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Actually the source article is quite clear about the implementation of cronyism - friends were emailed the answers to the bizarre hiring test and others were not. It is typical beh…

Was deeply aware of it at the time - was not really a DEI issue even then - it was pure cronyism.

More than the longer hours it is the willingness to try things that failed before or are likely impossible.

I think his point is that if ALL of your services have to use Guava (perhaps because you included some functionality that only Guava provides) then you have coupled your service to…

Poorly phrased by pmarca, but seems certain he did not mean that India would be better off becoming a colony again. More likely he meant that some things associated with their succ…

Beyond just the amount, I hope your project delves into the issue of effective administration and levels of personal choice. For the first you can look at the recent bio identity c…

It isn't about the total intelligence - it is about the excess intelligence. If someone has to have a programming intelligence of 100 to do some job, you might only need a pi of 11…

Sorry I should have included the link in my post since I searched and found it. https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL.git

Seems like a good direction, seems more intuitive to me. Very classy that it is all in a github!

The most disconcerting thing about this nonsense is that it is on a government funded website.

Most of us went to college and saw that Climate courses were where athletes were routed for an easy A.

Free flying ballons are not drones. I expected a link to real ww2 drones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite

From 2012: http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi... Not many older than Jack Benny, but you wouldn't have been the only one.

It does essentially have that question.

False statements on a visa application is a federal offense and grounds for inadmissability. Presumably they clicked "no" to "have you ever been denied a visa" when in fact they ha…

There is no "TASB" for appraising Technical Debt like there is an "FASB" for Financial. So most measures resemble the parable of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant. Trade off an ex…

can't resist http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_new_foursquare

People forget that Kennedy's actual request was: First - "before this decade is out, is landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth" Second - "acceleate development…