EpicEng

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811.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Some are. Some fail to even pull of moderately difficult projects. I didn't mean to say that interviewing is literally a coin flip, but I can dig a trench with a pickaxe. Doesn't mean it's a good way to do it.
812.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Well... tough? Elastic has created a business heavily based on the work of others. They made a concious decision to license the code in the way that they did. Now they're moaning that Amazon is eating their lunch when Amazon is doing e
813.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>Are a lot of jobs really algorithm development though Probably not "a lot", but personally I have _only_ worked in companies where they are our bread and butter (Biotech and finance.)
814.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>it seems to work fine How do we know that? Interviewing is near a total crapshoot from what I can tell based on my 13 years of experience (~8 of which being actively involved in the process, 3 as a decision maker.) I have yet to find a
815.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Literally begins with >knowingly and with intent
816.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Well we should really be going after the inventors of the semiconductor then. Actually, scratch that; Faraday is the one to blame!
817.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>It's a web browser, not an application platform... I'm assuming you have just arrived from 1996. I can't wait until you find out who our President is!
818.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I assume ways to get you to shovel your data to FB via IG.
819.
by EpicEng 8y ago
True, but the GP said that all he does is create some plots and Integra e every so often. Octave can handle that.
820.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it That is literally the reason for the tech inclined, and it's not artificial. The politics behind it don't matter; if I want to play X and I can o
821.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Is the GP wrong? Of not then I don't see why you're bothered.
822.
by EpicEng 8y ago
The fact that modern people are outraged when information like this is hidden from general view is in fact a testament to how far we have come as a society.
823.
by EpicEng 8y ago
...Yes, because the Chinese government is not a race? Obviously?
824.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Did you borrow a large sun of money from said SaaS company? Kind of changes things, no?
825.
by EpicEng 8y ago
"people" This is a huge motel chain. They operate in a state which defines laws as to how you are allowed to handle your customer's information. Ignorance is not an excuse. I don't see how the individual citizen argument
826.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Which exceeded expectations by something like 20k iirc.
827.
by EpicEng 8y ago
You answered your own question. The fact that people will put up with all that overtime pretty much sums it up.
828.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I wouldn't say that's quite the same thing, and people _absolutely do_ over engineer/encapsulate their code today. In my own, admittedly limited experience, it seems to me that the biggest win with microservices are realized
829.
by EpicEng 8y ago
That's pretty hyperbolic. Are you implying that monolithic designs are just inherently inferior? I don't think that even approaches a reasonable take on the subject.
830.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I can't imagine a microservice architecture that does not require more devops work than a comparable and sane monolith. Your second and third sentences haven't convinced me.
831.
by EpicEng 8y ago
>It's just one way to manage our data Sure, but there are tradeoffs to any approach. More services == more devops == more complexity in fault tolerance, communication, data storage/consistency, etc. I'm not saying it'
832.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Because the value isn't as obvious as it is for a more athletic sport.
833.
by EpicEng 8y ago
For the same reason we attempt to rehabilitate other types of drug addicts; they're still people with families and friends who want them alive for as long as possible. There are many societal constructs which are intended to help peopl
834.
by EpicEng 8y ago
That returns false and now you have to track down a bug because you decided to be clever :D
835.
by EpicEng 8y ago
So... you don't think MIT is in the top tier?
836.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I wonder how many of these "influencers" have as much to offer as Nikola Tesla. I imagine not... any.
837.
by EpicEng 8y ago
The comment I responded to was quite clear about placing "all" of the blame on consumers, but sure; we all share some responsibility. The problem is that placing the blame on consumers will get you precisely nowhere. >If there&
838.
by EpicEng 8y ago
That's like saying the blame for pollution caused by burning coal lies squarely on the shoulders of anyone who uses electricity. Decisions are made, 99% of people have no clue what's going, and it's unreasonable to expect th
839.
by EpicEng 8y ago
I can assure you that I do not personally care that people use Uber, but that's neither here nor there. What you describe is not a network effect; it's true of _any_ business you want to see stay in business. If I liked shopping a
840.
by EpicEng 8y ago
Except ride-sharing doesn't have a network effect. I don't care if all my friends use Uber; it makes no difference and we all will use the next company if they're even a dollar less / ride and the service quality is on p

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