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by vanusa 5y ago
Again, I do stand corrected. To my defense, I was going by my Bayesian prior for certain language names for which one could be 100 percent sure there was no alternate accepted spelling or capitalization. So if one put JAVA or PERL on their
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by vanusa 5y ago
You've nailed it. It really does require an eye for detail (in places where it matters) to a degree that comes epsilon close to being "pedantic" in the annoying sense -- without quite going over that line.
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Am 100 percent with you there - nice and basically decent to work with always trumps the willful disregard for these basic qualities. No matter how skilled they are, or their accomplishments.
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And that's the beauty of it - it's a perfect filter, both ways.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Just like if you write "alot" instead of "a lot" the reader knows exactly what you mean, and yet ... But whatever. It's your life. You do you, and I'll do me.
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A strong new lead in 'The Betrayal of Anne Frank'(nytimes.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Do you really care that you made HR unhappy though? Fundamentally it does kind of suck to have to put up people in your environment who are "unhappy" with you, or the fact that you snuck in there -- not because you don't be
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by vanusa 5y ago
Some people aren't native speakers. Do they really need to know how to spell perfectly to work for you? Perfectly, no. But in formal communications, they need to show that they're at least making an effort to get things reasona
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by vanusa 5y ago
I guess I'll backpedal at this point and acknowledge that that "nodejs" may in fact be not only a correct and accepted spelling -- but in fact a hip "in-the-know" spelling -- within a certain community. But at this
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by vanusa 5y ago
Giving them a spell check is about as useful as measuring the ratio of times the letter ‘a’ appears relative to ‘e’. I'll leave the matter of whether one should be expect resumes to be at least reasonably correct (in terms of spellin
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by vanusa 5y ago
“It’s not JavaScript it’s Ecmascript! Not comparable.
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by vanusa 5y ago
[Regarding] 'Equifax-like companies that verify all the bullet points' I'm sorry to inform you that's already happening. Specifically? Yes there are obviously companies that strip mine every nugget of "data"
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by vanusa 5y ago
Another factor people aren't mentioning -- even if such a format were to gain widespread adoption, along with the emergence of a side industry of Equifax-like companies that verify all the bullet points -- it would in effect amount to
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by vanusa 5y ago
I see what you're driving at -- but that implementing that "verification standard" (i.e. standardized, continually updating 3rd-party background checks) would be a huge undertaking, and a larger than cottage-sized industry in
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by vanusa 5y ago
Sometimes a modicum of friction is helpful. The thing is it's far more than a "modicum" in practice. There was a recent Harvard Business School study out there revealing that these systems are poorly calibrated (and/o
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by vanusa 5y ago
That's exactly what I mean -- people believe in Big Data so much these days that when something appears in a sufficient portion of search results, it must have actual validity.
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That's very nice to think about but in the real world if people don't match some exact keywords they get thrown away. This isn't the "real world" you're referring to here -- it's the fin-de-big-tech bu
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Russia issues subtle threats more far-reaching than a Ukraine invasion(nytimes.com)
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Many timeless truths in this piece. Thanks for posting.
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Then 24, 48, 72, 96 hours passed and not a word from the people who authorize the monoclonal antibody treatment. Each passing day was emotional agony because the therapy loses effectiveness as time passes between infection and infusion. Ev
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by vanusa 5y ago
Scream (n): A framework within which the organization creates a facade that looks like they are doing Scrum, without solving any meaningful problems. Scream provides an illusion of “Agile”, gives managers the feeling that everything is und
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by vanusa 5y ago
Personally, I have gotten some heat for working with YAF. As a person of color, I am seen as a contrarian. Growing up, I was taught that the left cares about us minorities, while anyone who aligns with the right is racist. Some people on c
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by vanusa 5y ago
In the short term, by 2040, sea level is projected to rise 10 to 17 inches above 2000 mean sea level. Medium term, by 2070, sea level is projected to rise 21 to 54 inches above 2000 mean sea level. Long term, by 2120, sea level is proj
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by vanusa 5y ago
As the author himself argues, in another tweet, and with unassailable logic: You may not be aware of this, but housing isn't what's causing sea levels to rise.
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Bodega and deli owners fight against threat of 15-minute-delivery tech companies(thevillagesun.com)
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It's difficult to gain competency in algorithmic whiteboarding questions without being smart and at least half decent at coding. And without learning what amounts to a secondary career skill in the art of doing a specific song and da
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by vanusa 5y ago
Hand-wavy doesn't begin to describe the cost-benefit analysis behind this (like what's it, umm, gonna cost to build all that high-elevation land that far out into the water? He doesn't even provide a ballpark estimate). And
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Guns, ammo even a boat: how Oath Keepers plotted an armed coup(theguardian.com)
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Infinitely better.
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He was a monster. Yeah, and it's even in a section of the website called "Big Yikes". Ok I get, pedophilia == bad. But my, aren't we being slowly trained to be hapless outrage porn junkies these days, by the continual

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