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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Say "Aidsfart" four times fast. Now say it backwards. Now stick out your tongue.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Roll 5 d10 and take the median. You get a bell-shaped distribution, but you don't have to do any addition-- the result is immediately visible.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
The first of those isn't especially meaningful. Programming languages aren't that hard to understand. What's difficult (right now) for many people is the connection between the code and what happens on the screen. The second snippet is am
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I'd rather get to a world in which incompetents stop writing software.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Mentioning a "person before me" in an interview is a bad idea, because it brings forth associations you might not want. Also, there might not be such a person. The second and third questions are good, but short tenures could also signify a
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. One issue is that every "promise" is a bit unique. HN posters are big on mentoring and interesting work, which are subjective qualifications, but this is not the case for everyone. Some people just want a salary and
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I don't think the misleading of employees is endemic to startups, at all. It's also not always intentional; people overestimate what they can do for the new hire in terms of mentoring and support, and business tends to reward those (at all
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
She could kick ass as a quant, but I don't see her moving up the ranks in IBD or M&A. She's (1) very intelligent, which works against you in that sort of conformist environment, (2) a woman, and (3) not from the "right kind of family" (
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
It's really sad that someone as talented as she is ended up at an investment bank. If she's an analyst, instead of a direct promote to associate at the very least, I think I'm going to barf blood.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I think, and I hope, that you're right. I was describing the behavior and mentality of the currently dominant generation and classes.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
It's not just cheap oil. The real reason: it's part of our national character, especially post-1950. We don't care enough about close friendships to have them. We have an arrangement where everyone in the white-collar world is expected to l
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I agree. Obviously, people have the right to depict Mohammed however they wish. Whether they necessarily should is another matter. Offensiveness for its own sake is the province of the Manhattan "high art" world, but (being outside of that
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Let me express it better: I think we need a mercantile and political infrastructure-- such "classes", if you will. However, I think the ultimate power should be held by a scholarly class, which should generally use it lightly so long as soc
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but: let's solve these oil and CO2 problems before trying to popularize flying cars and jet packs.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Great points, and I have to admit that I don't have all the answers. I see where we need to go, but not necessarily the path there. I think political democracy is necessary, but politics shouldn't be the core of society. We want a society
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Doing things that are offensive to Muslims to make the point that we should have the right to do things they find offensive is... something I'm not sure about. It's utterly ridiculous that people would riot over a cartoon, and the South Pa
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Homophobia and misogyny are very strongly linked. The worst homophobes are usually misogynists as well. They believe that sexual desire is intractably imbued with domination and humiliation. On some level, they want to control and subjugate
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
By "genetics", I invoke the Rights of Talent. It's not hereditary and certainly not racial, since talented people appear at a highly (if not completely) uniform rate across all races and ethnicities. Fact: the talented thinkers-- the people
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Not necessarily. Even though average people are generally not creative themselves, you can have a social arrangement where such people respect and admire creativity.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
New Yorkers can attest that Time Warner Cable = nukular buttfail. Large business corporations, as I've said before, are a wonderful way to provide the worst of both worlds between capitalism (greed, high prices) and communism (apathy, poor
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I generally agree, but I've submitted articles that I didn't like, just because I thought they were interesting starting points for discussion.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I think the Internet is making a great deal of progress with regard to decentralization. On the subordination of culture to commerce, it hasn't always been this way. In dynastic China, the social pecking order was this: scholars, farmers, a
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
I'm American, and I agree that I'm being a bit unfair. We have had some cultural successes, but (in my opinion) fewer than I would have hoped, given our resources and ability. The problem is that nearly everything that is produced has to be
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Some thoughts: 1. In 2010, if you want to be truly educated, you have to do the work on your own. This was probably always true. Going to a great college helps, but it's a 20 or 50 percent improvement on the use of your time, and only if yo
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Sounds really cool. I wish I could find a group to play this with. Any takers in NYC? In other news, all these numbered rules made me think of Rule #34. I lost.
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Network Censored South Park Due to Violent Threats from Muslim Group(avclub.com)
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
If you're a startup and someone needs a 6-month vacation for mental health reasons, you need to cut him loose. If he's done good work and is willing to leave in a way that minimizes damage to the company, try to leave the door open and give
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Agreed. Management uber alles is a mistake of our culture. Not everyone wants to or should be a manager, just as not everyone should be or wants to be a pro basketball player.
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
If a candidate tells you: 'I left company x, b/c my manager was a dickhead, and that I'd rather work somewhere for good people, then compromise my dignity and integrity just to make a manager look good', means that guy actually has a backb
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by pw0ncakes 16y ago
Another important point is that most startups aren't a good place to stay long term, simply because (duh!) most of them do not succeed. Startups have some dreadful lows, so I can understand not wanting to hire people who will leave at the

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