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by ruswick 13y ago
This is not true "handwriting," it is a printing of handwriting. This sort of practice is usually imperfect, and the fact that the note is not written at all is generally pretty conspicuous. Frankly, I think that most people would view this
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by ruswick 13y ago
Because Pinterest is not a platform for publishing art. It is comprised primarily of products and feeds directly into the consumeristic culture that pervades society. Those that are not products are nonetheless incredibly succinct and are d
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I agree entirely. In fact, I've always been of the opinion that the institutionalization of learning works to the detriment of education and discourages most students from learning on their own, while doing an incompetent job of equipping t
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The wages in DC, although higher than the national average, are not astronomically so. The Mean anual wage in DC is ~$60k, while the national average is roughly $45k. This likely doesn't equate to a distinctly higher quality of life. Moreov
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I'm not really looking for work right now (nor am I in SV), but thanks. As for how leadership can affect employees, I'm inclined to believe that leadership will always have a substantive effect on productivity and skill. Obviously, most emp
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In fact, this behavior is the very same reason people venerate Pinboard's Twitter account.
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Indeed. Many companies are hesitant to fully activate their advertising apparatus, and go years without making revenues (eg. Tumblr). I worry when I see a company that isn't attempting to accrue meaningful revenues. I'm actually quite happy
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You.
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I agree. As a high-school student, I notice that the top few percent of the class is comprised primarily of individuals who either 1) are innately intelligent (to the extent that innate ability exists at all. Obviously, there are many confo
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by ruswick 13y ago
I'm curious as to why the association with Watsi was the deciding factor for you. Certainly, there are causes that are equivalently significant as those being confronted by Watsi, and indeed, organizations that do similar work. The fact tha
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"But if you offer too much compensation, management and employees may begin to feel fat and happy and lose the motivation to maximize long-term value for shareholders." God forbid if your employees are happy. In all seriousness, I don't eve
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Marco seems to achieve quite a bit of acclaim from saying very intuitive things in a very verbose way. This entire piece could be effectively conveyed in a pair of sentences: "Reviews are arbitrary and uncontrollable, and reviewers are irra
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by ruswick 13y ago
Marco seems to make this unjustified and unelaborated assertion that price has no bearing on popularity, and the only differentiation between prices in free vs. paid. I'm not sure why this would be so for the App Store. Purchasing software,
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by ruswick 13y ago
I'm fairly sure that the various agencies and investigative apparatuses have generally come to the consensus that there is no remaining threat, and have explicitly said as much. How can they invoke this Exception when they have stated (and,
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Regardless, adding a tangible incentive will undoubtedly increase adoption and will cost Google little to nothing. It seems like a good idea.
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By definition, a list that is simply composed of the top rated articles cannot be "curated." Curation implies some sort of holistic selection and specialized organization, and is almost an art unto itself. Simply selecting the set of articl
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With acceptance rates so incomprehensibly, almost farcically low (the rate was under 2% last year, and must be approaching if not already surpassed 1%), I don't see much value in reading into one's rejection.
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Indeed. The article seemed quite hypocritical. For someone who decries the public knowing about how miserable the world is and emphatically preaches ignorance, he seems quite keen on informing the world about how much news sucks. (And undou
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by ruswick 13y ago
This article irks me. Although most "news" has regressed into banal link bait just plain yellow journalism, and the notion of the "news organization" has undergone an inexorable transition towards the likes of Buzzfeed the the Huffington Po
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by ruswick 13y ago
The notion of education as a meritocracy is laughable at best. The correlation between standardized test scores, GPA, high school graduation rate and six-year college graduation rate are bound intimately to income and class. Poor people sim
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Moreover, due to algorithmic simplicity, the results are simply wrong. Almost assuredly, the preceding sentence could be comprehended by individuals with less education than a year of college education, yet most eighth graders would not be
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I may have to reexamine my chosen career path, and my nationality. :p In all honesty, this seems almost too good to be true, especially given the state of healthcare in America. At 25 hours per week, it would take three Canadian doctors to
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This algorithm seems incredibly arbitrary and fails to account for the complexity of diction or sophistication of content of the post. (Obviously, this is incredibly difficult and computationally-intensive, and is likely untenable for a sim
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I don't get it. This is a small accomplishment the benefits of which likely won't extend beyond a small subset of an already incomprehensibly minuscule portion of business and CS students. This sort of program might be great for Cornell stu
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Ask HN: Amount of free time to prevent burnout?
3 points by ruswick 13y ago|5 comments
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This book looks genuinely compelling, and is the first "HN books" in which I've been truly interested for quite some time. Alas, the price is too steep for me, and, were I in a position to buy it, this book would likely sit dormant in my qu
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The Great Grocery Game(teejm.com)
23 points by ruswick 14y ago|6 comments
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Moreover, doing this sort of thing is presumptuous and may actually work to the detriment of the employee. What brings one pleasure at home may inhibit productivity at work. For instance, I have a large number of art pieces, decorative obje
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Obviously, creating a welcoming environment for a new hire is beneficial to all parties, but this is somewhat absurd. One's workplace and one's personal life are and ought to be, by default, separate and disjunct. It should be the employee
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I'm sick of everyone perpetuating the notion that developers need to either become spectacularly successful through starting companies or die trying. There are many people, perhaps even the preponderance, who are perfectly content with havi

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