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While we're throwing out book recommendations, I'll mention one by William Poundstone, who's quoted in the article. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting Sy…

> favoring foreigners over locals on the basis of being able to pay foreigners less only Hypothetically, if you were a Machiavellian hiring manager: You would also prefer a foreign…

> perfectly legal Well, not necessarily. If your reflexes are good enough, and your brakes are good enough, and your tires are good enough, that you can safely stop a bike going 20…

I don't think it works that way. If you add logic that says: "here's group A, who we really want to target, and here's group B, the protected class we want to exclude. throw 10% of…

No, because the fact that I'm neither Chinese nor likely to read Chinese Daily News doesn't actually prevent me from seeing your ad. If you posted "Help Wanted" flyers in the middl…

My favorite resources are now all slightly dated; I haven't really kept up with the cutting edge as I've moved away from design and towards development. --- Web: A List Apart, espe…

I'll throw in Brian Lonsdorf's "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming" https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ And the related vid…

Same situation for me. I disable notifications for everything but direct messages. Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable…

I'm going to guess that you don't spend many hours 9-5 Monday through Friday at a beach or on a golf course. If you're in the right places, you'll definitely see people who value f…

The fact that his response rate when from If anything, assuming most companies have an 'employee referral' program, emailing a random non-recruiter may have the additional advantag…

Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first …

Because then you can curry/partially apply functions independent of your data. It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else. (I realize that only really makes sense if you kn…

But if you clicked through to that point and were served ads, they kind of already won. At least short term.

The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repos…

Just about. Same time in a year and a half?

The hardest part of J is revisiting old code and trying to figure out what you were thinking when you wrote it. The cognitive cost of writing the same program in J versus your curr…

I think you overestimate the difficulty. The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble. The other statistic…

I like it; it makes it easier to read in a web browser. But if you want a full copy: 1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links, 2. pdftk to merge them all into one file

If you have a digital scale and some time to read supplement labels, even the measuring/mixing doesn't seem that bad. The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The malto…

"Hey, This college sounds familiar." Dr. Lewis' book is listed on Amazon as having a publication date of October 30, 2012. [edit: The author himself will tell you; If you're alread…

Two things: Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?: [1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual., [2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to repro…