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Here's a fun programming/math puzzle for you:

Data source: inc.com/business-insid…

Puzzle: recover the employee counts for each row of survey data.
(Spoiler alert.)
After you’ve got that first candidate (there can potentially be a couple more but the betting man in me has dinner staked on that) you can either constraint solver or exhaustively search your way to victory for all the other ones.
This tweet storm brought to you by fun Math Team tricks. (Having been a Japanese salaryman: if you find yourself repeatedly overworked, I strongly recommend finding a new position. It’s the best market ever for you. I take no position in whether this survey better than a RNG.)
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I’m often surprised when reading about startups that critics move to envisioning a world where the startup has won so totally that there is no alternative to their model, which is not what the victory case looks like.
Thought prompted by (paraphrase) “Who will cross-subsidize the education of non-renumerative-occupation-of-interest after Lambda School is educating every professional in capitalism?”
And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.
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Using a Chromebook for the first time and reflecting that given how much of my workday is in Google applications and other generic web apps this might be a perfectly adequate main computer if one isn’t doing development (on which I have no read on it).
I always thought “You’ll pry MS Office from my cold dead hands” but these days 98% of what I use it for is handled by Google Docs. (It helps that almost all docs I care about are internal and began life in Google Docs.)
Also Google seems to have discovered a revolutionary technology called a “keyboard” where you mechanically actuate a switch and it results in a character of input to your machine.

Apple should steal that.
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One of the least heralded and most important technological advances of the last 20 years is a battle getting fought one piece of paper at a time to replace workflows with web applications. It’s slow, boring, and enormously impactful.
It’s surprising how much you can get done these days *without* needing to call anyone, line up, or make a visit to an office to figure out the correct form to file something.
Random example for you: the IRS hires 10k people every year to type numbers from returns into the computer. This is a decrease from earlier, since e-filed returns don’t need to be redundantly retyped.
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