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by ellen364 4y ago
I’m not sure what to say to this. It’s a perspective that I find difficult to understand. The closest I’ve managed to get is “sometimes people struggle to cope with disappointment and not getting what they want”. The resulting resentment an
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by ellen364 4y ago
You’re welcome. I think it’s wonderful that parents like you are thinking about the challenges their kids might face and having these conversations. I do worry about the “psychic bogeyman” (great phrase), but I also figure having these conv
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by ellen364 4y ago
> I didn’t read all the comments but didn’t spot a single one from anyone female. To be honest I only skimmed the article because there was so much pain and unkindness in it that I didn’t want to carefully read the whole thing. More broa
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by ellen364 4y ago
I have thoughts about this and I’m not sure how to phrase them, so I’ll hope you forgive if I’m inelegant. The tech industry can be strange for women. I’ve often been the only woman in a meeting, for example. And as an interviewer at one co
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by ellen364 4y ago
Peter Drucker was influential mid-20th century and I still hear MBAs talk about his work. He wrote in the 1950s-1970s about the importance of the customer, the value of decentralisation rather than command and control, managers as influence
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by ellen364 4y ago
In a strange way, the borrow checker is old fashioned. It seems like an experience described by older programmers, of punching programs into cards and waiting for time on the computer, when they’d finally know if their program worked. My fe
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by ellen364 4y ago
I can see you’re right. Thanks for the correction and the source.
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by ellen364 4y ago
> The Spark is one EV from one manufacturer, introduced ten years ago, and it sold a few thousand units over a couple years. Did you mean a few hundred thousand units? Wiki says there were 24,459 Chevrolet Sparks sold in the USA last yea
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by ellen364 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder if it is, partly, due to how software development is framed. E.g. on HN I’ve seen people describe software development as basically maths. But Grace Hopper described programming as like planning a dinner party, requiring
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by ellen364 4y ago
Don’t give up hope. Someone I mentored at a coding bootcamp just got a job as a junior software developer at age 33. It’s hard going but it works out for some people. If the career change would mean a lot more money for you, it might be wor
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by ellen364 4y ago
That Kendi quote is incredibly polarising, but makes sense when you think about his view of the world. The Kendi quote that helped me understand where he’s coming from was “When I see racial disparities, I see racism.” Some comments on this
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by ellen364 4y ago
It sounds like Musk received the offer, accepted it and changed his mind afterwards. That is, after accepting the terms, not after receiving them. If that’s the sequence of events, I don’t think Levine is being disingenuous.
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by ellen364 5y ago
> do you have the subject line? The email I received had subject line: Notice Regarding Your Access to O'Reilly Content
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by ellen364 5y ago
You might enjoy “The Market for Lemons” by the economist George Ackerlof [0]. It fits people’s descriptions of what’s happening with Amazon. His idea was: buyers don’t know if a car is good and the risk of getting “a lemon” (a bad car) redu
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by ellen364 5y ago
> You do realize that the entire "ubiquiti sucks" mood on HN started with the publications of these (factually inaccurate) articles from Krebs? Nobody’s posted a “Ubiquiti sucks” thread from before the Krebs kerfuffle, so here’
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by ellen364 5y ago
18k police departments is mind blowing. I looked it up because I wasn’t sure it was plausible, but a Department of Justice publication confirmed [0]. Meanwhile the UK has 48 police forces [1]. 330,000,000 / 18,000 = 18,500 Americans pe
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by ellen364 5y ago
“Working with Claire” is an interesting comparison. I’ve been trying to think through why I reacted better to it than the main article. Ultimately, “Working with Claire” seems more aimed at me, the reader / notional employee. E.g. it s
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by ellen364 5y ago
The company probably broke minimum wage law. And might owe employer’s national insurance contributions to HMRC (the tax office). That might sound strange because the employees weren’t paid. But if the company was legally obliged to pay mini
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by ellen364 5y ago
> Did you enter "Mustafa Aksu" as the title of the Otter recording? If so, they just took the text you entered and emailed it to you. Returning information to users can be a surprisingly delicate matter. E.g. HIV clinics and me
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by ellen364 5y ago
Interesting point. Comments elsewhere in the thread mention console gaming. That seems like another good argument for closed ecosystems being able to support a big software industry.
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by ellen364 5y ago
Having the choice is great. It’s nice to use walled gardens sometimes (I’m writing this on an iPad) and to have options like Linux for more control and some tinkering. It just blows my mind a little when I imagine the walled garden approach
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by ellen364 5y ago
> You don't (and shouldn't) have a "right" to develop for it on anything but Apple's terms. Sometimes I wonder what today’s computers would be like if Microsoft had exerted that level of control over DOS and Wind
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by ellen364 5y ago
> What about freelancers, for example? On the CVs that I’ve seen, freelancers looking for a full-time job tend to put freelancing as a single entry with an overall start and end date. > Are gaps really that much of an issue? I don’t r
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by ellen364 5y ago
Lots of good advice in this thread. One thing I didn’t see anyone mention is how to explain the gap in your CV. Anecdotally, hiring committees are often sceptical about career gaps. The post says you got out of prison a couple of years ago.
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by ellen364 5y ago
They aren’t House-style, but trainee doctors in the UK take OSCEs (objective structured clinical exams). Someone pretends to be a patient and the doctor has to take the case history, read an x-ray appropriately, or whatever the scenario dem
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by ellen364 5y ago
Getting “informed consent” is one of the big, guiding principles for research done on humans. My guess is the author deliberately used that language of the scientific community, to make clear that they did not agree to be part of the resear
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by ellen364 5y ago
Ito World | Full-time | Cambridge, UK | Hybrid Onsite / Remote (within UK) | https://www.itoworld.com/ Ito World solves transportation challenges across the globe for millions of travellers every day, by delivering rea
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by ellen364 5y ago
That seems like the best case scenario — the over-engineering is costly upfront and worth it later on. But if there’s a problem in the over-engineering, e.g. mistaken assumptions, fixing it is another round of expense. So over-engineering i
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by ellen364 5y ago
I’ve found it useful to think of not-deciding as a decision. Right now you’re feeling paralysed and unable to decide. But, in a strange way, your decision is to avoid making a decision. Maybe that’s going to protect you from pain. Or maybe
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by ellen364 5y ago
Admittedly my first thought was “Turn off the browser’s auto fill.” On reflection, guessing that, although the work is all in-house, the software team has no influence over the setup of the client devices? If the devices are all under compa

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