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I have conducted a few hundred of interviews for software engineers and DBAs in the last three years. I do want to see the passions of the candidates at the professions. It is a bi…

Analytics is useful and important. It is utterly baloney, though, to use still pretty simplistic analytics at current stage to gauge a player for a team sport that requires players…

Enjoy it while you still can :). My children were the same way. Now they are making jokes at my pronunciations and grammars. [English is not my first language.]

> You're a different person than you were 5, 10, 20 years ago, and you'll experience the same book differently as a different reader Besides, good literatures are of multi layers. …

The top-voted comments for the article in NYT website are horrendous regarding H1B visa.

Location, location, location, to borrow it from real estate market. In places like Bay Area, there is a surplus of excellent talents competing for academic positions. If one can't …

My personal experience makes me think that being minority might be one of the important factors, if not the most important one. Minorities are regularly ignored and interrupted in …

It is, for sure. There are some other points to consider. First, the dataset sizes for most biomedical research are very small. Most advanced statistical methods don't apply. Due t…

Biology is enormous, as the author pointed out. Our understanding in biology at present might be less than 1% than the whole knowledge. For most biological research, it doesn't req…

I would argue it is extremely simplistic to compare languages to unit systems side by side. In languages, it is both a way of communication and also a way of thinking, to say the l…

Considering there has been an increasing larger percentage of the population going to college, the statistics might somehow get skewed by the population between age 18~23. If one i…

"For one thing, the Chinese may be assuming that the postal service is more like theirs — a state-owned entity that has vast amounts of data on its citizens, said James A. Lewis, a…

It was USSR before. It has been China since 1990's. An imaginary and powerful enemy has to be created. Iraq, Iran, Afganistan are too small for the title.

I suspect there are something else in energy drinks that could have dramatic effects on one's brain. I usually drink one or two cups of coffee per day. I could drink more. After 7~…

Amazing! This will greatly advance the research in some biomedical fields, like neural and glia development, etc. I wish I had the microscopes when i was doing researches in biomed…

Right! What we are trying so hard to hire are not programmers, but good engineers. For candidates who don't have much industry experience, we are looking for potentials. Some crash…

Ah, human nature! Abusing power and vanity, even in extremely ridiculous and harmful way.

More parking capacity in the Bart station. A lot of people decide to drive to the city because they cannot find a parking space in some stations. It is not practical for them to wa…

Agree it is really sad. The guy who held the permit was entitled, condescending, and insulting. The tall guy in the neighbourhood was very patient and reasonable. I don't understan…

Regarding this specific case, if no other engineers in the team are good at iOS programming and the candidate is aware of that, most probably the candidate would not give answers l…

Let's be straightforward. What an idiotic article! The author is an education columnist, while he doesn't understand basic math. No matter what standard is applied for admission to…