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I think the main point made by the author is that we should _be able to_ read properly and consciously make the decision to do so for some texts. I don't think anyone would argue t…

This is all over the place and reads like a collection of random pieces of advice. Why not stop at "An engineer makes something work. You are more than that. You are an artisan." a…

Here's a better title: "What the PhDs we interviewed should've known before interviewing with us".

Basecamp has 50 employees. Google was founded in 1998 and has 50k employees. I think there's something more to be said about the differences in their experiences and the kind of mi…

I agree with you. To put it simply, papers are optimized for the scientific community and making them "more accessible" to outsiders has a cost. I'd settle for better writing and p…

Not necessarily. IMO, she proposes a specific way of "thinking" about the paper's content (I use another approach [1]). Papers are written following a certain structure because man…

Because they are not writing for non-scientists.

Posted and discussed before multiple times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9610075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9404006

This has been posted before ("2014" in the title would be nice) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677556