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by jt2190 4y ago
I suppose that since Jamie is based in Nottingham, U.K. [1] then we should adjust the currency and number of zeros for his particular locale. My understanding is that senior software developer roles in the U.K. are also considered profess
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by jt2190 4y ago
> half a million people don’t have something better to do than watch someone study They’re not watching him study, he’s modeling studying behavior and his audience is leveraging that to trigger their own studying. (Mirror neurons are a
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by jt2190 4y ago
A senior dev role is an income stream of USD n 000 000 dollars a year, that has certain guarantees about payments. In this context it makes sense to dedicate a considerable amount of personal time and effort to capture one. > … yet someh
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by jt2190 4y ago
Yes. It’s even formally known as Poe’s Law: > Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere
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by jt2190 4y ago
I think the OP might have meant to type PII (Personally Identifiable Information) not IP (Intellectual Property). > It's not like they are saying "John Doe, who lives in 1600 Pennsylvania Av., makes 120k". It would be triv
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by jt2190 5y ago
For those who want text: > This article forms the basis for this episode: “How Confirmation Bias Reduces Business Profits” by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/how-confirmation-bias-r... Edit: Whi
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by jt2190 5y ago
The Mercury News article is a syndicated CNN piece: Text-only version: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_2ab742409be210c718777d3fb8...
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by jt2190 5y ago
You’re probably joking, but in case you aren’t, don’t put in an address for a registered domain like void.com, as you’ll just be redirecting the spam to them. Instead use the reserved domain example.com.
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Doubled productivity… 10x… Since we’re putting numbers on things, how did we go from 2x to 10x?
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by jt2190 5y ago
Yes. > For example, searching for “site:thepiratebay.org” is supposed to return all results DuckDuckGo has indexed for The Pirate Bay’s main domain name. In this case, there are none. > This whole-site removal isn’t limited to The Pir
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by jt2190 5y ago
From an April 17 Twitter thread from Gabriel Weinberg at DuckDuckGo: > ... [W]e are not "purging" YouTube-dl or The Pirate Bay and they both have actually been continuously available in our results if you search for them by nam
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by jt2190 5y ago
The data for the CDC Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES) are here: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/abes/tables/index.htm The survey was conducted in the first half of 2021
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by jt2190 5y ago
I don’t see anything in that video about removing the cranes after construction. I suppose they could just leave the cranes, or remove them with a helicopter.
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by jt2190 5y ago
> I owed the CRA $15,000, and the IRS owed me $15,000 I’ll just add that there are extensive trade treaties between the U.S. and Canada that prevent workers from being double taxed on income, which is why in this particular case it net
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by jt2190 5y ago
> For me it's not because I want an input/output type conversation, it's because I want to maintain asynchronous conversation. In the context of an IRC chat room, isn’t all conversation assumed to be synchronous? (Forgive
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by jt2190 5y ago
Also, previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134135
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Java has a long tradition of reimplementing things in Java rather than relying on system libraries. Er, that’s kind of the point of the Java Virtual Machine… It keeps you from tying your application to a particular system architectur
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by jt2190 5y ago
> But it's also our window into basically the entire wealth of human knowledge… Yes, true, but the article discusses how physical presence of the device itself reassures its owner, and conversely how upsetting it can be for the owne
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by jt2190 5y ago
> But, even before that, I remember when I first started thinking about the way I behaved. I was still living in Boston. I had been out of kitchens for a couple years. I think I was working at Cook’s Illustrated. I had two roommates in
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by jt2190 5y ago
I think you’re talking about his column from Tuesday [1], which talks about different research at the Fed [2] that suggested that there is a trade off between “credit provision” (i.e. private lenders taking a risk and extending credit to
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Also subtracting, cars are going to need to bunch up anyway at passing sidings to let cars go by opposite direction. Sounds like the cars are already “bunched up”: > “We think our platoon sizes are ideally between ten and 50 cars,”
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by jt2190 5y ago
Stack Overflow says [1] they're going to focus on helping companies execute their Employer Branding Strategy [2] through advertising. This makes sense on one level: * Employers are paying Stack Overflow, not candidates. Employers are t
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Check out… the various options for homosexuality, which has numbers for it including under areas including mental illness! Classifying a new technology is another major area where the original taxonomies need to be extended in order s
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by jt2190 5y ago
I guess we can debate the existence of the “True Bootstrapper”, but that’s not a very interesting conversation. The term “bootstrapping” predates the existence of funding sources like TinySeed, and is now outdated. It was never terribly pre
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Companies do so many suboptimal things that this argument isn't credible. We've seen how many organizations can barely limp through a "digital transformation", But startups [1] (the original context of this thread
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by jt2190 5y ago
The process is called “Romanization of Russian” [1], and there are various standard ways to do it. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
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by jt2190 5y ago
> The opposite, not for profit, usually means, for loss, which is not sustainable. Not-for-profit means that 100% of the revenue is reinvested in the business (“mission”), rather than have a portion returned to owners/shareholders a
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by jt2190 5y ago
But in either case, the arguments are “bandwagons” because they are context-free. Without context there can’t be a reasonable discussion of merits and trade offs, nor exploration of the bounds of the solution. Just parties talking past each
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by jt2190 5y ago
As others have pointed out, V8 is the place where low-level JVM-like things like hotspot compilation and garbage collection happen, and you’ll find most of those discussions under that label. From a high-level perspective, the main simplifi
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Non-competes weren’t really enforceable before. This depends completely on the jurisdiction and the circumstances. Non-competes in California and Texas are largely unenforceable (but not completely), whereas non-competes in New York an

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