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by gibrown 2y ago
> The work was being done, for free, by passionate people. The person leading it stepped down. Matt then stopped the initiative presumably because it didn't seem worth picking someone new.
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by gibrown 2y ago
Ya, I was expecting to see something not very impressive at that link, but was pleasantly surprised. My chair is about $7k and while this one doesn't look like it would work for me, it is definitely much better than the cheap hospital
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by gibrown 2y ago
No need to wonder: https://automattic.com/board/
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by gibrown 2y ago
This isn't true at all. The vacation policy is "Our time off policy is short: take the time that you need" and "There is no minimum or maximum, but we encourage you to take at least 25 days of time off per year".
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by gibrown 3y ago
Appreciate that you wrote this up. As someone just wrapping up a sabbatical where I have ignored a lot of what is going on this looks helpful. Thanks!
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by gibrown 3y ago
A bot scraping content will tend to go deep into the archives and hit all content systematically. Caching isn't as effective if you hit everything whereas real users will tend to hit the same content over and over again. It can add non
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by gibrown 3y ago
Ya seems like it’s this and that’s an awesome name!
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by gibrown 3y ago
Sounds like there are 34 counts of falsifying business records so it is probably more than just that one payoff.
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by gibrown 4y ago
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz Chaos theory and deterministic systems are a fascinating vantage point for thinking about the dynamics of large computer systems. Thinking of them as stochastic systems is sometimes useful, but most
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by gibrown 4y ago
And there is a list right? https://github.com/search?q=license%3Acc0-1.0&type=Repositor... All repos with a particular license.
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by gibrown 4y ago
I think you are seriously overestimating the utility of these right now. It is not just about cost, they are more limited than wheelchairs in many ways.
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by gibrown 4y ago
This is basically https://www.beeminder.com/ (Started by friends)
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by gibrown 4y ago
In my experience (11 years fully remote/distributed growing from 90 to 2000 employees) my first impression is it sounds like you’re doing too much synchronous. Async is so efficient. My team’s current systems: - Most deep discussions h
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by gibrown 4y ago
Agree that this is an interesting line of discussion. I think you missed a few options of why USD are more democratic. You can also: - run for office - organize people politically The open source point is important, but any individual crypt
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Challenge Hiring Assumptions with Data(data.blog)
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by gibrown 5y ago
> they are explicitly adding bias here. All search engines are explicitly biased. That is the point, they generate a ranking of results. Heck even how you tokenize text is an explicit bias of what you match against.
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by gibrown 5y ago
It seems more naive to think search algorithms are ever "unbiased". The whole point is to find something by ranking them and applying a bias.
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by gibrown 5y ago
I kinda doubt the US govt cares about DDG. Also, the US/UK gov is not an entirely unreasonable starting point for a list. There are also lots of academic researchers, media, etc. Better to apply some standards than none at all. I'
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by gibrown 5y ago
The people writing the search algorithms decide, just like they decide what a "good" algorithm is.
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by gibrown 5y ago
Exactly. Every search algorithm requires making judgements about how and what to rank. Explicitly marking sites as "disinformation"/"spam"/"seo" is exactly a part of building a good global web search.
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by gibrown 5y ago
> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society? Martin Luther King.
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by gibrown 5y ago
Tumblr/Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce) | Search Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE (Planet Earth) We're a distributed company with employees in 80+ countries. Tumblr launched in 2007 with the belief that people
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by gibrown 5y ago
Everything you just said also applies to amputating a limb. Or cutting out a cyst. Those seem like much closer analogies than a person in a coma.
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by gibrown 5y ago
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by gibrown 5y ago
> Not sure exactly what you mean with social conservatism "This is also why social conservatives don't like it when scientific progress makes sex safer or better. Sex outside of their ideal scenario (in marriage, at the husband
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by gibrown 5y ago
Tumblr/Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce) | Search Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE (Planet Earth) We're a distributed company with employees in 80+ countries. Tumblr launched in 2007 with the belief that people
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by gibrown 5y ago
It is already happening. Just searching a bit… Katrina displaced 1-1.5m immediately and about 200k never returned. The upper estimates for 2050 is 1.2 billion displaced world wide.
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by gibrown 5y ago
Entirely speculation, but one reason I can imagine is that if everyone is sick at the same time then even basic nursing is not possible, and often just getting fluids into someone makes a giant difference. Has there been a place/time d
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by gibrown 5y ago
omg omg omg I played this so much on my pentium 100mhz as a teen. I think I broke multiple joysticks dodging xwings. My biggest concern is that it won’t live up to the memories I still have. I think I need to buy a joystick. I have much mor
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by gibrown 5y ago
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