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I wonder if this is true?
Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
Partly it's a way to head off the inevitable aggressive commenters who will jump all over some detail and how it doesn't apply to some particular situation.
> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal? I wonder if this is true?
What does the author win by lying about it?
Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
> A surprisingly large fraction of applicants, even those with masters' degrees and PhDs in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks. For example, I've personally interviewed graduates who can't answer "Write a loop that counts from 1 to 10" or "What's the number after F in hexadecimal? I wonder if this is true?
This is a quote in https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ if anyone's wondering. What does the author win by lying about it?
Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
Why is "opinionated" considered so valuable these days? In this case, it's redundant (curated implies opinionated, I think), so it's there to say something loudly. What? Are people not being opinionated enough? Is this defensiveness (if someone doesn't like what you did, well, you've already said it's just your opinion, man)?
Personally I get analysis paralysis pretty easily. I couldn’t even figure out what water filter to buy and lost five hours trying to find out.
Wow what a great list! Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
With the awesome lists, digital gardens, Pinboard and personal websites coming back I wouldn't be surprised if 'the human curated web' is the next big thing