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by asafira 8y ago
Ah, I saw this last night. Here is a blog post about the article: http://approximatelycorrect.com/2018/07/10/troubling-trends-...
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by asafira 8y ago
I was grad council president at that Harvard physics department a couple of years ago, and I helped organize a similar survey. My first impression here is that things aren't too bad. Some people are commenting, for example, about proje
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by asafira 8y ago
I have read this before too, it is great.
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by asafira 8y ago
THey mention a more nuanced metric further down --- do you still feel it's a poor metric?
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by asafira 8y ago
What about small(er) companies majority owned by bigcos? They have an opportunity to combine the best of bigcos with the best of (growing) smallcos.
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by asafira 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think the interview process is a good indicator of how things would be like within the company? I feel like there must be a lot of variance there --- what if the engineer(s) you were with are bad interviewers? W
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by asafira 8y ago
I have a few questions! 1) Did others in the org recognize you couldn't spend as much time on code, and they appreciated your time elsewhere? I can imagine there being some growing pains as you slowly gave your responsibilities to some
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Tip: “fake it til you make it” refers to emotions, not skills/knowledge(reddit.com)
4 points by asafira 8y ago|0 comments
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by asafira 8y ago
"First, thank you for being a loyal customer for [X] years!"
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by asafira 8y ago
very cool! I wonder if they could sprinkle in some fake examples for the dogs so that they could give positive reinforcement more often.
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by asafira 8y ago
There are a lot of vehement responses here --- with such strong naysayers, maybe they (Google) are setting themselves up for something that really pushes the boundary of what's possible and people are actually quite excited. =) I'
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by asafira 8y ago
It's simply magical.
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by asafira 8y ago
While I'm sure people have thought a lot about it, I unfortunately don't know much about it =/.
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by asafira 8y ago
Hey everyone! This is similar to work I do in my PhD. Feel free to ask me any questions! (I believe Ralf, the first author of the paper cited in the article, will likely come to my group for a postdoc)
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by asafira 8y ago
Extra props for including "old." there.
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by asafira 8y ago
I don't know who to believe --- are there good, definitive references for either of you?
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by asafira 8y ago
What are good resources to learn more about what works/ what doesn't in improving education? At the end of the article, they add that the study deserves a lot of credit even though it didn't work. Kudos! I was pretty happy to
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by asafira 8y ago
My point is that you likely have a biased view, as understandably you had an especially-bad experience, and that's the experience that's being highlighted for everyone to see.
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by asafira 8y ago
What is the common pattern?
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by asafira 8y ago
Even if they are the only thing left, it doesn't mean you should have a high level of confidence in the conclusions you make based off of them. (In fact, you almost certainly shouldn't...)
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by asafira 8y ago
Sorry you had the bad experience, but do you think this is the average experience someone has with Apple products? I also agree that you have to put in a decent effort to get things fixed, but you have to compare Apple to what the experienc
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by asafira 8y ago
I am also fine with assuming we don't really have data on the issue, but "knowing friends that agree with me" isn't really a reason to think you are definitely right.
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by asafira 8y ago
It seems to me like if a company makes claims that aren't true, then that is sometimes illegal --- that's what I meant by that statement. I don't think it's a matter of if something is a "legal document" so muc
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by asafira 8y ago
I totally agree that sometimes they do ask for high fees for repairs --- you still get to talk to a person though, and I definitely know a good number of people who didn't have to pay for their mistakes. (Even things that were definite
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by asafira 8y ago
To me, this speaks to the incredible layers of protection Apple has in making sure their hardware consumers have as good of an experience as possible, even when they have unexpected issues. I really think some people would choose Apple sole
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Ask HN: Friendly help vs. Getting paid
2 points by asafira 8y ago|3 comments
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by asafira 8y ago
To expand a bit: I think we need to embrace the fact that often times we have posts that don't have a "right" response --- i.e., where you can get a good view of exactly the right way to feel about something given the first f
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by asafira 8y ago
I have happily used Wireshark during my physics PhD to deal with poor vendor software for various equipment. Example: while Montana Instruments ( https://www.montanainstruments.com/ ) now has a python library for interacting
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by asafira 8y ago
Fantasy Books by Brandon Sanderson.
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by asafira 8y ago
Can you expend on some of these, or give a reference? Specifically, why does going to high voltage limit resistive losses? Why does really high V mean massive pylons? Why is low frequency AC massive?

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