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by simplesleeper 7y ago
I was hoping someone would save me the searching and link me directly to relevant papers. I think the article should have done it itself, as the assumption is rather fundamental to the whole theory. Similarly I didn't see any mention o
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
this story doesn't add up - it suggests the birds were there 10,000 years apart while it was submerged for 36,000 years?
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
what are you citing there? I cannot find any articles that suggest long periods of submersion - only that there WERE submersions
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
VSCode
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Jungle Soldier - story of Freddie Spencer Chapman (like Lawrence of Arabia, but even better story) Left to Tell - Immaculée Ilibagiza's life, story of survival of the Rwandan Genocide and a tale of how to live on after such tragedy and
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Reds should be used instead of neon colours, to preserve night vision
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Yes - this page is not just a blog post. It contains a graphic that is a "timetable of truth" for London buses 1-50, so can certainly be tried out.
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
It certainly depends where, some parts of Outer London can be "Hail and Ride" sections, where any part of the street essentially counts as a station
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
The schedule is not necessarily padded. The point of the piece is making it clear that London bus timetables are not in any way a source of truth, but a contract that operators have to work towards achieving. It is doubtless that they would
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
It does indeed have much shorter distances between stops than I've seen elsewhere in europe. The stops are however all optional - if noone flags the bus down and a passenger doesn't press a stop button, the bus won't stop. Th
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Author here, you can AMA
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Show HN: Londoners need not worry about the waiting time paradox(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
12 points by simplesleeper 7y ago|10 comments
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
reforestation has been ongoing at a massive scale for quite a while now - I drove on a motorway for days across Brazil, for example, and only saw forests of trees lined in perfect rows by the road.
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by simplesleeper 7y ago
Congestion does not necessarily mean a shortage of roads. Sometimes roads make congestion worse. Braess' Paradox has shown to occur as often as not.
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
I do apologise. For a moment I thought I was talking to Alasdair. Having now checked your name properly, everything you wrote previously is seen in a new light and my post is the twaddle in this instance. Agreed that things can always impro
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
What makes you think they'll be toxic and counterproductive? If, as you seem to think, whiteboarding is a test for this, then everyone should have whiteboarding tests where the good whiteboarders don't get a job.
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
And how do you propose a removal of all stress? Shall we hire everyone and fire them if they turn out to be dreadful after a week? That would ensure EVERYONE is under pressure all the time...
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
+ we don't set a hard time limit in the interviews. The whiteboarding piece is last and the candidate can spend as much time as he would like to. Often candidates have shown something we are happy with in just 5 minutes or so. The assu
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
... You are making a load of assumptions that are wrong. We ask the candidate to describe a system they have recently built. Therefore they should have product context, they are not being tested on inventing whatsoever (unless they are actu
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
"it's not hard to imagine that A" does not mean that A is happening. It doesn't even mean that P(A) is high. Your first paragraph also goes directly against what you are trying to prove. If their success relies on good h
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
What are you basing this opinion on?
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
Of course the candidate is under more pressure than they would be at work - that's why we don't expect them to create a Leonardo masterpiece in front of us and we give the candidate the benefit of the doubt. You would be surprised
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
I interview a lot of candidates and we do whiteboarding - to see how candidates can communicate architecture designs and decisions. The interviews have made me realise that countless candidates are unable to: 1. Give a high level overview o
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Poland is more interested in making pedestrians pay than in saving them(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
1 points by simplesleeper 8y ago|0 comments
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How deep does the London Underground go?(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
2 points by simplesleeper 8y ago|0 comments
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London Underground depth diagrams(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
2 points by simplesleeper 8y ago|0 comments
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
I know the subdivisions of most of the countries I've been to, which includes most of Europe, Australia and USA... The US spends a lot of money exporting its media, so it can't be surprising that everyone follows its movies and so
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
I've been wondering for ages why we don't continue activally domesticating other species - what better way to protect them than to ensure we can integrate? It may take a while, bit we've managed it in the past with a fragment
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
we got a yellow pages phonebook this year. Thinner than a standard paperback now
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by simplesleeper 8y ago
I don't think the author understands what "emergence" is. The concept of emergence is that a complex system might have properties that CANNOT be explained by studying the parts.

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