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by vincentbarr 11y ago
I think you can began evaluating whether it's a 'dead-end' job long before the interview, potentially saving both you and the interviewer time. 1. Search LinkedIn for current/former employees of the company who held the
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Another person that is a counter-example and outlier: Franklin Story Musgrave. A modern-day polymath, he was a NASA astronaut, Disney Imagineer, and physician among other things. He holds six academic degrees. He, too, had an extremely trou
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
> At any point in time, Matt knows better than anyone else which roles in the company have the greatest need for additional resources. I'm skeptical of this statement. It seems to rest on many unreliable assumptions (e.g. at a busy
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
Forms using company email address for validation are really frustrating. I assume Marketing or Sales teams are behind the additional requirement with the aim of better scoring and prioritizing 'leads' for an internal Sales team. I
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
What I've learned: Accountability. This can mean sharing with a colleague what you intend to complete at the start of your day, and then sharing what you actually completed at the close of the day. It can also mean finding a location w
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
Asking a book to change one's life within the course of a year seems like a tall order. That said I recommend Chade-Meng Tan's 'Search Inside Yourself'[0]. Chade-Meng Tan began his career at Google as software engineer a
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
In response to (1), link shorteners provide a very limited amount of clickstream insight and – in most cases – should not be used as a replacement for URL query string parameters. Several link shorteners may impose their own set of query pa
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
This made me absolutely cringe. Such an approach to 'management' and workplace culture is likely to encourage and reward the perception of 'hard work' rather than actual performance and outcomes. This drives out high-per
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
"Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin" by Loretta Graziano Breuning http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Your-Happy-Chemicals-Endorphin/dp...
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
I was curious how this works, so I followed instructions from a reply below to retrieve an 'authentic' WHOIS reply for the real domain: use 'WHOIS domain apple.com'. However, this led to another 'spoofed' resul
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
Also, I enjoyed the author's previous – and first – post: Small-Batch Blogging [1]. [1] http://pathsensitive.blogspot.com/2015/05/i-like-doing-thing...
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
While I agree with some of the author's points, such as considering your tolerance/appetite for working within a chaotic environment before joining a startup, the article seems less about deciding whether to take a startup job and
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
What does this say for the GMAT? The test has two categories: verbal and quantitative. 35% of Verbal questions fall into a category called 'Sentence Correction', which test grammar. Many correct answers to these questions are hotl
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
I've found CBTI for Insomnia[0], an asynchronous 'course', to be helpful in improving my sleep. Of note, some elements of the program – particularly the metrics/habits that are most important to improving sleep – were no
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
> "Too much text/instructions" I disagree that too many characters or too much instruction is a sign of a bad interface. For users trying to complete their desired task, an interface lacking instruction/explanation wi
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
Anything comparable out there for iOS?
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
I used similar materials, and I found The Foreign Services Institute's course workbooks (1989) [0] as a helpful supplement for learning Spanish – and they have courses for 37 other languages, all free (PDFs and MP3s). They courses were
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
Assuming your question is not rhetorical, do you mean 'why is this on the front page of Hacker News', or 'why is this on Hacker News?' If your question is the former, and thus regarding rank, then there are a few resourc
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
While I find PowerPoint cumbersome to use and strongly dislike the idea of wasting time aligning and realigning elements arbitrarily, I think the larger problem isn't due to the software itself but that it's overused and often the
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by vincentbarr 11y ago
>People don't want a "personalized local search engine" because there aren't millions of restaurants and bars around where they're at right now. It's just not that big of a problem to find a place to eat and
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
For those unfamiliar with UTM: Urchin Tracking Module was an analytics package that Google acquired way back when. UTM defines a set of query parameters that Google Analytics, and other web analytics platforms, use to capture and provide an
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
I used 'but' to call attention to the group conducting the research as I feel that's important for context and full disclosure when referencing a study. My intention was not to discredit the research or Amnesty International.
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
The headline is a bit misleading. Less than 6% of favelas are occupied by police. Specifically, only ~40 of the 750+ favelas in Rio were selected to receive 'Pacifying Police Units' (UPPs). The UPP project began in 2008 and - from
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
"We all line up in expectation of hordes of customers. Six on one side of the store, six on the other side, pallbearers of an invisible casket." Lol.
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
Next chapter: an interview with Paul's sandals, please.
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
Hazel seems like a more robust solution, and it also allows you to set rules beyond just the 'Downloads' folder.
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
Hard to read; hard to sort; false, non-intuitive affordances; way too many font styles/colors; and lots of bugs: * headings overlapping text * half-visible tables * 'pause experiment' times out
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
"An Open Letter to the Phrase 'Having Said That.'" http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-phr...
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by vincentbarr 12y ago
'Blowing up its business model'? I enjoy hyperbole in prose. Headlines? Not so much.

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