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by bronbron 12y ago
Hah! I've been thinking about this a lot lately ever since watching a documentary on a pretty internet-famous guy with autism (I'm not going to name him, but you probably know who I'm talking about if you've spent any ti
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by bronbron 12y ago
Eh, way in the future though. It's a classic tragedy of the commons. Each individual company is better off discriminating, but ultimately it causes a depletion in resources (i.e. employees) long-term.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> simply because it is so far remove from the actual engineering workflow. Err, what? Fizzbuzz is NOT a riddle. It's intentionally meant to be a stupid simple test, and everyone has written stupid simple code at some point. Even as
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by bronbron 12y ago
Eh, he's not wrong (even if he's being a Walter about it). HR is not a union for employees. HR is there to protect the company: It just turns out that the company's theoretical (keyword there) interests and the employee'
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by bronbron 12y ago
> That means always out looking for great people who are also a cultural fit and bringing them in regardless of whether there is an open position. > I speculate that there is a type of HR role that could fill this need We have this at
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by bronbron 12y ago
Isn't this just eerily reminiscent of what happened with depression babies? Widespread, extended, negative macroeconomic event happens. Those experiencing these events at crucial development points in their lives (childhood, early adul
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by bronbron 12y ago
The article doesn't say that. As an aside, long-term (which is where we really care about "healthy" anyway), you would probably expect body builders to be healthier than some classes of athletes, with various circumstances
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by bronbron 12y ago
Hm, this article reads like kind of a puff piece for Amplio. > similar efforts to “grade” American schoolteachers, for instance, have perhaps generated more controversy than results. Yes, for good reasons, namely... > It’s all about
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by bronbron 12y ago
They're most likely thinking about it from the flipside: grand juries rarely (if ever) vote to indict police officers involved in fatal incidents. Not that it changes the point of your argument, just guessing where the motivation for t
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by bronbron 12y ago
Unless I misread this, the reason he was incarcerated to begin with: > Asheem was charged with conspiracy in the third degree. The evidence was the gun charge to which he had already pled guilty, and photos, which he says dated back to t
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by bronbron 12y ago
That's seriously insane. Hypothetically (realizing there are numerous practical obstacles), could this be challenged in a federal court? It seems like an egregious violation of the sixth amendment.
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by bronbron 12y ago
Wow. Totally crazy. My takeaways: 1) Don't be born a poor urban youth 2) If #1 is unavoidable, don't have friends (and don't go anywhere because you might get jumped because you don't have friends) 3) Never be in any pho
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by bronbron 12y ago
Hm. While good advice, this seems like just general life advice not specific to programming. If you're the kind of person who says things like "TextMate is for n00bs" (or some variation of such) you're probably just a su
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by bronbron 12y ago
Hmm. Preface: I do not work at Google. > I would love to see one single company that isn’t dominating a market with no cash cow in-flow that can succeed without strict discipline, sharp focus, hard work, and hands-on management I've
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by bronbron 12y ago
Yep! Not a cushy job by itself, by any means. Certainly requires two people working full time, all the time. This is in contrast to 30 years ago, where one working spouse was sufficient, though perhaps not comfortable. This isn't even
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by bronbron 12y ago
> Working in an Amazon warehouse is a pretty average blue-collar job these days. Eek, I hope not. That doesn't bode well for blue-collar work in America. Working at an amazon warehouse will net you roughly $13/hr according to G
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by bronbron 12y ago
Interesting. The detour at the end about weed is also kind of weird. Not sure how I feel about it. Sure, addiction of any kind is something we should probably investigate and help treat. It's still weird to hear what amounts to a &quot
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by bronbron 12y ago
> Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required Cool, let's just bank on the generosity of companies. > Unlike something like cancer pregnancy is not an accident. If you can't afford to pay for childre
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by bronbron 12y ago
Sorry, just going through I just saw your comment, but I thought you deserved a reply. > apparently the medical system even under such physiologically unhealthy conditions still has all the MD's it needs Interns will agree to work 1
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by bronbron 12y ago
I'm not sure I find this article all that compelling because I think it's founded on a faulty premise: > Email is the "dumb pipe" version of communication technology, which is why it remains popular. Email might be a
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by bronbron 12y ago
> then potential MDs would stop going through the program seeing that on the other side you are just abused. Not necessarily, for the same reason that people join fraternities/sororities even knowing that 'hazing' happens:
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by bronbron 12y ago
> Is this just one of those cases where, if you made it through medical school for an obscene number of years, you "don't care about the money" I think it's more like "holy shit I have $300k in medical school loa
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by bronbron 12y ago
It seems like the major gripe is against passwords like "p@assword", not against passwords like "correcthorsebatterystaple". If you truly choose 4 words randomly, the number of possibilities is > 1e24 (at least 1 mill
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by bronbron 12y ago
You didn't answer any of my questions.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> I categorically reject the notion that any city which has the longest commute times in the entire country as having a good transportation system By how much? What's the variance like compared to other cities? Are we comparing NYC
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by bronbron 12y ago
> They cut some low-hanging fruit (and route 47) They cut 20+ regular routes. Even if they're "low-hanging fruit", that's a lot. > Seattle is even holding a vote in November to buy service for expansion. I wish for
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by bronbron 12y ago
Unless it's changed DRASTICALLY in the last couple years, yes it's a shit show. I would frequently walk home from Fremont to Ravenna because it was 2 AM and there was no way to get home aside from getting in a cab (and good luck c
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by bronbron 12y ago
Having lived in Boston, SF, Seattle, and now NYC (and having visited LA on numerous occasions), not at all surprised to see this. Even considering the population differences, NYC wins by a large margin if the goal is 'best public trans
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by bronbron 12y ago
> I think that even if we implement basic income, I think after a little while we'll all be back to work. The point of a basic income is that people will go back to work on things they're truly passionate about, without fear o
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by bronbron 12y ago
It could be a much faster, nicer way to answer the question 'where are you?' This is obviously anecdotal, but I've had to call 911 a couple times (I live in NYC, things happen on the subway). Explaining where I am took up 75%

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