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Chinese firm harvests social media, data of prominent Americans and military(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by biscottigelato 6y ago|0 comments
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Science was supposed to be about objectivity. Not who published it or how it was funded... Had to question whether I'm living in the 1600s or 2020...
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Maybe even more troubling than the potential that the virus is engineered. It's that why are American institutions trying to limit distribution on a scientific literature just because of the literature's implications? Chilling...
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Maybe even more troubling than the potential that the virus is engineered. It's that why are American institutions trying to limit distribution on a scientific literature just because of the literature's implications? Chilling...
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Unusual Features of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggests Sophisticated Lab Modifications(zenodo.org)
23 points by biscottigelato 6y ago|23 comments
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
We give so much more slack when it's a company that supports a totalitarian regime. When it's Facebook which is subject to scrutiny of many major democratic governments and press, we gives it no slack. Ironic and funny.
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Having of all people FB to be your arbiter of truth of what is a fact based political ad vs a non-fact based political ad sounds like a dystopian nightmare. What we perceive as fact is actually something derived from a lot of open discourse
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Well, nothing is black or white. It's always a trade-off. Destroy the intrinsic property of the system to trade for broader access. Is it worth it? It makes me think of the Bitcoin scaling debate. Destroy the ease of running nodes for
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Sure, but CCP's goal have been achieved. Conspiracy theorist would validly suspect that Zoom have been working with the CCP and they have compromised and agreed to do this one time thing then back track. Getting what the CCP needs (cen
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
Maybe some of us has no double standard. We are against US aggression outside of its borders, especially at tremendous cost to local civilians, local economy and US taxpayers. Also of China's, which is at the cost of human rights globa
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by biscottigelato 6y ago
I think whether said law came about from a system with separations of power and a democratic process makes a big difference in palatability.
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Resources for finding jobs that look at portfolio/does takehome
1 points by biscottigelato 8y ago|0 comments
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I think a lot of employees feel that since their company have a great website, a great product, a great business, they conflate it as their own and that 'anybody can do it'. In fact they have only done a tiny portion of anything t
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Just saying they don't help as much as months of CTCI & Leetcode in an interview (I'd say they are exams, as they didn't interview me regarding these projects). They are definitely better than nothing of course.
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I agree to a point. Making something people love doesn't mean it can be a great business. A successful startup is a lot of things.
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
PM is even harder to get into. Everybody thinks they fit in a PM job, so their application to openings rate is even worse. So ends up most PM job's first requirement is you have been a PM before... Entrepreneurship is so vague that it
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Craziest part is I'm applying for just front-end positions. And these companies claim that 'we want well rounded full-stacker for every position'. Not saying knowing some backend stuff wont' be helpful, but wouldn't
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I want to work for unicorns before they become unicorns. Those are hard to find tho... They also have very limited openings.
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I think the problem is not knowing these terminologies makes these stories hard to describe. And the interview process won't even go down the questions you have mentioned. I'd have a lot to talk about if what you asked were the qu
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Yeah, I got next step for all the take-homes. Usually impressed cuz I'd whip up not only a working app but great UI/UX designs in a day turn-around. But there aren't a lot of those. And these processes sometimes can go awry f
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Nice. I have a process that's 6 weeks in already. And they say they still need another 2 weeks to make a decision....
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Or you work 100 hours weeks. 5 features every release. While juggling marketing campaigns, UI/UX design, project management tools, etc etc. It's a lot of stuff over the year... Deep or not I don't know. Deep enough to have a
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
It's really hard to make money from these projects. Hence going back for employment. Either they succeed as a startup, or they are worthless. Building on contract is a tough business also. Software is great if it works and goes viral b
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Yeah, they were more full blown startups in mind. If full blown projects doesn't help, side project of lesser quality (cuz less effort for the same person), prob won't help either? And I am following my advice now totally. Just do
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Thanks for the kind words. I am proud of my projects, but it takes a lot more than a good looking product to create a financially sustainable startup. I am pretty confident in my ability to build products. But the skill that's really n
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I was leading a team of 4 (the rest are part-time). Definitely humbled in how crappy of a manager I am. But learned a heck lot tho. Stuff that doesn't translate through an algorithm puzzle yet again...
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I'm doing live demos either in-person or on video calls. The Unicorns/FAANGs doesn't give a damn. Heck, some don't even give you the space/time to do such demos. 10 minutes behavioural grilling, and then 45 minutes
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
Yeah. Gonna do my last 'standard interview' with yet another FAANG, and the last FAANG I'm gonna apply to, coming up Tuesday. Startups excites me a lot more anyways... Just that they have a lot less openings and budget &
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
I basically implemented join tables to keep track of reputation, along with a periodic reputation calculation algorithm that accounts for freshness and other feed prioritization metrics. Without knowing the words 'Joint Table' or
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by biscottigelato 8y ago
My thought is that the projects will be what really sets you apart. Everybody can say they learn quick, they are self starters. And these are often touted as the 'most important attributes'. But it just boiled down to algorithm ch

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