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by apohn 7y ago
Something that really frustrates me about my current HDHP/HRA plan is that it feels like it only makes sense if somebody in the family has a minor issue(e.g. the flu) that is covered by the few hundred dollars the employer puts in the
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by apohn 7y ago
I think the value of this really depends on the employer. At a previous role they started switching to an HDHP with an HSA and did a great job (initially) making that fairly attractive versus the low deductible plan with higher premiums. A
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by apohn 7y ago
Right now I work from home most days so yes :) In the past I've napped in my car. At one job they had a "multicultural room" that was basically an interior room with a comfortable chair. At another job (a startup that was c
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by apohn 7y ago
I've found there's another afternoon benefit. If I'm standing in the afternoons and struggling to stay awake, that's a really good push to take a short nap. When I'm sitting in the afternoons it's easier to pu
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by apohn 7y ago
>Because management didn't know which direction should be taken... and they kept hiring too! They kept hiring new developers when the ones already at place had absolutely nothing to do! I think big companies trying to do things like
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by apohn 7y ago
I suspect what happened was that Watson started out as a single product or focused suite of products. I'm just guessing, but then as the marketing induced hype started and growth/results were not on target , they realized there w
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by apohn 8y ago
I think Kaggle participants miss out on some of the best parts of being a Data Scientist. Fiddling with data, writing scripts to clean/transform/ingest data, interacting with data owners and subject matter experts, etc. IME that
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by apohn 8y ago
IME a number of Data Scientists reinforce this thinking. When people think you are are a genius, it's painful to admit that 80% of project goals can be achieved with a simple heuristic. It's incredible how many "Data Science
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by apohn 8y ago
At large companies there are lots of people who see themselves as decision makers, not Analysts. Analyzing data is beneath them. The end result is they expect the "Analytics People" to provide a set of different recommendation
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by apohn 8y ago
Living in Downtown Jersey City (2 years ago) was the noisiest and most rage inducing experience of my life. I also made the stupid decision of living close to Marin and Columbus, and experienced sirens at all hours. Those included cops wh
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by apohn 8y ago
>But you realize that the vast majority of businesses in North America need someone to solve all of those problems. They aren't going to hire and cna't afford an experienced data team of specialists. The vast majority of busine
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I don't think a person has to be super specific or say "I am interested in X and Y." What they do need is consistency in a resume so the reviewer/interviewer can evaluate what their primary and secondary focus areas ar
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by apohn 8y ago
Have you tried paid services/consulting arms of software or cloud companies? Teams that bill customers at an hourly rate? They generally look for generalists who can help customers tackle problems at different levels of the stack. T
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by apohn 8y ago
Exactly this. For the sake of argument, let's assume you try 10 different strategies over the next 6 months and all of them fail to reduce the overload. Will you still feel responsibility for not being able to keep up? A lot of people
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by apohn 8y ago
>However, the part of you creating a personal project in Python to could have potentially automate the solution to you company's project would have been neat. To be honest, sometimes organizations cannot get out of their own way. T
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>I'll probably surf until I have a nice cushion then switch full time to my/another startup. At least I can spend a lot of time doing certifications and online classes and keep up to date. When I was really struggling with my
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by apohn 8y ago
I've had a job like this. IMO it's okay to stay in this type of job as long as you are able to use the spare time and energy for your personal life, side projects, personal or career growth, etc. If you are forced to sit in an o
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by apohn 8y ago
I can give you some rough numbers for a company I used to work with a few years ago in the USA. Billed Customers at $225 an hour. Consultants were typically paid Between $45 - $65 when you include bonuses for billable hours beyond X%. 3
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by apohn 8y ago
>How do you get in touch with people, or how do you allow other people to get in touch with you? Ask yourself, which people (or types of people) do you actually care about being getting in touch with you. Remember that 90%+ of people in
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by apohn 8y ago
>it's just location probabbly had less to do with it as just a general desire to cut costs at any cost... Exactly this. In a previous role at an Enterprise software company I watched customer satisfaction take a dive after cost cut
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by apohn 8y ago
I've got a Glassdoor story from a previous employer. The company went through a MAJOR restructuring and a series of smaller reorgs over the course of ~18 months. The work environment wasn't great, morale was really bad, and the
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by apohn 8y ago
Quote from the article "The first day in the hospital, I left a message to my colleagues in Slack and didn’t worry about work for another two months. When I did check in with my co-workers, there were no frantic demands for my time - i
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by apohn 8y ago
All of this is in my experience. I'm not a psychologist. I think it's easier to point to the cause of burnout. Too much pressures/stress at work/home for a prolonged period of time, a bad work environment, the loss of
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by apohn 8y ago
>Last year I started my own company and then got acqui-hired into a startup. I realised that talking to customers and solutioning is more fun than wiriting code. How many of you have felt or feel the same way and what are you doing about
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by apohn 8y ago
>Money gave me stability. The lows are very different when you have money and when you don't have money. When you are struggling financially and a single event (e.g. car breaking down) can spiral into wrecking your entire life, you
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by apohn 8y ago
I've got PhD in a quantitative social science from an R1 university, so my experience may be different than others with PhDs in CS, Engineering, or the Physical Sciences. In my view moving to industry was one of the best decisions I ma
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by apohn 8y ago
I've worked for two megacorps. One non-tech and one tech (hardware and software). Both fit the description on that page well. I came to these two companies from a smaller tech company and each megacorp definitely seemed insane. IME
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by apohn 8y ago
>I agree that this is bad advice. I'm 35. I've got a wife, two kids, and a weird house with tons of maintenance projects. My parents live five minutes away, and I spend most weekends at Home Depot or hanging out in my parents&#
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by apohn 8y ago
There are situations where being around family 24/7 is much better than working in an office. I've been the following type of jobs 1). Office job in a distributed team where I got along well with the people who were in the same of
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by apohn 8y ago
Maplewood is a great example of homes that look amazing at first glance on real estate websites, but the high property taxes cause your mortgage payment to jump significantly. Here's a great example. 36 Ball Ter, Maplewood. $550K, ~22

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