josephorjoe

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by josephorjoe 2y ago
Creative writing teacher.
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by josephorjoe 2y ago
copy editors and proof readers are the people trained to catch those types of errors but are seen more and more as an unnecessary expense. peer reviewers assess scientific interest and quality. edit: also, the abstract was almost certainly
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by josephorjoe 4y ago
Most of NYC does not have the physical space for dumpsters or the roadway access for dumpster lifting garbage trucks. There are some large buildings where it would be practical, but much of the residential housing consists of buildings with
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by josephorjoe 4y ago
first, i'd just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich which is much much shorter. after reading that if you feel like reading tolstoy is something you want to do a whole lot more of, then pick up Anna Karenina or War and Peace. I've read
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I've seen the coding questions we ask candidates... whether or not i would pass would depend 100% on which question(s) I was asked. Something relevant to the work I do all the time? yes, I'd probably pass. Something about some dat
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
"Clean computer files as needed" ?! Whatever it is that is needed to clean their computer files, it sounds more achievable than: "Ensure all computers remain connected and on at all times"
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
what is it then? pro-prolonging-the-pandemic i think if someone finds themself on Team Keep the Pandemic Going, they should reconsider what brought them there.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Depends on whether or not the boss can be trusted. I've had bosses where the only thing they ever heard from me were optimistic status updates on work in flight. I considered them completely untrustworthy -- one for lack of competency
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I think it is basically this. Amplifying dangerous messages has a liability. Screaming "FIRE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire or evidence of fire is not protected speech under any sane "freedom
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Robbery of delivery workers has long been a problem in the city complicated by the fact that many of them don't trust/don't feel safe going to the police. My first time on jury duty in nyc the case was armed robbery of a deli
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Are they the first big company to start adding insurance surcharges rather than attempting to make vaccination a requirement for employment? Seems like it will be a fairly good motivation for anyone who hasn't decided outright that the
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
serious question: are you a bot? nice use of the oxford comma btw.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Yes, i would expect a lot of announcements this week. Looks like NYC Public Schools are going to mandate all staff be vaccinated ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/nyregion/nyc-schools-empl... ). I would
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
i bought a car from them three years ago and was very pleasantly surprised w how smoothly everything went (fwiw i did not get financing from them). it was definitely not about price for me. it was about selection and minimizing hassle. i’m
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
> Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls. This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
no sarcasm intended i know that timing and luck really helped me out and i am grateful for it. so when people say "wow, you taught yourself programming and now you work as a software engineer at Big Tech Co -- that's impressive&qu
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
> I wish we as a culture/society, acknowledged the luck and timing factor more as a factor in career development. How's this? I'm a self taught programmer who did not start to learn programming til I was in my 40s. It was
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
the first occurs if you haven't created __init__.py. the second occurs if you want your test files outside of the package directory (e.g., project/src/foo_app/foo.py, project/test/test_foo.py)
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
> Bot armies don't work on Hacker News, but false flagging does. My assumption is that the threshold for taking action is low enough to be reached by an innocent-looking number of brigaded complaints. I think it is this plus I belie
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
yeah would love to see the history of actions on this post.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
i suspect the goal is not to increase preference for a particular vaccine but to suppress vaccination rates in a region by creating confusion.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
It seems someone really doesn't want this article discussed. I saw it posted last night and the comments were strange and it got killed fast. But it is important and it is time we stopped pretending it isn't. Anonymous entities pa
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I have seen way too many `ModuleNotFoundError`s. It is moderately infuriating when the two files are in the same directory and python can't find the module. Honestly that error is misnamed. It should be `ModuleImportRefusedError`. And
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Yeah, I'd have zero trust in the recruiter at this point and want to work out details directly w the hiring manager or HR.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Agreed. Seems like the motivation was probably to make the candidate more willing to accept their offer as is without trying to negotiate. The recruiter probably (rightly) thinks people who really want a job, think they lost it, then unexpe
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
yeah, really kind of a weird attempt to put down a long dead author for having some luck with birth and some success with writing spy novels (and essentially defining the genre). i guess it is an attempt to generate clicks by fabricating a
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
Completely agree. The last warning I needed was one time >10 years ago while listening to a song I really liked I just posted one of the lines from the song on facebook. A friend of mine saw it and assumed it was a commentary on a politi
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
your first point (tweeting is as safe as talking) is entirely invalidated by your second (long searchable record helps find statements to criticize people for) as for your third point, undocumented public speech (no audio or video recording
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
management will never believe the deadlines are unrealistic if you keep working nights and weekends to get the work done.
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by josephorjoe 5y ago
I think if you just ask the question "should this task be done by a person with a loaded gun" about everything done by the police and put the "no"s in one pile and "yes"s in another you can start getting a good

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