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by rizzom5000 11y ago
> It's almost entirely nurture It might depend on what variables you're referring to, but according to some famous studies done on identical twins separated at birth; intelligence and personality are about 70% genetic and 30% e
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by rizzom5000 12y ago
Presumably nothing if the money they use to invest is considered legitimate. Nevertheless, it really seems logical that as a society we should prefer that market competition occurs legally in a open and free market rather than violently in
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
I agree, and if I were the one losing my job I'd prefer to hear the cold hard facts rather than artificial consolations from someone I've likely never met before. The fact that those cold hard facts were disseminated via conferenc
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
Yeah, this looks like it was filmed live during a talk show. I highly doubt there was any interest from anyone involved, especially the audience, for a lengthy game.
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
> In fact, it stuns me that the College Board hasn't positioned the GRE as this kind of service.. The CS department at my alma mater did require the ETS Computer Science Field Exam for graduation. The results are interesting as you
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
The 32GB came out to about $445 after taxes and shipping in WA, a state with a relatively higher sales tax but no income tax. Since used 16GB iPhone 5/5c models are going for around $400 on Craigslist in the Seattle area, I think this
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
That's interesting, but I think there are also studies that show childhood IQ tests don't correlate very well to adolescent or adult IQ tests - which, as others studies have shown, are tests that do correlate well to success&#x2
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
One guess is that the management at FB (to use your example) are more interested in acquiring the leadership component of the team than the 10 programmers. They want to hire the visionaries, the folks who did the grunt work get to come alon
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
While obtaining fitness is generally a more popular goal than obtaining fame in street racing, I wouldn't call it generally universal; at least not in the US. Studies have shown that the majority of people in the US get far less exerci
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
In many (perhaps most) areas of the US, school team sports serve to represent a geographical area and its community in much the same way as professional team sports. From an anthropological point of view, this is hardly negative or surprisi
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
I think the answer to that in the part where the parent mentions physics and chemistry. Until we can provably show that resources outside of Earth are available for human consumption, and within some range of feasibility; it's not vali
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
CS isn't about programming at all. While CS can help make a programmer a better engineer, it's not intended to teach programming skills; which is much more a vocational skill than a science. I think the primary reason so many deve
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
How many people calculate a bonus as part of their base compensation? I tend not to count my chickens before they're hatched and don't see how something like this would negatively affect the morale of anyone who understands the di
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
I live in WA and was delayed in traffic for a good deal of time several weeks ago when a truck hit a overpass near Gig Harbor. Both incidents may be outliers, but I'm beginning to wonder if there is a problem with the current resources devo
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
Really? Maybe, because it's better for the same price? Or maybe because it's the best available solution to a problem you have, regardless of price? Maybe it's because...
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
But what could be the underlying reason, seeing as 10x programmers are only 1.5-3.0x as expensive? I'd venture that it's because something like less than x% of all programmers are elite; where x is some number between 5 and 10. In this ca
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by rizzom5000 13y ago
The amount of help available online to aspiring programmers is, in my opinion, profound. I cannot even begin to describe the amount of gratitude I feel toward others in this field who spend their free time answering questions and in writing
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
I find it disturbing that Ask the Recruiter tacitly assumes that 12 million unemployed versus 3.7 million vacant jobs implies there isn't a talent shortage. If we have 3.7 million job openings for rocket scientists and 12 million unemployed
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
> If you see someone on the street dressed like a middle-class person (say, in clean jeans and a striped shirt), how do you know whether they’re lower middle class or upper middle class? Nonsense! You don't know anything about someone's
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
That's scary. Berkeley CS is one of the more selective programs in the US. Aren't the Intro to CS courses supposed to weed the fakers out?
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
I think that most interviewers will happily give you the definition of strcmp if you don't already know it. If you're not a bad web developer, you'll happily come up with some code on a whiteboard that meets the definition. Anecdotally, per
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
Probably because you have, at best, a few hours in an interview to determine whether or not someone can solve the hard problems. Many hard problems take more than a few hours to solve, so the interview process serves as a gauge of how likel
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
This is one business decision I fail to fully comprehend. First of all, the number of people interested in dual-boot or otherwise are likely to be small. But even so, why drive away potential customers and business? If the hardware is what
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
It sounds like what you're describing is something like a cross between a pipe dream and what already exists. Wordpress already exists and there are many folks, and many or most without CS degrees, who will happily develop and administer a
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
It's possible to compare writing software to writing literature. In the end, it doesn't matter how huge the demand for good literature is; the number of people capable of writing a good novel will remain roughly the same. If anything, smart
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
I have to agree with this. There is a lot of discussion about this proof, and also with the idea that the reasoning that leads to it may reveal new insight. There is little to gain by lamenting the potential difficulty of verification by po
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
I think it's because many people who have a rice cooker don't have or want a crockpot. Ebert's rice cooker recipes are probably directed primarily toward this group.
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
It surely appears a great customer service policy. Unfortunately, the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consumers in the form of overall higher prices. It's probably true that Amazon can still offer generally competitive
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
> Like you pointed out, when accepted, it is used inappropriately and destructively much more often than it is used appropriately (hey, just like guns.) What? I beg to differ. Unless hunting, competition and self defense are inappropria
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by rizzom5000 14y ago
Well, it may be confusing to some that one of the most, if not the most, prolific mathematicians of modern times accepted, and even embraced, what would be in modern times, the use of a substance that would make said prolific mathematician

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