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This doesn’t make ARC a bad benchmark. Tech giants will have a significant advantage in any benchmark they are interested in, _especially_ if the benchmark correlates with true gen…

Hey HN, I built repo-guide to make it easier to dive into and contribute to unfamiliar codebases. You can see an example of what it generates here: https://wolfmanstout.github.io/r…

Google isn't forcing anyone to use their services on the Android. Unlike the iPhone, the app API exposes all the device functionality used by the Google-made apps, so any other com…

I understand some of the downfalls of postmodernism and I won't defend it, but I'm not going back to rationalism, which influenced the Nazis, or Platonic or Christian Essentialism,…

When you have those moments where you do actually get things done, are you still focusing on the mundane tasks? That might be why the inspiration isn't lasting. Set aside a small a…

Sure, they get a job when they're 20, but what about ten years down the line when their language/framework-specific training is obsolete? Also, it's hard to imagine that such narro…

Notice that Krugman provides very little hard evidence to completely discard the entire school of thought of the Austrian economists. He even sneers at them using blatant straw-man…

The article sneers that "seven out of 10 rank themselves “above average” in academic ability." This bias is not specific to Gen-Y: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect

Your suspicion is correct. I just got hired by Google as a new grad software engineer. New grads might have a better shot in situations like this, because they are cheaper. Many co…