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by zupatol 17y ago
He argues that a job interview is a different situation than being at work with access to google because it's 'a competition'. If he likes to select people on things unrelated to the job, why not ask them to sing and dance too?
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by zupatol 17y ago
I speak french, but I wouldn't know how to spell it phonetically in english. However this text to speech site pronounces it very well: http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo...
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by zupatol 17y ago
When I am programming I need a sense of aesthetic to choose among all the possibilities. I strive for clarity and expressiveness just as any other writer. When discussing a design with other programmers, I know that ugliness is always a str
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by zupatol 17y ago
Meditation is something I would like to try. Recently I went to a zen dojo to try. They sit on this zafu cushion in a position I am not flexible enough to do. Even trying half of the position hurt incredibly. But the worst part was after th
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by zupatol 18y ago
Being able to travel to rich countries is a strong status symbol in poor countries, and corrupt rich foreigners risk not being welcome in their country at some point. But in a sense you are right, such a scheme would lock out the foreigners
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by zupatol 18y ago
Good quote. There is something suspicious about the whole idea, it sounds too much like an economist trying to solve every problem with the same hammer. But Gary Becker is not a loon. He has a Nobel prize in economics. Before dismissing his
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by zupatol 18y ago
Well join should be on sequence instead of list then. To me it seems unnatural to see join on string because string feels more 'basic' than a sequence, so I would expect the sequence to know about strings rather than the opposite. But the a
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by zupatol 18y ago
If this article wasn't from a reputable source, I would have simply dismissed it. So many things sound wrong. I studied economics, but not business. Since when do business schools work with complex mathematical models? I thought they were j
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by zupatol 18y ago
I noticed a similar effect on my opinion about movies and books. I am extremely influenced by what I hear, to the point that a movie that I love when I see it for the first time is completely spoilt the second time if I heard a disparaging
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by zupatol 18y ago
I just read the fifth child by Doris Lessing, a novel about a family destroyed by a child who is a 'throwback', a kind of neanderthal, or troll. On amazon, there is a comment from a woman who claims to have lived through that, which made me
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by zupatol 18y ago
Another interesting question would be what alchemists got right about psychology and religion. C.G. Jung was heavily influenced by some alchemists. Jung probably isn't a psychologist in any scientific way but I really don't know enough to j
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by zupatol 18y ago
'The end of the banking secret' was yesterday's headline of 'le temps', the most serious newspaper of the french speaking part of Switzerland. I didn't read the paper, but I watched a debate on television. The main thing that changes is tha
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by zupatol 18y ago
I think most people don't consider artists are superior, but everybody tends to ask these questions. I think it's more a need to fit people into categories.
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by zupatol 18y ago
Oh well, it's in french. Here is a link to something I put online last year: http://grandpapier.org/La-presse-independante But most of what I publish is in print, and some is out-of-print. I know I should put more effort in making my thin
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by zupatol 18y ago
Same here. I am a programmer, but I spend so much time making comics that I consider it a second, very low-paying job. When people ask me what I do, I say programmer so I don't have to justify myself. And people understand what programmers
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by zupatol 18y ago
And even if he had discovered a valid correlation for this period in this country, there is no reason for calling it a 'law'. There is no indication that the correlation will hold up in the future or in the rest of the world.
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by zupatol 18y ago
I like how he emphasizes that economists really don't know much about the economy and often change their minds. Nobody knows what effects the stimulus will have. Whatever happens will not be the effect of the stimulus alone, so the question
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by zupatol 18y ago
If there are bad apples in a team, they deserve some kind of presumption of innocence. The manager should at least try to find out what's wrong. I've seen bad apples who were frustrated because they weren't listened to, and they did have go
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by zupatol 18y ago
He's jumping to conclusions. "Get rid of bad apples" sounds horribly intolerant. In the real world it is possible that the pessimist, the sceptic, the unmotivated or even the jerk may just see a problem the others don't want to aknowledge.
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by zupatol 18y ago
The GIMP still lacks full CMYK color model support. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CMYK_support_in_The_GIMP That makes it unsuitable for working on anything that's going to be printed.
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by zupatol 18y ago
To some extent, he confuses the beauty of the problem with the beauty of the solution. It is of course possible to write interesting software in boring domains, make beautiful portraits of ugly people, joke about serious matters, write poem
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by zupatol 18y ago
It's funny this comes at a time when business leaders are increasingly seen as dishonest and irresponsible profit-seekers. I'm thinking of the bankers seem to try reap profits from the bailout just like they did from the bubble. http://en
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by zupatol 18y ago
To sum it up: the bike system is operated by an advertiser, who is now using negative PR to strenghten his position in negociations with the city of Paris. Why on earth is an advertiser operating bikes? The city of Paris lets him use its ou
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by zupatol 18y ago
Some films by Alain Resnais deserve to be on this list: Je t'aime, je t'aime: a time machine experiment gone wrong. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063152/ Providence: a story told while it's being written. Sometimes the writer changes his m
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by zupatol 18y ago
I actually studied economics and worked 4 years in the economic department of a bank, but I can't say I understand much about the economy. My feeling is macroeconomics itself doesn't help understand much of the economy. There is hardly a to
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by zupatol 18y ago
The article links the anti-ad movement to anti-capitalist feelings. Advertising is not essential to capitalism. While economists built countless models that show the superiority of competition and free markets, advertising is something they
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by zupatol 18y ago
I found no transcript so I'll try a short summary, although I'm already forgetting the beginning. Damien Katz worked on lotus notes, later he had a startup, from which he was fired. He started looking jobs but regular jobs didn't seem to in
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by zupatol 18y ago
I downmodded only that one because it gave an incorrect and unnecessarily aggressive version of what Kent Beck wrote. Joel is 'a bright, experienced guy' in Beck's words, became 'Joel is an idiot' in yours. I upmodded some of the answers yo
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by zupatol 18y ago
This book tells about so many miracles that I mostly appreciated it for its weirdness. I liked the part where the immortal himalaya yogi instantly makes a palace appear, walks in it for a while with his pupil, and makes it disappear again.
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by zupatol 18y ago
I think it had something to do with the paperwork specific to their trade.

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