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by lhorie 5y ago
test("when a metric becomes a target, it stops being a good metric", () => { runApp(); // look ma, lots of "coverage"! assert(true, 'No errors!'); }); // unfortunat
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by lhorie 5y ago
A different way to look at this question is to ask why do certain roles have lopsided gender distributions. For, e.g. nursing, it can be explained by gender preferences towards human care roles. For leadership, there's elephant-in-the-
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by lhorie 5y ago
Sure, in theory that could happen, but then you'd be able to explain the lopsidedness somehow. For, e.g. professions like nursing, the lopsidedness can be satisfactorily explained by gender preferences wrt roles related to human care.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Nah, you're projecting a black-and-white world view. Statistically speaking, some men would vote for men, some would vote for women, some women would vote for men and some would vote for women, and overall it would average out to aroun
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by lhorie 5y ago
That's as realistic as all men voting for a all-female parliament. The point is that realistically, given a spectrum of political stances, a purely meritocratic system would statistically be more likely to yield a distribution with si
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by lhorie 5y ago
As someone with experience on the hiring side, I occasionally help newbies by providing reviews of their resumes/portfolios. I typically tell them to drop photos because that's the norm here in North America, but if I had to gener
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by lhorie 5y ago
One big issue with NPM is that JS stdlib is extremely bare bones and the ecosystem swings far into the other direction to compensate, which leads to many libraries pulling in convenience utils that pull in their own convenience utils ad inf
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by lhorie 5y ago
esbuild is the current darling leading the pack, but there are also various other projects in the space (swc[0] is written in Rust, fjb[1] is written in C, bun[2] is written in zig, leveraging JavascriptCore's engine). The most signifi
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by lhorie 5y ago
You should consider population density when evaluating broadband penetration: Country Mbps People per km2 --- Singapore 262.20 8,041 Hong Kong 254.40 6,677 Monaco 242.89 19,341 Switzerla
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Holidays should come with some limits, eg. no more than X weeks per year, like it was in the past That's anchoring bias. Unlimited does have some nice properties (e.g. very generous allowances in many cases, and the possibility of
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by lhorie 5y ago
Well, this is kinda like complimentary condiments or whatever. Technically you are allowed to abuse it to the wazoo, but in practice it just means "Take a reasonable amount, we're not stingy". There obviously is an unspoken &
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, to be clear, I hugely respect people like Fowler and others who come forth from vulnerable positions to shed light into problems. IMHO, the cleaning house at Uber was largely thanks to her. FWIW, I'm involved with hiring and have
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by lhorie 5y ago
Are you just expressing cynicism or are you actually interested? If the latter, you can just talk to insiders. I had a somewhat curious personal experience at Uber. I went to interview there circa 2016/2017 and got an offer but had to
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've worked in settings where frontend development happens concurrently w/ backend, as well as settings where frontend development starts before backend development. You don't need to have API finality to start work on fron
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, but for my purposes as a layperson using a currency, I'm choosing to trust a system that is opaque to me anyways (be it a bank/exchange/other financial institution vs a validator pool). One could argue, for example, that
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by lhorie 5y ago
Forgive me if this is a dumb comment, but my understanding is that bitcoin's footprint is largely due to mining, correct? But bitcoin itself is considered an asset (in the US, at least). So in theory, it's possible to just trade b
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by lhorie 5y ago
Congrats to the author for realizing that confidence doesn't equate skill. This isn't being a pink unicorn, it's simply humility. The real danger of confusing the two is that real skill dulls if you let overconfidence take ov
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by lhorie 5y ago
Another way to interpret this is to look at the relationship between power/influence and relative benefit of transparency. If the highest performers are incentivized to keep their pay secret to avoid getting placed into common denomina
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, but with a big asterisk: > The TNMT chart isn’t a scientific study and doesn’t claim to be. But their chart tracks with academic research on the total carbon impact of dockless electric scooters, those tiny little pick-up-and-go tra
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by lhorie 5y ago
The article appears to conflate mopeds/scooters/vespas. I think the e-scooters you're talking about are not really designed or perceived to be apt for commuting. Here in SF, the streets are littered with rental e-scooters, bu
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by lhorie 5y ago
> there exists inclusive and positive communities for people of every type of background and experience I mean, sure, but this also goes for flat earthers, incels, fatphobia activists, dreamsexuals, etc. In other words, it normalized sel
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've found that Toronto has a bigger appetite (pun not intended) for higher quality "fast food". Quiznos and craft burger joints also come to mind.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Let me qualify: I don't see it as "chasing promotion" per se. It's more like laying the groundwork, in a "dress for the job you want" sort of way. Basically, it's a lot easier to argue for a promotion if y
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by lhorie 5y ago
> part of me thinks he should be taking a more active role in setting up the right conversations to get me promoted Nah, in my experience, if you want it, you need to go chase people yourself. "Stagnation" is very personal ques
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by lhorie 5y ago
Regulations or no regulations, that's just a fact. You can't have a company paying out more than it intakes, that's just basic math. People are so quick to say "oh just raise wages" as if Uber/etc never contemp
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by lhorie 5y ago
> It sounds like you have another source of income. [...] I don't think you're exactly the kind of driver these companies are looking for Uber/Lyft have said on various occasions that the majority of drivers are part-timer
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by lhorie 5y ago
Ultimately there is no such thing as driver protections. Either they bring in more money than they are paid or they are going to be out of work (either by being fired, or the company going under). A company isn't going to let people ju
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by lhorie 5y ago
You're the one clearly pushing an agenda, I'm just stating facts. IIRC the discussion here at the time about the lawsuit you linked characterized it as "frivolous" and "sour grapes", and other words to that eff
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by lhorie 5y ago
Uber is about as close to a ship of theseus as it gets. All this stuff you're talking about is ancient news from like 4 years ago. Since then, the entire C-suite left, including Kalanick and Thuan (Singhal spent virtually no time at Ub
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think the conundrum is that either Uber pays for downtime (employee model) or it doesn't (contractor model). It's literally impossible to be actively driving passengers for a solid 40 hours a week while maintaining reasonable wo

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