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by seanstickle 4y ago
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) | Director, Information Systems | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building bet
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by seanstickle 6y ago
National Alliance on Mental Illness | Arlington, VA (REMOTE) | Full stack web app developer | Full-time | $80,000-$95,000 DOE We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit association that provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so th
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by seanstickle 6y ago
Here's a list of the Great Books of the Western World, which is a pretty good place to start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
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by seanstickle 7y ago
At St. John's College (back in the 90's anyways), we called this "teaching science and math historically" (as opposed to teaching the history of science and math -- which tends to emphasize dates and names). By telling t
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by seanstickle 7y ago
A good history of where modern JavaScript comes from (from old school to webpack and babel). https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/modern-javascript-... Helped me understand the how and why of webpack.
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by seanstickle 7y ago
Solar United Neighbors | IT Generalist | Full-time | Washington, DC | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Solar Unit
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by seanstickle 8y ago
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics tackles happiness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics "Let us resume our inquiry and state, in view of the fact that all knowledge and every pursuit aims at some g
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Three Ways of Looking at FizzBuzz in J(greenjenny.com)
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by seanstickle 8y ago
For those that like to mess around with the J programming language, here is what I believe is correct code to generate this parallax compression pattern. pack =: 3 : '+./ (r,y+1) $ (npc*y+1) {. (npc*y) }. p' "0 pc
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by seanstickle 10y ago
Sounds like Reid Hoffman's book "The Alliance". Good read. http://www.theallianceframework.com/
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by seanstickle 11y ago
Star Maker was written by Olaf Stapledon. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Maker-Olaf-Stapledon/dp/148264446...
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by seanstickle 11y ago
Pretty much any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
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by seanstickle 11y ago
Mostly because I'm an APL snob. Haskell is great.
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by seanstickle 11y ago
One of my favorite books is "Algebraic Models For Accounting Systems" -- http://www.amazon.com/Algebraic-Models-For-Accounting-System... Fundamentally this book is about the application of abstract algebra to the
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by seanstickle 12y ago
At least in my communications department, we follow a style guide — like Bloomberg's — and capitalize for our own purposes, rather than to further the marketing of another company. E.g., "iPad, iPod, iTunes. Follow the company sty
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Principia Mathematica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
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by seanstickle 12y ago
This is how I learned proofs: http://i.imgur.com/omXqvos.png Well, technically I learned proofs from Euclid first. But this book followed close behind. Clear and comprehensible (once you learn the basic symbols). Very much
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by seanstickle 12y ago
See my reply to prostoalex at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679172
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by seanstickle 12y ago
The same it applies anywhere. You want results from people in the restaurant business, hospitality industry, or retail environments, right? A Results-Only Work Environment isn't a Remote-Only Work Environment. You work where and when y
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by seanstickle 12y ago
That's a reasonable concern, adeptus. What's preventing management from imposing huge amounts of workload and telling you to get it done in 40 hours — or you're fired and they'll find someone else to do it? I do not mean
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by seanstickle 12y ago
That's a great question, tanderson92. Unless you've had a remarkable work experience, you'll find that bad management shifts the goalposts in a 40-hour work environment too. "Work harder, work faster, work smarter!"
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Once again, I have to point to the Results-Only Work Environment — http://gorowe.com/pages/rowe-standards . ROWE isn't the only way of doing this sort of thing, but it's a good approach. Companies hire people
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Work hours are certainly a good proxy for effort spent. But companies don't (or shouldn't) pay for effort, they pay for results. Take 2 people: one a talented auto mechanic, one is me (not mechanically talented). Give us both the
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by seanstickle 12y ago
I feel for you. Apparently you don't have a boss who can define what they want from you. This is not uncommon, and we're struggling with that ourselves. We've all spent so many years with the belief that putting in hours is t
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Let's be honest. Both a Results-Only Work Environment or a "9-5 in the office" environment try to pack as much into an employee's schedule as possible. That's not unique to ROWE. Some of the answers to your question
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by seanstickle 12y ago
This is a cultural change that the company has to go through. They're paying me for the results. Not for the hours. Thinking that they'll "ramp up the required results more and more until you are working 40 hours a week"
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by seanstickle 12y ago
I favor something more like a Results-Only Work Environment ( http://gorowe.com/pages/rowe-standards ), where the focus is on the results and not on how many hours are worked. Too many companies (even startups) are conse
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by seanstickle 12y ago
When Hercules cleaned out the Augean stables, he wasn't then obligated to refill them. Just because I can see a problem and criticize a fumbling attempt at a solution, it does not follow that I have an alternative.
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by seanstickle 12y ago
Calling people "independent contractors" doesn't necessarily make it true. Depending on jurisdiction, they have to meet certain criteria to be called that; otherwise they're an employee, and the company can be subject to
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by seanstickle 12y ago
What I find disturbing about this is that lean concepts, from Deming to Toyota to software dev and so forth, is meant to benefit both the company and the customer — reduce waste, increase flow, make products and services that people want an

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