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by nilkn 7y ago
For clarity, my question was a response to the last part of the article that talks about this topic. I think you’re right that layoffs allow you to take a more targeted approach and retain top talent to the extent that it’s possible. Howeve
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by nilkn 7y ago
Just ruminating here, but I didn’t fully understand the hesitance to do paycuts. Of course, I understand that in some cases the financial problem is severe enough that layoffs are the only option. But it’s conceivable that in many cases a s
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by nilkn 7y ago
While true, the disease was being spread weeks or a full month ago by asymptomatic people who didn’t know they had it before quarantines were in place. And that’s when we had every major news source, including the NYT, telling people that m
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by nilkn 7y ago
The amusing irony is that the best way to elevate awareness about soda alternatives might be advertising. So by eliminating certain types of ads, the side effect might be to encourage people to stick with what they know, which in many parts
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by nilkn 7y ago
It mostly just mentions mitochondria and lactate though. I think it’s still subject to the same criticism.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I think it's important to clarify that that SAT is not the same as the SAT Subject Tests. The latter are being excluded, but not the former. One could reasonably argue at this point that the Subject Tests are simply redundant with AP t
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but I think this is a very myopic take. For many, work-from-home is not an option, and the alternative is just being out of work completely. Many of my friends and family members outside of a
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by nilkn 7y ago
I would strongly advise you to reverse this course immediately if possible. Even if you dislike your current job, I’d stick it out until this recession has passed. We don’t know how bad it’s going to get and this startup could go bust in a
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by nilkn 7y ago
I believe the poster was referring to bad actors who have tried to buy up all the local supply so they can resell it at higher prices, not people just stocking up a bit on toiletries for their personal use. Yes, the latter can also cause a
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's not about doing things that you're not doing. It's about delegating some of what you do so that you can focus on a smaller set of tasks and do them better than you currently do. It's about elevating the quality of e
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by nilkn 7y ago
Many companies criminally underhire talented technical PMs and team assistants. The latter in particular are fantastic and you’d be amazed just how much can be handed off to them. You can completely transform how much time you have for peop
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by nilkn 7y ago
A bit of devil’s advocate: 15 years of experience as an engineer could still be 0 years as a manager. So the person you’re reporting to might be a lot more experienced at their job than you are at their job.
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by nilkn 7y ago
This is great if you only need 90%. But often that extra 10% is the difference between a state of the art commercially viable product and vaporware that nobody will pay for. It’s sort of like production software in general. Sometimes the co
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by nilkn 7y ago
While that style might not be to everyone’s taste, that sentence definitely is grammatically correct and does not have any comma splices. Personally I don’t find it that awkward either.
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by nilkn 7y ago
That boils down to Go needing generics, which I agree with. I don't think we're completely in disagreement. I'm just skeptical that the language is quite as bad as you're sort of suggesting. That article falls short of c
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by nilkn 7y ago
I don't get the impression that's a conclusion you came to on your own, and I don't find what is essentially hearsay or gossip to have a very high information signal in general.
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by nilkn 7y ago
It can be difficult to reconcile comments like this with the reality that Go was designed at Google to address difficulties developing large-scale applications and even Kubernetes is written in it. I agree with many criticisms of the langua
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by nilkn 7y ago
I'd wager that the HN demographic skews just as wealthy as the hobbyist GA community. Indeed, your friend or coworker with a brand new Model X is probably wealthier than the person taking the occasional weekend flight in their used Pip
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by nilkn 7y ago
Those regulations and their effectiveness have nothing to do with your being able to personally track flights around you. Indeed those regulations were in place and effective long before there even existed a means for you to obtain the trac
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by nilkn 7y ago
It's extraordinarily rare that a plane crashes into a house. What actions do you take if you learn that a plane is flying overhead? My guess is that even with this tracking data available you're completely unaware of air traffic n
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by nilkn 7y ago
Why do you need to know exactly who is in a plane? How does that help you at all? What do you do with this information to improve your life?
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by nilkn 7y ago
While an unfiltered network is cool, am I the only one who thinks it’s utterly reasonable for aircraft owners to want some basic level of privacy? I always have found it strange that communities of folks who very much don’t want to be track
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by nilkn 7y ago
While I sympathize with your viewpoint, ultimately if your manager is trying hard to improve your life at work and you just find ways to convert that into a negative and a major source of stress, I can't help but interpret that as a hu
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by nilkn 7y ago
You can make it look better by giving FF a dark theme. I agree it doesn't look great out of the box. As for the use case, I don't think it's an understatement to say it changed how I browse the web. Before I discovered Tree S
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by nilkn 7y ago
You'll never find a qualified candidate for running a huge multinational corporation for only $1M/year. You simply won't be able to hire for the role and the company will have to go without a leader. If you try to promote som
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by nilkn 7y ago
It can be generalized, but doing so requires some subtlety. The naive approach (the Cayley-Dickson construction) can be repeated ad infinitum, but it doesn't continue to yield useful results for representing geometric interactions like
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by nilkn 7y ago
By the Frobenius theorem, there are only three possible structures for a real finite-dimensional associative division algebra. Those structures correspond to the real numbers, the complex numbers, and what are called the quaternions. So ess
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by nilkn 7y ago
My interpretation is that the author isn't referring to people who suppress vocalization by choice but rather to people who can't enable vocalization in the first place.
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by nilkn 7y ago
I would argue to the contrary that it’s such a large optimization that even accounting for all of that it’s still a big net win from a staffing perspective. It’s far easier to maintain a few Android experts on staff than an entire departmen
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by nilkn 7y ago
Do they not clearly intend to use it for both in the future? They didn't go back and rewrite all existing apps, and they did an experiment with Android to validate the approach.

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