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by klenwell 7y ago
Agreed. I consider the URL the most important part of a web page's user interface. I get incredibly frustrated with websites (e.g. many SPAs or frontend-happy sites) that don't provide a URL that I can bookmark and share where it
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by klenwell 7y ago
> I do actually want my opinions, ideas and preferences to be heard. If I think that I am not being heard, I prefer to change the team so that I am heard. I think this is a valid expectation. At the same time, it can lead to conflict and
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by klenwell 7y ago
Sure. We start by noting in our job description that there will be a coding challenge -- on a laptop, not a whiteboard. Most of our work is on web applications, primarily Rails. So, for that role, the challenge is to fix an issue in an impl
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by klenwell 7y ago
Glad to hear he hasn't given up. I agree with his basic thesis that much of software engineering hring is a cargo-cult shitshow. But I haven't given up hope and have worked on developing a hiring process that is human, efficient,
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It’s Unreal Just How Awful ‘Real ID’ Is(zocalopublicsquare.org)
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I'd been asking this question myself for the last week. This graph from the NY Times on Friday finally helped me understand: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-co... But I thi
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by klenwell 7y ago
There was a great HN comment a few years ago that broke down the "Charitable-Industrial Complex" using The Real Housewives as an example. I found it: One thing I've learned from many so-called "philanthropists" is
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by klenwell 7y ago
On the "complex mechanics in outsourcing situations", this HN thread is my touchstone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831784 Every time someone I work with casually raises the possibility of outsourcing, I
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I thought I recognized the name: http://www.mattridley.co.uk/books/ I read his book Genome years ago and thought it was a moderately interesting primer on the revolution in genetic research starting to unfold in the wa
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by klenwell 7y ago
> Faced with the right con, we’re all vulnerable. This This American Life episode (replayed this week) offers a slightly more benign version of this truism: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/323/the-super/act-two
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by klenwell 7y ago
I like the simple actionable advice near the end in the "Explore the present, past, and future" section. The authors' biographies just below that caught my attention: Ashley Goodall is the senior vice president of leadership
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by klenwell 7y ago
That's a wonderful story. My only New Year's resolution this year was to befriend a crow. So far, no progress. Maybe next year.
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Just to underscore the point I understand you to be making: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slav
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by klenwell 7y ago
Exactly. > Unlike Theranos, Sight Diagnostics is starting small and working its way up. Holmes claimed her device could do hundreds of tests across the four main classes of blood tests: hematology, immunoassays, general chemistry and DNA
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by klenwell 7y ago
> Western media is making it sound like Hong Kong is Syria. Protester private channels makes wild unfounded claims about mass-scale executions and rapes. Yes, I was going to say I never got this impression listening to NPR. https:/
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by klenwell 7y ago
Well stated. Bookmarked. One additional bullet point I would add: Hiring. If an isolated HR unit controls hiring and freezes the hiring managers and team out of the process, or effectively alienates them, you're wasting a huge amount o
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by klenwell 7y ago
Agree with the holiday idea. Some time away will give everyone a little time to step back and reflect. Maybe let some of your anxiety seep into other parts of the organization. I keep these two comments bookmarked and will even share them w
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by klenwell 7y ago
Interesting thesis. But I'd guess pyramid schemes (or MLMs) are still all over the food chain and over-represented at the lower tiers. A variation on this theme, and this has basically been Matt Levine's take on SoftBank if I&#x27
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I hear that's where all the rockstars ended up.
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Only if you're a rockstar.
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A great former boss of mine and I adopted a silly catchphrase that was introduced to him by an efficiency guru at some managerial conference: "No agenda, no attend-ah." We groaned every time we used it. I've used it ever sinc
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by klenwell 7y ago
I'm curious about the environmental or ecological impact. This is a pretty naive question but: will capturing that energy for human use divert it from other parts of the current ("natural") system where it's being used?
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After reading about the true meaning behind Boris Busses the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21506443 I'm afraid I have to ask: what's he trying to bury? Hopefully nothing more shameful than he&#x2
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by klenwell 7y ago
> They don't seem to understand just how much capital businesses are willing to spend to get rid of reoccurring labor costs. The trucking industry doesn't need to automate to slash labor costs. Exploitation is much simpler and
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Interesting. Sounds a lot like Season 2 of The Wire.
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You reminded me of an interaction I had recently while getting my blood taken at a Quest office. To make small talk while I was sitting there in a chair waiting for the needle, I asked the tech if he had heard about Theranos or Elizabeth Ho
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by klenwell 7y ago
Not unlike this guy, Chris Sewell, profiled in an old This American Life episode they happened to replay today. Homeless guy who became adept at alerting people and institutions that the government owes them money: https://www.th
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by klenwell 7y ago
To put it mildly: Sleeping pills do not provide natural sleep, can damage health, and increase the risk of life-threatening diseases. (p. 282) On Ambien specifically: If you compare natural, deep-sleep brainwave activity to that induced
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by klenwell 7y ago
I hate deadlines simply because organizations I have worked in tend to assign them indiscriminately without any reference to reality. Upper management wants to set a deadline for a big project? Then they need to be prepared to commit and co
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Ghost Towers: The view from Iran's housing crisis(newyorker.com)
1 points by klenwell 7y ago|0 comments

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