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by jamesli 12y ago
I have conducted a few hundred of interviews for software engineers and DBAs in the last three years. I do want to see the passions of the candidates at the professions. It is a big plus in my eyes. On the other hand, I am not impressed by
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by jamesli 12y ago
Analytics is useful and important. It is utterly baloney, though, to use still pretty simplistic analytics at current stage to gauge a player for a team sport that requires players to move and have direct body contacts constantly, like bask
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by jamesli 12y ago
Enjoy it while you still can :). My children were the same way. Now they are making jokes at my pronunciations and grammars. [English is not my first language.]
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by jamesli 12y ago
> You're a different person than you were 5, 10, 20 years ago, and you'll experience the same book differently as a different reader Besides, good literatures are of multi layers. One might miss some the deeper layers in the fi
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by jamesli 12y ago
The top-voted comments for the article in NYT website are horrendous regarding H1B visa.
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by jamesli 12y ago
Location, location, location, to borrow it from real estate market. In places like Bay Area, there is a surplus of excellent talents competing for academic positions. If one can't get one in Standard, Cal, UCDavis, USF, etc, they will
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by jamesli 12y ago
My personal experience makes me think that being minority might be one of the important factors, if not the most important one. Minorities are regularly ignored and interrupted in meetings while the majorities, unless explicitly reminded, d
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The Politics of Financial Insecurity(people-press.org)
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by jamesli 12y ago
It is, for sure. There are some other points to consider. First, the dataset sizes for most biomedical research are very small. Most advanced statistical methods don't apply. Due to curiosity, I took some advanced stat courses and trie
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by jamesli 12y ago
Biology is enormous, as the author pointed out. Our understanding in biology at present might be less than 1% than the whole knowledge. For most biological research, it doesn't require any advanced knowledge in math beyond basic statis
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by jamesli 12y ago
I would argue it is extremely simplistic to compare languages to unit systems side by side. In languages, it is both a way of communication and also a way of thinking, to say the least. Mandarin Chinese is my native language. My English is
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by jamesli 12y ago
Considering there has been an increasing larger percentage of the population going to college, the statistics might somehow get skewed by the population between age 18~23. If one is in college, it is natural to assume that she or he is not
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by jamesli 12y ago
"For one thing, the Chinese may be assuming that the postal service is more like theirs — a state-owned entity that has vast amounts of data on its citizens, said James A. Lewis, a cyber-policy expert at the Center for Strategic and In
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by jamesli 12y ago
It was USSR before. It has been China since 1990's. An imaginary and powerful enemy has to be created. Iraq, Iran, Afganistan are too small for the title.
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by jamesli 12y ago
I suspect there are something else in energy drinks that could have dramatic effects on one's brain. I usually drink one or two cups of coffee per day. I could drink more. After 7~8 cups of espresso, my hands start uncontrollably shaki
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by jamesli 12y ago
Amazing! This will greatly advance the research in some biomedical fields, like neural and glia development, etc. I wish I had the microscopes when i was doing researches in biomedicine.
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by jamesli 12y ago
Right! What we are trying so hard to hire are not programmers, but good engineers. For candidates who don't have much industry experience, we are looking for potentials. Some crash courses won't grant potentials to candidates. Spe
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by jamesli 12y ago
Ah, human nature! Abusing power and vanity, even in extremely ridiculous and harmful way.
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by jamesli 12y ago
More parking capacity in the Bart station. A lot of people decide to drive to the city because they cannot find a parking space in some stations. It is not practical for them to walk or bike to the stations due to a variety of difficulties.
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by jamesli 12y ago
Agree it is really sad. The guy who held the permit was entitled, condescending, and insulting. The tall guy in the neighbourhood was very patient and reasonable. I don't understand why the dropbox guys didn't want to play games w
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by jamesli 12y ago
Regarding this specific case, if no other engineers in the team are good at iOS programming and the candidate is aware of that, most probably the candidate would not give answers like that. If the candidate does say things like that in this
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by jamesli 12y ago
Let's be straightforward. What an idiotic article! The author is an education columnist, while he doesn't understand basic math. No matter what standard is applied for admission to a gifted program, there are always students who a
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AMD Appoints Lisa Su Chief Executive, Replaces Rory Read(bloomberg.com)
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Amazon checkout system is down(twitter.com)
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Yitang Zhang, 2014 MacArthur Fellow(macfound.org)
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The Music Industry Is About to Change, and Apple and U2 Are Just the Beginning(techcrunch.com)
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by jamesli 12y ago
The first paragraph of the section Results basically sums it up. In my personal experience, it is true, not only in the Internet, but also in everyday conversations. People can criticize the party and its leaders freely in their conversatio
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2 Women Who Were College Roommates Founded UBeam, and Promptly Sued Each Other(businessinsider.com)
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Big VCs Are Getting Greedy and Hogging Hot Deals for Themselves, Say Angels(businessinsider.com)
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by jamesli 12y ago
The shorthand is based on sounds, not spellings. So the difficulty is that the brain has to translate spelling into sounds first, which is a great barrier to overcome. There is a similar fast writing system (速写）in Chinese. I tried to learn

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