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by jrd259 4y ago
Unless he has considerable rabbinic training, Walter is not competent to judge whether the (invisible) copepods are kosher or not. The categories in the religious laws have some connection to biology but are not determined solely by phys
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by jrd259 4y ago
The point of the DSU isn't to force the engineer to recite what they did, it's to inform the peers so people can coordinate. I also find that engineers are reluctant to admit being blocked or to ask for help at all. My team gets
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by jrd259 4y ago
Apropos automated approval of "tone". The company I work for now has a policy that documents must not use any "potentially biased" terms (e.g. "whitelist" or "master"). We now have automated agents
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by jrd259 4y ago
In particular, the AI removed the scare quotes around approved. Assuming you intended them, that was a significant loss in nuance.
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by jrd259 4y ago
For example, compare "The army found the people in poverty and left them in comparative wealth." There should be contrastive stress on "wealth", or possibly "comparative", at least in my dialect of English
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by jrd259 4y ago
With single sentence examples, it's hard to tell whether this handles informational prosody, e.g. the given/new distinction, or infamous "John called Bill a Republican, and then he insulted him " where the accent mean
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by jrd259 4y ago
I cancelled my monthly donation. I was quite happy to pay for Wikipedia, but hearing that they are doing fine, and lacking any insight into what the wikimedia foundation does, I stopped. Plenty of other places to give tzedakah.
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by jrd259 4y ago
It bothers me that the author writes "If you register your domain in a banana republic because you think the TLD looks cool, and el presidente wants your domain..." with the implication that Spanish speaking countries are (more li
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by jrd259 4y ago
See the scramble suit in Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly
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by jrd259 4y ago
Now what is needed to get data on outcomes as well? I would likely choose to pay more for a increased chance of success. (Recall the recent coverage in HN of the professional musician for whom retaining ability to play saxophone was of gr
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by jrd259 4y ago
Is there any reason to be concerned that this site opens links to mc.yandex.ru, visor.sberbank.ru and kraken.rambler.ru?
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by jrd259 4y ago
This is absurd. As an Amazonian for eight years I can say it would be absurd to do this. First, hiring someone is a lot of work. Second, we don't get much value from people the first six months anyway. We don't hire people to
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by jrd259 4y ago
In eight years at Amazon (in the supply chain org as SDE and SDM) I have not encountered anything close to "ruthless". It is true that there is rough stack ranking, but only in large organizations where it is statistically meanin
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by jrd259 4y ago
One thing I can tell you is that in my first job in 1977 right out of university I had an office with a door that shut and quiet space to work, which I needed because I was working in assembly language and as there were fewer machines that
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by jrd259 4y ago
I am delighted to live in the era where such hackery occurs and is also so easily shared.
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by jrd259 4y ago
Why the age cap? Is there a evidence that elderly are statistically more likely to be corrupt than the young? Or perhaps you think we (I'm 66) have suffered significant cognitive decline?
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by jrd259 4y ago
Surely easily defeated by using fake images from thispersondoesnotexist.com?
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by jrd259 4y ago
Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven
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by jrd259 4y ago
This is precisely why Amazon emphasizes Customer Obsession (giving a shit about customers) and Ownership (giving shit about your problems other people in the org have). I don't love everything about Amazon, I sure do like these two.
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by jrd259 4y ago
The question is not what you, as an individual contributor or even front-line manager would want, it is what the people in the executive suite would want
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by jrd259 4y ago
Manually edited HTML requires great diligence to be well-formed, and this is important for accessibility.
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by jrd259 4y ago
I note that streema.com is trying really hard to get me to install "easy search tool" by favouring the START button above the PLAY button. If it's not them directly, it's a dark-pattern ad they are running
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by jrd259 5y ago
That report is nonsense. For one thing, hiring takes a lot of work. No manager is going to invest the time in hiring someone just to have an expendable on the team to sacrifice. No manager is going to accept the drag on the team that ari
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by jrd259 5y ago
I found Amazon's culture - in particular the relentless obsession with solving actual customer needs - to be a perfect fit for my own engineering training from day one. I was not "molded" to fit it. As I see it, as an engin
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by jrd259 5y ago
I doubt anything I say could convince you otherwise, but I've had no experience at all in 8 years at being "stabbed" in the back. Nor have I any way to prove I am not an evil one. Amazon is large, you may be judging on a sma
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by jrd259 5y ago
My Amazon team (based out of Toronto) is hiring remotely. I know the hiring manager won't change their mind because I am the manager.
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by jrd259 5y ago
You can quite reasonably want to be independent of Amazon-the-online-retailer while being agnostic about cloud service providers. Speaking personally, I very much want local bookstores in my neighbourhood, but do not care whether there is
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by jrd259 5y ago
I miss the point of this discussion. Does the HN readership really include a substantial number of drug lords, cyber criminals, spies, informants or live under a regime where they fear for their lives from state actors? I'm not chea
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by jrd259 5y ago
Certainly they do, but the public also has a right to insist that its servants (regulators, in this case, but also the other branches of government) be free of conflict of interest. In the particular case, they should not hire directly fro
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by jrd259 5y ago
Agree with your summary, but I am not impressed by the use of "stupid". Maybe "being willing to appear stupid", or "having beginner's mind" or "not making assumptions". But "stupid" i

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