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What cool or useful skills can be learned in 5 minutes? Sankalp Damele, My Life isn't all Nachos. Foodie, Qurious CSE Aspirant 1.9k votes Placing the wallet with the opening(sideways) facing down into the back pocket will discourage even the most skilled pickpocket from attempting to steal. This simply mean... Read More » How much money do Uber drivers make? Steven Reiss 423 votes Fri & Sat are busy, so approx $400 revenue. Uber gets 20% of that, the limo company gets approx 40% & the driver gets approx 40%. So if revenue is $400, uber gets $80, limo... Read More » At Facebook and Google, why are many new CS graduates offered 120k+ with a 30-120k signing bonus while those with a few years experience are offered a baseline salary with no bonus? Bob See, was Principal Recruiter, Google Engineering 2005-2014 899 votes I'll take a stab at an answer. It's rather complex to explain, so please don't hold it against me if I don't language it precisely right. Yes, it seems rather bizarre, bu... Read More » What template do you use in competitive programming? Michal Danilák, Mimino on TopCoder and Codeforces 336 votes #include #include #include ... Read More » Why didn't the Japanese develop a deep-seated hatred against Americans after the US dropped atomic warheads to obliterate innocent civilians? George Sawyer, Three years living in Japan and back 60+ times 2.9k votes I lived in Japan from 1984 to 1987. At that time foreigners were relatively rare, even in Tokyo. One day I was taking someone sightseeing at Asakusa Sensō-ji . An older J... Read More » I just joined an early stage startup as the first employee and I think I have made a huge mistake. Should I take time to reconsider it? Murilo Mafra 691 votes Leave. Just leave. Working more than 50 hours, having a time to be there in the morning, 4% and a salary that doesn't cover your expenses. You are getting the worst of the ... Read More » How does industry research (e.g. Google Deepmind/Microsoft research) compare and contrast with academia? Jessica Su, CS PhD student at Stanford 115 votes I worked at MSR last summer. Some differences I noticed were People were a lot more available than in academia, and it was easy to schedule impromptu meetings or pop into ...  Read More » Mathematics: What is the most important mathematical idea in stock trading? Joseph Wang, Ex-VP Quant - Investment banking - Hong Kong 79 votes There are two basic ideas that are extremely important because they seem wrong. For building a portfolio of US stocks, one critical idea is the efficient markets hypothesi... Read More » Why have swords been so popular historically? James Lu 65 votes The sword is indeed an odd choice to be the defining weapon of the pre-gunpowder age. It's strange in that it's the least commonly used weapon of that age. I can think of... Read More » What happens if you hire a programmer who is better than the founder of the startup? Debbie Madden, CEO, Stride, www-stridenyc-com 10.6k votes Better at what? I am the founder of a software company. I have hired over 25 developers. 100% of them are better than me at writing code. That's because I don't write code... Read More »