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>I may as well have been looking at someone else’s code in a language I’d never worked with before. Was there any memory or retention of C# and .net at all (e.g. if you tried to learn it later, was it easier to pick up, or was the memory
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Scientific journals must be alert to potential manipulation in citations(doi.org)
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Video games are an art form unique from literature and film because you can interact with the world. Disco Elysium, Planescape: Torment, the original The Walking Dead Telltale game, and even indie browser games like One Chance on Newgrounds
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The commenter was correct, you can find the appearance via searching 'vantage' with the Find in Page browser feature. Direct link to comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066823
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To clarify the rationale: I have a hunch that men spending time on Mechanical Turk are either less financially secure or care more about maximizing the money one earns from spare time. This may cause these men to prefer male friends who can
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How useful, and how common, would a PhD in life sciences (biology/biochemistry/genetics/etc.) to become a patent agent? I anecdotally heard and read of a few people who struggled to find industry work with that degree, and we
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Competitive students I knew regularly prepared for university courses in advance. In their view, the whole point of taking the course is not to learn, but to optimize their study/game the system enough to earn as high marks as possible
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>If the university is any good at teaching, it will pace the course in a way that at least ⅔ of the students will be able to follow the course. This is generally true, but sometimes universities assign lecturers who are poor at teaching
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I'm curious. What was your experience working with attorneys? I heard an anecdote from a law student that the classmates were highly competitive about grades. Less anecdotally, there was a recent Financial Times article about corporate
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Internet disrupted in Burkina Faso amid military uprising(netblocks.org)
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Keep in mind that the user discloses that they are only in their second year of a PhD program, yet is still making broad claims about the employability of a PhD recipient without citing any studies or statistics. >People who've done
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To add on, it's also a standard negotiation tactic for a negotiator to try and speak to the highest-ranking person possible. This tactic was specifically recommended by a guest speaker at a Stanford Business School seminar about how to
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I believe the lack of a moral element is due to Hollywood movies normalizing cheating. I mentioned it elsewhere in these comments, but there's a lot of celebrated cheating in widely popular movies (both classic and modern) like Casabla
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>And for such a person, perhaps it's alien to consider that others don't suffer such a temptation. The idea that temptation out of a relationship can be celebrated is reinforced by Hollywood movies. There's a lot of celebr
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Wikipedia entry for orange-collar workers: "Prison laborers, named for the orange jumpsuits commonly worn by inmates." [0] The article also defines pink collar workers (service workers in the working class) and purple collar worke
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This reminds me of the anecdote by Jimmy Carter about a Japanese translator doing what your initial impression described for a joke spoken in English. [0] [0] https://vimeo.com/36578569
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>All these things bring a lot of complexity without any real meaningful gain.. This assertion doesn't contradict the author's claim that no language is overall more complex than another. The usefulness of the complexity isn&#x2
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>If you don't want to marry the girl you are with, Cut the relation, don't be a moron, don't make her loose time. Another option, though the usefulness depends on the intimate details of the relationship: work on the relat
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>Sure, it's cool to be a "player" for a little while in your late teens/early 20s, but it gets boring soon, just as the fun with alcohol and partying and many other things. Most of the people you know that 'did&#
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This can easily be dangerous advice. The risks include: a criminal record if caught when purchasing; doing negative life-altering activities while on the drug; and temporary hospitalization due to LSD-induced psychosis [0]. Some people also
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From an academic perspective, it's no problem as the primary audience are other researchers where the limitations are a given. However, I posted the details from the study's design for the readers of Hacker News, who might assume
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To improve my criticism (open to correction, especially because I don't have a background in academic psychology), I hypothesize that the paper's results don't apply and can't be generalized to the broader U.S. populatio
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>I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E.g. When I was running a business I would often go to business networking events alone, start conversations with people, establish a rapport and spend hours chatting, but all
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>A lot more of the female friends I made earlier in my life remained as friends than male friends I made. Most of the people I bet I could rely on happen to be women (met in writing/graphic design groups at university), but I wonder
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Important limitations of the study are hidden behind the paywall. From the Methods section in the full paper: From Study 1: "Participants (N = 213, 109 women) were recruited from a small Northeastern college in exchange for partial cou
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I suspect the recent Elizabeth Holmes conviction of investor fraud at Theranos might contribute to the idea of flashy names propping up an unsustainable idea (e.g. with so many high-ranking names in the US military establishment previously
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I assume it's Adobe InDesign, from working at a couple student-run publications in college (allows more precise control over how to format text) and one in high school. I hope an industry expert in publishing can chime in, but in the m
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I admit to meeting up with an old classmate in-person after spending weeks with HN as my main source of social interaction, and then regularly referencing anecdotes on old HN threads in the conversation and advocating for Linux/GNU for
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A pen and paper is what I typically use, especially when stuck on a task. But to think about how to timeblock in a way that "works" (I interpret this means, "is effective at keeping one spent on worthwhile tasks), I think the
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I agree with the individual points of your comment, but speculate that the market could still be big enough to be profitable. This is mainly due to a popular HN thread about executive assistants from this November: https://news.y

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