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You don't have to rely purely on subjective human judgement. And yet (aside from mega deal-breakers, like clearly overstating competence in some category) that's pretty much what h…

What is greatness, you ask? It is the ability of a man to stand on his own, against the whole world, against the very flow of time itself: Email is a wonderful thing for people who…

all the into you => all that into you , of course

To be fair, sometimes proficiency in some framework or CMS or vertical skill area does matter a lot more than you think it does. Remember now, the problem isn't that they get candi…

Conversely, we can think of this as a rather poor filtering technique, because it grants an a nearly automatic pass to anyone who happens to have read any of the popular programmin…

Design patterns, at least as defined by Fowler and company, ... have no justification in robust software design. I don't particularly venerate the concept of design patterns, nor w…

That she was "bored" by the exercise doesn't necessarily mean that she doesn't share you and your brother's bold, hard-driving, searingly intense curiosity about the world, and the…

That's cool. Still, it's better form to at least try to not to use language that smacks of category-based discrimination. Just stating your age, for example, will instantly repel a…

And very heavy, 3-pager tl;dr pdfs at that.

So -- blatant age discrimination, huh? That's... awesome, dude.

This is just like any other claim to own some particular piece of real estate: it will have abundant "standing", "merit" and "legitimacy" as soon as she is able to back her claim u…

There are plenty of reasons not to publish on CPAN. Not everyone has time to "babysit" all the modules they write (and deal with people's complaints that they're misnamed, aren't c…

Umm, for one thing, the description of the instruments as "derivatives" is not due to Kedrosky, but to Avi Levy, the author of the Bloomberg article he was quoting. You did see tha…

Someething like a github repo for every arXiv submission - shouldn't be that hard to do.

Basically, you should only take a significant options stake if you're in love with the team, the work and the business models for their own sakes. A good quantifier for "in love wi…

Well, the global history of hype, at least.

silly, yes. but nonetheless, an accurate reflection of how many people view that sphere of activity known as "perl scripting." i.e. pretty much like bash scripting, but with slight…

It's Paris , man. You don't need recommendations. It's mind-blowing, sensory overload everywhere. Just walk down the street.

Some of Northrop Grumman's more interesting accomplishments under Ronald Sugar's tenure: Acting as goodwill ambassadors to the people of Iraq: Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary, Vinnel…

Or Zagat, or Yelp -- or anyone willing to setup up to the task of answering simple, pertinent questions like "how do I find a decent Thai restaurant nearby that's open at this hour…

But as the community is growing, this is kind of inevitable. And desirable. What HN needs is enhanced search (and tagging) capabilities, precisely to allow user to select content f…

His sudden withdrawal from a successful musical comedy career was a mystery to many. Well, the official explanation was that Henry Kissinger's winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973…

"Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention."

Because Wikipedia -- to its credit -- has no intention of being acquired by anyone.