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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 …

+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 mo…

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 the…

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…

+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…

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 incom…

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 processe…

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 us…

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 …

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, …

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 t…

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, ov…

Echoes of Microsoft's Tay, the little bot that could (offend everyone). Maybe my prompts were boring - I got some profanity back, but nothing too outrageous - but it does highlight…

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 i…

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 ec…

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 u…

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 does…

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…

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 …

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…

Funny you mention that. From my earlier comment, I run a lit zine, and we get tons of that stuff. Our journal explicitly rejects 99% of those submissions, just to stand out from th…

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 t…