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tom_b

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  1. What makes the US health care system so expensive (theincidentaleconomist.com)
    1 points 3
  2. Ask HN: Detailed data science/engineer challenges?

    Do you use a specific hiring challenge or "homework" assignment to evaluate data science/engineer candidates? Can you share examples that would be exciting to you as a hiring manager or member of a team adding a data…

    1 points 0
  3. Putting people in boxes (johndcook.com)
    2 points 0
  4. A Mathematics Autodidact's Aid (ams.org)
    2 points 0
  5. Order-Preserving Encryption Revisited [pdf] (cc.gatech.edu)
    1 points 1
  6. Writing a simple SQL data source (SmartGWT Grid Populator)) (blog.markwatson.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Trees and Other Hierarchies in MySQL (Relational/hierarchical data overview) (artfulsoftware.com)
    1 points 1
  8. Three-hour-a-week-language (Fluency in hacking) (johndcook.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Ask HN: Hacking for the career, PhD for the fun stuff?

    Lately, I think about hybrid opportunities. There is no doubt that my MS in CS had a better bang for the buck than staying for a PhD. But now, I tend to be a "pure IT" software dev and rarely work on deep, interesting…

    1 points 1
  10. Ask HN: How important is "rocket science" to startups

    Hi, Reading the article "The Interview with Y Combinator That’s Not" earlier I thought there was an interesting angle to be explored. During the interview, the DirectedEdge team got a question, "So where’s the rocket…

    11 points 8
  11. Ask HN: Programming language power and 10 years to mastery

    I've been thinking about the intersection between the variability in programming language power and expressivity (as discussed by PG in http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) and the 10 year (or 10,000 hours) road to…

    25 points 42