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by eshvk 14y ago
> Could you live in the US illegally and be working at a Fortune 500 company? Probably not. Could you come to the US and work at a mom and pop grocery store? Probably. I would think that this in itself coupled with the high time investm
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by eshvk 14y ago
Can you explain a bit more on why it is hard to deport people? The way I understood it the way illegal immigrants live in the country is because they either use fake SSNs or no SSNs, no paper trails of any kind. I would imagine that it woul
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by eshvk 14y ago
It was a weak attempt at injecting humor. As happens usually, these things fall flat.
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by eshvk 14y ago
> I can filter out 10% of the noise at home, because if my wife is talking or our cats are meowing, it's almost certainly directed at me. IMO the only advantage of working from home is that you can control all those free variables that
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by eshvk 14y ago
It would be great to be able to identify the features necessary for successful entrepreneurship. However, defining "tenacity" and "scrappiness" (and other latent variables) in a binary fashion acceptable to a bureaucrat are difficult. In it
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by eshvk 14y ago
> My guess is they're not happy about it either but if the pressure comes from high up enough they have to relent. One part of it may be that they think that even if they're doing the wrong thing legally they're doing it out of some mor
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by eshvk 14y ago
Let me try to answer the question seriously: I have worked in coffee shops with ambient noise which I have been able to tune out. I believe that the experiment is subtly different that what I had proposed because it is looking at a differe
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by eshvk 14y ago
Idea for any startup founders out there: Have quiet breakout rooms where one can't talk in anything but a whisper. Hell, make it so that one can't even use a Das Keyboard in there. I would be curious to run an A/B test on productivity (say
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by eshvk 14y ago
I don't have a say in this matter but wouldn't this be a possible solution to the illegal immigrant issue? If they are in the process of creating jobs for U.S. citizens or allege that they can, give them a visa or "legalize them". If at any
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am confused: Is there a reason why those _shouldn't_ be startups? If there is a reasonably baseline of jobs, $J being created in a certain reasonably timeframe, $T, with a certain amount of equity, $D being generated. Why should the U.S.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I just read up on this. It works if you have that much capital at the start but what if you don't? What is the alternative for say people, who are fresh out of school and have a bunch of ideas and might in 3-4 years time create value and j
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by eshvk 14y ago
I have never actually heard an engineer ever proclaim why an open office plan is definitively a better approach to do things. I have heard things like "Foster open communication" or "Collaboration" but I am not really clear why one couldn't
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would also recommend Jeff Erickson's (UIUC) book on algorithms freely available here ( http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/teaching/algorithms/ ). It is very well written challenging material.
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by eshvk 14y ago
There are enough people who come from top notch statistical backgrounds who don't necessarily have a firm grasp in whatever fancy machine learning heuristic is in flavor today (which is not a deal killer), or don't know how to code (which p
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by eshvk 14y ago
The thing to note is that data scientist interviewing culture at companies is a function of who their first data scientist is or who the founder or whatever things the first data scientist should look like. This is why you have a wide var
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am confused: I believe they still have a research lab in Austin that does machine learning (among other things). I also know folks who have interned doing computational linguistics at Apple.
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is something more people should do! I still remember the companies where the human touch at the hand off stage was present and have nothing but good will towards such companies. If I wasn't working for a company in direct competition f
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am young in the Industry and I already see examples of such people. They go through a recursive cycle of "visible productivity" in terms of fancy features which break three months later. Then, they are on a "fire fight" trying to fix this
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by eshvk 14y ago
There are people who give you one free meal per day which is dinner at 7 PM. Does that count?
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by eshvk 14y ago
In an ideal world, I would totally agree with you. However, most recommendation systems deal with three issues: 1. Sparsity of data. People surprisingly rate much less than you think they would. In fact, negative ratings are way less sparse
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by eshvk 14y ago
Ehh...I keep hearing about all these Dropbox competitors that are going to defeat it. I would love to see who would though, Dropbox has me hooked on way too much and it worries me to see a tiny company with so much of a data lock on. On the
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by eshvk 14y ago
Also, sparsity of data. The fact that people are precious unique snowflakes. :)
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by eshvk 14y ago
Nevertheless personalized recommendations doesn't avoid the issue that the parent was talking about. Say based on my personal history, Foursquare figures out that I love Pizza. Say I am in Denver, CO tomorrow twenty feet away from two Pizz
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by eshvk 14y ago
I went through a bunch of typing tutorials in high school (Mavis Beacon etc). Nothing worked and everything was painful till I encountered a game called Typing of the Dead ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead ). Three week
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by eshvk 14y ago
It is not free. Nothing is free. In fact, when I was negotiating an offer, the free food for breakfast and lunch was brought up several times. Yes, this is true even at Google. See http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/21/notfree/
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by eshvk 14y ago
To offer a counter perspective: I hate the taste of coffee but it is all I drank back when I was in grad school for my caffeine fix (because I was poor and red bull was $$). Once I got to work, I wanted to quit coffee but wanted to still ge
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by eshvk 14y ago
That is basically what I do. I drink a protein shake around 2 PM. Ideally, this is all I eat till I go home and then pack on a big dinner. Having said that, practically there are times when you eat out (Team lunches, parties at work etc). I
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by eshvk 14y ago
To offer a data point from the other side of the hyperplane: I remember emailing PG way back in 2009 for some advice on grad school. He was polite, to the point and helpful.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I dunno. I would categorize myself a health nut (powerlifting, leangains etc) but I do think that junk foods (cookies, icecream and redbull) should not be banned from a tech office kitchen. I may not partake of them but some people do prefe
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by eshvk 14y ago
Indian is not a race :-)

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