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by sfg 6y ago
Some things are communicated outside of the surface level of literal text that cannot be communicated within it. Even if they could be, some people enjoy nuance and complexity and think they are worthwhile for their own sake. But really, th
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by sfg 6y ago
Yeah, after reading the deleted text I couldn't understand the controversy, so I read some of that Twitter thread. They clearly had not understood what they had read, having missed all nuance as they made their very literal interpretat
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by sfg 6y ago
It is excellent.
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by sfg 6y ago
"AI can help evaluate all those candidates in a very consistent way," he says." Which, if applied across an industry, means someone will be consistently rejected; where as now they might have a chance of finding a position so
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by sfg 6y ago
Imagine if Trump was the last President to pick a Supreme Court justice.
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by sfg 6y ago
https://ericsink.com/entries/fsharp_chasm.html
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by sfg 6y ago
U.K. residents buying from the E.U. will pay more or the seller make less. U.K. retailers gain an advantage over E.U. retailers. Luxemborg's advantage over the U.K. as a corporate HQ location has decreased, which will make it easier to
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by sfg 6y ago
I deleted WhatsApp and moved to Signal and many contacts followed. Not all, but most. If the momentum continues, then the rest will follow. Viral growth and shrinkage means this is one case where being the change you want to see can have im
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by sfg 6y ago
I'd probably not include the name without the person's permission.
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by sfg 6y ago
Brave's current CEO co-founded the Mozilla Project, Foundation, and Corporation.
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by sfg 6y ago
If their claim is false, then is it, in any jurisdiction, libelous? Maybe, legislation to bring consequences for false claims will help ensure algorithms, and the support teams that monitor them, do a better job. In an internet focused worl
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by sfg 6y ago
So, Common Lisp and Smalltalk? Any others?
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by sfg 6y ago
So, OCaml or something? Or has Haskell added structural typing?
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by sfg 6y ago
That makes sense. What were these unique 90s features?
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by sfg 6y ago
Yeah, I've never understood this part of Joel's analysis. Sun were a hardware specialist. They wanted commoditised software, i.e. fungible, cheaply available everywhere in the same form, so that it is not a differentiator, as it i
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by sfg 6y ago
The reason to switch from resold to infringed is that infringed is a superior substitute. However, these are not the only two substitutes in the market, and given that the consumer is consuming a stream of items over time, it is the case th
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by sfg 6y ago
Are the algorithmic (Leetcode style) questions asked in many coder interviews more like coding, mathematics, or neither more like one than the other; and, whatever the answer, is this relevant to anything important?
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by sfg 6y ago
I've often thought that: "Hackers and Composers", might have been better than: "Hackers and Painters". Or, maybe, they both fit equally (not) well.
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by sfg 6y ago
It might exist, but I couldn't find the URI of any RSS feed for this blog, but a link to their Twitter profile was easy to find, which, all together, given their open web advocacy, is odd.
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by sfg 6y ago
> Unfortunately, the message will be lost by those who are most in need of hearing it.
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by sfg 6y ago
If nothing else, and I think there is something else, it provides intellectual exploration and discovery, which is both fun and an excellent way of expanding knowledge and understanding. If such things are not for you, then that's cool
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by sfg 6y ago
If you removed the inner core of high reward jobs, then would the rest of the structure discussed remain unchanged? If so, then would the numbers filling up the outer ring go up or down? The economic pattern is both interesting and explanat
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by sfg 6y ago
When the subscription is cancelled 'freeze' the existing private data. When frozen it is kept private, but the user can only delete it, or make it public (maybe allow read-only viewing, with this possibly limited to the first few
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by sfg 6y ago
I am not interested in what Mr Greenwald wrote, but I want the decision about reading it to be made between myself and Mr Greenwald. Once the Intercept went beyond not publishing his content themselves to demanding he not publish it anywher
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by sfg 6y ago
I have used BazQux since Google Reader was shutdown and it has been great. The two times I have asked vshabanov something his response has been almost instant (neither time was due to a bug; the service has worked perfectly, for me).
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by sfg 6y ago
They reference a study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10869-020-09698... , titled: "Who Emerges into Virtual Team Leadership Roles? The Role of Achievement and Ascription Antecedents for Leadership E
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Traits of good remote leaders(bbc.com)
356 points by sfg 6y ago|154 comments
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by sfg 6y ago
We have deposit libraries in the U.K., such as The British library and Oxford University's Bodleian. When you publish a book in the U.K. you are supposed to offer a copy to these institutions. If we had legal deposit web archiving inst
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Remote Work Is Teleportation Lite(overcomingbias.com)
2 points by sfg 6y ago|0 comments
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by sfg 6y ago
Does refrigeration give a longer duration than freezing from intial storage to time at which heating is required?

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