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by zhdc1 5y ago
> Yes. Also, a lot of companies operate under the principle of, "It's better to turn away ten good engineers than hire one bad one." I wonder how successful they are at this. There is no way to have a 100% hiring success r
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When you have a large enough number of qualified candidates, you look for any reason you can to justify why you picked one person over everyone else. Assuming that the hire wasn't already pre-selected (which is very possible), you were
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> I've been looking for a good source, but not for something that requires serious commitment. What are you looking to do in particular? You can easily host a simple JS script that serves raster tiles. Take a look at http:/&#
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Writing a non-fiction (technical oriented) book is on my to-do list for the next 1-2 years, so this post is very much appreciated. One thing I've noticed a lot when it comes to advice for traditional and self-published authors alike -
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From the article: "All data found within this report derives from a survey commissioned by Intelligent.com and conducted online by survey platform Pollfish. In total, 1,250 white Americans were surveyed. To qualify for the survey, each
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> a whole bunch of people destroying the purpose of attempted representation increases for minorities, while claiming it doesn't work because they broke it, is so comically disingenuous I have to assume you're doing it to harm
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> Realistically, real estate should not be very good investment. Real estate isn't a particularly attractive investment, even in the best of times. Single family homes net around 8%, which is 2-4% less per year than what you would e
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What pain points do you see that can be helped by software? : )
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> Everyone joining a lower ranked institution thinks the same - they’ll simply go to one of the top labs! They do? Generally you know what group or lab you're joining before you start your PhD, since university administrators want t
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> It seems pretty preposterous to me that people could be surprised by finding out they have shady offshore bank accounts and what not. I wonder about this. Complexity increases fees, so it's not difficult to imagine that people are
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Meh, it's better to treat software development and underlying academic competencies, like mathematics, as completely separate fields. Sure, the latter helps the former, but rear in seat experience is best for (I'm assuming) both.
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If you read the article, the author is discussing a conversation on Github and developer experience. The article isn't an indictment about academia (it doesn't even really come up at all). Re the author's competence argument,
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> It’s almost always okay to quit. Quitting grad school is probably the smarter decision to make for the majority of grad students even if it’s two years before graduation. Your sanity and self worth are more important and surprisingly y
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> At the time my main concern was the self-starter aspect of it: if I'm not given a specific task to do like I have been since the age of 6, how will I get anything done? A good program will treat the PhD process like an apprentices
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One piece of advice I was told years ago as an intern. If a customer wants it, they have to pay for all of it, and once it's done, you have the right to provide it as a feature or service to other customers as you see fit.
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The Onyx Boox series is really good. The writing experience is almost as good as a Remarkable. The reading experience is excellent, and it's runs Android.
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Same for all? of continental Europe. Prices are up a couple of cents but no sign of a supply crisis.
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> I can't find the reference right now but the evidence can be gathered from hospital records. This is why there has been a lot of attention on certain animals, such as raccoon dogs and minks. It turns out that a lot of the early in
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> since that evidence is not subject to being hidden and is highly incentivized to find given it would be exculpatory Why? The wet markets in Wuhan were sterilized and emptied (meaning that the animals inside were removed, killed, and th
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Leather tanning is, apparently, a fairly complex subject (I have a pair of full-grain boots going on a decade plus of consistent wearing, and others that haven't lasted anywhere as close as long).
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Willing to bet that, as the author discusses, underestimating the size of informal employment/the informal economy is a large part of the issue. The transition to a post-industrial economy makes it significantly harder to accurately es
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> Your numbers are being used to lie: You only have to get the MMR vaccine once. Children generally receive two MMR shots. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
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> There is no logical thinking in their thesis, and every critique is based on the rebuttal of statistics, numbers, and data-based decision making The worst part is that the data on almost every part of the pandemic is freely available o
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And yet, you can't get into a restaurant or cafe in Germany without a valid COVID-19 vaccination certificate or a negative test. The same is true for most EU member states.
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Your pamphlet was published in June, at the start of the Delta-variant infection spike. On average, it takes eighteen days before someone infected with COVID-19 passes away from it. The UK had 769 COVID-19 related deaths over the last week,
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> Gosh, disturbing comment section for disturbing times. When experimental medical treatments become mandatory for illnesses that have a 99%+ survival rate, and there is absolutely NO LONG TERM safety data, some red flags should be raise
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I think that a second part of the issue comes from achieving mastery in creative fields, where there are no clear evaluative goal posts for what success looks like. Talent certainly differentiates the top levels competitive environments whe
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> I did lose 50 pounds in the last year. I know I can manage my health properly, but during that same time didn’t manage my finances well at all. That's ok. Change comes slowly. Last year, and maybe this year, was about fitness. Mak
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> in many of the large cities and their suburbs (where more people live) A 50K expense target is comfortably doable in most locations (that is, outside of San Francisco, New York City, and VHCOL suburbs). Keep your housing and car expens
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> My wife said she had savings before she met me. Consider doing this: 1.) Every month, schedule two hours with your wife to go over your finances. 1.a.) The first time you sit down, look for, select, and integrate your bank account(s) a

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