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Ask HN: Good skills to pick up for the coming recession?

Posted by unbroken on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:26AM
from the ask-hn dept.

So it happened. My company is cutting my hours. This has never happened to me before over a 10 year career (which has mostly been at other places). Between the layoffs at Twitter, Google and Meta, and the rumors I've been hearing for months that a recession is coming, it seems like the recession is starting to happen. What would be some good skills to pick up to make it through? I've heard...

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Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting?

Posted by unbroken on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:10PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I don't know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages/apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.Who came up with this? It makes...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022) on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:38PM (#31239817)
Primarily interested in working for a product company, as opposed to consultancy work.

Location: San Juan, PR

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Angular, React, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, Dapper, SQL Server

Résumé/CV: https://mooseburger.github.io/files/carlos_ramirez.pdf

Email: [email protected]

Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:08PM (#28280532)
The trick is to keep that going in the longterm. I did manage to lose that amount of weight in the same amount of time as well, but ended up gaining it back in under 5 years, which I hear is the fate of most people who lose weight.
Re:Machine learning’s crumbling foundations on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:57PM (#28267803)
There's a nice substack I found that is precisely about this problem and wider variations of it, that is, the problem of figuring out numbers that actually tell you something about the universe:

https://desystemize.substack.com

Re:OpenAI's Codex sure knows a lot about HN [video] on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:06AM (#28197557)
I love The Darkness that Comes Before, where this observation is explored and exploited, in case you have not read it.
Re:The Bullshit on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:50PM (#28194768)
You think there are "vast secret legions of domestic terrorists flashing one another the OK sign in shadowy parking lots behind Bass Pro Shops experiencing “temporary” inflation"?

> alt-right Yeah. I think the woke are done. No one actually likes or agrees with them, it's all just preference falsification.