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Typical to focus on the pipeline, the Economist is culturally conditioned not to question the context of the system. A lot the distribution, efficiency, and particularly the burnou…

In addition to the points he makes, there is less of a complexity barrier to jump with that generation of machine. Modern OSX/MacOS/iOS is arguably elegant but also complex and har…

Yes, this sort of solipsism thrives on the coasts where people are So Very Sure how Very Smart and Very Correct they are. Not that all US coastal people and cultures are like that,…

Seems very entitled to me. I wonder if the author ever considered how people who have lived in a small town feel about someone who insists on showing up, being catered to, and not …

Observations: - among many thoughtful comments, a search for "fun" yields mostly comments about functions and expressivity; I think this is a key aspect that isn't as apparent to m…

What a positive and uplifting story. Thank you for sharing, and BTW your writing is lucid, clever, and honest. Blessings to you all!

That sounds somewhat resonant. I'd be really curious as to what insights you had or choices you made; considering the same type of switch. Did you ever write anything up on the jou…

I'm just happy that critical discussion around SARS-nCoV-2 and related politics isn't instantly being flagged on Hacker News anymore ;) There is a lot of brainpower and a surprisin…

^this Hilarious. One of the things that had most annoyed me in medicine since 1995,a slavish dedication to what I've come to call "evidence based nihilism". And a lot of the people…

Good points about engaging in this work has changed the ways the author both thinks and feels about the landscape and ecosystem. We've been learning about permaculture (old school …

Having a bee house (for mason bees) has worked very well for us. Harvesting the cocoons in fall helps prevent concentration and spread of parasites, so I find the split-and-drilled…

I heartily encourage this! Moreover, consider mason bees or leafcutter bees. Solitary bees are easier to raise (very easy, in fact), some species are 80x as effective in pollinatio…

To the OP: Your write-up (nicely done) is particularly interesting to me in that I'm using this unplanned furlough to work on diving back into Clojure and coincidentally was wantin…

Thank you! A very welcome thread. It's been very interesting to watch children during this current period of restriction... to see both their internal robustness (in some ways impr…

Thanks for sharing the nice write-up! It's a bit more in-depth than the "hello world" tutorials out there, and mixing in a few dev tools and workflow hints is a nice touch. I'm sti…

That is an interesting point (framing as a strawman). Something was bugging me in the article, though I think I agree with many of the points made, and your comment recalled it to …

Also there is a different psychological dynamic in small groups... The teacher naturally knows and cares more about the student, and the student feels socially accountable (ie. "I …

> My experience in recruiting data scientists is that candidates that have formal degrees in data science generally have little experience outside of school. My assumption is that …

Use positive-diopter ("reading" glasses). If your eyesight is normal, you might need to get an optometrist to cut you a mild positive prescription, as the lenses sold over-the-coun…

> After grad school I got some very good advice from a mathematician: If you are good at math, don't go where they are good at math. ^This. LOL. IMHO a lot of opportunities arise a…

Anecdote: One of my most enjoyable SW jobs ever was working for a while as a staff project architect/programmer for a bioinformatics lab at the University of Washington. Great mean…

This. Actual value you know, have, or are creating anyway. Many people will happily pay a reasonable fee for such things. Pros: not a gimmick, satisfaction of being an author. Cons…

What boards or clearinghouses work well for harder-to-define roles? (tech translation, multi-disciplinary, new business development, co-founder-like roles, etc)