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A Schools Chief So Charming That Los Angeles Overlooked His Red Flags(nytimes.com)
2 points by bbertucc 6mo ago|1 comments
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by bbertucc 6mo ago
One Red Flag referenced here that I’ve seen in many districts is trading sponsorship for access. A company will sponsor an event put on by a public orgs sister non-profit. The non-profit gets paid. Money goes to public workers via the non-p
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by bbertucc 2y ago
I’m part of the WordPress Accessibility team and I’m still working on accessibility today.
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by bbertucc 2y ago
This article largely came out of frustration with my peers investing lots of energy in developing LLM accessibility review. I spent a year doing it myself. Now I'm done. (Props to those we reference in the article.) My focus is now on
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by bbertucc 2y ago
LLM-generated descriptions miss lots of context. For instance, depending on the site and content, we might mention people's races or fashion. Other times we don't.
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by bbertucc 3y ago
everyone should be taking this stuff seriously. EU's accessibility act is set to be implemented in 2025 and the US congress also has a bill in the works that mandates greater accessibility across all governments.
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Ask HN: How can family and friends use a YC SAFE to invest in my company?
1 points by bbertucc 3y ago|0 comments
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by bbertucc 5y ago
We're pre-revenue. Our salaries would be covered by a few interested investors. Current thinking: Unless we get a strategic benefit from taking money from the investor, we shouldn't. I'm really just curious if some data exist
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Ask HN: Should I take a salary for my pre-revenue startup?
3 points by bbertucc 5y ago|6 comments
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by bbertucc 5y ago
Create sustainable jobs people love to do.
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by bbertucc 5y ago
Ya. Totally. The good manager is my Plan B if I don't get an offer I want. We have loyal clients that most companies are hot for + a great workflow, so hopefully that translates into more than just a job..
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by bbertucc 5y ago
Super solid. We have a workflow that allows devs or designers with under 3 yrs of experience to develop sites that usually require pros with > 5 yrs. That means lower overhead of us and stronger profit. We even have an app that generates
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by bbertucc 5y ago
Amazing. Thank you.
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by bbertucc 5y ago
cool. how does a business broker value a company? i default to transparency, so would just hack it myself if possible.
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Ask HN: How much should I sell my Web Dev shop for?
13 points by bbertucc 5y ago|11 comments
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by bbertucc 5y ago
1. Popularity (40% of the internet use it) 2. It's not Drupal (Drupal 7 to 8 PTSD) 3. I love Open Source 4. It's familiar (10+ yrs WP development) 5. The Block Editor
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by bbertucc 8y ago
“19 female and 1 male university students” participant is a laughable small sample group. How can any insight be drawn from that?
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by bbertucc 8y ago
In my experience, the best policy is just to ask engineers where they are spinning their wheels. Engineers know best where to automate. Relying on top down automation decisions inspires ineffective automation.
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by bbertucc 8y ago
Where are these numbers coming from? The publication only cites itself as a source.
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by bbertucc 8y ago
A few months ago, I had to build themes for 20+ sites. The sites varied in features (some had slideshows, some had blogs, ..) I wanted to build the projects from boilerplate code that could adapt to the various features as needed, but no to
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Show HN: Shaper – A simple GUI for building code templates(getshaper.com)
2 points by bbertucc 8y ago|1 comments
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by bbertucc 8y ago
Blake is indeed great summer reading - a retreat from the rational mind. In that vein, my two summer picks are A.R. Ammons' "Still" and the fragments of Friedrich Holderlin translated by Michael Hoffman.