a1pulley

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   by a1pulley 6y ago

   I did — she said, paraphrased, "I wouldn't blame you if you took another offer. I have no idea how long it will take in light of today's memo"
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   by a1pulley 6y ago

   I’ve been stuck in the final SVP approval part of their hiring process for a week. At this point I think I’m just going to keep my current job. Too bad — seemed like a good time to get equity at a good “strike” price
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   by a1pulley 7y ago

   Would it affect your decision to apply to the company?
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   by a1pulley 7y ago

   Anyone have thoughts on companies that don't include authors' names in blog posts? My (big N) employer anonymizes our technical blog posts.
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   Web App for SpaceX Ridesharing(rideshare.spacex.com)

   5 points by a1pulley 7y ago|1 comments
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   Caltech astrophysics and harassment: Lessons learned(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

   3 points by a1pulley 7y ago|0 comments
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   by a1pulley 7y ago

   Worked for me. Turned on my T-Mobile hotspot in Santa Monica, CA, connected to it, and ran `npm -g outdated` as suggested. It ran successfully.
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   by a1pulley 7y ago

   Yes. Sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. See https://levels.fyi
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   by a1pulley 7y ago

   Here's Terence Tao's blog post about the identity: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/eigenvectors-from-...
10. 70.▲
    by a1pulley 7y ago

    Username checks out
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    "And to return to Alex Honnold, perhaps the most important lesson a free-market loving economist should draw is that sometimes people will do extraordinary things without the motivation of money." My dad likes to visit the same co
12. 72.▲
    by a1pulley 7y ago

    Pleased to read that hot reloading is a central feature!
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    I mentioned my newborn in all of my job interviews because I didn't want any surprises on either side of the table. I interviewed at six places and got five offers - two at FANGs, three at unicorns. I don't think there's a cu
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    Not a great one, but perhaps one useful to aspiring mathematicians! My friend, who is now an assistant prof at a major research university, said he could only do ~4 hrs of hard mathematical thinking per day. His colleagues and undergrad adv
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    A friend from my Caltech undergrad did his PhD with Terence Tao. In harmonic analysis :-)
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    OK, I have an update. Google came within an iota of matching my "local competitor" offer. The original numbers went up just under 50% in a single round of negotiation. So I guess I've added one more supporting data point to t
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    This was my third time doing big-N style interviews in the last few years, so I didn't have to study as much as the first time. YMMV, but my process is to solve the classic expository problems in CLRS - like lecture hall scheduling, ma
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    Thanks Zaheer! While I have your ear: my recruiter at "other company" pushed back on increasing RSU comp by saying packages were larger in the past but have decreased in size recently. If levels.fyi displayed offer date it might h
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    I've actually had the opposite experience with Google. I'm currently negotiating a job offer at Google; my initial offer was significantly lower than my four other ones. It's TBD whether they'll end up matching, but my r
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    by a1pulley 7y ago

    My favorite part: Instead of typing a sequence of commands on the computer keyboard; the user merely points to tiny "icons" or commands on the screen by sliding the "mouse" (a plastic control box the size of a cigarette