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…
+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.
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…
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…
+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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Love it! Very clever.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
+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.
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…
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…
+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"…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Love it! Very clever.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…