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by deleted_account 6y ago
These four day work week anecdotes are great. The pandemic may just kick off a renaissance for alternative work schedules. But these conversations seem to be stirring up the reality that so much of compensation calculation and productivity
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by deleted_account 6y ago
As some point in the past decade, front-end development tipped over into feeling like GUI programming . The modern webpack-react-typescript boilerplate manages to capture all the early-2000's suck of Swing/AWT with none of the se
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Mission Concept Review is a milestone in NASA's Program/Project Lifecycle: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_sy... . It sits between the "Concept Studies"
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Contextual advertising doesn't imply the system's completely ignorant of the device's detected language or geolocation. It simply means you're not employing a series of correlated requests across a stable identifier (bro
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Who tags though, publishers? I mean, you're right; I'm not being a contrarian for the sake of argument. Contextual targeting probably will have a more interesting pitch in a post-third-party cookie Internet, but it's not goin
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by deleted_account 6y ago
"what does "Scale" even mean here?" I meant in context of the number of publishers that advertisers need to deal with to purchase impressions. Cutting out the ad networks probably makes sense for Ster and NPO. I know not
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by deleted_account 6y ago
...'cause _historically_ contextual advertising doesn't work better than targeted. And contextual targeting is hard, because determining context is hard and it can fail catastrophically (I recall the apocryphal story about a washi
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by deleted_account 6y ago
This article discusses the Dutch national broadcaster NPO's switch from targeted ads to _contextual_ advertising, placing advertisements based on the content of the publisher site instead of user features of the person reading the page
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by deleted_account 6y ago
In the United States, I think we're living in an era of remarkably _little_ censorship; compare Hays Code-era Hollywood to today ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code ) Tim Wu's "T
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Explicit in your original question "Why do so many people need to be so extreme?" is the presumption that standing against police brutality is an extreme position to have. It preserves the status quo. It preserves a world where li
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by deleted_account 6y ago
My dude, that ain’t even remotely why people are out in the streets. You’re sitting on the sidelines confused why everyone is shouting.
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Stop. Think. You're making a "perfect is the enemy of the good" argument which ultimately supports police brutality and systemic racism. (I'll also point out that 8cantwait.org is a Campaign Zero project. Thank you for l
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Sweet! Can you get me signed photos from the Skullcap Crew?!
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Look at it this way, what would you think of a development team that shipped bugs to production and had...no code reviews...no unit tests...no bug tracking system? And every time they shipped a bug someone died? You might be inclined to imp
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by deleted_account 6y ago
Thin Blue Line is a myth. A symptom of people who have fallen victim to mean world syndrome.
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Salesforce CEO tweets 'no layoff' pledge(businessinsider.com)
2 points by deleted_account 7y ago|1 comments
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by deleted_account 7y ago
The article is part of Vox's The Rehab Racket series [1]. "America is facing a harrowing opioid epidemic, one that kills thousands of people each year. But the rehab system that could help combat the crisis is failing. It is far t
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by deleted_account 7y ago
The indictment[1] sheds some light on the difference: "On or about December 11,2015, he downloaded approximately 14,000 files from SVN. These files contained critical engineering information about the hardware used on Project Chauffeur
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by deleted_account 7y ago
"Chesterton's fence".
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by deleted_account 8y ago
"Technology companies often choose to gender technology believing it will make people more comfortable adopting it. Unfortunately this reinforces a binary perception of gender, and perpetuates stereotypes that many have fought hard to
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Meet Q, a Genderless Voice(genderlessvoice.com)
178 points by deleted_account 8y ago|235 comments
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by deleted_account 8y ago
This is the actual report: https://www.asyousow.org/report/the-100-most-overpaid-ceos-2... The methodology "lists the 25 most overpaid CEOs, identifying the company, the CEO and his pay as reported at the annual s
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by deleted_account 8y ago
Oof, talk about burying the lede: My personality today isn’t my disease. It’s a disease of the whole industry, at least in Russia. Our mentality is predicated on the cult of power and superiority. And that’s what we need to fix: just stop
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by deleted_account 8y ago
Sorry I lost you. I understood you believe titles rarely align with skill and companies disingenuously use "leader" to justify a ratio of employees to managers. A company is as likely to promote on the basis of "hire somebody
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by deleted_account 8y ago
You believe there are qualities that good leader would exhibit — in the abstract — but experience has never offered mentor, teacher, motivator you respect thus all promotions must be based on facets unrelated to merit: ignorance, nepotism,
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by deleted_account 8y ago
I think you very much understand a leader can be something more than a buzzword: "If you’re a leader in an organization, you need to be aware of the stories that occupy the minds you oversee." Or maybe more succinctly: "If a
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by deleted_account 8y ago
These and the parent's examples are very team-centric. The heuristic I use when thinking about these engineering roles is, "Where is this person expected to be a leader?" The progression is usually: Team, Cross-team, Organiza
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by deleted_account 8y ago
I wouldn't cling to the narrative that it was those bureaucrats and their food safety regulations that killed Chowdy. Long listed three reasons they failed before he got to, "the Toronto health department did not approve of our di
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by deleted_account 8y ago
Take a look at one of their hubs: https://imgur.com/a/PQJB09X . Maybe around 300+ meals stuffed in there? Back-of-the-enveloping the amount of time people are opening and closing those doors, I'm a little dubious t
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by deleted_account 8y ago
I feel like I'm coming across more of these "exit, then atone" profiles and none of them seem to have any teeth. They read like self-help articles for the ultra-rich: "Broken moral compass keeping you up at night? Try dr

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