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by zasz 18y ago
Some minimal standard of intellectual ability and interest. That really shocked me when I got to Stanford. I met people who'd gone to fairly decent high schools who were taking what was basically remedial math, and plenty more people who di
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by zasz 18y ago
It sucks that he had to live in his Jeep, but--Stanford has a lot of work-study positions reserved especially for students like him. He can earn $12-$14 an hour shelving books and spend half the time studying. He could do research in sociol
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by zasz 18y ago
Even if people were willing to post their successful applications, I don't thing pg would approve. That would encourage copying the successful-looking applications and gaming the system. But generally, he's looking for people who are smart,
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by zasz 18y ago
He must have his fans, too. Many of his comments have high karma scores, and apparently people like this article he wrote and submitted. I can see why they might not be terribly vocal in the face of all these people willing to be negative,
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by zasz 18y ago
Try Googling "Alfie Kohn." He's an educator who's a big fan of abolishing letter grades, and also homework.
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by zasz 18y ago
Aaron Swartz had a great blog post about how this is just not true at http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia . The core of people who incessantly edits do make a lot of edits, but they're cleaning up vandalism or bringing article
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by zasz 18y ago
In poker, it's great to have a lot of shitty competitors. What game has this guy been playing?
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by zasz 18y ago
When you start a startup, are you really thinking, "holy shit I only have 44.9 years of life left! Better make the most of it!" Your old age and death are pretty abstract concepts if you're young and healthy. I think for most of us, the tho
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by zasz 18y ago
Because diet and exercise are two of the most obvious ways you can control or "hack" your body. Therefore, they are interesting and voted up. Though I don't think this particular article has anything to do with diet. It's just an interestin
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by zasz 18y ago
Wow, I'm glad it worked out for him...I guess I can now view his obsession as inspiring instead of tragic for his family.
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by zasz 18y ago
And what do you think of the quality of life his wife and children are experiencing? I think it's too bad that she's probably unable to leave him.
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by zasz 18y ago
I don't think that quite answers the original poster's question. You're saying that it's just the way Jerry Yang's always done it, but why did he start doing it in the first place?
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by zasz 18y ago
It's situations like his that make me wonder about the wisdom of pursuing what you love, especially when others need you. Pursuing what you love is a uniquely Western-rich-kid's luxury.
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by zasz 18y ago
It ended up being a happy, loving marriage. And he still managed to do a lot of work, including "On the Origin of Species" after getting married. So much for not having time!
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by zasz 18y ago
It's cute and pretty, and pretty nice for a spare-time project. I like it well enough already. I'll just wait for the traffic to die down a bit.
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by zasz 18y ago
If it's a particularly cool question you want to save, star it.
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by zasz 18y ago
Hah, we had a party at our college dorm. We ordered 80 of these and someone brought in goat cheese, limes, lemons, grapefruit juice, sourdough bread and a few other things. The goat cheese tasted like ice cream, the limes and lemons like li
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Stanford president, provost, dean, ax own salaries(stanforddaily.com)
5 points by zasz 18y ago|2 comments
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by zasz 18y ago
Sure it's a joke, but I expect a lot of people, especially here, will feel self-satisfied at being "in" with the smart people.
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, yes, and we'll all nod and smile in agreement, thinking to ourselves, "Of course I'd be one of the smart ones! What a clever pyramid! How true!"
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by zasz 18y ago
I think it is pretty obvious; it's just not easy to restrain yourself from the temptation of getting a new toy, and it's too easy to rationalize why it's not necessary to save right now.
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by zasz 18y ago
Why do aren't simple, easily processed stick figures the height of art then?
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by zasz 18y ago
People are not as hard to hack as you might think. What's the worst that could happen? Seriously? It's better to be right than consistent.
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by zasz 18y ago
I think he's being a bit too histrionic about EMI here. It produces good music, but it has to be highly "inspired" by a human composer first. Without the works of a genius artist to consume and process, EMI would not be able to produce anyt
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by zasz 18y ago
Running on OS X, too. For future reference, I am a she.
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by zasz 18y ago
Visual forward digit span, test 7. While the numbers are flashing, the cursor changes to a text cursor, but once they're gone, the cursor changes to the hand icon you get when you hover over a link.
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by zasz 18y ago
Does this work for anyone using Safari or Firefox? I can't type in the box.
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Would you answer this job ad?
4 points by zasz 18y ago|6 comments
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by zasz 18y ago
Same here. I didn't flag those, only the shiny new ones. I wish I'd been bolder now.
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by zasz 18y ago
Wow, thanks for all the effort. Also, kudos for being cautious, and a good guy, about it.

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