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by ford 4y ago
I struggle with this - I tend to agree they will trend lower, but will still be high for the best engineers. Most high paying jobs pay well because of leverage. Private equity/investment bankers make decisions to invest huge sums of mo
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by ford 4y ago
A FAANG-ish company I am familiar with budgets for salary, not roles. If you're a manager trying to build the best team possible and you think you can do 2x the work by hiring engineers from Nebraska who make 50% what they might in SF,
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A VC Interviews Leaders in US Defense (2021)(docs.google.com)
3 points by ford 4y ago|1 comments
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by ford 4y ago
The interviews were conducted & summarized by Elad Gil. He published this after his investment in Anduril's series D. The interviews focus on the opportunities for tech in Defense and perceived vs actual collaboration between the D
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by ford 4y ago
This feels like the Spotify version of the websites you find on Google that just scrape Stack Overflow As Spotify's recommendations become more ingrained in how people listen to music they'll have to think about how to treat &quot
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by ford 4y ago
Can you share the link?
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by ford 4y ago
If by devops you mean managing architecture + deployments vs only writing code, I imagine that exists at places with mature infrastructure, but honestly MLOps is developing so quickly that small to medium ML teams will go through some infra
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by ford 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply it needed to be _graduate_ research - however it would be news to me if they were publishing at top conferences independently of a lab or research branch at a company. How do the people you know go about it?
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by ford 4y ago
I work in ML - I might make 3 buckets for ML careers right now: 1. ML/DL Researcher 2. Data scientist - 20/80 engineering vs modelling 3. ML Eng - 50/50 (or 70/30) engineering vs modelling People suggesting working in en
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by ford 4y ago
I think more teams should recognize that some features/products/functionality (especially at large companies is not worth paging for. Obviously if a customer can't access their bank account or sell a stock then someone need
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by ford 4y ago
This is pretty cool - quantum behavior is really not intuitive and being able to play with it helps clarify it I do wish each level had more explanation about the concept it's teaching. You can figure things out if you know a small amo
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by ford 4y ago
In this case they're paying more for the feedback/interview than for an additional user
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by ford 4y ago
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I found this course [0] from google useful. [0] https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
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by ford 4y ago
I didn't use it before the acquisition, but I generally have positive experiences using LinkedIn despite it being acquired ~6 years ago.
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by ford 4y ago
Yes - I understand the connection if they are in fact reading document content
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by ford 4y ago
Do you think Google is reading the contents of drive documents? I struggle to make the connection between those kinds of business apps and advertising. Perhaps they get some usage data of how/when people work? I do believe much of what
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by ford 5y ago
> That's a problem because a lot of software engineering involves the behavior of people in groups and coordinating that behavior to produce software. I'd hypothesize that most applicable improvements to a software engineering
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by ford 5y ago
IMO most of the practical "research" I've seen comes in the form of best practices from Big Co. who a) hire very intelligent people and b) have extreme financial incentives to write the best code & have the best processes
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by ford 5y ago
What few people put to words is that prepping for tech interviews can be the single most significant financial decision of a person's life. Working at BigCo. vs Normal Tech vs Traditional Company can have 1.5x to 2x impact on compensat
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by ford 5y ago
An interesting attempt to address this idea (albeit with not much traction and thus questionable benefit) - the long term stock exchange: https://ltse.com/about
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by ford 5y ago
I read this comment as kind of a dig at Ethereum - which is partially fair because I agree Ethereum is a bit sensational. But consider the opposite stance of thinking about what Ethereum does right - maybe rewarding your customers for using
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by ford 5y ago
These two things are different enough that it feels a little disengenuous to compare them. The similar growth from 2017-2020 seems more like a spurious correlation than a true one
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by ford 5y ago
There are many comments here about title inflation/the increasing interest in "staff" engineers/etc - I tend to agree with the arguments in this article [0] (from Gokul Rajaram) that argues titles distract from what you
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by ford 5y ago
I know close to nothing about tractors - but I see posts about John Deere on here quite frequently. Are there competing tractor companies? Or is the issue that people have already purchased tractors and can't repair those, and given th
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by ford 5y ago
If you're at a university that allows undergraduate research I suggest trying it at least for a semester. Undergrads at my university got to work on really cool stuff like finding water on Mars, and the bar to join is often just expr
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by ford 5y ago
Oftentimes things that are common-sense at the macro level are really hard to implement or remember day-to-day, and as you mention stories like this can be good reminders to keep perspective. I.e. when investing in the stock market it'
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by ford 5y ago
I can see where the author is coming from, and I don't mean to discredit the many negatives they mention, but ironically enough people doing exactly what the article suggests against has led to many people (even my mother) googling thi
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by ford 5y ago
This kind of doublespeak/mixed messaging with nuanced private conversations but dead-simple (or worse, spun) public statements is a double-edged sword. Sure it makes sure that the x% of employees who don't get the nuance won'
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by ford 5y ago
A different question - how do teams that don't use feature flags accomplish the things feature flags enable? Namely: 1) Validating you can handle production-scale 2) Ensuring integrations/environment-related issues don't happ
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by ford 5y ago
It sounds like a poor design choice to not give clients the ability to set their own defaults

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