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by Maro 8y ago
I've watched the David S. course, not this so I don't know, but: the last RL lecture in this course is by David S.
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by Maro 8y ago
Here in Budapest (Hungary) we have like 2-3 coding school startups. Their input is somebody who doesn't know what `ls` is, and their output, I think 6-12 months later, is somebody who can set up an AWS/Python/JS/React&#x
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by Maro 8y ago
When you join, they tell you "FB is the world's biggest startup". It actually felt like that.
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by Maro 8y ago
"I think it’s clear now that ..." --- I worked there for a while. FB has a lot of empathy, and it's the most (internally) honest company, and the most efficient at fixing them [of all companies I've ever worked at]. You&
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by Maro 8y ago
Facebook transitioned from a weekly release cycle [1] to continuous delivery while I was there. It was a big project. There's a nice writeup here: https://code.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/ [1]
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by Maro 8y ago
But you're comparing her to a criminal, hence your logical fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
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by Maro 8y ago
Comparing Sharyl Sandberg to Elizabeth Holmes, who straight out lied, stole people's money to the tune of $1B, endangered patient's life and is currently on trial is a cheap logical fallacy.
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by Maro 8y ago
I worked at the FB London for a brief bit; Zuck didn't visit the office, but Sharyl visited once. It was a big deal and quite the spectacle. She seemed to have an entourage of several people, and even inside the office there were bodyg
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by Maro 8y ago
It's a good exercise to imagine how the job would be sold. Things like this would definitely not come up in the interview process, instead they would sell you on "you get to work on a cutting-edge db kernel that is running most of
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by Maro 8y ago
Recently I did an experiment with myself where I didn't use FB for 30 days. After about 5 days I didn't miss it, but I was not happier. After the experiment, my usage rebounded, but significantly below prior levels (I post a lot l
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by Maro 8y ago
Hungary
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by Maro 8y ago
Antisemitism has widespread roots in Europe going back 100s of years, unfortunately. It didn't need the Internet to spread :(
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by Maro 8y ago
"SR similarly wasn't required to explain anything important" I don't agree. The Maxwell equations (1865-1875) already implicitly encode the Lorentz transformation as the symmetry group, that's one of those "soo
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by Maro 8y ago
Not sure what you mean here. I mean this book: https://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Special-General-Albert-Ein... It's excellent.
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by Maro 8y ago
Are you a physicist? Not trying to be snarky. I think GR is at Newton's level. They say most of Physics is very iterative, and if X didn't discover Z, the probably another person Y would have 5-10 yrs later. But this is not true f
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by Maro 8y ago
Never comes up. Couple reasons: 1. My tenure lengths used to be longer (3.X years), and then became shorter recently, so this signal is not that strong. It looks like: uni - 3.X - 1.X - 3.X (my startup) - 3.X - 1.X (FAANG) - 1.X (current).
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by Maro 8y ago
I've had 3 jobs in the past 6 years (5 in 10). So I spend about 2 years/gig on average. Reasons: 1. Learning. I find that I learn 80-90% of what I will learn at a company in the first 12-18 months. Staying at a job for too long is
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by Maro 8y ago
In some countries, eg. here in the UAE, drivers have to employees. Most drivers are from India/Pakistan, so they need a VISA, and somebody has to sponsor it. Also, a lot of countries have laws saying [taxi] drivers _have_ to be employe
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by Maro 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) It took me days/weeks of processing to understand it (and appreciciate the problem(s) it solves).
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by Maro 8y ago
I just tell the next company that I will join on date X. I don't care about their ASAPs.
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by Maro 8y ago
Same here. The 1-2 months I usually take off between jobs is always super productive. I do a lot of reading, write blog posts, hack out stuff.
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by Maro 8y ago
Great question! Reading a company's Glassdoor reviews takes practice, similar to how judging wheather you will like a movie based on the Imdb reviews, or whether ou should buy a product on Amazon based on the reviews. You get better at
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by Maro 8y ago
Except if the money gets used for reimbursements/damages that the new startup bank has to pay if it's mismanaged --- that is one of the reasons the money needs to be there, I assume.
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by Maro 8y ago
We are lucky. We live at a lucky time, when the thing we like to do is very lucrative. 30 years ago it was not like this for programmers, and maybe 30 years from now it will also not be like this.
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by Maro 8y ago
In the last 5 years I've lived in Budapest, London, Dubai. Each city is a trade-off. BUDAPEST: - low salary (not competitive) compared to other cities - hard to achieve good savings rate b/c overall salary is not very high - reaso
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by Maro 8y ago
The standard advice, which my personal experience backs up, is to value startup stock at 0 when negotiating. Survival plus Liquidity at a good enough valuation without preferreds wiping you out are very uncertain. I would look at team, is t
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by Maro 8y ago
Reading is input. To be successful, you have to produce output. If you spend too much time on input, there's not enough time for output.
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by Maro 8y ago
We base our whole DS infrastructure on Airflow (and Superset): http://bytepawn.com/fetchr-airflow.html http://bytepawn.com/fetchr-data-science-infra.html Airflow is somewhere between good enough and pretty
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by Maro 8y ago
Like FB's Oculus? :)
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by Maro 8y ago
I'm not a big export on notifications, but afaik on current Android there's OS level ways to turn off notifications. Eg. in the swipe-down thing if I tap-and-hold a FB notification, it offers to turn off all notifications of this

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