creatine_lizard

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   by creatine_lizard 9y ago

   The article was a bit pretentious for my taste, but I agree with the title. I've noticed a small but definite "trickle down" effect to the things I do well from spending time doing things that I'm bad at.
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   by creatine_lizard 9y ago

   This reminded me of Penney's Game ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney's_game ).
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   by creatine_lizard 9y ago

   Could the performance of the lottery winners have been "environmental"? That is, they benefited from being surrounded by competent people (which was, in turn, guaranteed by those people having gone through the interview process)
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   by creatine_lizard 10y ago

   The standard argument is that it is the other way around -- we've settled on a 8x5 scheme _because_ our breaking point is around 40 hours. However, like others in this thread, I'm not sure I agree.
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   by creatine_lizard 10y ago

   There can be legal issues from the candidate's side too -- people on an H-1B visa in the US may not be able to accept payment for work outside of the company they've been hired by.
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   by creatine_lizard 10y ago

   If it is easy, it'd be nice to edit this the title to be not in all caps.