cerrelio

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by cerrelio 10y ago
I would put forth that Google isn't a search company anymore. They spend more resources filtering out all the junk on the web. Search is a secondary function for them. The end-user doesn't see the filtering; publishers and merc
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Cocaine makes you very vigilant. I became a photographer because I had some friends who were socialites and had VIP access to clubs. Their various club owner friends liked my photography, so I just started showing up with my camera all the
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Short answer: no. Long answer: Yes, if you can find a PI/project that's solving the exact problem you want to solve. The work doesn't have to make money, but it has to make papers. And if your publications aren't landin
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I was considering that. I don't have any sales background, but I can communicate what's good and bad about software/systems fairly easily. In my career I've also had to "sell" complex ideas to management, and
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I took two breaks from tech. One was for grad school, which I dropped out of after 3 semesters. Like some others in the thread I found academia to be pretty bad. You're paid shit and treated like a peon. The work was actually inter
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by cerrelio 10y ago
These are based off my current experience in transitioning to a management role. I'm still a dev, but my manager is "testing me out" for a management role. - Keep current on technologies, what your team uses and wants to use
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I've taken sertraline, venlafaxine, bupropion and fluoxetine. Fluoxetine is the only SSRI I experienced no withdrawal from. I was on a low dose (10-20mg) though, and it mostly worked (went from severe depression to mild/none). I
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by cerrelio 10y ago
My company's style is a culture of consensus. No one really "gives orders," because that's too aggressive, and someone might feel hurt. I find it fucking awful. If there's disagreement about something, usually an
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by cerrelio 10y ago
SF needs to worry about its own transit issues. MUNI stops at rush hour are poorly serviced. I can't get on most of the trains that pass through Civic Center, so I usually end up going inbound to Montgomery or Embarcadero so I can ac
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by cerrelio 10y ago
These modifiers are always a touchy point with me. They aren't applied consistently and imply greater experience and ability, when they often signify time spent at a company or political acumen. Over my 15 years in engineering, I&#x2
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Only if computing power catches up to handle the rapidly increasing rate at which data is produced. But as computing power increases, that also affects the rate at which data is produced. So, I firmly believe most data will sit around unp
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by cerrelio 10y ago
It is. We were specifically dealing with ESL/second-language learning though. Long term retention is necessary for fluency. If you want to pass a driver's exam or material you don't really care about beyond passing a test,
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by cerrelio 10y ago
This is the subject I tackled in grad school. It was super interesting, because many people still believe that memorizing stuff is best if you cram for an extended period of time. Showing them that just a few minutes of review at properly
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by cerrelio 10y ago
This is the reason why I don't fear government surveillance as much as corporate surveillance. The government simply can't process all the data they collect. And the value of obtaining information from the data can be highly vari
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I can't find a closer image of the west Portland area, so I can't comment on the nature of those commutes. I live in SF, and at work my team consists of ~16 people. Of those 16 people only 3 live in SF (city/county). The ot
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by cerrelio 10y ago
> support vector machines and Bayesian learning have been around since the 70s/80s (ninja edit: SVM's since 1963! Markov Chains 1950s, Bayesian Learning/Pattern recognition sine the 1950's), but adoption has been slow
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by cerrelio 10y ago
The important thing about the PhD is that you've become an expert in conducting experiments and research. It really doesn't matter what ML techniques you've done, as long as you know everything else associated with buildin
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by cerrelio 10y ago
I've seen for rent signs up for over a month in some very desirable locations. That's a change from 2 years ago when I was looking for a place. But the rents are still pretty high for new buildings. The developments opening up
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by cerrelio 10y ago
My current team suffers from disgust of Taco Bell programming. I love it, and I push hard to use it for the projects I lead. I've even had other leads scoff at my use of Python because "the GIL will throttle your application!&qu
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Then that academic can make a company out of it, and charge $2000/hr. :) The issue is academics cashing in on their research. I think this is fine in general. Having been through grad school I've worked with professors who I fel
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Yeah. It's almost laughable how little you need to process high volumes. Our stack was PHP/memcache/MySQL, a closed-source front-end cache/web server, and a custom mostly-MVCish framework. I introduced Redis to the com
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Pornhub doesn't generate most of their money from subscriptions. It was never their primary business model to do that. It's mostly ad and referral revenue. I also think most tube sites run on thin margins or even at a loss. An
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by cerrelio 10y ago
It's largely the reason why I left. As I learned more about the industry it was less palatable. They do take steps to shield themselves and reduce their liability. Let's face it, if you're a top dog at a large porn company
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Big porn companies are very serious about PCI compliance. They also closely monitor their fraud numbers. If a MID (merchant ID) goes above 5% (volume or cash amount) fraud, the processor could get fined by Visa/MasterCard/etc ($
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by cerrelio 10y ago
It was amazing. Half of devops was stoned during work hours. I actually think it helped, because they usually had their hands full and probably needed stress relief. In spite of being stoned, they were far more competent and responsive t
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by cerrelio 10y ago
No stigma. The company name is pretty innocuous/generic and most people interviewing you at large tech companies never dig further than your resume. They do ask about the projects I did though. The engineering culture was great. Mos
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by cerrelio 10y ago
The only stigma I experienced was self generated. I wouldn't tell people where I worked for a while. However, after that period of shame, whenever I told someone I worked in porn, they had a positive attitude and dozens of questions.
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Most corporations are so scared of violating employment law that they never ask for specifics. The last two companies I worked at had a third-party verifier who simply confirmed (by pay stubs, calls, etc) my employment history. I assume t
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by cerrelio 10y ago
My advice would be to either produce and distribute porn, or drive traffic to porn sites. Those are the only two roles where you bank. I wrote an analytics subsystem for my company's properties and I saw how much their affiliates mak
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by cerrelio 10y ago
Two words: sex trafficking. (To elaborate - strip club owners would often set up dorms where women hung out all day doing cam stuff. They would "import" the women, but eventually the porn companies came up with a less risky idea.

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