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by joegahona 4y ago
> I’m pretty sure that’s not because New York is a proper noun, but because it is an open compound. You are correct -- it's not because it's a proper noun. The rule I recall is that if a proper noun is also a compound modifier,
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by joegahona 4y ago
En dashes are ugly bastards that have very little benefit. Word and Google Docs inaccurately convert hyphens into en dashes, and I never have gotten a satisfactory answer why. I used to see en dashes to connect a compound modifier to yet an
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by joegahona 4y ago
Is there a generally agreed upon definition for "outage" in engineering circles? Because the linked article cites "yet another major global outage at Twitter," but the article it links to says this: > People's ti
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by joegahona 4y ago
I have to search HN for “Twitter” and sort by “last 24 hours” to get my fix of Twitter Gossip. It seldom appears on the front page anymore.
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by joegahona 4y ago
I would think they have all the messages from Slack (it’s how they were able to write the Twitter Files), but who knows what format it’s in.
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by joegahona 4y ago
Does this mean they’ve dumped Workday now too?
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by joegahona 4y ago
The “Twitter hasn’t paid its Slack bill” is just a jab at Musk. I’m fairly certain that it would revert to a free plan and not just go down. The bigger question, which it sounds like Verge wasn’t able to answer, is the motivation for intent
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by joegahona 4y ago
The real story about ads is buried in the subhead -- likely because Verge thought they could get more clicks about "constant layoffs," which is sort of disingenuous -- Musk said "no more layoffs are PLANNED" back in Nov,
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by joegahona 4y ago
> Not only that, seeing that a role had “200+ applicants” is a bit demoralizing. I think this number increases simply when users click on the "Apply" button, not if a successful application has been completed.
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by joegahona 4y ago
Especially stuff like this: > In a January lawsuit, Canary LLC, a marketing company that specializes in producing the kinds of logo-decorated items ubiquitous among Silicon Valley tech companies, claimed Twitter is behind payment on almo
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by joegahona 4y ago
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-ju... The headline says 180,000, but it’s close to 300,000 worldwide — which you can read before the hard paywall cuts you off.
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by joegahona 4y ago
I prefer coming into the office, but my commute influences my decision: 15 minutes of stress-free, pleasant driving, and I charge my car (free) at my office. Selfishly I wish everyone would come in -- way more productive side conversations,
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by joegahona 4y ago
I don’t mind the promotional/sponsorship content in the Youtube channels I follow. Some people make them funny, and others are smaller so I don’t mind supporting them. Also, they’re always 100% skippable simply by scrubbing forward pas
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by joegahona 4y ago
Downloads and no ads on my mobile device (so I can listen while running) and on Roku on my TV. It also allows you to play videos with the phone screen off, which I don't think the free plan does.
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by joegahona 4y ago
Reminds me of this recent Live Nation suit that was thrown out because "buyers waived their right to sue: https://www.nme.com/news/music/live-nation-antitrust-lawsuit...
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by joegahona 4y ago
Agreed re: movies, though some have been cropping up there recently, and in really good resolution too. I watched "Glengary Glen Ross" for the first time in my life last weekend on Youtube.
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by joegahona 4y ago
I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.
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by joegahona 4y ago
I went through a similar byzantine process years ago when vetting a customer-data platform. Our CEO was an acquaintance of someone at Blueconic, so they had to be in the running. They were super-opaque -- unwilling to even give me a range o
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by joegahona 4y ago
Also lazy: They don't seem to know the definition of the word "quiz." They are just taking an old device that worked for them a decade ago and Frankensteining on "AI" to try to catch lightning in a bottle again. Lik
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by joegahona 4y ago
I love PR observations like this -- another one is to reconsider using the company blog template for such postings. This one isn't bad (though it does have prominent share buttons included), but I think it was Zoom that had a giant, ch
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by joegahona 4y ago
The only one that has ever made sense to me is Workday's -- "Workmates." It's just boring enough and natural-sounding enough to make sense.
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by joegahona 4y ago
The NYT paywall has gotten far more aggressive in recent years.
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by joegahona 4y ago
Good example: The Information.
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by joegahona 4y ago
I agree that UX complaints miss the bigger picture. Lots of the highest-traffic sites have terrible UX. Lots of people will put up with poor UX if it delivers the content/product they want. Poor UX does not help -- but it's not th
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by joegahona 4y ago
I almost commented solely about the headline, but resisted. Indeed, while the article title is correct, hyphenation usage is so spotty among regular people that the chance of misreading the title is too high.
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by joegahona 4y ago
No one has done this analysis -- I keep wondering the same thing. I'm sure it's insanely difficult to get accurate data. If (e.g.) the majority of cuts are in HR/recruiting, that's more of a signal of tightening up hirin
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Gusto lays off 126 (5% of the company)(gusto.com)
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by joegahona 4y ago
Whoever runs the blog at Zoom might want to remove the giant, cheerful “Don’t Forget To Share This Post!” at the bottom. I would also strongly discourage referring to impacted employees as “Zoomies” or “Latticians” or “Microsofties” in thes
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by joegahona 4y ago
This warrants maximum punishment and humiliation: 1. Yuan should immediately terminate himself as CEO, and his salary/bonus should be divvied up among those who were [IMPACTED]. In fact, all 1,300 people should be named co-CEOs and tog
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by joegahona 4y ago
> We call our method RETRO, for “Retrieval Enhanced TRansfOrmers”. Wow. Talk about going through contortions to get an acronym.

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