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Re:On Being the Right Size (1926) [pdf]
on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:59AM (#37556217)
In 1926 if you were privileged enough to get published you could write in an authoritative voice knowing that no-one would challenge you, or if they did it would take many months for any such challenge to appear. Perhaps a letter to a newspaper or something. These days anyone can publish anything at any time and if you write in that authoritative sort of style its just begging for someone to come in and contradict you (you see it in HN comments all the time).
Hence people write differently now
OR
And so I thusly declare that is a most elegant explanation, without possible rebuttal, for why this most elegant authoritative style is so rarely seen in these times.
Re:No Sacred Masterpieces, that time I built Excel for Uber and they d...
on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:10PM (#37529175)
Fair enough. But I'll leave my comment there as general advice for other readers
enjoyed the article, the bit about Excel circular ref linear regression was wild
Re:No Sacred Masterpieces, that time I built Excel for Uber and they d...
on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:01PM (#37529081)
... Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day ...
You can't really do this. Depends on your employment contract but code you write for an employer is usually copyright to them
... My first reaction was to publish the code on Github ...
You can't really do that either.