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by lsinger 1y ago
Much worse.
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by lsinger 4y ago
> Does advanced search help P2s retain their discoverability In my experience that's a strong yes, that works really well. I've been able to get helpful context on previous projects from a few years ago with none of the people
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Breaking down large pull requests(itsmeichigo.github.io)
1 points by lsinger 5y ago|0 comments
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by lsinger 6y ago
Especially the beginning where she recounts how she enrolled in a computer science university program without owning I found super interesting. I wonder if one could still pull that off today — there surely are still people without computer
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by lsinger 6y ago
I’d say “one eighty-four” but of course the problem is that in german we mix up the order of the tens and ones. And in fact so does English — it’s twenty-four but fif-teen (five ten, not ten five). In german we do that until 99 (nine and ni
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by lsinger 6y ago
Eggs are sold in packs of ten here (Germany). Oh, and also packs of six. :D
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by lsinger 6y ago
Oh, hello there, co-author! :D
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by lsinger 6y ago
Wrong link? That’s a Japanese music album. Lovely but probably not what you meant?
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by lsinger 6y ago
It will probably be in ~20 years. :) "Owning" it makes a difference in so far as that I can now be absolutely certain that no issue will be handled by the landlord because there isn't one. Definitely increases my perceived ag
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by lsinger 6y ago
Another anecdote. Me, my wife, and our two kids recently moved. Previously we lived in a large house that looked “special” — old but in good shape. Lots of wood and 4m ceilings. That was a rented place. By chance we found a house smaller an
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by lsinger 6y ago
He also founded the company that sells the food for this treatment: > Longo is the founder of and has an ownership interest in L-Nutra; the company's food products are used in studies of the fasting-mimicking diet. Longo's inte
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by lsinger 7y ago
I’m a freelancer, so this might not be a generalizable answer, but for every Euro I make, I pay about 0.3 Euros in taxes and health insurance.
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by lsinger 7y ago
The latter, it’s based on a percentage of your (taxable, I think) income, capped at what I’m paying (percentage-wise I’d be paying more if it wasn’t capped). FWIW, there’s no notion of “in-network” or “out-network” here.
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by lsinger 7y ago
Example from Germany: I pay 860€ per month for health insurance, which covers me, my wife, and our two children. There’s no deductible. Everything is covered, except for tooth replacements that are covered only at between 20% and 50% I beli
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by lsinger 7y ago
The documentation alone is great — it helped me learn things about CSS I had been kind of using but had never fully grasped.
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by lsinger 7y ago
> What Got Done There are several paid SaaS apps and / or Slack bots that do this. It’s a viable niche, but has gotten somewhat crowded in the past few years. Earlyish example: https://iDoneThis.com (worked there 2014&#x
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by lsinger 7y ago
It’s a relatively known piece of “wisdom” from storytelling: “The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.”
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by lsinger 7y ago
This simple framework helps me format my thoughts for presentation: - What is the problem? - Why is it a problem? (Eg, Business impact, impact on customers, etc.) - What are we doing about it? - What consequences do we expect (or do we alre
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by lsinger 7y ago
Some more information on how Automattic hires: - https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/ - https://www.andyserong.com/2019/07/25/switching-jobs-and-app... - htt
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by lsinger 7y ago
I haven't met a colleague at Automattic who quit a job for the trial. And, for what it's worth, my (anecdotal) gut feeling tells me that we have quite a few people with dependents -- kids, sick parents -- apply, work, and succeed
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by lsinger 7y ago
> Why go through all of that for an extra $250/wk? You wouldn’t. If you’re interested in the job and Automattic are interested in you, you can do a trial. Because it’s a non-trivial time investment, they offer a small compensation.
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by lsinger 7y ago
I don’t think that companies in general have really figured out hiring. I liked the trial at Automattic much more than whiteboard coding and theoretical architectural discussions. And it also helped me find out whether I would like to work
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by lsinger 7y ago
As far as I know the hours are just a rough guideline, and then also used for billing. When I did my trial it was OK to do more or less, depending on what worked for me. In the end, the trial’s outcome is more determined by results — what y
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by lsinger 7y ago
I’m not sure about the source of the number, but I assume that that’s WordPress sites hosted by Automattic itself.
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by lsinger 7y ago
In the US, for example, it works a bit differently: everyone lies, and everyone knows it, but nobody wants to offend or confront anyone, so the results are mostly the same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lsinger 9y ago
<3
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by lsinger 10y ago
Can you make this available on other countries' stores as well? Specifically I'd love to see it on the German iOS AppStore.
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by lsinger 10y ago
I'd love to subscribe to something like that to get exposure to different, interesting foods. But I'd prefer something healthy — I wonder if there's something like that.
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by lsinger 10y ago
... or negative results are a lot less likely to be accepted for publication.
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Persuasive Patterns for Nudging Novices to Use Version Control Properly(blog.leif.me)
2 points by lsinger 12y ago|0 comments

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