Hermitian909

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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Having taken part in many build-vs-buy decisions, there are no easy answers. The overriding factors in most decision relate to the specifics of the business. Some very common reason for buy decisions: - You don't actually know if this
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> So it doesn't get changed or improved, and it can never be replaced. It is the incumbent that blocks progress. A technological quagmire we can't extricate ourselves from. This describes almost every tool in my toolchain that
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
These issues are mostly separate. As a society, we need doctor's to make more money than delivery drivers because we expect them to be smart, competent, diligent, and extensively trained (sometimes for >10 years). You will not get
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It's already happening. Pinterest had top of market pay but realized they could cut total comp substantially by agreeing to remote.
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> “Want” gets redefined somewhere between the first and second to last paragraph I think I get what the author is going for. English lacks words to describe the degree to which you want something paired with how seriously you're wil
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think I've been unclear on the problem. Trust inside a single team is not something I've found to be a major problem, but between teams. Let's be more concrete: I need to build trust between between 6 EMs spread over three
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Even well done, this kind of communication doesn't substitute for more free-form 1:1s that in-person allows. The latter are key to building trust. I'm finding this to be one of the key drawbacks of remote work - some decisions req
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> it suggests there is something about that person that does not align with that. I think this is insufficiently nuanced (assuming you wouldn't reject someone for going on a lot of dates and being picky). Many people have come to th
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I think we have similar priorities, I just find github to be an extremely poor predictor of on-the-job communication.
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I find the signal from this is still too low for it to be worth looking into. Quality of documentation has a lot to do with: 1. Correctness 2. Matching the content to the intended audience I find that in general I have no time to check corr
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
As someone on the hiring side, Github projects only matter when they show impact via serious industry adoption (this is not sufficient, leftPad won't get you hired). The problem is that a Github repo is too much time an effort to evalu
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> Other states pay for addicts/homeless to be shipped off to California This has happened but it's not substantial, most homeless in CA were living here and homed before becoming homeless[0] > San Francisco has a drug proble
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Uber as a company started making a lot less sense when it became clear they wouldn't crack self driving cars (remember when they did self driving?). The current moat is far less defensible.
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I've worked on the CS side of new material discovery. The tricky thing is that you don't actually have that much data so ML is not even close to plug and play. If you want to get results you end up needing to pair ML with a lot
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
My proposal: More or less what we had pre 9/11. We solved the the vulnerability that 9/11 exposed in under a year - the inability to lock down the cabin to protect it from hostiles. Every commercial plane has newer doors installed
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It shouldn't because the TSA does not serve a real purpose other than to be a jobs program. There has been a great deal of evidence over the years that the safety measures of the TSA are easily bypassed (google "TSA security theat
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
This is such a weird disconnect between middle class white collar workers and the rest of the country. I know a bunch of people working 60-80 hours a week, usually doing multiple jobs, just to make ends meet. It feels strange to be offered
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It can be, but doesn't have to be. "High performance" is just too vague to try and draw inferences about individual companies. I work somewhere with what I would consider a high performance culture. We all show up to work and
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> Usually, the problem is that companies find out that I'm not good as a cog in a machine IMO this is the real problem - and it comes through in your blog posts. It's very risky to hire someone who can't be a cog, you need
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
It's funny, the Ivies are actually quite up front that they're goal is to pick "future leaders" of the country, not the most academically gifted students (though this is an important sub-group). The fact that there'
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
AI doesn't have to do everything, or be the best at everything, it just has to do some things well enough, or augment humans enough that fewer people can do the job. There's a lot of labor destroying potential in animation. For ex
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
I'd hoped the pre-requisite that titles matched duties was implicitly understood in the message, sorry! But you can absolutely come into an engineering role at a company with 40 engineers (40 person org charts to director at BigTech),
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> Referring to the "small startup experience" not mattering - I would say it is almost like an alternate track as an engineer. It can be but doesn't have to be. A lot of people prefer to hire folks with some small startu
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
IME in cases where a PIP is truly triggered by performance, 9 times out of 10 the manager has already tried very hard to address the issues and not seen results. It's unusual there's anything to be done. I will see that as someone
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> There is a little nuance with respect to setting up a project idiomatically, but once that groundwork is laid anyone can come along as they're simply going to copy the structure and style of what is already there anyway. You migh
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> because it happened once (to Pinball) Honestly I don't think pinball is a similar example, light reading indicates the market for pinball was in the 10s of millions. Inflation adjusted it sounds like the pinball industry was 1% of
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
> politicians are just as likely to use a sledgehammer to the entire industry than a scalpel to the worst offenders just like the Pinball Prohibition. This is unlikely simply due to the size of the market. Video games are played by >6
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
Nah, different supply and demand for the two groups. After the layoffs a glut of senior management, with more directors than you can shake a stick at. Many have had to take jobs as line managers. Director is a pretty similar level to a Seni
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
My question was about promotions - other engineering professions definitely have promotions, and those promotions come with >3% pay rises. Also, even without boom times top engineers will still make a lot of money because top positions
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by Hermitian909 3y ago
This is a good analysis, but you're missing another angle: quite a few kids are not developmentally ready[0] for algebra in 8th grade but most are ready in 9th grade. By forcing kids who are not developmentally ready into algebra you

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