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by eshvk 12y ago
> I'm an American living in New Zealand. I'm sure my language issues pale in comparison, but I am constantly second-guessing myself. It's not that I'm worried that people won't understand me, it's that I&#x2
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by eshvk 12y ago
This is actually an incredibly good point; although counterintuitive. However, OP, you should focus on your advantages and why they make you fucking awesome. At this point, I am not sure if you are being a friend to yourself. It is possible
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by eshvk 12y ago
From my very limited understanding of embeds, it appears that they are journalists who form part of the army team. It is not clear to me if they are protected/have access to military secrets by virtue of being part of the team; however
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Am I the only one who thinks Uber prices are ridiculous compared to the yellow taxi 2X - 3X compared to UberX or Uber? If I recall correctly, Taxi + tip is approximately equal to UberX.
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by eshvk 12y ago
I suppose I too am an African programmer. I never thought of myself as one because I first touched a computer after I left the continent. However, here I am writing Machine Learning code.
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by eshvk 12y ago
> This is not my experience at all. Maybe in Cali (I've only visited), but the rest of the US is not as cynical or distrustful as you make it out to be. Likewise. I mean there are fearful, greedy and distrustful people everywhere. P
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by eshvk 12y ago
I moved to America six years ago. I have lived in California, Texas and now live in New York. > My wife keeps saying we should move to US, perhaps California. She thinks we'll finally have some sunshine, lots of affordable fresh foo
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by eshvk 12y ago
Loved the story. Reminds me of my own odd immigrant story: In the 1970s, my dad decides he had enough of living off the family, takes off on a 30-day tourist visa to Communist Ethiopia. Grabs a cab to the Ministry of Education, somehow find
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by eshvk 12y ago
> My parents were teachers and I remember them marking after school and some weekends. My wife is now a teacher and she has after school meetings at least once a week, spends hours marking every night and weekends, plus a lot of her holi
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by eshvk 12y ago
Oh please, enough with this already. I work in the U.S. for a European company. Those who are competitive are competitive irrespective of nationality or culture; it transcends the atlantic. It is not like there is a magical government emplo
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by eshvk 12y ago
Good lord man. The arrogance and superiority complex that you have towards other human beings is breathtaking. I don't know you from heck but I feel the need to become more humble just to reduce the amount of dickishness in the world.
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by eshvk 12y ago
> community where discussions usually end up in someone getting told what they did was obviously wrong. Fascinating how that problem never appears in the programming community. How we never have a situation where a user is told that t
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by eshvk 12y ago
> This table of contents is beginning to seem very familiar (I've done Google's internal machine-learning course and looked at several other courses/tutorials on the net), but what I'm wondering is: how do you do the
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by eshvk 12y ago
That is really cool. Mind telling me how the visa situation works out in such a scenario? Did you walk in on an American passport? Or ..?
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by eshvk 12y ago
1. Joining a startup is different from starting a startup. When you join a startup, irrespective of what cat video app your startup is working, you are still an employee. You may not be working 9-5. You may be working more like 11-11 but y
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by eshvk 12y ago
It is available only now, I think. The wire was pay per episode a month back (even for me, a prime user).
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by eshvk 12y ago
> contribute to belly fat. Do you have any references on cardiovascular activity directly causing a layer of fat growing on your gut?
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by eshvk 12y ago
It is 38 pages long so I have to ask. Would you mind telling me what her inferences were as to this non-linearity and gender ?
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by eshvk 12y ago
> (a) tack on ridiculous extras like paying for water Umm..If your lease says you don't pay for water, you don't. We had a lease that said we didn't pay for it. > b) raise your rent by a ridiculous amount after your fir
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Shouldn't you be able to buy a house alone? > The water is getting hot slowly and the frogs can't tell that the water is starting to boil. In one of the most expensive cities in the world? Hyperbole, apart, irrespective of
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by eshvk 12y ago
> But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory and initiative over decorum. I am not being too cynical in thinking that this doesn't exist? I mean this is the cor
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by eshvk 12y ago
I have worked at two companies where people working remote is not an exception. Both companies started off with a strong tradition of distributed teams where it makes sense to build a culture that is centered around the fact that some co-wo
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by eshvk 12y ago
Exactly. EE here who used to do Robotics. Pay a bit more and get components that can be plugged together in the simplest possible way. Then once you get the prototype working, you can get some fancy HW people to design the system/chip
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Even better for morale, if temps truly could not be found, would be to advocate for everyone including the management above you to do the data entry. As an employee, this strategy has always felt fake and look like make believe work. F
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by eshvk 12y ago
> eventually program something that to some extent can think for itself. Depending on how realistic you are as to what you are trying to do, this could be easy or enormously difficult. Artificial Intelligence in the sense of what exists
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by eshvk 12y ago
On the Computer Science side of things. You are spreading yourself too thin if you say that you are interested in type theory, FP, Compilers, and so on. Each one of these fields is a discipline in itself. You could spend years and years acq
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by eshvk 12y ago
I presume that he means that economic conditions are so bad in India and China that people would go through poverty in American Graduate schools instead of staying back home. I think there is some truth and some hyperbole to that presumptio
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Programming leads to some serious concentrated rewards, while science leads only to dispersed rewards. Can you explain what you mean by this?
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by eshvk 12y ago
Crossfit was my first introduction to Weight lifting. In that sense, I am very grateful to CrossFit. However, the process of learning form is incredibly hard. I went to one of the best Crossfit boxes in SF and while I have complete faith th
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Is any of this information public yet? Most Machine Learning research that is not done by top secret labs is available publicly. Start looking at papers by Geoffrey Hinton. Could also take a look at word2vec if you are into NLP.

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