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by jawns 5y ago
I tried to clarify in my top comment that I wasn't saying we should avoid having experienced people on a team, but based on your response, maybe a little more clarification is needed. When I think about a "hero" in terms of t
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by jawns 5y ago
Heroes are a red flag for me, as a manager, trying to build a resilient team. Which is not to say that you can't have a range of experience levels. But what happens when those heroes are unavailable? Maybe they're out on vacation,
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by jawns 5y ago
It was a regular advertisement in the 1980s and 1990s in Boys' Life magazine, published by the Boy Scouts of America. Picture of the ad: https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/7jrpbu/this_hove..
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by jawns 5y ago
While we're at it, let's have the Supreme Court clarify that aside from identifying yourself, you have the right to remain silent during a Terry stop. It seems pretty obvious that if you have the right to not answer officer's
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by jawns 5y ago
I'm Catholic, and although I acknowledge that many of my coreligionists have felt it, even to the point where "Catholic guilt" has its own Wikipedia entry, my experience is the opposite. It is through my faith that I have fe
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by jawns 5y ago
I am a member of a religious group whose doctrine, practices, culture, etc. are very different from the doctrine, practices, and culture of other religious groups. Some people who identify as religious are monotheists, others polytheists,
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by jawns 5y ago
I think some companies recognized that it's possible for once-in-a-generation and once-in-a-lifetime disruptive events to occur, but they crunched the numbers and decided that they could squeeze more from lean practices over the long t
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by jawns 5y ago
Most of my friends are politically and socially liberal, whereas I'm liberal on some issues, conservative on others, and have a decent number of views that are hard to categorize on a liberal/conservative spectrum. One thing I&#x2
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by jawns 5y ago
Just in case you're not familiar, a Jesuit is a member of a Catholic men's religious order known as the Society of Jesus. It was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola almost 500 years ago. Some Jesuits are priests (meaning they'
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Stop Looking for Mentors(staysaasy.com)
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The details say they will send a small pizza to each person. In my area you can pretty easily find a small-sized pizza for $5 to $8 from an independent pizza place. Similar prices from national chains. Little Caesar's, for instance,
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Two Journalists Started an Argument in Boston in 1979. It’s Not over Yet(nytimes.com)
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2021 Fall Foliage Predication Map(smokymountains.com)
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College lobby got the gov't to measure graduation rates at 6 years, not 4(hechingerreport.org)
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PowerPoint versus chalk talk: an academic cage match(science.org)
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Playing Battleship with Bayesian Search Theory and Thompson Sampling(austinrochford.com)
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by jawns 5y ago
I used to work for an A/B testing company, and we used both contextual and non-contextual Bayesian multi-armed bandit approaches. Here's a cool talk my former colleague Austin Rochford gave at the 2018 PyData NYC conference about
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by jawns 5y ago
He's being a bit of a stickler here about product-market fit. I wonder if there are any counterexamples, where we can say that there is strong product-market fit without an immediate tsunami of demand. What about the case where purchas
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by jawns 5y ago
I agree that merely posting on HN doesn't constitute a public launch. But what about meeting all three of the conditions I laid out in the sentence you quoted: (1) marketing the site to the public, (2) accepting users, and (3) taking p
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by jawns 5y ago
> Need to have someone professional check the copy out. Professional author here. It's a major, eye-rolling turn-off to see the grammar and punctuation errors, and to be honest, the breezy response is also a turn-off and screams ama
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by jawns 5y ago
One common mistake in reasoning I see is overestimating how independent we really are. The author enjoys the feeling of independence, but at least some of it is illusory. It seems a little strange to me to draw a line in the sand about some
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Ask HN: If asked for years of experience, how do you include part-time work?
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by jawns 5y ago
My wife and I have been donating to Cures Within Reach https://www.cureswithinreach.org , which funds repurposing research. This is especially important for rare conditions that are unlikely to ever see robust R&D purely on t
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Lower the 'interest rate' on your technical debt(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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by jawns 5y ago
Another way to look at this is: Wall Street returns to June 30th levels, which were record highs, and which marked a tremendous rebound from the Feb-April 2020 decline due to the pandemic. Those levels, while erasing some gains from the pa
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by jawns 5y ago
I've been using the free, open-source React Admin https://marmelab.com/react-admin/ framework for this use case, and I really like how it works and how little code I need to write. I used it to quickly build an i
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> They were never included as part of the Hebrew canon of books The Septuagint, the earliest known Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, is the version of the Old Testament most often quoted in the New Testament. It includes these
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by jawns 5y ago
I am suspicious about the alleged problem finding people willing to work with COBOL. Generally, if it's crucial for the business, the lever you pull is increasing compensation until the market responds. That's how you influence w
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by jawns 5y ago
There's a distinction to be made between counting on one's fingers and communicating a number with one's fingers. You can easily communicate numbers 1 through 10 to just about anyone around the globe by holding up the corresp
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by jawns 5y ago
Chesterton has experienced quite a revival over the past couple of decades. The is even a Chesterton Society devoted to honoring his legacy. Given his impact on the early 20th century, the bigger surprise is not the revival but the fact tha

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