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by jawns 4y ago
I've read a lot of Charity Majors' stuff, and in some ways this opinion is typical of her, and in some ways it is not. Obviously, she's a big proponent of engineers taking full ownership of their work. That's core to ob
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by jawns 4y ago
"Californians are fed up with being bombarded by junk fees that, more and more, are making it unaffordable to attend a concert, go to a sporting event, take a vacation, or stay at a hotel." Oh, believe me, state Senator Nancy Skin
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by jawns 4y ago
It's strange for ID verification to be presented as a subscription offering, given that it should suffice to verify it once (or for relatively long periods). Obviously, Meta is after that sweet sweet MRR. But the consumer should recogn
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by jawns 4y ago
This is, obviously, a very insensitive use of ChatGPT, based on our current social customs, where authenticity and genuine effort is expected in these sorts of communications. But there is one social situation where people really don't
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by jawns 4y ago
I'm surprised that they coalesced around a "3 days a week in-office / 2 days a week work-from-home" arrangement. In some ways, that arrangement seems like the worst of both worlds. Unless everyone in the org works the s
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by jawns 4y ago
I think your response represent a common trap that people fall into, where we treat "the media" as if it's one entity, whereas in fact it's many distinct entities with very different attributes. When we blame "the m
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by jawns 4y ago
I formerly worked as a news editor at a metro daily newspaper, and before that I worked at various other news outlets and magazines. Here's the reality: The average journalist values the truth and desires to report on the news with acc
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by jawns 4y ago
About 12 years ago, I created a tool called IntelliCAPS, which intelligently converts ALL CAPS to mixed case. Basically, if the word is not in the dictionary, it assumes it's a proper noun and capitalizes it. It also recognizes some
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by jawns 4y ago
Okay, which classes of people aren't interested in a relatively cushy, relatively high-paying job? Are blacks and Hispanics, underrepresented in tech, just not interested in programming, or is there maybe a chance that they have the sa
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by jawns 4y ago
Would you care to share what classes of people lack ability in software engineering, which is a relatively high-paying job? Any racial or ethnic groups? Men/women? Veteran status? If you're not willing to name which purported cl
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by jawns 4y ago
Sure, I'll bite. Diversity in the abstract has no intrinsic benefits. A dozen red roses is no more or less beautiful than roses of many colors. A set of heterogenous things is not intrinsically more valuable than a set of homogenous t
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by jawns 4y ago
One point about remote work, versus in-office work, that rarely gets brought up is that remote work promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. You get to work with people who live across the country, or across the world, with all of the var
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by jawns 4y ago
In organizations that have separate management and IC tracks, there tend to be two ways that the IC track is interpreted as you become more senior: 1) You spend just as much time as you did before in development, only working on harder stuf
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by jawns 4y ago
The problem is that you never really know whether the chat bot gets it right or terrifically wrong unless you already know how to do the task yourself. And in some cases, paying an analyst $50/hr. for a higher degree of confidence than
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by jawns 4y ago
They likely have the sign posted in a place that is easy enough for diners to miss as they enter, but still prominent enough to fulfill legal requirements about giving customers notice of the fee.
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by jawns 4y ago
I like the incentive you propose, but in the case of a company offloading 3000 laptops that are perceived to already be EOL, they likely will not find the financial incentive to be worth their time. I suspect nothing less than regulatory hu
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US proposes once-a-year Covid shots for most Americans(apnews.com)
11 points by jawns 4y ago|2 comments
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No, You're Not Bribing Your Kids (2019)(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by jawns 4y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
I think you're addressing a different topic, though. The first topic is, "What determines whether something is true?" The second is, "Are all things that are perceived as helpful by one group universally helpful?"
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by jawns 4y ago
What the author is proposing is known in philosophy as the Pragmatic Theory of Truth, which says, essentially, something is true if it is useful to believe that it is true. This is in contrast to the more widespread Correspondence Theory of
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by jawns 4y ago
I worked for a personalization vendor a few years ago and was on an engineering team that built a feature like this. It was ... a major headache, and I don't think anyone was ever completely comfortable with the security implications.
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by jawns 4y ago
Not a mistake. A calculated risk that didn't pan out. The letter says that the takeaway at the executive level is a greater emphasis on building an all-weather business. But frankly, investors often don't want an all-weather busi
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by jawns 4y ago
There are two things that keep my wife and me tethered to Google Chat as our primary means of texting each other: 1) Search. This is the big one. The fact that I don't even need to differentiate between email and chat when I need to
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by jawns 4y ago
Keep in mind that class actions necessarily exist as a middle-ground mechanism. If the harm to each person were large enough, they would pursue individual claims. But in many cases, it is not worth people's time to pursue individual
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by jawns 4y ago
One novel method that auto insurers have been experimenting with is voluntarily reporting data that can only help, not hurt. So, for instance, if you install their monitoring device in your vehicle and it shows that you don't drive in
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by jawns 4y ago
If you're looking at this problem not as a technical person, but just as someone looking for the most practical solution to the problem ... Chrome's built-in password management is the obvious mass-market solution. It suggests (re
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by jawns 4y ago
Manager here. I'd like to offer a plausible explanation for your friend's performance reviews. I tell my reports that I don't want them busting their asses or anything else, because that leads to burnout, which leads to falli
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Ask HN: Is there anything similar to the Joel Test, but for benefits?
3 points by jawns 4y ago|1 comments
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I Disapprove of What You Say, but Will Defend Your Right to Say It (2015)(quoteinvestigator.com)
16 points by jawns 4y ago|10 comments
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by jawns 4y ago
The sentiment expressed by this quote is why First Amendment auditors do such a valuable public service. There would be no need for the First Amendment's protection of speech if the things that we said never offended anyone, never made

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