angelbob

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by angelbob 10y ago
I think Ruby may still have a few under-recognized advantages for small teams :-)
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by angelbob 10y ago
"Market average" is generally based on salary surveys, which kind of have to trim the extremes. So it's the median (ish), which is often lower than the mean.
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by angelbob 10y ago
More than one. There was a British AI company they bought on condition of hiring an AI ethicist. So there's at least one other than the former Google ethicist who wrote this article.
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by angelbob 10y ago
Lifestyle business idea: wear somebody's printed-out paper face at a place it can be recorded (public photos to Flickr feed, etc) as a service. A customer who uses services of this kind can "prove" they're anywhere in th
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by angelbob 10y ago
In an ops-type capacity, I support developers. I keep up with news like this specifically to avoid winding up with modules somebody else trusts, but didn't inspect.
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by angelbob 10y ago
I'm hoping there's an easy way to turn this off for the foreseeable future, to avoid all the obvious security holes this is likely to introduce.
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by angelbob 10y ago
There have been a number of dodgy ethical things in YC companies. I don't know of Sama & co returning their stake in any companies as a result.
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by angelbob 10y ago
An interesting question. They're licensing highly dodgy insurance agents who can still misinform, break the law and cost people money. That's not as bad as selling full-on fake insurance, though.
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by angelbob 10y ago
It is outrageous if a similarly-qualified woman would have a lot more trouble getting the $500k investment banker job. In that case, society is getting lower-quality investment bankers despite spending $500k/year on them.
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by angelbob 10y ago
From the article: "Cornell professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that..." Here you go, I Googled that for you: http://inequality.stanford.edu/_media/pdf/key_issues/gender_... Now, the stu
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by angelbob 11y ago
I don't trust the line. But I spent months trying to get this much to get to this company.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Companies know we want it, and have gotten better at talking the talk (e.g. technical career tracks.) But look into how that actually works. For most people it's much harder, if it happens at all. I speak as a guy at the end of the tec
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by angelbob 11y ago
Are you certain everybody on your side of the negotiation is fully truthful? Do you include management, HR and recruiters in "everybody"? If so, you're not talking to your recruiters. You should find out more about what your
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by angelbob 11y ago
There are a couple of us here in the weird position of being senior enough that companies don't recruit for us through normal recruiters. On the one hand, that screws up the usual "don't give a number" advice, including
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by angelbob 11y ago
Senior DevOps roles pay bank . Easily on a par with the same seniority of software engineer. This makes sense. You have to be as good as the same quality of software engineer, do work that is less glamorous, and carry a pager.
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's possible to work for a startup and have a base salary starting with a two. And even to be hired into the role at that level. I speak from experience. But yeah, that's the very high end.
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by angelbob 11y ago
You're in a hard spot. I know, because I'm in basically the same one. Jobs in the $2X0 range are basically outside the range where a company will trust the normal recruiter/interview process to bring in a good candidate. You
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by angelbob 11y ago
I hadn't seen this put this way. What book would you recommend to get this kind of insight?
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by angelbob 11y ago
It's commonly known in business. I've heard of it repeatedly, usually in terms of "here's what our retention policy has to look like for European customers."
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by angelbob 11y ago
So what we lose in money, we gain in health insurance being ungodly expensive?
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by angelbob 11y ago
A lot of the current prototypes use head position and have a little (usually circular) status-bar-type thing that fills in. You quickly learn that if you look at a thing and you don't want it to activate, turn your head a bit before th
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by angelbob 11y ago
The company was called "Melon".
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by angelbob 11y ago
I've hired, at several places, more than a few people who were fooling me with their sales skills. More often I work at a place where we do multiple interviews -- some "technical" in the sense that it's talking about tec
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by angelbob 11y ago
> Can a candidate lacking the technical skills go deep into details the way the parent commenter describes? More often than you'd think, alas. I'm going by about fifteen years of personal hiring experience, for whatever that&#x
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by angelbob 11y ago
Correlated? Sure. Directly proportional? No. There are language like PHP that get complaints disproportionate to their usage level, for instance.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Did they finally get templates shoehorned into it? That's been the giant, glaring flaw in all the previous ABI attempts I've seen. Well, that and getting multiple compilers to use the same name-mangling standards.
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by angelbob 11y ago
I learned C++ around 1990. It was a hack then, too. It began life as a weird preprocessor for C, and some of the seams from that beginning have shown the entire time.
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by angelbob 11y ago
Sure. He said what he did was basic and "table stakes." He was clearly not trying hard to reveal the company in question, just to show that the journalists had done almost nothing .
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by angelbob 11y ago
Good. I hope that's all "intelligent blending" means. Too often, that's a euphemism for "making ads look like more non-ads" to fool the user, with "progress" measured in metrics like how often they ge
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by angelbob 11y ago
Hm. You brag on your own LinkedIn profile about several interesting things: "Increased the number of invites generated from "people you may know" recommendations by 50%", "Intelligent blending of ads into the feed

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