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by eshvk 14y ago
I get the need for registering so that a person can keep track of scores. However, there should be a way for me to play the game without registering. I am not about to give my email address to a website without even knowing beforehand if th
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by eshvk 14y ago
Couple of points: 1. Not sure what your citizenship status is but if you are not a US citizen/Permanent Resident, it becomes rather difficult for you to get a job here (especially at an early-stage startup where sponsoring your employment v
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by eshvk 14y ago
Yeah but I would think that evaluating whether a person can code or not is hard. (From both personal experiences as an interviewee/interviewer and the large number of posts regarding interviews that we see on HN every day). During my limite
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by eshvk 14y ago
Oddly enough, I see quite a few startups where this is prevalent and even celebrated. I remember talking to a YC company where top-down from the CEO, I was told that everyone worked 80+ hours a week and people were proud of the fact that oc
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by eshvk 14y ago
The problem lies in how a start up should evaluate an "older person". I am fresh out of school and think it is completely natural to be asked about new technologies, dynamic programming etc. However, I know a guy in his late thirties who ha
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by eshvk 14y ago
1) I rarely see furnished apartments in the bay area. Most of the "furnished apartments" have either been high priced (Say $3K - $4K) or been sublets at someone's place. Depending on your aesthetic sensibilities, furnishing might not be too
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by eshvk 14y ago
MV/Palo Alto: $1300 - $1900 (The range is wide but the more closer you want to live to downtown,the more expensive it gets. Furnished is going to add a huge cost and getting a 1 br will definitely hike it up even more) Food: $200 (If you co
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by eshvk 14y ago
I wouldn't go so far as demanding only salary because it kind of implies that you are certain that the startup will go bust rather than _might go bust_. However, I definitely prefer as competitive salary as possible; I don't know about th
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am not so sure that the situation is as simple as that. My perception is that these tiny issues are usually symptoms of an underlying reason why there is no longer (if there ever was) a fit between the company and a person. I think what h
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by eshvk 14y ago
If she is on a student visa, try to find out if she has the option to go on Optional Practical Training (OPT), the monetary commitment for an employee is minimal so I think many companies think this would be a good way to try out an employe
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by eshvk 14y ago
There actually is a really strong community of mathematicians at mathoverflow.net. Also, I know quite a few academics who tweet about their research but these are definitely the exception rather than the norm. A simple reason as to why acad
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by eshvk 15y ago
meetup.com has a good mix of tech meetups happening in NYC and the bay area.
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by eshvk 15y ago
So is there any formal process when you get hired for you to choose which team you get to join? For example, maybe talk to a few teams and then choose which team you get to work on and stuff?
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by eshvk 15y ago
Some perennial favorite "interview questions" of mine: 1. Tell me the difference between final, finally and finalize in Java. (Of course it was completely irrelevant to the discussion that my resume at that time never claimed that I knew Ja
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by eshvk 15y ago
Very true. I was bewildered by the hate for the 501 manifesto. I think of myself as a person who likes math so much that I will program to build fun stuff that lets me do more math. I have had days where I was so fully immersed into the pro
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Thoughts on unit testing statistical code(blog.mpacula.com)
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by eshvk 15y ago
I use both (the MBP as a personal laptop) and the MBA at work and I must say that I prefer the MBP. The MBA is a nice enough to do light weight stuff on it but the RAM on it is not enough for today's day and age. Also I find that as a perso
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Whistle-Blower Claiming Visa Fraud Keeps His Job, but Not His Work(nytimes.com)
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by eshvk 15y ago
I successfully hacked my sleep schedule around 5 years ago. I used to think I was a night owl basically working till 3 in the morning and waking up at noon, then, I realized I was basically not being productive enough doing that. I used a c
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by eshvk 15y ago
I am surprised how many people completely ignore this. I see tons of people blog on and on about the bright eyed, bushy tailed genius programmer out there who needs to be acquired. I see very few about companies actually trying to make an
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by eshvk 15y ago
Not saying you need to be a web developer to write a blog. All, I am saying is that the web provides a way to do interactive visualizations in a manner not provided by Matlab/R/matplotlib. For example, colleague at Mozilla did this: http:/
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by eshvk 15y ago
Well they might not be hired to do just web development but I think learning about the web stack is incredibly useful because it helps you get your work out to people. This is important especially in a (early stage) start up where you might
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by eshvk 15y ago
The post is awesome. Having just "graduated" (dropped out of my PhD program) and also interviewed a bunch of really smart folks who are making the transition to the "real world", I cannot emphasize the importance of the following for a good
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by eshvk 15y ago
Very true. I am a person whose intuition works in a very weird way in that I try to abstract away problem details and try to apply rigor too soon. For most of my high school and early undergrad, I spent a lot of time being frustrated by "in
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by eshvk 15y ago
Very cool. I was implementing Hangman a few weeks back and I figured out the first strategy, use the frequency distribution for the specific length to initiate your guessing. However, I thought about but discarded the second strategy of con
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by eshvk 15y ago
Yes, that is true but the training does help _a bit_ (or there is some correlation): Depending on the type of math classes you are taking, you can rapidly ramp up training your mind to think analytically which helps while doing CS. Let me o
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by eshvk 15y ago
This is very true. It definitely helps to think at multiple layers of abstraction when writing Pig code so that you can optimize it carefully. Ultimately though, I have been rather unsatisfied with the limits to which I can push Pig. There
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by eshvk 15y ago
My friend works for Google and I have definitely seen him work from home. I am not sure whether they would be okay with doing remote (you would have to ask them) but I am sure if you knock off early and logged on from home and got your stuf
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by eshvk 15y ago
This kind of has been my experience as well in Statistics/EE/Machine Learning. While, IEEE/ACM have word style files, I have seen very few submissions that use word. In fact, I know reviewers who have had a significant bias (which whether i
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by eshvk 15y ago
True with a tiny caveat. Having worked through a lot of a "lesser" book: The algorithm design manual, what I have found missing in other books or contest driven practice is any practice of proofs of correctness. While, these are certainly p

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