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I found this book a good education in critical thinking skills when consuming news sources:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Make-World-Add-Up/dp/1408712245

Video link and summary of some of the books points can be found at:

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/keep-...

"more than 1,500,000 business applications were filed between July and September of this year. It's a dramatic spike in new business applications, which average about 800,000 per quarter and rarely deviate very far in either direction regardless of macroeconomic conditions."

"there's a marked contrast between what's happening now and what happened after the previous recession when startups "got clobbered" and were slow to recover."

It seems like this is a space where a non-profit might be more successful. Any profit-based company is going to have incentives to game reviews. Consumer Reports is published by a non-profit. They have a decent reputation. Reputation exists on the internet. HN has a good reputation too.

Makes me want to build an ML system to rate ratings. Of course that could escalate into an arms race.

This is why innovation happens in startups where the incentives are better aligned.

TLDR: "Today’s rightwing populists have proven so successful at appealing to those for whom the traditional bonds of the workplace, religious institutions and the wider community have broken down. Their success also lies in this: an appeal to the feeling of exclusion and marginalisation that many citizens have come to experience in recent years, a sense of being ignored, even abandoned, by those who hold political and economic power."

The logic seems to argue more that outsiders will appeal to the lonely.

You can already open the camera app when the phone is locked by swiping left on the lock screen.

Seems like a creative way to abuse someone online. She was able to get it corrected, but only because her sister happened to notice it.

She also had to get Google to correct one of their "Knowledge Panels", another downside of Google copying content from other web sites.

Applying the most generous interpretation principle[1] I suspect the binary tree test is not an old fart screen. Just a poor test of job aptitude.

Unfortunately, hiring is fairly broken in our industry, if you want a job, the best use of your time is probably to practice those coding tests.

[1] https://www.omahaic.com/blog/mindful-moments/mindful-moment-...

I think that's called regulatory capture when politicians task experts to come up with legislation.

Interesting video. Pychil claims that procrastination is a weakness of will. For another perspective, check out the book, "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much" [1], which claims it's not just about will (executive function), but also about tunnel vision and reduced fluid intelligence, all caused by a situation of scarcity--time scarcity in the case of procrastination. And they claim reduced executive function is situational. It's not a fundamental attribute of the procrastinator.

[1] = https://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much-ebo...

> Right now, companies artificially constrain their talent pools in search of the next Zuckerberg, while the country’s best coders are actually at schools such as Arizona State, USC, and UC Irvine. Companies unable to recruit based on geography and pedigree will now start to rely on actual skills, a far better indicator of ultimate success, thus democratizing access to the tech industry.

This would be great, but I wonder if it will really happen. Seems more likely companies will search for pedigree more widely.

Mermaid can be plugged into Pandoc, so you can create decent PDF docs in Markdown that include diagrams. We store the Markdown files in git and have a Makefile that converts to PDF.

Some very insightful thoughts in that link. I especially liked these two:

"People who provide challenging opinions are not trolling so long as they are not deviating from the conversation at hand. There are some people whose only goal is to attain emotional harmony. When a challenging opinion is encountered it is easy for some people to view this disruption to the social norm as trolling, when it likely isn't."

"Some people are easily offended. When a person engages in a conversation directly without distraction they aren't trolling simply because you became emotional."

This sounds like Jared Spool's Market Maturity model.[0] He breaks up your gen 3 into two separate stages:

Stage 1: Raw Iron Stage 2: Checklist Battles Stage 3: Productivity Wars Stage 4: Transparency

[0] https://articles.uie.com/market_maturity/

This changed my perspective on this. I can see where you are coming from. We do have laws against inciting violence, but I'm not sure that covers this type of speech.

Isn't the trend in cities for more mixed-use space?

And wouldn't Uber be more profitable if people lived and worked in different parts of the city?

Yes, MIT is a level above. I have an M.S. from a good state school and took a graduate course where the text was SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming). At MIT that's the freshman course text book!

The crux of the article seems to be:

To support this new approach, he has employees leave their phones in their bags at the office and blocks access to social media on the company network. [...] Perhaps most important, his employees now check work email only twice each day.

It's not just the reducing the hours, but making those hours more productive.

Wouldn't the browser allow you to inspect the cert and choose to continue the connection? Then you can decide for yourself if you trust the cert.

It sounds like you are talking about visceral happiness vs reflective happiness. Two distinct kinds of happiness according to some researchers (i.e. Martin Seligman).

What if the random stranger is telling you about something you do want, but didn't know you wanted?

Code does not rot. It gets complicated and starts to look rotten, but that's the hard won complexity of features and bug fixes. To think you can start over and not re-introduce bugs that have already been fixed seems foolhardy.

If you're willing to put the time in, use your network to find someone that works at company X. LinkedIn is good for this. You can even send a link request to someone on LinkedIn that works there. But don't use the default, "I'd like to connect." Say, "Company X looks cool because ... - Do you have time to meet for coffee and tell me how you wound up there?"

They also manage availability by surge pricing. It not only discourages riders, but it also encourages more drivers to work.

When it comes to Swedish soccer players, it looks like the top players are valued 5x more than the average.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/867492/leading-swedish-n...

I worked with a software team once where the manager let the team divide up the raise pool. And they didn't divide it evenly. There was consensus about who deserved more each year. Of course that could still be a cultural value of working long hours or working when sick.

It think it means that some of Apple's wins came from building something no one knew they wanted. So no amount of market research would have led to it.

Powershell has aliases, so you can use 'ls' instead of 'Get-ChildItem'. My colleagues tend to use Get-ChildItem in scripts and ls when typing at the command prompt.

Personally, I prefer 'ls' for scripts too. I would never use "rd" for a variable name, but since I speak Unix, the more concise 'ls' seems better. To my colleagues without a Unix background, Get-ChildItem, probably is a better choice.

I don't want to infantilize users either, but I do want to give them the right tool for the job. Some people are core users and want powerful tools. Some are ring[1] users and want simple tools to quickly and easily do simple things without having to develop a core competency.

[1] Ring User is a Jared Spool term for non-core users--they are in a ring around the core. The Core/Ring more useful model than Expert/Novice, because expert conflates expertise in the tool with expertise in the domain area. https://articles.uie.com/multiple_personalities/

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