn from them, rather than learn by doing. :-) Education is very useful, but I scratch my head about the size of some of these lists.
30. 6540.▲
    by mathattack 13y ago

    My intro course used Modula/2. (Many years ago) We were less focused on the computer interaction (memory) than algorithmic complexity (Big O notation). This doesn't mean one method is better or worse, just what we used. The ad