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by shantly 7y ago
It used to be considered polite to append "(pdf warning)" to direct links to PDFs. I still like it, even though it's way less of a PITA now than it used to be.
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by shantly 7y ago
Wonder what the ranked order looks like for "% of population attending or employed by a university".
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm pretty sure every company I've ever worked at has been in the middle of trying to fix their document management & sharing. It's all sucked. The overall best knowledge-base I've ever used has been... Slack :-( Ema
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to dismiss your post with such a short response. It does give good insight into the Hiring Mind, for those who may not have been there.
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by shantly 7y ago
> So the 'soft' questions are attempts to weed out 'problems'. Get this through your head: when interviewing, experienced managers are not "selecting the best" but rather "avoiding the worst". And
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by shantly 7y ago
It may be infeasible for a number of reasons, but this post makes me wonder whether it'd be worth asking candidates how they'd like to be interviewed , then doing that.
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by shantly 7y ago
I had to train myself to read way slower to appreciate good books. Then I had to train myself to read fast again to be able to keep reading less-good books. Seriously.
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by shantly 7y ago
I think you can get away with a little of that, but you've gotta read the room a bit and have answers for some of it, and without prepping some fiction-loosely-based-in-reality ahead of time, I definitely do not. If everything's
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by shantly 7y ago
I think I had that exact one once early on. I did actually get an "if you could go back in time a couple years, what advice would you give yourself?" a little while ago, which 1) threw me, because I wasn't expecting much of t
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by shantly 7y ago
> Terms like these – or interview questions such as ‘where you see yourself in five years’ – can be too general for people with autism, as many with the condition can find vague questions particularly hard to decipher. Pretty sure it&#x2
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by shantly 7y ago
Good call, coming on to a Rails project that's been upgraded—or worse upgraded twice —is... usually very unpleasant.
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by shantly 7y ago
Depends on the area. My part of the Midwestern US, it wouldn't be weird for a woman to address a group comprising only women as "you guys" or similar. There's some subtlety, though, because "the guys" or "
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by shantly 7y ago
Management is still normal labor. The emotional part would be putting on a meaner or nicer face than you otherwise would to get a result for the job. It's acting.
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by shantly 7y ago
I've more than once gone from knowing nothing about a language + ecosystem to releasing something comparable in quality to the norm for the platform, in three to six months. It's mostly about knowing what you ought to be able to
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by shantly 7y ago
> Willingness to work on brownfield Ruby projects is rare After working in a dev agency that took on outside Rails projects several times while I was there, my conclusion is that Rails (not the only way to write even Web-focused Ruby, an
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by shantly 7y ago
> It just makes sense to me that the economy is stimulated by demand instead of supply. Maybe my experience is atypical, but I've seen, over and over, hiring driven by either 1) we have more demand than we expected, or 2) we have
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by shantly 7y ago
What's it... for? If my MacBook's closed and it hasn't been, like, several days, the answer to "how much charge does it have?" is "about what it had when you closed it".
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by shantly 7y ago
At a glance, it looks like both have mandates of some sort that keep states/countries from going full-on free rider, which is what I expected.
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by shantly 7y ago
More important is that states can’t control immigration and cross-border trade, making a variety of policies infeasible or much more expensive, compared with the same implemented nationwide.
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by shantly 7y ago
The Dead Homer Society's take on it is basically exactly that—the show became what it was satirizing. Throw in a little TV-embraces-criticism-and-makes-it-the-new-normal (cf. David Foster Wallace) and everything else got more like The
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by shantly 7y ago
OTOH, most of the Web is slow and crappy thanks to layer after layer of piled up “saving 95% of a small number isn’t worth my time” attitudes.
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by shantly 7y ago
The real problem is the money to pay for it all. Most authors can’t afford to gamble four or five figures editing, proofreading, promoting, and distributing a book that may show nearly zero return. Think of publishers as VC for books.
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a bunch of stuff like this: https://www.macincloud.com Does that not do what you need?
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by shantly 7y ago
Hospitals & hospice are the ones who're gonna suck up all that sweet 401k money eventually anyway, in most cases. Inheritance is dead for the middle class—the elderly are, in the best case, sustained by their retirement accounts un
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by shantly 7y ago
Practical IPFS image hosting looks an awful lot like image hosting without IPFS. Most of your traffic's gonna be through gateways, not over IPFS proper. You've still gotta have always-on servers pinning (storing) everything for re
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by shantly 7y ago
Having money and spending it to make other people do your boring stuff is a pretty effective life optimization. Cleaning, laundry, cooking, lawn care, car maintenance—even driving—can all be bought, so you barely have to do any of it again,
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by shantly 7y ago
Used to be able to do something similar with Gentoo back in, like, 2002, I think. Distribute build jobs to multiple remote machines.
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by shantly 7y ago
> <800MB What's getting it even close to that high? Even allowing for more features and some serious bloat I'd expect modern Linux with XFCE to fit inside 250MB, not counting file cache and such.
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by shantly 7y ago
The implied, broader story of the photos is definitely part of what makes it weird.
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by shantly 7y ago
> I also block Spolsky's image at the table tennis table. Oh wow, that one bugs the hell out of me. Never occurred to me there was a Hating Awkward Kinda-Narcissistic Photos On Blogs movement. Though it was just me.

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