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by kafkaesq 9y ago
And hence, greatly deter people from the idea of pulling up tent stakes + moving there to start a new life.
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Jupiter's great red spot: Juno probe captures closest images yet of huge storm(theguardian.com)
1 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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JunoCam: Processing Mission Juno(missionjuno.swri.edu)
36 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Neat. But "object" (in the colloquial sense of the term) is definitely something of a stretch, in this case.
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I’m in Love with a Card Catalog, and Other News(theparisreview.org)
2 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If you really want an outbreak of radical self-awareness, cross your fingers, hire every young organic chemist you can find, and start producing industrial quantities of LSD. But that brings us back to "magic science".
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
“In alignment with our mission, we removed this fundraiser because it was not within our community guidelines around promoting harmony,” YouCaring chief marketing officer Maly Ly told the NewsHour Weekend in an email. “We are not the right
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Just be honest: "I'm glad to hear that things are starting to take off, but I've reached the limit of what I can invest as a volunteer on this project [mention day job, family, neglected spouse or whatever as appropriate]. I
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Trying to scare people into behavior does not work very well. What works is "magic science." Are these the only two options? What about education, radical changes in awareness (and self-awareness), a move toward genuine sense
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Which pretty soon will be implanted "optionally" in people released from mental hospitals, out on parole, convicted of sexual offense, etc. In the same way ankle bracelets are "optional" for inmates who fancy the idea o
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"But we don't need you to 'decide' anything, in this job. We just need you to put your your weekly quota of TPS reports. So stop complaining about the open office plan the ventilation, and just as importantly, stop con
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Affordable for its own workers and those of similar pay grade is what FB has in mind for 85% of those apartments: However, just 15% of the Facebook homes will be offered below market rates. The apartment block homes, which the company ho
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
He just means "on balance, your success lies in your team's hands". Yes, there's a lot of things a manager can do to screw the project up. But ultimately, it's the team that's actually doing the work . And u
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Guess what, I want to [work 80 hours], that's how my body works, why are you trying to stop me from doing that? No one's going to "stop" you. We're just not going to believe you when you say that's how many
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
companies have tried many different techniques and this is currently working the best. Is it, now? The best thing you can say about is probably "it seems to kind of, sort of work" -- at the cost of burning through a whole lot o
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
1) how well they work with others? Whiteboard sessions don't tell you that either. Only whether they got lucky, and you picked a problem they already know (so they can breeze through the solution in front of strangers with confidenc
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Well it's not just that -- algorithms do matter, and a very small number of programmers do move the needle in this industry through their ability to shine in that area. But the vast majority of the time -- that's not what your com
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Although I'm thinking of designs and snippets rather than actual functions. But that's the thing -- at whiteboard interviews, they don't ask you to produce "designs and snippets". They make you write actual worki
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
who still actually can't program a computer to solve even a trivial problem. Or who get nervous, and freeze up.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
My favorite example for the above: "Great news, bro - we offer unlimited vacation! But actually you aren't expected to take more than 10 days of vacation per year."
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The latter two positions say "San Francisco" [but they can also be in Berlin], Then, seriously -- have someone fix that, right now . Anytime I get a sense that ad copy and the hiring team aren't communicating on some basi
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much dead give-away that you're in some kind of stealth cult environment: "We're all big believers in X here. But actually, we don't really believe in X"
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I felt guilty about doing it. You shouldn't feel guilty at all. They should feel guilty for making you need to take that day off. Your workplace should be a refuge, where you charge your batteries and build sanity. Not a constant
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
And probably deters a great many people from pursuing the basic science altogether. "I know all these people who are way smarter than me and who work way harder than me. And they're not famous yet. I'll never stand a chan
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
a woman’s bones (now lost). I thought the consensus was that they turned out to be a man's bones (and not even matching Earhart's proportions). Which may explain why they ended up getting "lost". That leaves us with j
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's good comparison, actually. But do you see any of those subscription services filing for an IPO? Or needing all that automation and cleverness (and implicitly, with all that overhead, scale) just to get their stuff out of the d
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Oh, it can be great as a niche-y, learning-to-cook service. If inherently somewhat costly. Just not the wide-scale, low-margin partial-replacement-for-takeout-and-grocery-shopping that they appear to be need it to be for their business mod
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I probably wouldn't use it again now that I feel a lot more confident in the kitchen. That's the big flaw I see in their product model - it's inherently self-limiting.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
there's pretty conclusive evidence of her crashing and the circumstances of that. "Conclusive evidence" would be plane wreckage, fragments of her personal belongings (or those of other occupants) and the like. Or even stat
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Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays(theguardian.com)
11 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|1 comments

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