josephorjoe

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 and quality.

edit: also, the abstract was almost certainly written after peer review.

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, but much of the residential housing consists of buildings with <10 apartments and no alleyways (let alone driveways).

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 pick up Anna Karenina or War and Peace. I've read both, because i enjoy reading Tolstoy, but i would not recommend reading them if you do not enjoy the process. there are plenty of other great literary works out there (and most of them are shorter).

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? yes, I'd probably pass.

Something about some data structure or algorithm I haven't needed to use in four years that i now have 30 minutes to implement in code? I'd likely fail.

When something comes up in my actual job where i need to solve a problem i'm not familiar with, i first do some research on the problem and learn/remember what i need to know about it and related algorithms/data structures before doing any actual coding.

i certainly do not "immediately write code as fast as possible" when presented w an unfamiliar problem.

if you must ask candidates to work on coding problems, i believe that you should give them 3 or more problems and let them pick which one to work on for the actual "coding test" part of it.

Then maybe have a conversation about the other problems to get a sense of how they would think about/approach them w/o actually making them write code.

"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 all times"

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 completely untrustworthy -- one for lack of competency and one for being a clumsy power seeker.

But in general I would only talk to my boss about issues that (1) I'm OK with my boss telling other team members that I said what I said about it, (2) I'm OK with my boss having input on what course of action to take on the topic, and (3) I trust that the conversation is unlikely to be interpreted in some negative way for me.

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 not protected speech under any sane "freedom of speech" doctrine.

Giving the person screaming that a megaphone makes you complicit in the crime.

Giving people the "freedom" to trick other people into causing harm to each other is not giving people freedom. It is supporting abuse.

There are lines, of course... fine or otherwise, and it is a messy process to draw them. And mistakes are often made and should be called out.

But it is not a weak argument to claim that supporting the spread of disinformation about public health measures during a pandemic is supporting abuse.

And the problem with social media is that instead of there being 200-500 people who can hear the megaphone there are hundreds of million. Scale matters. What can be tolerated in the local pub a half hour before closing may not be tolerable on a billboard in Times Square.

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 duty in nyc the case was armed robbery of a delivery worker to steal his cell phone - this was pre smart phone era, so let's say the phone's value was <$200.

Was a very depressing case tbh. One person at risk of death and another at risk of a long prison term for what was really petty theft (armed robbery makes the punishment much much worse than just petty theft would be).

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 motivation for anyone who hasn't decided outright that they will never get the vaccine. And it makes sense from a business perspective.

But I'm not sure this is a great precedent. I don't really want companies to have the ability to decide that certain employee health conditions (vaccinated vs unvaccinated, smoker vs non smoker, fit vs unfit) should affect the employee contribution to the insurance plan.

serious question: are you a bot?

nice use of the oxford comma btw.

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 price for me. it was about selection and minimizing hassle. i’m still reluctant to buy a guitar online but had no problem w buying a car that costs 15x as much online.

i’ll definitely buy my next car online too.