zebraflask

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by zebraflask 2y ago
Indeed. I'd only add (or rephrase other comments to the same effect) that slow growth is not only about staying within your capacity, it's also about learning what you're doing so well that you can systematize your processes
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by zebraflask 3y ago
+1 to the comments pointing out that these types of questions can easily veer into highly intrusive, if not overtly discriminatory, territory. This reminds me of LinkedIn pablum more than anything else.
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by zebraflask 3y ago
Aha, I've often vaguely suspected as much with certain well-known food columns. I wrote it off to incompetent cooks, but it makes more sense that they were just making it up as they went along. One that sticks in my mind was a recipe t
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by zebraflask 4y ago
That's a good point. Counterpoint: what idea can be had from rushed / time-constrained / deliberately careless work examples? Any junior can copy / paste some functional yet poorly done code. Or make ChatGPT come up with
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by zebraflask 4y ago
+1 on that. The handful of times I've dumped a bunch of time and effort into an at-home screening assignment, it took far longer to do well than whatever the allotted time was made out to be. Emphasis on the "do well" part. M
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by zebraflask 4y ago
The grass is always greener, etc. It might be better to spend some free time cultivating a side project or two where you can exercise your dev skills without endangering your income. Who knows, it might take off and turn into your own compa
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by zebraflask 4y ago
A tale as old as (Internet) time - I've seen this cycle happen, too. Tangentially, I have to wonder to what extent misapplication of Agile, and similar, project management processes is to blame. You'd think for most relatively sim
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by zebraflask 4y ago
It might help with credibility and adoption rates to make it explicit on the site that your editors aren't going to work on material that looks like it's being used, or could be used, for plagiarism or related "no outside hel
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Just a thought, not a ding on the idea. What kind of controls are there or will there be re: plagiarism scenarios? For example, a user sends in an academic draft, represents it as their own, and does so with the intent (explicitly voiced or
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by zebraflask 4y ago
The $10,000 number is a little too high. I'd say it's easy to start spending and keep spending the bucks if you're aiming to duplicate a conventional print run from a large press, with no expense spared, but it isn't nec
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by zebraflask 4y ago
That is a recipe for a variety of nagging injuries, at best, that will almost certainly get exacerbated. Exercising only highly-restricted movements by themselves looks nice on a training log, but isn't really effective.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Cogent point. I've worked with outsourced and offshore teams quite a bit. The attempt to arbitrage lower wages based on geography for highly skilled roles has almost invariably, over any meaningful length of time, run up against increa
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Echoes of Microsoft's Tay, the little bot that could (offend everyone). Maybe my prompts were boring - I got some profanity back, but nothing too outrageous - but it does highlight, I suppose, how easily these platforms can be abused.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
The word I'm seeing repeated here is "boring," but that also brings up a point about where Twitter works well: niche audiences. Especially ones that aren't necessarily interested in photos or short videos you look at onc
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Doesn't speak well of their longterm planning ability to yank six open positions over a tweet - but I would guess there are other undisclosed reasons, and saying "because of the economy" is just a convenient thing to say.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
A variety of protests, I'm sure, would look askance at much of this comment. The sovereign citizen material, though, really does leave the impression that there must be something underlying the absurdity. Mental illness? It generally c
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Some are smarter than others, but I think, in terms of animal behavior or ecology, cats are basically carnivorous rabbits. That's not to say anyone who has had a trainable cat doesn't like them - mine have their moments - but I th
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by zebraflask 4y ago
This all somehow seems unsurprising. If anyone has tried to use Heroku in easily the last year, the number of times you get failed builds over really trivial things is noticeable.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Replika.ai was founded on a similar idea. The earliest version was reputedly based on text messages between the founder and one of her (deceased) friends.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Love it! Very clever.
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by zebraflask 4y ago
It might beg the question, but if the OP has a stated lack of interest in the subject matter that makes "tech" companies tick - I'd suggest reevaluating the motivation. None of the roles listed in the edit can be done well, o
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by zebraflask 4y ago
I've had the same experience. Suboptimal code isn't refactored because of the test code overhead, or, much worse, the tests on that same subpar code somehow morph into a perceived "gold standard" for how that code should
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by zebraflask 4y ago
Why is this not surprising? I have to wonder how long this kind of thing will last in these types of org structures before there's a collective realization that coordinating groups always has a challenging element to it, even in person
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Funny you mention that. From my earlier comment, I run a lit zine, and we get tons of that stuff. Our journal explicitly rejects 99% of those submissions, just to stand out from the pack.
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by zebraflask 5y ago
I think a large part of it has to do with the print aspect - printing costs have been going up from supply chain issues over paper, binding material, etc. And if the outlet needs to pay staff and pay writers, that adds another layer of pres
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by zebraflask 5y ago
At the risk of going off-topic, I'm a little taken aback by how we're all still in the middle of a global pandemic. Vaccines don't provide bulletproof immunity and aren't intended to be a license to gather in groups, etc
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by zebraflask 5y ago
It's an interesting idea. I guess it depends on the audience. For example, I run a literary magazine and something that has been noted in publishing forums is that when you charge a reading fee to consider a submission, it can cut down
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by zebraflask 5y ago
I think these kinds of complaints are interesting compared to other HN posts about - take your pick - startups trying to keep the lights on, startups closing their doors, bootcamp attendees looking for their first job, etc. Whether intentio
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by zebraflask 5y ago
This doesn't pass the sniff test. For a basic non-engineering example, think about B2B sales. How much of a typical B2B sales cycle involves phone calls and emails and video meetings versus how much involves in-person meetings? Hasn&#x
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by zebraflask 5y ago
Agree. It can be a tiny project, too, just make sure there's something new or unique or conversation-worthy about it. The point is to have something you can talk about that shows you can walk through the basics of a dev project. When I

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