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by cbanek 7y ago
I'd really love some world changing breakthrough technology now. I really would. But I don't really understand this stuff (not that I'm qualified). I guess you can actually patent a perpetual motion machine, so the fact th
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by cbanek 7y ago
Of course recruiters say that, they'll say anything to get you to interview! There was actually a great post about this being the new recruiter form-letter that I'll have to find... it always started with, "I'm impresse
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by cbanek 7y ago
> Everyone around me from management to the HR apparatus and even my peers seem geared towards me remaining a non client facing worker bot Yep, this is true. To be honest, no one cares about your career but you. I'm not saying thi
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by cbanek 7y ago
I didn't say "let everyone go off and learn a different language and develop new code in it," obviously that is ridiculous, and would get out of control as you said. What I did say was there's a working piece of code out
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by cbanek 7y ago
This just reminds me of how many times I've been told things like "you can't use that java code that is open source and working and does exactly what we want - we're a python shop!" and other such nonsenses. I'
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by cbanek 7y ago
That or they give you a dozen tubes that will expire next month, or have already expired. Luckily I only bought 3 expired tubes of toothpaste.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Right, I get what you're saying about Japanese, I took a few years of Japanese in school, and it is a really interesting grammatical problem. (Which is why I love this example even more) If you read the released book about the project
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by cbanek 7y ago
> While AGI isn't going to be created any time soon, machines have learned how to master complex tasks like: > translating text into practically every language Note: they said they have mastered these tasks. Yeah... I'm not
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by cbanek 7y ago
So, this happens everywhere I've been, but many times, the reasons and who does it are different. Sometimes it helps to look at the classes of interruptions: 1) Coworkers needing help with their thing (rubber duck, for example) 2) Cow
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by cbanek 7y ago
Totally agree. Sleep masks have really helped with my weird sleep schedule. Even with your eyes closed, your body will figure out it is light outside (unless you have some kind of blackout curtain). Plus there's a nice ritual about
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by cbanek 7y ago
Variable star observing is actually a place where amateurs really help, since it's about observation time, and not necessarily some hugely powerful telescope. And the more powerful a telescope is, the more people want to use it to poi
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by cbanek 7y ago
At MSFT, they made everyone go through this training, along with a "personality test" to figure out which colors you were. Then everyone got foam blocks that they were told to stack in their window to tell everyone else how to co
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by cbanek 7y ago
Right, but that means that stealth costs mass (weight) and means less satellites per launch. So that means making them less visible costs more money. For non spy satellites where stealth isn't one of the top goals, that might mean peo
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by cbanek 7y ago
It's possible, although it's kind of tricky to use in practice. From the Vantablack wikipedia article: When light strikes Vantablack, instead of bouncing off, it becomes trapped and is continually deflected amongst the tubes, even
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by cbanek 7y ago
I remember looking at this when I joined MSFT. I think I was 7 management links away from billg. And yes, many of the middle managers fought with each other constantly, not knowing what was actually happening on the coding level. We had t
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by cbanek 7y ago
I recently converted to jrnl.sh a few months ago and I am loving it. I used to run my own private wordpress, and it was nothing but headaches, and fear of dataloss. I use jrnl.sh on mac, and I can easily have it in my documents folder and
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by cbanek 7y ago
All the time. I think it's honestly a kind of mental creative hangup, like procrastination. Many times procrastination, all-or-nothing, and a feeling of the worst that can possibly happen will happen can easily derail me. What's
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by cbanek 7y ago
Well, tech is really well paid, and tech workers tend to spend a lot of money buying things. Considering consumer spending is almost 70% of US GDP, when people lose jobs (especially good high paying ones), other industries tend to suffer.
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by cbanek 7y ago
Yeah, it seems like you would of course want to balance the amount of water taken out and how much is replenished by rain/snow/underground movement. I just find it fascinating how smart ancient people were! Also, it's nice to
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by cbanek 7y ago
This is really interesting! It's almost like the opposite of a qanat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
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by cbanek 7y ago
I'm not sure about the salaries, but I'm more sure Amazon isn't in Seattle, CA. (Staff engineer slide). I'm also wondering how much of the salary (which certainly contains a lot of stock) is due to stock appreciation. I
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by cbanek 7y ago
> Stapleton said when she made a request to HR earlier this year, she was routed to a call center in Chicago, where she spoke to a young gentleman who had recently graduated college. Responding to a concern she had with a manager, he gav
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by cbanek 7y ago
Sounds a lot better than a bucket of rocks. Does anyone in the US use these?
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by cbanek 7y ago
> I have references, but most of them are barred behind NDAs You don't need to worry about this. Reference checks usually don't involve many detailed technical issues that would fall under an NDA. > I feel like I've pi
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by cbanek 7y ago
"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer" - Brian May Civ 6 Astronomy tech unlock.
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by cbanek 7y ago
I also hit a question on the highest level where I think the answer was 11, but there was no way to input a 2 digit number.
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by cbanek 7y ago
> We have a single developer taking care of the codebase. Does Optimizely need ten people to handle theirs? Or twenty? We don't know, but one thing is for certain: 20 people make more redundancy, technical debt, and bugs than one. I
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by cbanek 7y ago
In my experience, it is the overworked teams that are the ones hiring. They need more people to do work, and overworked teams have higher attrition. This is even if you don't have a bad persistent problem (bad manager/toxic envi
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by cbanek 7y ago
I really like the idea of this, but I have to ask - how do you know what companies value work-life balance? Of course everyone says they do... Many times it seems like one company can have some teams that are balanced, and some that aren&#
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by cbanek 7y ago
I've recently started using https://jrnl.sh/ and I'm hooked. It is on the command line, and easy to use. I've been using it more for daily journal entries, but it has a tagging system so you can do @idea an

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