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If it's true only 7% of communication is verbal you are mislead by 93% when you do a phone screen.

I bumped again recently onto the following quote by Voltaire: "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." This got me thinking when I visited the ask page in HN: what's…

Irrespective of specific CS areas people will list here, a more important question might be: why do you ask? And why are you after leverage ? Is it because you want to make a lot o…

I don't ask for a raise and I don't expect one. If anything, I expect my salary to be decreasing. The lower the salary, the higher the equity. Ideally I want my salary to be low en…

Sometimes you wonder. I was not particularly interested; I was bad and soon stopped again. I don’t know why I learnt all the countries of the world off by heart, including their ca…

A plausible explanation I haven't seen suggested in this article is: lack of surprise. This is slightly different than the divided-attention and lazy-parent theories. There is evid…

That's it. Learn to run on the balls of your feet. It reduces the shock to the knees by such an amount that I can't run in any other way now.

Alan Turing ran to stay calm. He said: "I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard."

What worked for me is: - moving the mouse to the left (you get used to it in a week); this reduced the pain in my right wrist by half. Most of the pain on the right wrist now comes…