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by basseq 10y ago
This is the equivalent of graphic designers presenting alternate proposals for boarding passes and Craigslist. They're not wrong, and for those with a specific sort of sensibility, the "imperfections" can be grating, but for
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by basseq 10y ago
Two reactions: 1) Companies can rarely articulate the problems they're facing. They know the pain they're feeling, but not necessarily why. If they know the problem, they're either a) working on a solution, b) thinking abou
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by basseq 10y ago
Even worse: it doesn't disable highlighting, it just tries to overwrite click-drag with a swipe gesture to navigate between (?) articles. UX at its worst.
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by basseq 10y ago
Breakfast is typically a granola bar (I like the old-school crunchy Nature's Valley ones) and a cup of coffee. 30% of the time the coffee will be a latte from Starbucks or the local coffee shop. Mid-morning I'll probably have anot
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by basseq 10y ago
Uncertainty about an acquisition is common, but employees simply not showing up to work is surprising. Is the environment that toxic? Ending with Dorsey's recent all-hands email[1] seems rather empty in context, as it makes no mention
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by basseq 10y ago
This morning I read (and just submitted) a Vanity Fair piece on how morale at Twitter is really low and people are straight-up not coming to work. It ended with this letter, which makes no mention of a forthcoming acquisition and seems ra
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Morale at Twitter Plummets as Jack Dorsey Warms to a Sale(vanityfair.com)
9 points by basseq 10y ago|1 comments
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by basseq 10y ago
Presuming departments track complaint resolution outcomes, we should see the rate of "legitimate" cases go up. E.g., if 100 cases were filed, 50 frivolous, and the officer in question was sanctioned in 10 cases, that's a 10%
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by basseq 10y ago
... a planned freeway just to the south was canceled back in the 1980's, and all the houses that had been taken by eminent domain were auctioned off. The new tenants didn't take care of their neighborhoods like the o
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by basseq 10y ago
I've been the victim of a couple forms of fraud (fraudulent charges in TX, Macy's CC opened in my wife's name) and the CC companies bent over backwards to accommodate us. No hesitation that the charges would be reversed, ho
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by basseq 10y ago
> ... government can have another motive be primary > rather than profit, i.e. help it citizens as the > primary goal. But there's still ROI here, and there's still a budget (no matter how big the deficit ge
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by basseq 10y ago
I like beige and neutrals. Minus a soft teal accent wall, my whole house is various shades of blue-grey and beige. (Excluding the yellow guest bedroom and faux-painted basement I haven't gotten around to painting.) I think some of th
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by basseq 10y ago
I'm looking at this in quantitative terms. Money is one measure. Effort, time, security, and others may be harder to quantify, but they're still important factors. "Security at any cost" quickly becomes simply impossi
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by basseq 10y ago
> > That's the current mindset of the technological world, > > estimating whether the cost of atoning for the problem > > is lower than the cost of securing the systems. > > And for the record, th
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by basseq 10y ago
I was a CS major, but my career took a different direction, and I haven't programmed "professionally" for 8+ years. I looked up the FizzBuzz question and wrote some psuedocode in about 5m. It's sad that FizzBuzz is such
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by basseq 10y ago
At a macro level, labor has benefited alongside productivity—automation and globalization—in the 19th and 20th centuries. So the question becomes how much society should insulate individuals from economic change. There are no guarantees t
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by basseq 10y ago
Then wouldn't they sue the companies?
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by basseq 10y ago
This is a little idealistic. I agree with both employer (manager) and employee advice in some areas: A good boss starts preparing for you to leave the day you start your job. [...] I let them know that if they’re getting the urge
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Two Weeks Notice Is for Sandwich Artists(deardesignstudent.com)
2 points by basseq 10y ago|1 comments
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by basseq 10y ago
Note that "natural" does not mean it's "real" vanilla extract. It just refers to how the chemical compounds that taste like vanilla were obtained (which may or may not have involved actual vanilla in the first place
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by basseq 10y ago
The difference between "natural" and "artificial" flavors is academic at best. Fundamentally, they're the same chemical compounds: the difference is how those compounds are obtained... and the premium you can charge
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by basseq 10y ago
In fact, my understanding is that a baby three weeks early isn't even classified as a preemie. Correct: 37 weeks is considered "term", with a standard due date being somewhere between 39 and 40 weeks. My son was ~3
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by basseq 10y ago
You could make this complaint about pretty much every academic study ever. Rarely is the underlying data, statistical models, etc. shared publicly. Should they be (for repeatability and peer review)? Sure, I buy that argument. But it&#x27
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by basseq 10y ago
Disclaimer: There's a really bad stigma about c-sections and mothers who have them being "less" or "worse" because of it. I'm careful to point this out before we dive into a discussion on making accusations o
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Why I Won’t Make It Past Your Careers Page(medium.com)
6 points by basseq 10y ago|1 comments
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by basseq 10y ago
HN - Discussion is generally civil, and snarky or underhanded commends are generally downvoted swiftly. Not much in the way of political and economic commentary, and the discussion tools (e.g., the platform, notification, etc.) are just OK.
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by basseq 10y ago
I would agree. (And was responding to the parent comment.) It begs two questions, though: 1. What's "reasonable"? 2. Does the meaning of "reasonable" change? (E.g., a criminal-law class vs. a computer science class)
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by basseq 10y ago
The article links to another on teaching rape law to criminal-law students.[1] From that article: One teacher I know was recently asked by a student not to use the word “violate” in class—as in “Does this conduct violate the law?”
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by basseq 10y ago
This is tough . With the aspirations of "civility and mutual respect" along with "rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement", I would hope any truly egregious edge cases disappear. In the middle, I think people
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by basseq 10y ago
Slightly off-topic because it's a mission statement, and an old one at that, but NASA's always gave me chills: To understand and protect our home planet, To explore the universe and search for life, To inspire the next gen

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