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7 years ago
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on: She Invented a Board Game with Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off
The scientific integrity referenced in the title is a spreadsheet she made classifying 500 birds across 100 different dimensions. Skip this read, the article is long and goes nowhere.
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7 years ago
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on: How B players hire C players (2018)
The quote could mean there’s a significant gap between the best and the rest.
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7 years ago
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on: How B players hire C players (2018)
This article isn’t worth reading because no real conclusions are drawn and the points made are pretty scattered.
The idea of differently tiered workplaces is obviously a popular one, with FANG and the academic/consulting/finance/law equivalents.
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7 years ago
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on: Nginx Is Giving Away a Free O'Reilly Book on Cloud Native Devops with Kubernetes
Why are half the comments complaining about giving name and email? Thanks for sharing this!
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7 years ago
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on: The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks
$630k a year in profit selling nut butter?
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you have faith in any time estimating system?
In forcing the estimate you must mentally walk through the process to execute. This process alone is believed to improve outcomes (reduce procrastination, identify roadblocks, prioritize among other tasks). I would say the estimate is directional, and serves other purposes.
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7 years ago
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on: How I went from Google intern to the head of Google Maps
More of a dive into Google and the Google Maps product than a look at how she climbed the ladder. The latter would be more interesting.
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7 years ago
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on: Should You Tip Your Uber Driver? If So, How Much?
1. Tip 100% of the time if your company is footing the bill.
2. If it is your own money, tip the difference between your willing to pay and actual price. If you are paying surge pricing part of the premium goes to the driver, so tip accordingly.
You want to make a difference in someone’s life? Give someone earning $15 an hour a couple bucks.
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7 years ago
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on: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
What do you like more about the article you linked?
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7 years ago
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on: More than 1,000 jobs lost to video game studio closures over the past year
How many new studios and jobs created? A Unity study from earlier this year looked at over a thousand studios and almost 50% of the studios were less than 2 years old. Sounds like an industry with high turnover and fluidity, which makes sense given the nature of games.
