DustinCalim's comments

DustinCalim | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)

Corqboard.org – Safely buy, sell, and connect around campus.

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Located in sunny Palo Alto, CA.

We connect college students with the things they need and have a lot of fun doing it–

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Seeking:

VP of Marketing

+INTERN

Tell us why you're interested at [email protected]

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Pianocat

Stickiness is music is when the mind can predict what comes next without ever actually hearing what comes next before.

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)

Corqboard.org – Safely buy, sell, and connect around campus.

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Located in sunny Palo Alto, CA.

We connect college students with the things they need and have a lot of fun doing it–

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Seeking:

VP Marketing / Growth

+INTERN

Tell us why you're interested at [email protected]

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: How You Know

This is the commitment and consistency effect.

The extreme cases can be found in cults where followers cling tighter to their beliefs once exposed.

A great example are the followers of Harold Camping, the Christian radio broadcaster who predicted the end of the world a few years ago, and kept re-predicting when it never came.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Camping

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2014)

Corqboard.org – Safely buy, sell, and connect around campus.

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Located in sunny Palo Alto, CA.

We connect college students with the things they need and have a lot of fun doing it–

Current positions can be seen at: https://www.corqboard.org/careers

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or a quick list:

Chief Content Officer

VP Marketing / Growth

Senior rails back-end engineer

Senior front-end engineer

Community Leader (at your school)

+INTERN

Tell us why you're interested at [email protected]

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Work/life balance – Significant other complains you work too much?

This is about Priorities–

I suggest you spend a few minutes and do a deep session of introspection and meditate on what your true priorities are.

It's not nearly as easy as it sounds...

Here are some questions to get you rolling: Why are you working so much? For you? For someone else? For the money? If so, why? What will you do with that money? Is it for you? A family? Do you find yourself enjoying your girlfriend more than your work? What do you get out of your relationship? Why are you with this person? Why are you working on your specific project?

The idea is to discover what you truly value and align your priorities with that– Good luck!

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: The Ironic Effect of Significant Results on Credibility (2012) [pdf]

Here's the TLDR:

power = P(reject null hypothesis | null hypothesis is false)

From the abstract:

I conclude with several recommendations that can increase the credibility of scientific evidence in psychological journals. One major recommendation is to pay more attention to the power of studies to produce positive results without the help of questionable research practices and to request that authors justify sample sizes with a priori predictions of effect sizes. It is also important to publish replication studies with nonsignificant results if these studies have high power to replicate a published finding.

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

Corqboard.org – Safely buy, sell, and connect around campus.

=======================================

Located in sunny(not today) Palo Alto, CA. We connect college students with the things they need and have a lot of fun doing it–

Current positions can be seen at: https://www.corqboard.org/careers

=======================================

or a quick list:

Chief Content Officer

VP Marketing / Growth

Senior rails back-end engineer

Senior front-end engineer

Community Leader (at your school)

+INTERN

Tell us why you're interested at [email protected]

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Firestone Stopped Ebola in Its Tracks

I do agree that we(humans from other countries) should all just dump resources on the people there -

but I think the legitimate concern here is that while we squabble about resources and their cost, the virus spreads and mutates - and if it makes the jump to airborne, I think it will make the average Joe Smith pretty vulnerable.

DustinCalim | 11 years ago | on: Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts

I think the author does this, not for his validation, but to cement the connections in the mind of the Western readers who are raised with a strong basis in science and logic.
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