GPA and most interviews are useless. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart
It’s much more interesting to solve problems where there isn’t an obvious answer.
Laszlo Bock - Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations
Source: Business Insider
Ligiron Race 2013
from Paul Benzi Florendo
Riding the fastest trails in Bukit Kiara: 2K-Apollo
Riders: Alan Knowles - Banshee Spitfire and Olivier Falcoz - Banshee Prime
Music:
- “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet
- “El Kitapena” by Manu Chao
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Promoting a safe and sustainable use of trails in Bukit Kiara and Selangor considered as ones of the finest MTB trails in Asia #SaveBukitKiara
What’s Two Seconds Between Traders? A Lot, Really
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the advantage, in seconds, that Reuters is giving its high-value, “low latency” financial data customers by sending along a widely-cited economic statistic on consumer confidence. It may not sound like a lot of time, but since the stock market is almost entirely computerized at this point, that’s enough time to fit in a ton of automated trades. As you can imagine, it’s drawing controversy. Most people can’t even pick up an Oreo in that amount of time.
(via shortformblog)
Fortune Cookie Prod: De l’actualité générale, éclectique, parfois décalée & toujours significative en provenance d’Asie By Carrie Nooten
Source: fortunecookieprod.com
This is Shanghai from Rob Whitworth
In 1980 Shanghai had no skyscrapers. It now has at least 4,000 — more than twice as many as New York. ‘This is Shanghai’ explores the diversities and eccentricities of the metropolis that is Shanghai going beyond the famous skyline.
Fixed That For You of the day: NSA’s Ugly Slideshow Gets a Makeover
You’d think the National Security Agency could afford a decent designer with their vast resources and classified budget, but as you may have already noticed, the recently leaked slideshow on the PRISM program suggests quite the contrary. So freelance designer Emiland De Cubber took it upon himself to help out the clandestine agency with their horrible design choices by redoing the entire presentation, which is available for public viewing on the presentation site SlideShare. After learning it the hard way that they can’t always keep their top secrets remain top-secret, perhaps the NSA won’t skimp on that part of the budget next time around.
(via ilovecharts)
Source: fr.slideshare.net
Markets, stocks, politics, economy, Asia, sport, well, a bit of everything... unconventionally - by Olivier Falcoz
