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by klenwell 8y ago
Had to deal with this once. Very corporate environment. Based on my experience: 1. Talk to good lawyer on the topic. I waited too long to do this but it was the best thing I did. 2. Take detailed notes about any incidents. That was advice f
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Ask HN: What are some good board games for the office?
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> I think a lot of people would pay twice as much for their devices if they could guarantee the workers weren't being exploited. A lot of America has traded their old Main Street for a Walmart shopping complex the next town over. No
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by klenwell 8y ago
That's what I found, too. It looks like the flowchart in question is on p. 42. This is really helpful by the way. My sister is completing her MBA and I think IBM is a program sponsor or something and has really been pushing their block
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by klenwell 8y ago
You'd have to have a pretty low opinion of Russian intelligence services if you didn't think they weren't keeping a tab open for this site.
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by klenwell 8y ago
Have noticed this, too. A particularly flagrant example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032596 Flagged to oblivion but if you've been following recent events you can probably make a pretty good guess as to the
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by klenwell 8y ago
One of my favorite Futurama jokes (spoken by the haunted robotic future-teller arcade machine): Look, do you want false hope or not? Hope is all some people can afford. On the other hand, money is not the solution to all life's probl
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by klenwell 8y ago
I figured this day was coming. Excellent writeup. Sorry to see it go. Thanks for all the raw fish. Sounds like the cost of hosting this were not insignificant. Curious how was this financed. EDIT: To answer my own question, I found the FAQ
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by klenwell 8y ago
Also first I've heard that the New Yorker was directly involved in the decision: Torvalds’s decision to step aside came after The New Yorker asked him a series of questions about his conduct for a story on complaints about his abusive
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> Perhaps the best is to work with your developers code - write integration tests, evaluate checkins, research new tools. Without really planning it, that's where I ended up. Also: establishing best practices and ceaselessly promoti
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Whenever this topic comes up, especially developers or engineers transitioning to management, I point to this Hacker News thread from years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643 There's a lot of overlap wit
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by klenwell 8y ago
> Ironic that you complained about lack of data and then launched into an anecdote. I would see it more as an application of Popper's falsification principle.
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by klenwell 8y ago
This site scrapes Hacker News once every 30 minutes, then sorts according to this formula, with upvotes as positive signals and comments as negative ones. In my experience, the best articles to read on HN are the ones with a high upvote-to
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by klenwell 8y ago
Flow, and creating the environment that allows devs to achieve it, is a major theme of Peopleware. Probably the central theme. So while it's always good to draw attention to the problem, the problem and its solutions are not breaking n
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by klenwell 8y ago
> Utopia is a state of unhindered, continual learning at your own chosen pace. This is similar to an argument Oscar Wilde made in The Soul of Man under Socialism, although he frames it, as you might expect, around art and the artist. I f
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by klenwell 8y ago
I second Mediawiki. I prefer that for professional use: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki Personally, I've been using WikkaWiki for years: https://github.com/bakoontz/WikkaWiki I would
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by klenwell 8y ago
Don't start with figuring out a method to organize your information. You will end up overengineering your org method. I think this is an important point. I like to start with a few simple rules: - To retrieve information, I should kn
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by klenwell 8y ago
Economics are an obvious factor in explaining the gap. So are cultural attitudes towards sex. This New Yorker article from 2008 digs into the political/cultural factors behind it: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine&#x2F
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by klenwell 8y ago
Injustice has parceled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save sorrow. -- Oscar Wilde One of my favorite examples of the successful application of a win-win philosophy was Paul O'Neill's focus on worker safety a
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by klenwell 8y ago
Have you seen the Good Judgment Project, founded by Philip Tetlock, author of Superforecasting? https://www.gjopen.com/ https://www.gjopen.com/questions/813-before-1-october-2018-w... https:/&#x2
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by klenwell 8y ago
That's interesting. I could see it having the same effect on me. Glad it worked out for you.
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So, basically, telling them something will only hurt you and never help you. So don’t do it. Now, here’s exactly what to say when asked to name the first number: At this point, I don’t feel equipped to throw out a number because I’d like t
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by klenwell 8y ago
> I live on a river, and we can’t swim after a heavy rain because of all the crap washed into the river from upstream farms. If I had property rights in the water, I could sue those farmers, and the price of food would rise to reflect th
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Article was flagged out first time I brought it up. It's back now. But you get the point.
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I like to believe StackOverflow has a financial incentive to solve this issue with their jobs site. It's my impression that there's a high barrier to being accepted as part of the community for new users, who I would expect to be
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Worse than that, the very term "workers' rights" has been co-opted to mask the exploitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
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How do you make money doing this? The answer is simple: volume. https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citiwide...
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I thought the end, where Nussbaum compared the British version to the American version, was especially insightful: Effortlessness like this takes craft. Drunkenness is not enough, which we know for certain, since the experiment has been tr
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Jonathan Gold, Food Critic Who Celebrated L.A.’s Cornucopia, Dies at 57(nytimes.com)
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by klenwell 8y ago
We organize our columns in Trello around our scrum process. Our Proposed column is called the Wish Heap. It's where stories go before they're groomed (titled as user story, acceptance criteria defined, sized) and added to the Back

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