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by caffeine 5y ago
Edit: I should add, thanks for pointing out a third group - people who think the tests don’t work! > To me, this showed that the tests are not an accurate measurement of how successful someone will be at college The test proves you are s
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by caffeine 5y ago
Hah! I hadn’t intended that at all but this is hilarious. I wonder if the IRS would play along: “I identify as a corporation so you may only tax me on my profits not my income”
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by caffeine 5y ago
> The far right and far left I wish we could just call them all “far” people and ignore the side. It would help those of us who are not “far” recognise that we have more common values with each other than with the “far” regardless of sid
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by caffeine 5y ago
> There's an embedded ambiguity in your sentence in that there are two kinds of failure. Fair enough. In 2008 somebody asked me if I wanted to try cocaine. I didn’t. He eventually moved on to heroine and his life is now utterly “fai
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by caffeine 5y ago
When I went to $(fancy school not quite Yale but like Yale), they were even more blatant - the admissions people just flat out stated they have a quota for legacies and they have different standards.
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by caffeine 5y ago
> high-level math students have very few opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge using a standardized metric. AP math and physics exams? Or IB? True that these are not accessible to everyone though..
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by caffeine 5y ago
The $250k to put a totally unqualified student through school would pay for a lot of test prep hours at some impoverished schools. It would likely take about 10 contact hours (1h/week, 10 weeks), basically enough coaching so that the r
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by caffeine 5y ago
The no-test policy is espoused by two groups who find themselves to be unlikely allies: naive progressives and actual racists. The naive progressives think what you’d expect: “Minorities and poor people can’t possibly be expected to do well
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by caffeine 5y ago
> Do you have kids? Yes. > I sincerely hope that you don't actually conduct this thinking deep into your lifestyle I think what I said holds true about your economic decisions (which the article I’m commenting on is about). I don
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by caffeine 5y ago
> We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven. Totally agree. > We are NOT companies Actually, we are humans. However, when it comes to our economic activity, we are also
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by caffeine 5y ago
You are the boss of a company of one. Your company sells labor to the labor market, it makes investments in assets, it borrows funds, etc. It’s your job to decide how that company is run. It’s your job to decide what investments that comp
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by caffeine 5y ago
Can’t speak for OP, but there are a lot of things people do out there, not just web apps. People building games, robots, trading systems, distributed databases, CDNs, etc could be really limited in their capability if they didn’t grok netwo
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by caffeine 5y ago
Have you tried 2x 27” screens vertically , ideally models with minimal bezel? I’ve found that it doesn’t increase head turning because it’s not much wider than a single screen, but I can fit twice as much stuff. Also I can read a much long
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by caffeine 5y ago
It comes from the “residual” of a linear regression. So you take some obvious variable like the market basket of stocks, do a regression, and then do your machine learning on the residuals. The reason is that you don’t get “credit” for doin
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by caffeine 5y ago
There should be a special badge you get to wear forever once you have been In Charge of Symbology at some point in your life.. In a previous job, after a few years I settled on (Type, Expiration, ISIN, Listing CCY, Listing MIC, Trading CCY,
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by caffeine 5y ago
Nope. You are just not understanding it. To simplify: The hackers had minimal access to stuff and couldn’t do much.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Being really good at using boring tech is better than being a noob with cool tech. So as you get older and you get more competent, the relative benefits of boring tech grow. Whereas if you’re a noob at everything, being a noob with cool tec
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by caffeine 5y ago
I think a lot of the inaccuracy is just innumeracy. People have a hard time conceptualising 1% or 99%. The estimations range from 20% on the low end to 60% on the high end, which are numbers that easily come to mind and have relevance in r
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by caffeine 5y ago
Yes definitely. I think especially if people ask it’s great to tell them as much as they ask for. I personally did everything I advised not doing in that post, and learned the lessons, so I will just tell you my experience of it, and YMMV.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Main thing is don’t expect too much. You will not experience that same feeling of comfortable camaraderie again for a long time. Make an effort to listen to people. Keep your ego in check - avoid saying “Well at my old company we did …” -
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by caffeine 5y ago
I had a similar experience on Triplebyte and it turned out to just be terrible UX. When you first booked the interview, it would give you a phone number to call. Later on, the company could add Zoom details. That would get stuck in some s
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by caffeine 5y ago
Have you tried living in any liberal part of the country? People there don’t just think they should dictate what you do , but also what you think!
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by caffeine 5y ago
Of course not! You missed the most (only?) important one: more debt! We can provide you with a loan that will consolidate all your existing debt! Student debt, medical debt, car debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt - you name it, we’ll re
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by caffeine 5y ago
The best is have both types on the team. You give Coder 1 projects and in a week they have a working version that starts generating revenue, albeit with cut corners and limited scope. After it bakes for a month or two and we are sure we wa
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by caffeine 5y ago
Why? Seems perfectly accurate, purely factual.
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by caffeine 5y ago
I think you can translate this to “the hardest thing about doing stuff is deciding the right thing to do.” Which I 100% agree with. But it’s not just for engineering, it’s for everyone..
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by caffeine 5y ago
They can’t help it, it’s built into the very core of the doctrine. As soon as progressivism “works” and the oppressed group is no longer oppressed - then they are now the oppressor! The selfish desire for womens’ safety is oppressing violen
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by caffeine 5y ago
Sometimes common sense needs to be packaged up in a sellable format like a popular book. That makes it easier to adopt, refer to, etc than just saying “It’s common sense.”
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by caffeine 5y ago
Universities are ditching the SAT en masse because it is an excellent predictor of outcome, and that is interfering with affirmative action political objectives (much easier to get away with racially discriminating against more-qualified
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by caffeine 5y ago
The benefit of the coding puzzle platforms is as a hiring firm you get shown data about all applicants who took that test, and it’s standardised. You also get pretty high resolution data about how your applicant performed (like their interm

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