ElysianEagle

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by ElysianEagle 3y ago
> visiting their friends, families and having constant stream of guests over. Except that these sorts of visitations / gatherings become far less frequent in suburban settings unless you have the good fortune to have many of your fr
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by ElysianEagle 6y ago
I’m guessing you’re being downvoted by those who think your comment is encouraging unethical behavior. While I certainly don’t think it’s ethical to do so, I did wonder the same thing - would companies start putting measures in place to ver
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by ElysianEagle 6y ago
Exactly this! I'm not sure why people assume WFH must mean you're literally confined to your home/apartment for the entire duration of the work day. Unless you have to frequently get on calls requiring a quiet space, you shou
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by ElysianEagle 8y ago
I realize that the study was specifically talking about brainteasers, but I wonder if irrelevant algorithm questions have a similar motivation? I was once asked at an interview at a FAANG company to come up with an algo for finding the lon
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by ElysianEagle 8y ago
> one issue with the SF/Seattle-type areas is that you can't afford to be out of a job for very long Absolutely true. Some years ago a contract gig I was working at in NYC was abruptly cancelled, and the following month or two
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by ElysianEagle 8y ago
It's this scene (around the 3:55 mark in this clip): https://youtu.be/_IrCgt-Bt1I?t=3m55s
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by ElysianEagle 8y ago
It's my understanding that all the countries in Europe where salaries for software engineers are high, have rather strict immigration policies.
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by ElysianEagle 9y ago
I read a really interesting book that talked about precisely this (among other things), ie, how in the past people were content to be known in their little circle for whatever expertise they possessed, but now, with the internet and globali
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by ElysianEagle 9y ago
I worked contract for a while in NYC. The pay was great but the contract was abruptly terminated with just a few days notice about a year or so in. I landed on my feet but don't think I'd go contract again because as a single indi
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by ElysianEagle 9y ago
I remember reading this excellent little book with very easy to understand explanations of some of the basics re. permutations and combinations, back in school: "Mathematics of Choice: How to Count Without Counting" by Ivan Morton
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
That survey shows that ~27% got in through some sort of connection, but the remaining ~73% didn't. So roughly 3/4 of those surveyed didn't use connections to land gigs. Am I missing something here?
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
I didn't interpret his post the same way as you did. I think he was suggesting that we, as programmers, tend to act in ways that are not necessarily conducive to maintaining our own job security. We often advocate (strongly even) for i
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
Agreed 100%. People seem to be focused entirely on the salary aspect, but my observations match yours quite well. I've worked for almost 10 years in the industry and with numerous H1-Bs, and I can't recall anyone being underpaid i
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
For now you can find it on the front page of the blog: http://lemire.me/blog/
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
This has been my observation as well, having attending such events off and on over the years as I moved between cities. The more extroverted people connected with each other and were never to be seen again after one or two events, leaving t
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
May I ask what you do that enables you to travel all over the world? I've been thinking of ways that would let me travel more without quitting my job or switching out of tech entirely so any tips would be appreciated!
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while myself. The current place I work at is extremely remote-work friendly, and we have people in many cities all over the US and the world working from their homes. One possibility is to take up a
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
> A few years after Uni, I started teaching myself Calc, Trig, Vector maths, Diff Eq and Physics strictly from what I have found on various sites, software and books. Most unis I know of (I'm in the US) require those courses to be t
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
There absolutely are places even in Manhattan where you can get at least beer for pretty cheap, like $3 - $4, depending on the night. Sure, there's more than enough expensive cocktail places around, but there's enough options for
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by ElysianEagle 10y ago
But it could just as easily be argued that a highly political environment which necessitates such behaviors leads to poor morale, quality employees leaving etc. etc. which couldn't be good for the company long term...
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
> None of the successful asian tigers really follow a laissez-faire system. Pundits will argue they could have been more successful if they did, but I am not convinced. Great post. I'm reminded of the book "Bad Samaritans"
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
High 200s as an individual contributor? That's north of what directors at iBanks make in many cases here in NYC (and salaries here are already higher than most other places for tech workers). My guess is that you're working contra
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
I wish I could add more, but you've nailed it. Upvoted!
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is a perfectly valid concern.
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
One piece of advice I can give is to try and line up interviews at the larger, more slow-moving places before you do the interviews at smaller firms which move a lot faster. Bigger places have more of a process in place for hiring so it can
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
> This process has made me consider changing careers because it's so exhausting. Me too. I'm so put off by the entire process but it seems that to stay relevant, you have to get lucky and end up at a place that keeps your skill
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
>To make matters worse, everything from the smallest start-up to the largest tech company is adopting the same 'exclusive hiring practices' while they sit back wait for the resumes to roll in and/or send in work samples. S
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
I think the same thing that happened to quants on Wall Street will happen to those pursuing Data Science/ML today (if it hasn't already happened). Post-2008 there was such a glut of qualified quants that companies moved the goalpo
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
Depends on the resources available to the company trying to popularize the product/idea. If it's a tiny start-up with limited resources, then absolutely, it's a huge accomplishment. If it's a massive company with tons of
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by ElysianEagle 11y ago
Yeah. Tinder was willing to acknowledge and work with the fact that in seeking out new partners, the first thing that people notice and care about is physical appearance/attractiveness. If you can't get past that, there's lit

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