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> But to pretend that there are only a few copies of this book we can borrow is asinine. Is it really "borrowing" under the reforms you propose? And to take your argument a step further, why should there be a due date? If you
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On Compassionate Code Review
(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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Not to dump on this service in particular, but there are a lot of "No Code / Low Code" platforms out there, and many of them miss the mark on their intended audience. If the intended audience is non-technical users who don&#x
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5y ago
I guess we'll have to install TypeIt to see the rest of the title typed out.
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5y ago
I have no idea how heavily edited the questions are on Ask A Manager, or whether the "reader" is an actual person or a contrivance, but let's assume it's real. Although the "no leverage over her" language is mi
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5y ago
Lots of other organizations who operate this way establish two separate brands so that the sleazy one doesn't sully the other. I'm kind of surprised that Buzzfeed News hasn't ditched the "Buzzfeed" name, even if it
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5y ago
.coop (for cooperatives) is especially strict about this. You need to provide proof that you're a worker/consumer cooperative that is either actively doing business or has a documented business plan.
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5y ago
A while back I registered a couple of domains to use when store clerks asked me to supply an email address. They were of the form: notmyrealemailaddress.com thisistotallyfake.com inevercheckthisaccount.com But joke's on me, because the
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I'm quite aware of that amendment, but here's the problem. Some of the founders were concerned that by listing out some rights in the Bill of Rights, they would be treated as an exhaustive list and used to deny other rights that w
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5y ago
There have been only two amendments to the U.S. Constitution over the past 50+ years (one of which is the subject of this story). Why? Partly because the Supreme Court has been very willing to discover hidden rights within the existing amen
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5y ago
Culture is such a vague word, though, isn't it? In some cases it identifies a regional association (like Mexican culture). In some cases it's religious or social (like Catholic culture or Deaf culture). In other cases it has to
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5y ago
The new trend is hiring for "culture add" rather than "culture fit." In other words, not trying to determine whether a person fits in with everybody else, but trying to determine whether what they bring to the table is
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5y ago
This seems a lot cleaner than the suggestions on Stack Overflow! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54907495/postgresql-recu... Edit: Sorry for being unclear. By "this" I meant the ltree solution that&
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5y ago
When you say "working an unpaid job at a startup," what kind of arrangement do you have? Because normally it's illegal for you to work and not get paid.
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Exclusivity and rapid growth don't normally go hand-in-hand, so one would expect that at some point, the company would have to bend on one of them, and it makes sense that they decided to bend on exclusivity. Facebook followed a simil
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Some Hacker News context and discussion from last year around the "fiasco" that CEO Ammon Bartram mentions in this blog post: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public (1543 points) https:/
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5y ago
> They enjoy all of the same benefits everyone else does: increased ability to focus, more freedom of work style and schedule, freedom to live where they want… I think some of the inequality comes not from the demands of the job itself b
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5y ago
This already happened at the company I left two months ago. We had been acquired a few months before the pandemic started, and the people who had not left by February 2020 mostly buckled down to ride things out. So there was remarkably litt
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Is well-written code more like poetry or prose?
(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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The Government Is Here to Help Small Businesses – Unless They’re Cooperatives
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> you could have qualified for a public defender In general, that's only for criminal matters. At least, that's what the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel pertains to. That said, sometimes public defenders are appointed
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Can you give a brief breakdown of what features are the same between ToolJet and a service like Retool, what features are different, which ones are intentionally left out, and how close to feature parity you're hoping to get?
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A Fair Price for Darth Vader's Meditation Chamber? A Lego Price Analysis
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I have kids who like to play in our yard. All sorts of sports and running around. For that type of activity, grass is ideal. In contrast, a yard full of native plants sounds nice ... but you can't really do anything in it. It beco
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‘Dear those in charge’: A scientist’s coronavirus impact statement
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For especially sensitive data, the assurance in this post -- that if you don't see a network request occur on save, your data remains local -- is not sufficient. Some malicious programs use techniques like delayed network requests to s
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> US lawyers are the worst both in terms of quality and cost That's not really a downside of incorporating in Delaware. It's more like a downside of incorporating in the US.
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> So when faced with a resume, I know that the non-diverse candidate got there on merit alone. But the "diverse" one? Maybe it was merit, maybe it was the quota... Why should I be the one to take the risk? So the white candidat
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> It's nigh impossible to find women and other marginalized groups. They're in such high demand and the supply is so low that it's just so hard. I have interviewed a bunch of women and non-white devs lately, and I doubt th
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I can't really see any down side, besides maybe a little bit of developer time, to allowing users to see a preview of the crop and optionally override. It's done all the time in other places.
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