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by ttkeil 9y ago
So, what are the odds that Damore read this thread and immediately turned around and wrote his essay? Note the Chomsky quote and use of "heresy". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-fired-google-195400805.ht...
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by ttkeil 10y ago
While the open-office debate has been a recurring meme on HN for some time, it seems that offering a variety of options as well as unfettered personal choice is key. For example, my current employer has wide-open office space with pods of d
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by ttkeil 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589373
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by ttkeil 10y ago
NYT seems to have a number of highly similar articles extolling the benefits of HIIT, but this[0] one reads a bit more honest than the one posted, IMO. Specifically, the author delves into 10-20-30 training, which I've personally start
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by ttkeil 11y ago
Setosa ( http://setosa.io/ ) hosts some impressive interactive visualizations as well.
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by ttkeil 11y ago
I'm still quite fond of the Lego example: https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/bayes-theorem-wi...
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by ttkeil 11y ago
> But the percentage of people who construct passwords by choosing random printable characters rounds to zero. Leveraging song lyrics can be a helpful step in this direction: simply feed in the first letter of each word to create your pa
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by ttkeil 11y ago
> There are a number of shows I've gotten hooked and then around about season 5-7 I've dropped because it became obvious they were just milking it and inventing gratuitous plot extensions instead of ending it cleanly. This is w
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by ttkeil 11y ago
Very cool. A similar site posted last week [0] also allows you to drag and drop specific countries across the map for direct comparisons (Mercator projection only). [0]: http://www.thetruesize.com
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by ttkeil 11y ago
Cue the loss aversion chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory
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by ttkeil 11y ago
I've been hanging on to my iPhone 4S for this very reason. The battery is nearly shot after 4 years, but I would call that a pretty good run by today's standards (Take that, planned obsolescence!).
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by ttkeil 11y ago
https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident...