onezeno | 10 years ago | on: Scientists Replicated 100 Psychology Studies,Fewer Than 50% Got the Same Results
Just because something isn't surprising does not mean it isn't newsworthy.
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onezeno | 10 years ago | on: Ember.js 2.0 Released
Right. But for a dashboard (what I use it for) that will rarely be closed or refreshed, the size is unimportant.
onezeno | 10 years ago | on: Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
The bigger issue is would he have been extradited to the US to face draconian charges for whistleblowing.
onezeno | 10 years ago | on: US Air Force destroys ISIS HQ building after spotting it through social media
Perhaps they already knew about the location, but were looking for some appropriate cover to protect an asset. Further, the US military may wish to make ISIS fearful of using social media, which has been a powerful tool for them.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: McDonald's CEO promises better food
I'll stop my one-man boycott when they end the "love" campaign. It's quite disturbing that they're trying to substitute a cheap hamburger for love. It's a microcosm of what's wrong with this culture.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
Anyone care to leave a comment as to why they're downvoting?
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
An deal in negotiation is not a deal.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Are all positions flexible to work remote?
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database
Perhaps by using homomorphic encryption?
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: The HTTPS-Only Standard
What did you realize?
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women
I'd be okay if it just said "usability testing". In my company that's just a part of the testing phase. But no way I'm just going to grab someone walking down the hall. I assume people are busy enough.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors Hire Women
And get rid of hallway usability tests.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others
I don't think you'd even get published for presenting any result that runs counter to the feminist orthodoxy in academia. Or that any career-minded researcher would ever take the risk of being labeled as misogynist.
With that said, the result itself is interesting enough. We know intuitively that women tend to make consensus decisions, and men are more individualist. That consensus building leads to measurable results in the quality of group decisions is very interesting. I wonder how those results would hold in nonWestern cultures, where men are group-oriented already.
Keep in mind that there is a slight bit of bias built in to the study. It provides evidence women are more adept at making group decisions (confirming our intuition), but would leave us to assume that a good group decision is the best decision. What about the decision of a single leader (where we'd expect men to have an advantage)? So an interesting follow-up to this study might be to compare the quality of group versus individual decisions.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: A Startup Just Got $30M to Shake Up the Garbage Industry
Shouldn't the market sort this out in the long run? That is, I would expect to see company buyouts and mergers that would reduce the levels of overhead and redundancy.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: I Owe It All to Community College
It's really not for everyone.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: GoPro Plunges After Apple Gains Remote Camera Patent
More evidence, rather
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad
Without a doubt extreme unemployment and poverty contributes to radical and criminal behavior. But saying that patriarch dominance and lack of democratic tradition leads to terrorism...where is this coming from? So by your logic, democratic countries are free of terrorism and non-democratic countries are riddled with it. Of course we can shoot all kinds of holes in that notion through counter-example. And blaming terrorism on patriarchy? Most societies in history, even traditional European society, were patriarchal. To say they cause terrorism (with zero elaboration) just waters down your otherwise insightful comment by exposing your strong Western liberal/feminist bias.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Japan's fertility rate is rising
Well then you're omitting the group that transitioned from productive to dependent from old age. If the other numbers are any clue, then it is over a million.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought
That was the statement by the guy trying to develop and sell it.
onezeno | 11 years ago | on: Technical interviews and the Towers of Hanoi
Instead we should give them boring tedious problems in a code base with no documentation and an incomplete buggy spec, and grade their solution in a couple weeks?
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