Liuda Nikolaeva

Describe yourself in 2 words: can't follow instructions.

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We are interested in self-starters interested in self-driving

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I once had a student who turned in perfect homework assignments and passed tests at ~100% - right until she got enough points to pass the class, and then she stopped showing up at all.

Amazing.

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Also: you don't have to be good at something to be bored with it

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It occurs to me that companies don't JUST underpay you if you stay at a job for a while - they double underpay you:
1) they underpay for a given level
2) they underlevel you (because, you know, they don't want to have to fire you in case they promoted you too early)

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@danluu Why is the answer anything other than "don't trust corporations ever, they are big and powerful and WILL screw you over, even for a couple of cents, let alone for big bucks"?

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Phone cameras are the new razor blades.
Innovation = add one more.

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I love how cold emails from recruiters always start with the passive-aggressive "Looks like you've been at X company for a couple of years now" - I can almost see their disapproving looks at the moss growing on my shoulders.

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...Ancient Egyptian art - where the bigger you are, the more important you are (colloquially known as hierarchical proportion)

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I finally realized what this type of movie posters reminds me of

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Even though the 2022 New Year Space Needle fireworks happened in 2022, the special effects for the streaming of this event were completed in 1992.

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So apparently, if you are a Serious Photographer, you are NOT supposed to call those things "photos", like a newbie, you're supposed to say "images", and also you don't "take" them, you "create" them.

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"Yes, it is great to have all that time with your family—but at the office, there are no toddlers to interrupt your phone calls!"

And, finally, the winner:
"Time with the boss is a big incentive to come into the office"

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This is possibly the funniest thing I've read in a while. I cannot tell if this is serious or deadpan, and that's delightful.

https://t.co/ulnmaMJZ7V

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"...adopt a policy like “no after-hours email on days you’ve been at the office.”"

So, no office = all night reading work email? Darth Vader's management skills pale in comparison.

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And I understand why problems of this shape persist when costs and benefits are borne by different entities (e.g., college textbooks situation).
But when they are borne by a single entity (company), there must be a strong incentive to fix this. So why doesn't it get fixed?

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Why do companies buy Atlassian products, such as confluence, when they are so fucking terrible?
Like, today I had to edit a table in wiki editor and found ~20 editor bugs in just 10 clicks (and no, not advanced stuff, but basics: selection, pasting, indenting/dedenting, etc.).

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Looks like another iteration of distributed costs problem: everyone suffers a little bit, but the benefits are concentrated, so we end up not seeing that the sum of little pains far outweighs the meager benefits.

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Do you find that you tend to write less when your life is interesting and happening, and to write more when nothing is going on?

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@BanjoTragedy You forgot to say *REMOTE*. \o/