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by RogerL 11y ago
"I guess I kinda hope that the people posting these ads realize they're expecting too much and do want you to learn some amount on the job. " It is sad that someone with no experience can see through these ads, and the writer
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Well, both happen. There are great $200 books, and 'core dump' $200 books. I've bought both. There are publishers out there that will take any material, rubber stamp it, and publish it for very large amounts of money. Just li
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by RogerL 11y ago
"Would you consider spending a lot of time and effort on a book (.pdf) in your research area - for no material reward" Well, would you consider putting your blood, sweat, tears into a project for a couple of years, for maybe $4,00
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by RogerL 11y ago
Yes, you can self-publish and get an ISBN number.
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Yes. I thought that really artificially skewed the scores, though. When we went to the finals one team member (who normally achieved one run, one pass), keep flubbing his entry. His protracted time in the seat meant the rest of us were arti
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by RogerL 11y ago
I'm me. I'm more talented at some things than other, even the same domain: I'm far, far better at piano than classical guitar despite having worked far more on the latter. So, is the theory that I work hard than me? Or, maybe
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by RogerL 11y ago
You are treated like crap in multiple ways at Amazon is the connection.
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At the risk of stating the obvious: the real HFT firms have run perfectly straight fiber between the exchanges (and/or use microwaves), and pay large amounts of money to have their cage closest to the order machines. They've rewri
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by RogerL 11y ago
You don't get bonuses and promoted for spending a lot of money. You do for having a lean, mean team. A $10 Million outage event? "That's Sally's fault, she is letting her cancer distract her, I'll fire her in the mo
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by RogerL 11y ago
Well, good for you. People have mortgages, they have children, and so on. Life is not as neat and clean as HN likes to make it. People are not robots, and do not always make perfectly rational decisions. Sometimes the 'easier' dec
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by RogerL 11y ago
The whole "this feedback is nonsense, I won't listen to it; oh, and please give me feedback, I take it seriously" thing was pretty absurd. Plus, he essentially blamed the people for being in this situation. I'd be splitt
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by RogerL 11y ago
It's okay to be a sociopath to people so long as others have it worse? No, sorry. Nothing requires Amazon to behave this way, and it is foolish besides - if you burn through people you are are basically training people up who then walk
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by RogerL 11y ago
This is a big reason why people hang around. The stress of interviewing, not to mention the absurdities of how you are "measured", and you may just be leaping from the frying pan into the fire. It's easy, if not wise, to just
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by RogerL 11y ago
The FCC begs to differ: https://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibit...
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by RogerL 11y ago
Blocking wifi is illegal absent security issues: https://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibit... It doesn't matter if you own the land. Land ownership does not confer rights to the airwaves, the ai
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by RogerL 11y ago
I'm going to reply to myself to share some history. I came up when things like 'structured analysis' and 'Yourdon diagrams' were a thing. I was repeatedly told that if I wasn't doing this I was "hacking&qu
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by RogerL 11y ago
I urge the people working on this to recognize that we all don't think the same. (I know, you don't claim that we do, but I don't see these counter points expressed often). I can't explain how I think, but it isn't
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by RogerL 11y ago
Dig in and figure it out, rather than wait for people to tattle to HR who definitely are not advocating for you. Something "while I don't recognize this as a description of the company I have built, if it is even partly true it is
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by RogerL 11y ago
They removed the default types. Meaning no int or unsigned int. They do have int8, int16, int32, uint8, uint16, and so on. You are forced to be explicit. http://c2lang.org/site/language/basic_types/
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by RogerL 11y ago
$150K is chump change in the financial industry (prominent in Chicago). But that is a weird/competitive market. I'm not going to give my personal numbers, but that number is in line with senior compensation when I moved from VA in
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by RogerL 11y ago
All you have to do is look at the budget, schedule, and people count of any game ever. This is not secret information (big picture numbers, anyway). Okay, so maybe EA is non-optimal due to corporate hoo haa, and a lean team can do more. Tha
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Under the same conditions of linearity and Gaussian noise you can get essentially optimal performance. Of course, why would you when the KF is so much more efficient.
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by RogerL 11y ago
I'll be shameless and point you to my book on Kalman filtering which I wrote in IPython Notebook, which allows you to experiment within your browser. https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
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by RogerL 11y ago
We are not consumers. Intel would be foolish to optimize their consumer chips for us. If you want a workstation class machine you buy a Xeon. Adding memory channels is not free, and with 4 channels you get 64GB given current DDR4 capacity.
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by RogerL 11y ago
They are not even using the 4MB as it is. It takes time to download an image, and apparently they are more interested in what they call 'downlink cadence' - number of images per hour. I don't know enough about the science to
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by RogerL 11y ago
What shadow? When is the last time you walked out the door in the daytime and it was dark because the the moon was casting a shadow? That only happens during eclipses.
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This is math/CS. You don't need a particle accelerator to generate results, just a pencil, paper, and a computer. Do research, get published. That's the currency that matters in academia, and that is what will make a professo
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by RogerL 11y ago
Fine, run your startup in the middle of the street. There's no value in the office, correct?
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by RogerL 11y ago
I don't buy the opening argument; essentially "rich people are smart". We've endlessly witnessed stupid corporate acts. To name a few that have nothing to do with open offices: Conglomerate building (if your name ain&#x2
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by RogerL 11y ago
> rather than going away for 6 months into some basement, That's a false dichotomy. > Fact: Distractions are cultural not physical. Citation needed. Every study suggests you are wrong.

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