Kephael

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by Kephael 8y ago
> We disagree that it is okay for wealthy people to buy badges. I don't think you should be able to simply purchase badges. I think reserve officers should go through the same hiring process as full time officers and attend a police
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by Kephael 8y ago
Reserve police officers often undergo the same training and perform the same functions as full time law enforcement officers in many areas. There isn't any need for HR218 changes and police standards are set on a state by state basis.
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by Kephael 8y ago
I could never get an interview at Slack, but they are not hiring the best. Their compensation is far too low.
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by Kephael 8y ago
When I attended Facebook university day, 100% of the students I spoke with were from top schools. The majority I spoke with were from Ivy League Universities, of the non Ivy League students, one was from MIT, two from UMD, one from UCLA, an
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by Kephael 9y ago
This is very low compensation for experienced work in the Bay Area if it's total compensation. Yes, new graduates do regularly make ~200k/yr total compensation.
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by Kephael 9y ago
NYC unfairly keeps large grocers such as Walmart out of the city. You can order 40 water bottle packs from Costco using Instacart for 3.69 in NYC [1]. NYC Bodegas are not competitive, it is unfortunate the city allows the poor to be taken a
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by Kephael 9y ago
> Only a few rarified corporate people and independent consultants can pull down pay in the 200s New grads at Facebook who received a return offer as an intern get a bit over 200k/yr total comp. to start. > Any way you look at do
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by Kephael 9y ago
Those look like new grad compensation packages, I believe Amazon total comp is ~145k/yr for new grad SDE1s.
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by Kephael 9y ago
College is inexpensive in the US. Even top privates are affordable if you choose an appropriate career such as software engineering at a top company, management consulting, investment banking, medicine, or big law. You don't spend 50k&
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by Kephael 9y ago
When I went to the Bellevue Square mall it was crowded beyond belief, it was like going back in time to before eCommerce.
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by Kephael 9y ago
Both are likely to be equally worthless in getting an IT job, IT jobs require experience in the field and not just knowledge.
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by Kephael 9y ago
Sure you can, just move most of your computing resources to the cloud and let Amazon manage hardware maintenance.
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by Kephael 9y ago
Accessing the WSJ article using incognito mode and a referral from Twitter seems to work.
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by Kephael 9y ago
This isn't a fair comparison, for it to be fair we would need to compare Olin to the Engineering and CS departments at Stanford.
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by Kephael 9y ago
It's about as difficult to get into Waterloo for undergraduate studies as it is to get into a regional US state university. Many Waterloo students don't take AP courses and standardized tests are not required. I am rather disappoi
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by Kephael 9y ago
How long before someone writes an article titled "The Perils of JavaScriptSchools"?
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by Kephael 10y ago
> - Universities are failing because most don't have the professors and curriculum yet to handle the needs of our evolving economy. I've always been interested in the web but they didn't teach any web development or techno
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by Kephael 10y ago
I think Waterloo would be an unknown school if it were not for their coop program.
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by Kephael 10y ago
I used to colocate with one of their sister companies and I've chatted with the CEO a few times on IRC. They were generally very reliable, although they didn't return my rail screws or cables oddly enough.
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by Kephael 10y ago
TSA agents are on par with retail store employees in terms of hiring standards. The Customs and Border Patrol agents are armed law enforcement officers and are held to far greater hiring standards.
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by Kephael 10y ago
Yes, I would agree with your statement that what matters is who you're trying to impress. If you want to impress a graduate admissions committee, they are going to prefer certain schools for various reasons. When I think of an "el
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by Kephael 10y ago
So called 'target' schools for CS are largely not elite. People will be impressed by a degree from Harvard or MIT but I doubt you'd ever get a reaction for UIUC or the University of Texas.
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by Kephael 10y ago
Exactly, less than 125k in assets is absolutely nothing. The reality is that a married couple consisting of two working professionals will not qualify for any of these reduced tuition schemes.
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by Kephael 10y ago
The marketing departments at these schools have done wonders. People whose families have modest incomes of 100-150k annually are going to pay a very large sum of money to attend these schools. It is only the very poor and very wealthy who d
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by Kephael 10y ago
Certainly the latter, getting published in top journals or conferences is several orders of magnitude more difficult.
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by Kephael 10y ago
Most schools are not very good and have very low admissions criteria. These programs operate as cash cows for the university and students come with the intent to find a US employer to hire them. It's why graduate programs in Computer S
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by Kephael 10y ago
MIT practices the same undergraduate admissions shenanigans as Ivy League universities. At a certain point, the course material is largely identical. I really doubt 6.006 is going to significantly differ from CS 31 in terms of student outco
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by Kephael 10y ago
The median starting salary for CS majors at schools like Cornell and CMU is over $100,000. If you are good and target companies in certain areas it is not difficult to break $100,000 coming out school. Most coursework master's programs
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by Kephael 10y ago
I'm able to saturate the 100 mbit port with incoming traffic, I'm sure I'd be able to do a full 100 mbit out as well but I haven't tested that with the VPSes. I really like the OVH professional products because you can e
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by Kephael 10y ago
I host my personal email and web programming projects on it and have been doing so for four months. I've ordered two different Cloud RAM servers and haven't had any issues with either of them. In the Summer of 2015 I used their ol

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