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by dunpeal 8y ago
Exactly. I don't know how Google is "bad at PR" when the company maintained a sparkling image since its inception - arguably, to this day. For common person, who doesn't know or care about lethal security work or sophist
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Versioning that it's still a major problem in the ecosystem. There's actually a perfectly good way to solve this problem: a virtual environment with a requirements.txt file.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> "if x" started failing with an exception for non-boolean values of x I would call that a personal preference, and one that is far from consensus, rather than a "wart". A wart is a known problem in the language, that
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Not sure what you're arguing. If you use numpy and pandas properly, most of your computations happen in optimized C routines. So you will write Python, but get very good resource (both time and space) efficiency.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
That's slightly surprising, but I wouldn't call it a wart. A proper wart is something that bothers you even after years of using the language, not something that surprises you a couple of times as a beginner, but then ceases to be
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Yes, that's the case for most data scientists, and often for users in general. You can get pretty good performance levels from Python by delegating to C correctly. Even end users tend to do that because the data science stack of Python
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by dunpeal 8y ago
What are these "stupidities" that bother you? Personally, I use Python a lot for anything related to data science. No language is perfect, but I'd say Python has a lot less deficiencies and warts than most other mainstream la
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Jupyter notebooks are ultimately just a text file, which can be version controlled, verified (via the VCS or independent hashing), and if necessary - digitally signed in a cryptographically secure manner. Given that Git is already secure, I
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by dunpeal 8y ago
They were aware of these bugs for (at least) 16 months. They could delay releasing new chips until they addressed the problem, even if it took them another year. They did not. Instead, they released a chip with a widely known critical vulne
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Spectre was indeed "announced" 5 months ago, but it was disclosed to Intel on June 1st 2017. That's over 16 months ago. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit... : &
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Yeah, this looks very underwhelming. I also think you're letting them off too easy with "too early to expect a Spectre/Meltdown fix". This is a critical security bug that was discovered over a year ago . Intel just ig
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> He shrugged and showed me what he was working on: task scheduling in Microsoft Project. Right, that's not an "architect" then. That's a manager of some sort.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> It's also why I've opted to remove 'Senior' from my titles for external resumes to avoid people making judgments too soon. I wouldn't go quite so far. The fact that titles don't mean much in sub-par outfit
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by dunpeal 8y ago
But do you know for a fact these "architects" forgot how to code, and would bomb an engineering interview?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
You know, I heard this claim about "architects" and "high level engineers" before, but I've never seen much evidence for it in real life. How many of these detached astronaut "architects" actually exist? T
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> As a first-year-out-of-school developer, I shadowed an interview once from a "Principle Engineer" at another company. A lot of people don't realize how easy it is to get impressive titles at very small or low-quality out
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> You cannot get to the scale of Facebook or Google without being political. There's plenty of counterexamples. There's huge companies much bigger than FB and Google that were never political outside of tech. Even in tech, you
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by dunpeal 8y ago
The New York Times is not a "financials magazine". No serious investor would try to infer from such a story about the value of FB stock. They'd be looking at hard data like earning reports, sales figures, expense curves. Not
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> At least until the companies figure out how to crack down on whoever leaks internal discussions to the press. Considering these companies have tens of thousands of employees, that will never happen. It's impossible to prevent leak
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Are the political moods and opinions of big tech employees now a matter of daily news reports? For every event, there will be front page news stories alerting us to Facebook / Google / Amazon / Apple employees' reactions
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by dunpeal 8y ago
And maybe Tesla shouldn't give its features brand names that are inaccurate and put lives at risk?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
What aspect of the process requires a non-remote component? I'm unfamiliar with TripleByte, but it seems like they're matching online candidates with jobs, and that looks something that should be doable online. Other companies in
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> it makes me sad to see how it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to move here. I believe this is the biggest threat to Silicon Valley's dominance as the center of the technology industry Absolutely. Highest income t
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I agree with all that. I just disagreed with GP's claims.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> No-one to guide you if you misunderstand a big concept. You are just left with a lot of reading around. Good MOOCs have tests to ensure that doesn't happen. This is in fact how you solve this problem in all large courses, even tho
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by dunpeal 8y ago
The SEC cares about the public in general. Tesla shareholders are part of the public. So are potential investors who do not currently hold stock, and investors who short Tesla and/or invest in its competitors. There is absolutely nothi
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by dunpeal 8y ago
This. Tesla is a publicly traded company. It makes clear, legally-binding representations of who its officers are and what its organizational structure is. If Tesla represents that Musk is not longer a chairman, while in fact he is, then th
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> There was never any chance Musk would have been banned from running public companies. Why are you so confident? The SEC had a very strong case (or Musk would never have settled). Had they pursued it to its fullest extent, I see no reas
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by dunpeal 8y ago
What exactly would happen? Edit: people take my comment to mean it won't be a big deal. It will be. However, not on the same scale of taking out the power grid, or the water system, which would lead to hundreds or thousands of deaths.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Finally, a cool PHP project.

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