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by wppick 5y ago
Sure here is an article from a candidate screening startup, Plum: https://www.plum.io/blog/the-issue-with-the-interview-confir... A confirmation bias is not a conclusion, it's a skewing/filtering of how you s
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by wppick 5y ago
> I've hired hundreds of people and this is just not true. A first impression matters a bit, sure - but it has hardly any effect on the decision. The thing about confirmation biases are that they are at the subconscious level and yo
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by wppick 5y ago
I can't find the original article that discussed the confirmation bias effect, but this one is close: https://www.plum.io/blog/the-issue-with-the-interview-confir...
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by wppick 5y ago
Schedule it right before lunch and finish early. The interviewer will have a positive imprint of you in their lizard brain since you gave them earlier access to their food. Plus your interview will be followed up with the dopamine and pleas
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by wppick 5y ago
An interview is decided in the first several seconds. First impressions are a real thing. Most interviewers will decide based on how you look, act, and talk whether you are going to pass the interview, and they will confirmation bias you in
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by wppick 5y ago
Also: "There is no truth, there is only consensus"
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by wppick 5y ago
Yes the definition they give for bullshitting is: "According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, bullshit is an informal vulgar term which means ‘to talk nonsense, especially with the intent of misleading or deceiving’. The Oxford Engli
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by wppick 5y ago
Yes I can see your point. Why wait for a single point of day to bring up any issues or share information? Just do it immediately. We have tools to enable this (slack, teams, email, etc.). But, I do see the point of a daily sync up for team
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by wppick 5y ago
Not sure about that. I'm not familiar with Apple's DRI concept. But it sounds like there could be a DRI for the tech and a DRI for the business side of things. If not you would probably want the tech role to be the DRI and pull th
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by wppick 5y ago
For a software project, you need 2 main people to run it effectively: - a tech lead who is intimately familiar with the code being written, who keeps the code design/architecture on the right path, and oversees all the work being done.
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by wppick 5y ago
Suunto and polar are two other's I've used
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by wppick 5y ago
The economist and non fiction books. You will learn more about the world by reading about, rhetoric, linguistics, cognition, psychology, and history than you will from news, which is usually extremely transient and not important a few month
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by wppick 5y ago
> Public health resources are limited. Unnecessary Covid hospitalizations cause immense opportunity cost in the form of crowding out care and driving costs. Which in many cases other sick people and the public will have to carry. We have
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by wppick 5y ago
Ad hominem. We don't need to do a background check on every author of an article, we can just focus on and discuss the contents
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by wppick 5y ago
Why would I sell it? Can you name a better place to store my money?
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Bitcoin up ~300% from this day last year
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by wppick 5y ago
I bought my bitcoin for under $10,000 about a year ago. No tears here. How has your fiat performed in comparison?
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by wppick 5y ago
Zoom out. Look at the performance on a larger scale. Are you making the same claims about stock options? They can plunge much more than 30% in a day, but is there no value in them? Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are still in their infancy. Co
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by wppick 5y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but your position that bitcoin has no value is likely shortsighted and misguided. The big one that I see is decentralization. Bitcoin itself might not make it into the future of cryptocurrencies, but the poss
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by wppick 5y ago
Yes, it's not a perfect comparison... But if you were to ask someone who regularly drives (or is driven in) A Bentley whether a Toyota RAV4 is crap they will probably say yes. Why? Because what's important to them is the luxury, a
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by wppick 5y ago
I've had some realizations recently around this. The quality of the software is in my opinion not a huge factor for the success of the company. Look at car companies like Ford, Toyota, VW. Compared to a Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley they a
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by wppick 5y ago
Documentation can be implicitly managed thorough writing clear, slightly verbose code with good comments, as well as clearly described test cases. It can also live in the project management tools if used effectively. With a good software de
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by wppick 5y ago
This concept is a good way to prime someone for understanding how crypto mining works. Cool idea!
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by wppick 6y ago
Sure... right after they outlaw owning 10 homes Also what does "outlawing" bitcoin even mean. It's not a US based entity.
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by wppick 6y ago
The whole world could live in Texas. It's a failure of the people in leadership positions and who control the resources to create a game where everyone can find a fulfilling role to play. Instead its rent seeking and actively blocking
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by wppick 6y ago
This question is probably better answered in hindsight. It's probably easier to look back and see who was the top insightful thinkers of their era throughout history. Some of the top thinkers of today might be having their ideas dismis
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Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
87 points by wppick 6y ago|131 comments
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Rethinking the software developer interview: Send questions in advance(medium.com)
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by wppick 6y ago
Reverse osmosis is the next goldmine opportunity. Every home will likely need one, or maybe there will be neighbourhood nodes. It's even good for getting clean drinking water from salt water.
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by wppick 6y ago
Yes, because they want you to pay for a monthly or yearly subscription and you just want to read one article and maybe never come back to their site. But if I can do a 1-click "pay 1/2 cent" to read the rest of the article th

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