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by donretag 6y ago
I really do not think the Chris Hadfield series on Space Exploration will help you become an astronaut.
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by donretag 6y ago
I am guessing somewhere in Queens. There is a hideous Fedders Special across the yard.
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by donretag 6y ago
Basically do not use Ruby
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by donretag 6y ago
Thank you for still checking in on the weekend!
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by donretag 6y ago
Is Netflix truly hiring backend engineers in Los Angeles? The job posting is for Los Gatos and the site has only front-end/full-stack in LA.
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by donretag 6y ago
My industry has been heavily affected by the shutdown. While I have been safe from the cuts and will probably not be affected in the near future, I am looking into changes. I do not have a recent resume, something to work on this weekend. L
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by donretag 7y ago
I love the Command Center in my Mazda. I can switch modes, change content, many other things, all without looking at the knobs. Voice controls using Android Auto makes it even better, but I do not use it much since the knobs do a great job.
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by donretag 7y ago
Good riddance. They would purchase great conferences, like Hadoop World which costed only $200 to attend, and turn them into $1500 affairs. Wish there were more very tech focused conferences in the US like Devoxx in Europe. No filler. No hi
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by donretag 7y ago
I remember being in a capsule-hotel/hostel in Japan thinking about how great the Japanese are that these seats are the default in a hostel. I have been through Africa and parts of Asia were the "bum gun" is the only resource
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by donretag 7y ago
"The guide advises students not to work for companies that build technology that harms vulnerable communities" I grew up in a vulnerable community. It was called poverty. I am happy to say nowadays I am no longer poor. Not everyon
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by donretag 7y ago
Only 5 of the listed companies are actually in LA. All the rest are in SF/Bay Area. No thank you,
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by donretag 7y ago
There are some things you simply cannot control, like who your family is. You cannot focus on them. As far as others go, they might not be doing things in the right way, but they are trying in some capacity. Some do not even have that. Ever
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by donretag 7y ago
I rather they start with the financial companies. How many bankers were even charged after 2008? Rhetorical question of course.
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by donretag 7y ago
Elastic is not even after the search market, but the analytics/loggin/reporting sector. Of course, they are after every customer, but one Elastic rep told me that 75% of customers are not using Elasticsearch for traditional search
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by donretag 7y ago
"If a group cannot afford it" The group does not pay for the meetup, the organizer does. Most social meetups are created by the kindness of the organizer, who want nothing in return. $15 a month is a lot of kindness. My fictitious
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by donretag 7y ago
$15 a month is $180 a year. Imagine you want to have some small hyper local group such as Memorial Park Dog Owners. Obviously, members will not pay for such a group, but the organizer is on the hook for almost $200 a year. Hard to create co
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by donretag 7y ago
The value add is discovery. Since many meet already be on meetup.com, they then discover another meetup which also might suit them. All these alternatives might have the functionality that meetup does, but none of them provide exposure. Eve
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by donretag 7y ago
I once worked for a company that was purchased and we were tasked with signing new employment papers for the new owner. When HR asked why I still have not signed the papers, I said it was forthcoming and BTW, can I collect unemployment if I
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by donretag 7y ago
What I would have wanted to hear from the interview is if they have junior developers and how are they handled. If “Remote People are a Manager of One”, how can we expect junior developers to manage themselves. Hire the best and they probab
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by donretag 7y ago
Elasticsearch now has that in versions 7.3 and later https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... The vectors are only used for scoring, not matching, but they are working on a ANN mod
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Wikimedia Foundation Welcomes Grant Ingersoll as Chief Technology Officer(wikimediafoundation.org)
2 points by donretag 7y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 7y ago
She graduated with a degree in music, so what? How many of your technical co-workers and colleagues have degrees in non-STEM fields? Probably more than a few. How many of us with actual CS degrees learned about security? I have both a BS&#x
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by donretag 7y ago
Was about to comment the same thing. Just an average bug, not a security issue.
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by donretag 7y ago
Pre-screening is nice, but not much of a value add. Sourcing candidates is the hard part, and this service can only present the candidates that have entered profiles. No outreach, no advertising at any level. Perhaps C-levels are 20%, or ma
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by donretag 7y ago
"Commission per hire: 15% of annual salary" So basically getting the same fee as a normal recruiter, without them doing any of the work. Lower fees will attract more companies. For the standard recruiter fee, I rather just use a f
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by donretag 7y ago
What's wrong with that road? Seems just like your standard mountain pass road to me. :) Those switchbacks are tight, so trucks are probably not allowed on that road. I lived somewhat close to there, but not close enough to know that ex
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by donretag 7y ago
I remember being 18, in Italy, driving my crappy Fiat as fast as I can down an Italian highway. Fifth gear, gas pedal to the max. And I was still getting passed by faster cars. Italians just drive faster. :)
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by donretag 7y ago
For me, the marvel of word2vec is that we do not need to embedding meaning into words. The move toward semantic understanding and meaning is not essential, but this post think that a semantic representation is the next logical step.
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by donretag 7y ago
> Problem: Interviewers lie. > and I was absolutely not going to be leading anything This scenario has been basically my life for the past several jobs. Companies will lie just to get you in the door. Never ask "Will I ...",
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by donretag 7y ago
For companies that offer "unlimited" PTO, it is good to ask what is the average number of days actually taken off by employees. Are multi-week vacations doable? Have vacations ever been denied (happened to me)?

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