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Creative writing teacher.

copy editors and proof readers are the people trained to catch those types of errors but are seen more and more as an unnecessary expense. peer reviewers assess scientific interest…

Most of NYC does not have the physical space for dumpsters or the roadway access for dumpster lifting garbage trucks. There are some large buildings where it would be practical, bu…

first, i'd just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich which is much much shorter. after reading that if you feel like reading tolstoy is something you want to do a whole lot more of, then …

I've seen the coding questions we ask candidates... whether or not i would pass would depend 100% on which question(s) I was asked. Something relevant to the work I do all the time…

"Clean computer files as needed" ?! Whatever it is that is needed to clean their computer files, it sounds more achievable than: "Ensure all computers remain connected and on at al…

what is it then? pro-prolonging-the-pandemic i think if someone finds themself on Team Keep the Pandemic Going, they should reconsider what brought them there.

Depends on whether or not the boss can be trusted. I've had bosses where the only thing they ever heard from me were optimistic status updates on work in flight. I considered them …

I think it is basically this. Amplifying dangerous messages has a liability. Screaming "FIRE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire or evidence of fire is…

Robbery of delivery workers has long been a problem in the city complicated by the fact that many of them don't trust/don't feel safe going to the police. My first time on jury dut…

Are they the first big company to start adding insurance surcharges rather than attempting to make vaccination a requirement for employment? Seems like it will be a fairly good mot…

serious question: are you a bot? nice use of the oxford comma btw.

Yes, i would expect a lot of announcements this week. Looks like NYC Public Schools are going to mandate all staff be vaccinated ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/nyregion/nyc-s…

i bought a car from them three years ago and was very pleasantly surprised w how smoothly everything went (fwiw i did not get financing from them). it was definitely not about pric…

> Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls. This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.

no sarcasm intended i know that timing and luck really helped me out and i am grateful for it. so when people say "wow, you taught yourself programming and now you work as a softwa…

> I wish we as a culture/society, acknowledged the luck and timing factor more as a factor in career development. How's this? I'm a self taught programmer who did not start to lear…

the first occurs if you haven't created __init__.py. the second occurs if you want your test files outside of the package directory (e.g., project/src/foo_app/foo.py, project/test/…

> Bot armies don't work on Hacker News, but false flagging does. My assumption is that the threshold for taking action is low enough to be reached by an innocent-looking number of …

yeah would love to see the history of actions on this post.

i suspect the goal is not to increase preference for a particular vaccine but to suppress vaccination rates in a region by creating confusion.

It seems someone really doesn't want this article discussed. I saw it posted last night and the comments were strange and it got killed fast. But it is important and it is time we …

I have seen way too many `ModuleNotFoundError`s. It is moderately infuriating when the two files are in the same directory and python can't find the module. Honestly that error is …

Yeah, I'd have zero trust in the recruiter at this point and want to work out details directly w the hiring manager or HR.