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by jawns 6y ago
TWEET 1/7: It's ironic that the way Twitter proposes to improve its platform for writers is to move them off Twitter proper. TWEET 2/7: Writers use Twitter begrudgingly because that's where the eyeballs are, but it is a
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by jawns 6y ago
It's easier to find devs who know basic SQL than it is to find devs who know pandas or whatever your language specific SQL-like library is. And the more complicated the queries, the more the gulf widens.
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by jawns 6y ago
There's a happy medium, where you can give some indication about the nature of the request while recognizing that the person may not be available to tackle it right away: Co-worker: Hi, AA. We have a client with a problem, and I could
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Swyg – Job candidates interview other candidates(swyg.com)
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Patents aren't a claim on the idea itself, but on a specific implementation. There are many, many ways that sci-fi has conceived of this working. Any patent has to articulate a method for achieving it, and the patent only covers that
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by jawns 6y ago
The announcement: https://www.elastic.co/blog/licensing-change The "Why" behind the change: https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS tl;dr Elastic alleges that Amazon is infrin
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by jawns 6y ago
Unions can be tremendously helpful when there is a wide disparity in bargaining power between employer and employee. In the late 19th and early 20th century, labor unions made tremendous strides in improving worker conditions and pay/
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by jawns 6y ago
I would love to see escrow expand from the realm of high-value purchases to more modest transactions, because it's a pretty good way to promote good conduct online. (Full disclosure: About 12 years ago I built a startup that would do
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by jawns 6y ago
Your proposal sounds similar to the flagging mechanism on many online forums, where the person who flags the comment is asked to specify a reason so it can be triaged by a moderator. In the case of downvoting, it doesn't rise to the le
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by jawns 6y ago
"We read, it is true, that wine is by no means a drink for monks; but since the monks of our day cannot be persuaded of this, let us at least agree to drink sparingly and not to satiety, because 'wine makes even the wise fall away
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by jawns 6y ago
One step toward that might be to enable a "fast forward" and "rewind" functionality, as are common on alarm clocks. Then at least you could set it to your current time.
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The description of the job in OP's post sounds like it's largely a project management role. I ended up in a similar role during my first job out of college, with a fancy title, managing people who all had more experience than me.
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Anybody know how they keep something like that from melting everything in the room?
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> This lights recruiters and hiring managers on fire. Not always. Sometimes it has a repulsive effect. Like trying to score a first date when you're already flaunting the fact that you're engaged to someone else.
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by jawns 6y ago
My first year of college, I was cited for jaywalking. I was walking across a barren street in our small college town on my way to class, and there was a town cop standing against a wall of a nearby building waiting for an easy catch. I had
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by jawns 6y ago
It bugs me, too. Nowadays, "An oral history of X" just means "We interviewed multiple people related to X, and here is a written article containing some of their quotes." That's a lot different from what the Oral H
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US to add 80 more Chinese companies and affiliates to trade blacklist(reuters.com)
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OneWeb, recently rescued from bankruptcy, set to raise $400M(ft.com)
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> At the end of the day, not a single journalist has been held personally responsible In the U.S., "an unprecedented 110 [journalists] were arrested or charged in 2020, many while covering demonstrations against police violence; at
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by jawns 6y ago
By that I mean not just the means of production but the means of consumption. It used to be that the means of production was the hard problem (capital costs to create a new print publication were high). But now perhaps the more difficult
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by jawns 6y ago
You're right. We've come a long way from, "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so." Most (but admittedly not all) reporters and editors I've known have held themselves to the code you mention. The
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by jawns 6y ago
Former journalist here. There are very few details about the methodology used in this survey, so I don't think I have much to say about the validity of the poll results. But regarding whether journalism is more dangerous now than it w
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Ask HN: Who Got Hired?
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I'm not a doctor, but I play one on my CV (2017)(sciencemag.org)
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NASA Puts the Kibosh on VSVN(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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Nasdaq seeks mandatory board diversity for listed companies(apnews.com)
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Amazon says this year's holiday shopping period has been biggest in its history(cnbc.com)
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Rundown schools forced more students to go remote(hechingerreport.org)
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Apple Hires Prominent Venture Capitalist for App Store Role(bloomberg.com)
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Well, not killing the egg, but killing the developing chick inside the egg. But you're right, it's just killing the chick earlier in its lifecycle, before it hatches. Analogous to aborting a human while in the womb, versus killin

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