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I might be wrong, but regarding the anecdote about the physicists at Michigan’s Albion College attempts to model the spread of COVID-19, I think the author misfired. From what I un…

What did you end up doing instead?

"Lichess is for professionals. Plenty of GMs ims and masters play on it. Even Magnus plays the tournaments. This is like saying Linux is not enough for computer professionals." Thi…

That is not a favourable comparison for this website. For those who are looking for chess opening preparation software for free, I recommend just using lichess.org. Considering tha…

When I first looked at the website, I thought that it looked like a nice student assignment or a weekend project. But seeing that you are already attempting to monetize this websit…

"It seems highly likely that these preferences are socially constructed." People love to think this way, but study after study suggests that those preferences are at least partly b…

Thank you for the insight; this makes a lot of sense to me.

Sounds like my experience is more unusual then. I would love to hear from other people. Java has been front and center on my CV since I graduated from college and for the ~10 mid-s…

Do you frequently get direct questions about your technical knowledge during interviews or is your experience more like mine?

My partner was recently at one of the first interviews in her life for a software engineering position. I was surprised to hear how it went. The interviewers quizzed her on arithme…

I don't think psychology is typically considered STEM.

Note that this piece is from 2013. I think that should be indicated parenthetically in the title.

It seems like you are just repeating the same specious point that OP was refuting. Right now, it feels like companies like Google are mostly silencing hate speech, violent extremis…

Right. The author seems to think she has the right to find work in "her chosen field." Anyway, I think Slate's strategy is working fine. The outrageousness of this piece is what co…

I did and I still did not understand it well. I thought someone could explain it better and it'd maybe start a dialogue. Thanks for a worthless comment.

This piece talks about the subject, but can anyone explain in more detail why they couldn't put out a coal fire on a ship?

To the author: This does not add up. After they fired you and then had you fight to get your job back, you said they hired a "coach" to help you learn new skills. But at the end of…

The insight I drew from this article is that I never want to be an early employee of a startup and put my heart and soul into it unless I own a significant part of that company.

Sounds like a fun initiative. How is this financed? Do you own the rights to the work produced during the Hackerurlaub? Thanks.

Terrible textbooks are written all the time by cranks and eccentrics, and I did not see how this book stood out from the rest.

Didn't this type of fraud require massive domain expertise?