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by zck 6y ago
In two consecutive years (2017, 2018), Buzzfeed was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting: https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-buzzfeed-news and https://www.pulitzer.org/fina
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by zck 6y ago
The link submitted here doesn't work for me, but this one does: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/07/pfizer... .
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At least in NYC, talks are overwhelmingly the most common meetup structure.
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by zck 6y ago
I like this idea. I'm an organizer of the New York Emacs meetup ( https://emacsnyc.org/ ), and we had had "Hack Night" meetups as one of our formats. Those worked ok, letting people work on things either togeth
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by zck 6y ago
> I never really see people use them purely to replace words one-for-one. This article does that. Here it might be more often than the author would normally do, but I've seen things like that non-ironically. > To stay relevant in
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by zck 6y ago
I got a 92! Pretty neat to look at. It might also be interesting to see actual correlations between things. Seeing that a particular graph is 0.75 correlated is interesting, sure, but it might be more revealing that a particular graph is as
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by zck 6y ago
Cool! It might be fun to show, at the end, the path you took through the maze on a map.
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by zck 6y ago
> Not exactly the same thing, but this reminds me of a style of speaking/writing that avoids using "to be" verbs. I don't remember the name and can't seem to find it on Wikipedia right now, but it's similar
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by zck 6y ago
I don't know that I love Amazon putting their stuff first, but this criticism of Amazon's actions was interesting: > The new approach violates Amazon’s mantra that every decision must put the customer first, said Tim Hughes, a
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by zck 6y ago
> Typing ‘HE’ (in Colemak) forced the hand to make a very unnatural sideways twisting motion from the wrist and then back again. Perhaps I have larger hands than the average, but I don't experience this. I can even type DE with the
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by zck 6y ago
Fair enough! I'm writing mostly things of a short nature -- this class focused on satirical writing, so under 1000 words. I've also done some sketch comedy, so perhaps five pages. It might be very different if I were writing anyth
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by zck 6y ago
It depends what you're writing. I find the writing time to not be a big impediment - for creative writing, I have to think about what's coming next anyway. If I were writing other things, it night make more of a difference.
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by zck 6y ago
I've been taking a writing class through Second City, and I've found it incredibly useful to write out my first drafts on paper, by hand. I don't think I'm losing any time by having to type my second draft into the compu
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by zck 6y ago
I think you're going down a slippery slope. You say: > I indeed believe the best work is done when you are not constantly looking over your shoulder thinking about how to sell. I, too, believe this. But let's look at what Hammi
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by zck 6y ago
If you invented number theory in the 1500s, then burned your manuscripts, the world will be no different from if you wrote ten thousand pages saying only "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy". If you are doing something ent
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by zck 6y ago
And to be a little more specific (because I really like Arc), the releases are very rare, and minor at this point. I would be surprised if the Arc that was running HN was the latest released version of Arc, the news library notwithstanding.
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> If we identify "undervalued" with "salary below market rate", one obtains the statement above: By moneyballing, look for great developers who are paid below market rate (and will thus accept a salary far below the o
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by zck 6y ago
Ha, it does. Though, I meant "I don't know if it's smart to admit publicly that I'm not a Linus Torvalds-level programmer".
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Where are the companies that try to make their employees better? As someone who is an employed software developer, but has never been confused for a rockstar coding ninja, things like this hit me emotionally when I read them. This might not
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by zck 6y ago
A note -- it's sourcehut.org. And all the actual content (repos, bug tracking, even the login page) is at sr.ht.
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by zck 6y ago
(I'm not Weird Al). He became a vegetarian in 1992 ( https://www.weirdal.com/archives/faq/ , search for "vegetarian"). I don't know when the song was written, but he was playing it as early as 19
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by zck 7y ago
The graph can have an y-axis starting at 0, and still have all the data points start at 10k.
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by zck 7y ago
> Angela Merkel doesn’t do drama and she doesn’t give speeches on TV. I've seen this reported a few times, and it's always stated and never explained. My question: why doesn't she? Not "why doesn't she do drama&q
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by zck 7y ago
I have an average commute, I'd say, for NYC. It's not like I'm some sort of supercommuter ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-surging-ranks-of-super-comm... ).
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by zck 7y ago
> Cycling 6 miles is not a lot... If you say so. It is for me. It's not only a long distance (google maps says 35 minutes, which I suspect is an underestimate), but also would be significantly inconvenient -- do I shower at work, an
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by zck 7y ago
I think the statement is "most NYC commutes are longer than Amsterdam commutes, so chances are lower that each commute could be done by bicycle". My commute would be almost six miles by bicycle. I'm not especially looking to
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by zck 7y ago
I mean, by the time I'm gone from a citibike to a place where I can wash my hands, I've had to touch a lot of other things. It's not like there are sinks directly next to the citibike stands.
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by zck 7y ago
I wonder if it's better to take the subway, or use a citibike. With the shared bikes, you're farther away from other people, but you're physically touching the shared bike all the time.
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by zck 7y ago
What was the billionth one issued? It's a long shot, but my website had its certificate renewed today, and it would be cool to find out if I had the billionth one.
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by zck 7y ago
As a random person who's been on reddit for over a decade now, it's really cool to see how close-knit the reddit team is. Partially I'm jealous, since I've never found anything even close to that.

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