corporateslave5

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by corporateslave5 7y ago
If it were the opposite, there wouldn’t be such pay disparities between management and programmers
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Huge wsl fan, really think software developers don’t know how good windows is for software dev
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Sure but now there’s pressure for them to ipo because all of their employees have been stacking paper money for years. Just issuing massive grants doesn’t work forever, there are consequences once a company leaves the early stages.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Bitcoin price is controlled by a small number of players. A huge percentage of the market cap is money laundered out of Russia and China. This isn’t the people’s crypto, it’s a vehicle to smuggle money out of authoritarian economies
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Maybe, but my point was that Airbnb is not one of those companies. Everyone I’ve met working there says they do run of the mill web dev. Those same engineers are making in excess of 450k, and are barely 30. Airbnb got into some prestige emp
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
One thing I don’t see mentioned here is the out of control compensation Airbnb has had for engineers. As an engineer I love to see companies pay more, but Airbnb has been beating Facebook offers when they really don’t need to. Companies lik
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Generalists? They hire puzzle experts
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
California beach real estate is about as safe as it gets.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
The media is seeing this as a political propaganda event, watch as this is spun into a major campaign issue, with massive finger pointing
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
I’m not a psychopath, but it’s just part of human nature. And softbank just wanted to dump a shitty company on the public markets and rip off retail investors. Neither side is good here.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Adam Neumann played SoftBank and gave them what they had coming. We need people like Adam to keep the markets from bubbling too much. It’s part of the checks and balances in a healthy capitalist system.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
It’s not racist just pointing it out
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Yeah I’m always astounded by this. It’s literally never brought up, but it’s everywhere in the industry.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Interestingly enough, most information/speculation about the viruses origins are actively suppressed by google/twitter/reddit.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Data engineering doesnt that well
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
No agile is just micromanagement. Control every task the developer works on, make them report status on a daily basis.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Basically everyone knows by now, being an employee at an early stage startup is a suckers bet. You’re literally working to make someone else rich. Just go work for FAANG, or highest cash comp, and jam that money into tech stocks.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Yeah I bought one for 175 bucks, just as a temporary thing. I love it. I’ll never pay 1000 dollars for a mattress again
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
The models have gotten really complex and advanced substantially in the last few years
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
I’ve gotten solving a sudoku puzzle as an interview question, to be implemented in full in 45 mins.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Yeah I can commiserate. Aside from going out here and there, social outings, I’m pretty much always programming or reading about programming. I have zero other hobbies and don’t want any.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
The ones truly at fault are the doctors. They follow “procedure”, which says that a patient under pain is treated with opiates. And so, to avoid any mal practice, they prescribe. And the patient has been told that doctors are the smartest,
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
This is doom porn against air bnb. It’s a massively profitable website with very low capital requirements.
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Yep, the number has been expanding. I just picked 512 because Bert uses that. But yeah 50k and beyond unlocks new ways of using context. I can’t wait to see how they optimize and improve the reformer model. I expect there to be an improveme
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Maybe. I take a really optimistic view of attention based mechanisms, like I explained and added to my original post. If you read the recent reformer paper, they produce a new way of computation to start building a model that can in some wa
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
I respectfully disagree. I’ve been in the field full time for a few years, I watch the state of the art closely. It’s hard to see the thought/theoretical progression of deep transformer models by just reading posts here and there. I’m
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
People are vastly underestimating the changes that are about to come from NLP. The basic ideas of how to get language models working are just about in place. Transformer networks, and recent innovations like GPT-2, googles reformer model, e
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
My thoughts exactly, this kind of thinking is really common among google employees. They think leaving is some “event”, it needs massive justification, a blog post, and manifesto to the world. I’ve seen this among friends that work there
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
Haha! Guaranteed that was the pitch somewhere
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by corporateslave5 7y ago
I personally think any academics thinking parts are synthetic aren’t speaking about it

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