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Re:Ask HN: How did you increase your UX skills? on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:29PM (#32171850)
Personally, I found this book very useful and straightforward. It is written by the creators of Tailwind CSS.

https://www.refactoringui.com

For me, the main takeaway is something we all already know: that even though the CFR is low in younger healthy people, the hospitalisation rate is extremely high, and that's been one of the most important factors in this pandemic.

It's nice to finally see the hospitalisation risk presented clearly.

Re:NextDNS is my new favourite DNS service on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:15PM (#22861884)
Re:Funding for Covid-19 Projects on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#22585517)
Unfortunately the number of ECMO machines is far cry away from what is required for this to work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...

Even if you manage to double or triple capacity unfortunately it is no match to the exponential growth.

I know someone that was on QA at a major international horn manufacturer, the minimum activation cycles before failure for India were ~10x-50x higher than for other markets.
Re:How strong is your knot? on Friday January 03, 2020 @06:56AM (#21945155)
The overhand [1] and double overhand are quite different knots. Actually, since you specify that you mean the "Euro Death Knot", it is actually a "flat overhand bend" [2].

The parent's statement is not false, it's just that one must be precise about naming, because casual use leads to incorrect assumptions by others.

Other than that, yes, you are correct.

* [1] https://www.animatedknots.com/overhand-knot * [2] https://www.animatedknots.com/flat-overhand-bend-knot

Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:54AM (#20180681)
Windy.com allows you to compare models, which varies based on the region you have zoomed in to.

This is really handy as national models can be much better for short-term and higher resolution predictions.

It has the widest range of models freely available that I'm aware of, including the commercial ECMWF model.

Very bright optical transient near the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11448

40 minutes later, Erratum: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11449

The article's author, Atul Gawande, has written four books. So far I've only read _The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right_ and have been applying it to various aspects of work and life (travel packing checklist, Engineering team runbooks, etc). I would strongly recommend it.

All his other books are on my "to read" list...

Dressing up as traffic signs might become a thing...
Short answer: Yes, it is possible.

Source: It's exactly what I do (0.6 FTE job + part-time MSc).

From personal experience, I would say it's harder to find something part-time up front. Telling your current employer that you want to reduce your hours, for the reasons you describe, is what worked for me. You need to be in a position where they are happy with your work, and you need to clear any doubts about this change having any negative effect on your team.

From my perspective, being part-time greatly discourages me from micro-managing: I just don't have the free time that might lead me down that negative path.

Finally, my employer gets way more than 0.6 FTE of work from me (and I don't do extra hours). IMO they get more "bang for their buck": I concentrate on what's important, and work through things more efficiently.

Re:Grammarly shared its tokens with all websites on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:36AM (#16325076)
It doesn't say anything about token rotation and lifetime. Is there any information directly from Grammarly?

How long are those tokens valid for?

Did they invalidate all existing tokens?

Re:Homebrew 1.4.0 on Monday December 11, 2017 @12:56PM (#15898775)
If you look into the OS version analytics, there are 397 events registered from "macOS (10.14)". That's the next version of macOS :)

https://brew.sh/analytics/os-version/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:39AM (#15410024)
The Full Stack Haskell position has now replaced our JS listing: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/156727/haskell-full-stack-dev...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:44AM (#15399077)
Scrive | REMOTE (EU only) or Stockholm, Sweden | Full-time | https://scrive.com/

Scrive is the Nordic market-leading provider of e-signature solutions. We currently have 900+ customers in 30+ countries. We help our customers to improve sales results in all channels including in-store, online and phone. Scrive’s customers span various verticals such as telecom, banking, insurance, staffing and more. We have a stable backend written in Haskell, with a dash of Java for manipulating PDFs. The front-end is written in Javascript, mostly using React.

More company details here: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/scrive

We're currently hiring a Senior Javascript Developer: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/155730/senior-javascript-deve...

We will soon be advertising a Full-stack Haskell + React position, look out for it on our StackOverflow company page, or contact me.

Any questions: jonathan [ at ] scrive.com.

Re:Time to prepare for the worst in North Korea on Sunday October 01, 2017 @05:50PM (#15380037)
The Economist cited this very article in their latest issue: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21729742-next-i...

Fun to connect the dots and see it posted here on HN :)

Re:Can we know what animals are thinking? on Saturday August 26, 2017 @03:19PM (#15106907)
I would always recommend _Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?_ by _Frans de Waal_, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and enlightening read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30192493-are-we-smart-en...

Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:50PM (#14269941)
Haskell in production (mostly) at: https://scrive.com/

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