skookumchuck

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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Yes, I'd rather be homeless than in an institution.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Yes, I know about impostor syndrome. I know a few who've confessed to me they suffer from it - and I sure prefer to work with them than the delusions of grandeur types who waste my time.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> a suprisingly large number of applicants who can write an impressive looking CV can't write it There was another HN thread recently where posters were ardently justifying lying on their resumes.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Interviewing goes both ways. The company is interviewing the candidate, and the candidate is interviewing the company.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
An awful lot of programmers have very high and entirely unjustified view of their programming abilities. I'm sure they find the hiring process weeding them out to be very frustrating.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
It's amazing and wonderful you can get an MIT education from watching youtube videos of their lectures. I've used them to fill in gaps in my education. Highly recommended, and it's to MIT's great credit that they're
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Yep. I decided to stop driving it before I drove it through a barn or something. I think the basic idea was sound, it makes the default behavior of "feet off the pedals" to stop.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
I once drove a backhoe where the clutch action was reversed from that of a car. I nearly wrecked it.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Jet engines were way ahead of the Allies. Modern jet engines trace back to the German designs.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
If the V-2 had been used to attack staging areas for the D-Day invasion, etc., it might have been effective. But randomly blowing up a building here and there accomplished nothing for the war effort. The Allies' bombing attacks on Germ
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Theocracies justify their existence by enforcing a moral code. They haven't worked out very well.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Establishing a moon base seems far more pragmatic than one on Mars. It's a lot easier to debug problems there so a Mars mission would be much more likely to be a success.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
I wish I'd bought more Microsoft/Apple stock.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
It doesn't matter if it is tricky or not. It works, and so keep trying.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
To remove CO2 from the air, plant trees. Use the result as building materials. Develop hardier trees that can grow in areas now inhospitable to trees. Besides, trees are nice. They're solar-powered, too.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> He was a very effective leader (although not everybody agrees- some people think he's an arrogant asshole). Those two are not at all in conflict, they're orthogonal.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> The guy represents every wrong with tech. Privacy for him, but none for thee. That's hardly restricted to tech. It's pervasive with government officials.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
I once asked my history teacher why his multiple choice questions followed predictable patterns. Such as, "all of the above" or "none of the above" were always the right answers. He laughed, and said the stupid kids need
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
A perfect system is hardly necessary. Just a good system. Tests have worked for a thousand years. People wouldn't use them if they were useless.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
The cure for test stress is preparation, i.e. studying. Nothing works better on a test than knowing the material. The rest is just excuses.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> learned the quirks Why waste your time learning that? Just learn the material. I'm often bemused by the effort people put into avoiding learning the material, much more than it would take to just learn the material.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
If you have to ask, you don't know the subject :-)
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> They are testing the ability to express the entirety of that knowledge under completely arbitrary conditions (time limits, schedules, no references, etc.) with outsized consequences for mistakes. Right. And if you know the material, th
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Maybe the test was really asking you which was the normal frame of reference. Of course, the direction would also be reversed if you were in the southern hemisphere, or were on a planet that spun the other way, or maybe a planet in a binary
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
The web page is too clever for me. It just hangs.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
> tests are one of the hardest ways of doing so I've never understood how someone could master a subject and yet be unable to answer any questions about it. In my experience, people who did well on tests tended to understand the top
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
There are people who create art, and those who study/analyze art. I've often suspected the latter were just seeing pictures in clouds.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
When I get a phone call when driving, if I'm alone, I ignore it. If I have a passenger, I have the passenger answer it.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
Long before the iphone, I'd occasionally see a driver on the freeway reading a newspaper draped over the steering wheel.
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by skookumchuck 7y ago
The dark side of heavy FDA regulation is it greatly slows down medical progress.

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