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by mebassett 3y ago
Flyp Homes Ltd | London, UK | ONSITE / HYBRID (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Mid and Sr Engineers (50-100k gbp). Data Analysts (60-75k gbp). If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt that no one
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Dark Parallels for the American Liturgy(mebassett.info)
2 points by mebassett 3y ago|2 comments
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by mebassett 3y ago
I love SICP and am one of those fanboys who say everyone should read it. Though, really, a lot of what it covers is much more common knowledge now than it was when I first read it. High-order functions and functions-as-first-class-citizens
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by mebassett 3y ago
I might point out that today is labour day in most of the world, so that might lead to fewer posts.
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by mebassett 3y ago
Flyp Homes Ltd | London, UK | ONSITE / HYBRID (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Mid and Sr Engineers (50-100k gbp). Data Analysts (60-75k gbp). If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt that no one
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by mebassett 4y ago
I have used elm for a smallish (10 people or so?) team writing software for revenue, and regretted it. that was 4-5 years ago. my reasons had a lot to do with the community around elm, which other comments allude to. This group had diffe
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AI Is Useful for Capitalists but Probably Terrible for Anyone Else(mebassett.info)
100 points by mebassett 4y ago|144 comments
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by mebassett 4y ago
many of us are, actually, indirectly as taxpayers. the MIC is really good at unaccountable taxpayer spending. So while reviews of military tech might just appease our inner child they're also useful from a civics perspective!
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by mebassett 4y ago
twitter has just suspended pg's account.
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by mebassett 4y ago
I don't understand your point. Are you saying the Ohio company is evil for not putting up a pride flag? Are you saying the Bay-area company isn't evil because they treated their higher-ranked servants well ?
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UK Civil Service Jobs: Director General, Energy Supply Taskforce(civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk)
1 points by mebassett 4y ago|0 comments
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by mebassett 4y ago
No she didn't. Tolkien re-wrote her story a few times, and she is a late addition to the myths. In one passage > Galadriel, the only woman of the Noldor to stand that day tall and valiant among the contending princes, was eager to
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by mebassett 4y ago
Flyp Homes | London, UK | ONSITE / HYBRID (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Frontend Engineer. Full stack node/react. UX. A/B Testing If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt that no o
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by mebassett 4y ago
> The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. - Ecclesiastes, somewhere between 450-180 BCE.
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by mebassett 4y ago
thanks for the tip. the website is actually quite old. we've been growing faster than we've been able to update it, but a new one that reflects where we are at now will be shipping shortly!
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by mebassett 4y ago
Flyp Homes | London, UK | ONSITE / HYBRID (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Growth Engineer. Full stack node/react. UX. A/B Testing If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt that no one
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by mebassett 4y ago
Flyp Homes | London, UK | ONSITE / HYBRID (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Growth Engineer. Full stack node/react. UX. A/B Testing If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt that no one
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Optimization runs the universe and our lives(mebassett.info)
1 points by mebassett 4y ago|0 comments
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by mebassett 4y ago
I think the point the other author is trying to make isn't that apple's anti-competitive practices are good. it's that google's anti-competitive practices with their browser are more powerful than apple's anti-comp
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Chasing Glory(mebassett.info)
1 points by mebassett 4y ago|0 comments
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by mebassett 4y ago
why was this flagged? I appreciate that it might not be the best forum for a reading club materials list, but it certainly isn't off topic as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Human attention has become a commodity(mebassett.info)
221 points by mebassett 4y ago|141 comments
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by mebassett 5y ago
count your calories. don't even try to restrict them (at first). just count them. get an app/spreadsheet. get a scale. and record the calories of everything and anything before you eat it. post it up on a whiteboard or sheet o
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by mebassett 5y ago
> I'm afraid to tell my manager that, because which manager wants an unambitious engineer? the laying someone off for that is silly. But when I was managing a team for the first time I would have found it really helpful if one of t
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Ukraine and the Sorry State of Non-Proliferation(mebassett.info)
3 points by mebassett 5y ago|0 comments
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by mebassett 5y ago
there's a good chance that any form of military retaliation could lead to an action that the Russian military might confuse with preparations for a nuclear first strike, leading them to want to do the same. such confusion doesn't
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by mebassett 5y ago
Proda, a proptech company in London, has a large team of haskell programmers (local and remote). They make software to help commercial real estate investors get a better handle on their data. www.proda.ai full disclosure: I helped start p
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by mebassett 5y ago
Flyp Homes Ltd | Multiple Positions | Full-time | London and REMOTE We're helping home owners sell their home in less time, with less hassle, and for more money. We're building a tech team to support the rest of our business deal
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Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules [pdf](judiciary.uk)
77 points by mebassett 5y ago|17 comments
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by mebassett 5y ago
Flyp Homes | London, UK | ONSITE (flexible WFH) | https://flyp.co Multiple positions, at multiple levels of seniority (from intern to lead), from 50-100k GBP. If you've ever sold a home in the UK then you have likely felt t

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