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> Now we're getting hundreds of resumes a week for each open position, and the bulk of each one of those resumes do not come close to even being in conversation range of the posted JD.

What percentage of these resumes do you think are generated by GPT?

Instant Pot has become a cultural icon, everyone has one. How does such an iconic brand go under so quickly? Just bad management? I'm not buying the excuses of "its the macroeconomic climate blah blah"

The skepticism is strange to me because Siri is extremely well positioned. All Apple has to do is add a GPT-like backend, put Siri in everyone's iMessage, and boom ChatGPT is dead in the water.

[2020]

I was thinking similarly, reminds me of `do` notation in Haskell. Which is great, Haskell and Lisp are my two favorite languages :)

Schemepunk is awesome, thanks for making it! I’ve been meaning to attempt porting it to guile when I get some free time one of these days

Commuting 4 days a week to NYC is not half time. (Presumably those 4 days are spent working ~12-16h.)

  > Erin’s VP of sales had just bought a condo in Miami to be next to her aging parents […]
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  > Her VP of Sales might be wonderful, but with the all the travel the company is only getting her half-time. Erin needs a full-time head of sales in New York. Time to have a difficult conversation.

Hustle culture nonsense. Family is important https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

IMO there’s always a way to do both. If there really isn’t, choose family.

> Your friend Sam is still Sam, even if Sam gets new responsibilities and sheds old ones.

Does Sam's last name happen to be Smith or Cooper or any of the other thousand of occupational surnames people use? Just curious..

Nope, edn uses square brackets and doesn't have a `list` keyword. This is some custom representation.

Probably written in Common Lisp? Based on some quick searching I found this reference https://docs.ovh.com/us/en/web-paas/languages-lisp/

Very cool tech stack. How do you run t5-small in the browser?

> closing Slack and opening it 2-3x a day

This is what I do and I don’t have adhd or anything like that. It’s necessary to get things done in this modern age

How does this guy run a developer tools company called “trunk” and yet doesn’t understand rebase? Talk about killing credibility…

Science is based on mythology. Logos developed out of mythos. There is no dichotomy or conflict between the two.

An origin story is a mythology, and all of those other cultural stories fit under a common schema, hence the reference to Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey”

Honestly this sounds like a very nice niche. Put together a one-sheet sales pitch and start sending it out to businesses with an hourly rate and pitch, I'll bet you'll get some takers. It's a bounded task with a concrete outcome (as opposed to development which can expolode in cost and complexity sometimes), and its the sort of thing that dev teams would be comfortable outsourcing because most devs want to write new code instead of tracking down bugs. So, I would expect it to be a very attractive proposition to many teams.

Heck I might do this myself for some extra side income.

Who is Betteridge?

I’ve said this for a while now among friends: If I were running a company, there would be no shared ticket or todo list. Everyone can manage their own work and keep their own todo lists. The best employees already do this anyway.

Basecamp’s “shape up” method is a nice way to coordinate work when everyone has their own todo list.

And I would have done it too, if it weren’t for that meddling parser

> fish catches this

Oh how the turntables…

Huh, looks like you are correct: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/benefits-leave/fmla

This is good info, thank you for sharing.

Edit: Wikipedia has clarification on eligibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o...

> “Highly compensated employees” have limited rights to return to their jobs. They are defined as “a salaried eligible employee who is among the highest paid 10 percent of the employees employed by the employer within 75 miles of the facility at which the employee is employed”.

I guess I should clarify my 6 weeks is paid time off.

3-4 months leave is "decent"? I only get 6 weeks...

Please elaborate

Yeah and sometimes I go back to them just for nostalgia. But truly the archiving doesn't matter all that much. I like the Field Notes tagline: "I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remember it now."

People keep bringing this up, about junior developers. But my experience as a junior was very different. I didn't have senior mentors, I learned mostly from irc and stackoverflow, in fact I worked remotely for most of my junior years, and it worked out for me. (I'm a senior staff engineer at a "unicorn" now.)

> One of the advantages of office work is that being surrounded by colleagues pushes us to get our work done during office time. Many knowledge workers are paying to have silent video chats with people who act as their accountability buddies.

the panopticon is real

I have roughly ten years of notebooks in a box under my desk. They are all some kind of “bullet journal” method: date at the top of the page, items below, index in the back.

Emacs and vim do this out of the box

I cleaned my office and moved furniture while waiting for compiles to finish. Got the keyboard next to my desk now, hopefully this encourages me to practice more often.

Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the day

Emacs Rocks has some great demos, they are very well-structured https://emacsrocks.com/