danieltillett

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by danieltillett 4y ago
Do you have a professional background in biotech or at least the life sciences?
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by danieltillett 4y ago
Or pay people less to do the pleasant jobs.
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by danieltillett 4y ago
How did you end up on this team?
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by danieltillett 4y ago
As an employer I always read the cover letters. You had better have a slight clue of what job you are applying for or your application ends up in the garbage.
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by danieltillett 4y ago
A meta question on the WSJ headline - do American really use the plural for linen to refer to sheets, etc?
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by danieltillett 4y ago
The E in AAVE is English not Language.
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by danieltillett 4y ago
This is a seperate (important) issue.
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by danieltillett 4y ago
The reason why is it is easier to train a biologist to become a programmer than it is to train a programmer to become a biologist. Sure the quality of biologist-turned-programmer code will often not be great, but it will usually answer the
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by danieltillett 5y ago
How about which jail cell you are placed in if arrested?
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by danieltillett 5y ago
This is why you should not ever dedicate yourself to a single project no matter how much you believe in it. You should at a minimum have one back up project that will generate publishable results no matter what happens.
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by danieltillett 5y ago
Sometimes the company has no choice as the alternative is everyone loses their job. I don’t think employees should think of the company as their family, but don’t get into the mindset that all employers treat their employees as disposable c
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by danieltillett 5y ago
Yes, but it is not quite so clean. Employers are humans and in my experience they care far more about the people they know (employees) than abstract people (shareholders).
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by danieltillett 5y ago
Many employers agonise over laying off employees, I would go so far as to say the vast majority do. Many employers try to keep on employees in situations where they really should be laid off, putting their own jobs at risk. Don’t get into t
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by danieltillett 5y ago
When someone’s future salary is tied to acquiring $new/$shiny skill then you are going to get this sort of rational behaviour from the engineers. Smart people respond to incentives.
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by danieltillett 5y ago
I think you should get out and see what farmers are doing to the wild mice.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Something I have always found insane is all the regulations and paperwork hurdles around killing mice in labs. Want to kill 10 mice humanely in a lab then you need to fill out a 60 page report, send it off to an ethics committee for their o
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It is not. One side is winning the long war and it is not the USA.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I used to be a non-technical manager “managing” a team of developers. I later (through circumstances) became a developer. Looking back at the games my team played with me I can see why many managers are cynical about the estimates they are
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by danieltillett 6y ago
As a manager what every report wants is to be genuinely listened to by their manager. If you make the effort to really listen to what your report has to say you don’t need to worry about praise or other feedback. The downside is real listen
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Yes they are likely to be mirror twins [0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Semi-identical_twins
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I assume you know about mirror twins [0]. Do you and your sibling happen to have opposite dominant hands? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Semi-identical_twins
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by danieltillett 6y ago
It certainly is counterproductive. We should be incentivising replication, not novelty. If you started giving out grants aimed at replicating results we would speed up scientific progress ten fold.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
That is not what meritocracy is - it is rule by the cognitive gifted. The argument for meritocracy is that meritocratic societies (and by extension businesses) kick the butts of all others. It might not be fair, but it works better than al
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by danieltillett 6y ago
I wasn’t suggesting reneging on the deal, just laying out the options and letting him choose. You could consider winding up the company and starting again with a fresh company.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Fire them and then give everyone a raise with their salary.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Why is it that a lot of people who ask leading questions on HN are such morons?
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Nothing like having to do a job to take the fun out of it. Why not keep it as a hobby and just have dinner parties?
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Working really, really hard when I was younger. I still work, but only on what I want to work on.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Have you asked him? Maybe he will be happier with a smaller share and avoiding the tax implications.
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by danieltillett 6y ago
Can I ask why you want to open a restaurant? Have you ever worked in one?

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