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This has a certain genius to it. The same genius as sleep sort.

I use a work sample (short paid contract), but it's not perfect and boy is it labor intensive. As a hirer, you really can't win. There's not one hiring process nor guiding principl…

Is sleep a death sentence? To boil it down, "I" am made of two things: qualia and memories. During unconscious sleep, those mysterious qualia disappear, except for brief chaotic fl…

Did you read the book?

This article is borderline "Millennial bait," but: Suppose I invite you over to my apartment to hang out. I offer you a beer. You accept, so I tally "1 beer" on a little notepad. Y…

Suspension bridge cables are made of smaller cables. And those smaller cables are made of yet smaller cables. For example: http://regex.info/i/JEF_042406.jpg That's my guess.

RIP. This hits hard. Before my career as a programmer I was an aspiring fiction writer. Johnson was my Radiohead of writing: an artist working at a seemingly unattainable level of …

Look into The Tourist/Milo Weaver trilogy by Olen Steinhauer. The third book (An American Spy) is where you'll find the US/Chinese intrigues (and an incident that has a similar rin…