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by apohn 4y ago
>It was the location of the movie "Sex and the City 2". It wasn't filmed there. It was filmed in Morocco and they just said it took place in Abu Dhabi. The UAE government said they couldn't film there. https:/
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by apohn 4y ago
>in favor of low-code tools. Their engineers are jumping ship and they're having a hard time finding replacements. I have a friend who works for a major low-code software company. They're doing quite well financially because o
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by apohn 4y ago
Manufacturing is in an interesting space right now. There's a lot of hype around Industrial IoT (IIoT) and IoT 4.0. A lot of companies are using that hype to ask for budget to migrate their systems to open source and systems which ar
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by apohn 4y ago
Question: Are the system you using open standards (e.g. RESTful APIs)? Do they have Data Models that follow some sort of sensible standard that allow for interop with other systems via sensible mechanism systems? A lot of the hell that is
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by apohn 4y ago
I used to work in a Customer facing role at a Enterprise Software Company that sold up and down the Fortune 500. I got to see a lot of different tech stacks. Many use a lot of proprietary software, which can be a type of hell nobody unders
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by apohn 4y ago
I'd love to say that I had some weird or crazy network and that was the cause. But it was all the usual stuff. 1 TV, a few phones, a few laptops, a printer, etc. Probably less than 15 devices, some of which were only occasionally a
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by apohn 4y ago
I've been using consumer/home WIFI hardware pretty much from the time it was cheap enough that people started using it broadly (2001?). As the "computer guy" I've also dealt with so many brands I can't even re
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by apohn 5y ago
I think the word "ritual" indicates it's forced. Maybe not forced by management, but if 80% of the team is doing it, there's a lot of pressure on people to do the same. I share details of my personal life with my team,
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by apohn 5y ago
>As a manager, if I share details about my personal life it encourages others on the team to do the same. It works if you are a good manager and the sharing happens naturally. The manager I referred to would always share details of his
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by apohn 5y ago
>When you say "big L" do you mean biglaw? I'm curious as well. What is "big L?"
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by apohn 5y ago
> - Posting once a week about what I did for fun over the weekend, usually with photos. Honestly, if I heard about this during the hiring process I'd see it as a red flag. Especially the photos. I once had this terrible VP who was
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by apohn 5y ago
>So many companies are so unbelievably dysfunctional Sometimes I feel like this is simply the nature of human existence. Put 10 people in a room with some Lego blocks and tell people they need to form groups to build a castle, and the &
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by apohn 5y ago
I think one the challenges with being happy at a job is that every job where you are happy is a single change away from being a job where you not happy. Your manager could leave. Budgets or Prioritizes could change. Your org structure or
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by apohn 5y ago
>Given this is Hacker News… it was a magical time for technology. Honestly, I was probably the most "techy" person I knew and I remember spending a lot of time back then messing around configuring memory and what was loaded to
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by apohn 5y ago
>You mentioned customer facing roles, do mean like customer service? I'm open to getting AWS cert if thats what you mean by Cloud Solution Architect. Yes, I was thinking Cloud Solution Architect and similar roles. One of the benefi
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by apohn 5y ago
>But more often companies, orgs, or teams dying has to do with engineering management in my experience. Nothing can 10X sink a product faster than bad engineering management. I once joined an established Enterprise software company where
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by apohn 5y ago
To be honest, I'm really not familiar with the job market outside of UAE. I have a limited knowledge of jobs in other GCC countries, let alone the countries outside of the GCC. And even my knowledge of jobs in UAE is 5 years old at t
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by apohn 5y ago
I think the first question you need to ask is about your eligibility to work. I can't speak for Jordan, but I can speak for UAE. To work in UAE you either need to be a citizen or have an employment visa. The good news is that UAE mak
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by apohn 5y ago
Note that Colab Pro is $10/month and Pro+ is $50/month. The $10 is more than enough for learning Deep Learning.
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by apohn 5y ago
For personal use I use my laptop for anything ML and Colab Pro for anything Deep Learning. The free edition of Colab is also great for learning Deep Learning. I personally find most cloud providers annoying to use for personal use. You ha
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by apohn 5y ago
I should have been more clear. I didn't mean the hardware, but the speedup you get from using mixed precision in something like Tensorflow with an NVIDIA GPU.
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by apohn 5y ago
Thanks. At least when I ran the benchmarks with Tensorflow, using mixed precision resulted in the CPU being used for training instead of the GPU on the M1 Pro. So if the hardware is there for fp16 and they will implement the software supp
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by apohn 5y ago
The 3090 also can do fp16 and the M1 series only supports fp32, so the M1 series of chips basically needs more RAM for the same batch sizes. So it isn't an Oranges to Oranges comparison. Back when that M1 MAX vs 3090 blog post was rel
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by apohn 5y ago
Honestly, for me this realization made dealing with my job frustrations easier. As an IC in a tech role, I'm paid decently despite not working for FAANG. I don't have to aspire to become a manager just so I can afford my mortgag
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by apohn 5y ago
I was a manager at one point, and the combination of #3 and #4 basically killed my interest in management. As an IC, your manager can tell you to do something that makes no sense. They can either agree with you or disagree about how stupid
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by apohn 5y ago
100% This. I've got a smart TV (Android TV). Once a year or so I plug in an Ethernet to check for updates. Otherwise everything is done via an Apple TV.
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by apohn 5y ago
What about classifying who is speaking and just muting audio when Lex is speaking? First, extract a lot of samples (e.g 2-5 seconds of Audio) from a lot of his podcasts and label them as 1/0 or Lex/Other person speaking. Take tho
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by apohn 5y ago
Agreed. My comment was mostly because most of the articles people see about work issues in the Middle East are always about the labor class. At least in the West, you don't really see articles about teachers, shopkeepers, business pe
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by apohn 5y ago
>I know lots of people who would have been stuck in extremely low social mobility situations in their home countries, and who only managed to go up in social class by moving to one of these Middle Eastern countries, and earning good mone
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by apohn 5y ago
>Given that, I don't think I have ever read anything good about the UAE There are 10 million people living in the UAE, 90% of which are expats. Lots of them live comfortable lives in the sense that they do what most people do - get

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