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by freyir 8y ago
> fewer (proportionately) young men are having sex, Thanks. That's what I meant, but I certainly should have worded it better. I've updated my comment. > If we assume that people with homosexual orientation attempting to
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by freyir 8y ago
As the article points out, fewer young men are having sex, but roughly the same number of young women are having sex. I wonder if dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, etc.) are leading women to have sex with a smaller cohort of desirable men. Years
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by freyir 8y ago
Yes, the housing supply in SF and the peninsula is not good. If you want a new build or lots of space, it is not the place to be.
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by freyir 8y ago
I guess the idea is that for all the people using MapReduce, most would be better served by a different paradigm than MapReduce. Because in most cases, there's a better paradigm than MapReduce.
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by freyir 8y ago
We're still in a boom period, where many start-ups/VCs are operating with deep pocket books and instructions to scale fast at any cost. During the next bust, lean will come back in fashion.
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by freyir 8y ago
That seems to tilt a bit towards the profound.
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by freyir 8y ago
That's true. I think my point still stands (OP interpreted the graphic one way, you interpreted it another way), but I'm splitting hairs.
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by freyir 8y ago
Wouldn't it? What major metropolitan areas are you talking about specifically? $250K is FANG compensation for an engineer with a few years of experience. According to NerdWallet cost of living calculator, equivalents are: Manhatt
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by freyir 8y ago
This pertains to their ownership stake in a very large, very public company that has impacted the lives (and often livelihoods) of almost everybody in the US, for better or worse. I don't see what's wrong here. All the articles re
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by freyir 8y ago
The graphic isn't making an argument, it's stating a fact. If you think Uber's valuation is sensible, I don't think this graphic could sway you.
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by freyir 8y ago
If I'm being cynical, TripleByte left this out on purpose. From what I've heard, they're mainly linking developers up with startup roles that don't pay much more than this (except perhaps in monopoly-money equity). Of co
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by freyir 8y ago
Bay Area tech companies are also matching this base pay with RSU's, and total compensation should be roughly twice this. If companies are offering that much in St. Louis, sign me up.
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by freyir 8y ago
Prior experience is good. I mainly care about internships because I don't want to deal with a recent college grad who has no concept of the world beyond the classroom. Prior experience serves the same purpose. If you're looking fo
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by freyir 8y ago
If you're an R&D manager, you likely have much more latitude to rely on subordinates and not know what you want.
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by freyir 8y ago
> "why there are such a few percentage of older folks in engineering" No, there's a small percentage of older folks in software engineering . In almost any other engineering discipline, you'll find many older engin
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by freyir 8y ago
Is one of those life lessons "stop playing poker"? Because in my many hours frittered away in card rooms, I never once thought "these people have it all figured out."
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by freyir 8y ago
The one guy has public perception on his side: Bitcoin has been talked about to death, but besides a few booms and busts fueled by speculators wanting to get rich quick, it feels like a failure to launch. The onus is increasingly on the Bit
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by freyir 8y ago
Age discrimination as a service?
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by freyir 8y ago
I could imagine this announcement will drive Schmidhuber up the wall. He's been very outspoken about how credit in the field should be assigned. That said, I don't know how you could argue against Hinton's impact on the field
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by freyir 8y ago
I totally agree that 90% of ML problems are engineering problems and having a PhD is not relevant to those cases. My comment was more about the 10%, the more research-oriented parts, which some companies have become very competitive about i
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by freyir 8y ago
The current "PhD hang up" in tech, if it exists at all, seems to be driven by the competition for ML talent (edit: ML research talent ). To some extent, this is understandable: a typical undergrad CS curriculum is terrible prepar
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by freyir 8y ago
Throughout most of my career, my PhD has felt like a liability. Especially when I've sought out a non-research-oriented position. Employers seem skeptical that I might rather spend my day coding a product I believe in, rather than solv
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by freyir 8y ago
That's a tough situation. It's good that you tried.
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by freyir 8y ago
I've often seen families get particularly hostile when an in-law involves him or herself with the death or illness of a parent. It doesn't matter whether you're right or what approach you use. They're likely in one of th
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by freyir 8y ago
Right. Those are the best unlimited rates you can get, and Apple is matching that rate with their digital card. The downside is that their physical card rate (1%) is not as competitive, but they're trying to nudge people/businesse
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by freyir 8y ago
Yes, and 1% isn’t the best rate available, but you could always fall back to another rewards card instead of using the physical card.
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by freyir 8y ago
2% cash back on all purchases through the phone with no annual fees? I’d wager this is much better than what the majority of Americans currently have.
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by freyir 8y ago
I loved the promise of Apple News, but in my experience it’s been pretty bad. As much as I try to curate it, it’s full of clickbait and topics I’m not interested in (really, Kylie Jenner posted a photo of her butt on Instagram and we need a
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by freyir 8y ago
You had me up till OpenAI.
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by freyir 8y ago
“Vindictive” means an strong or unreasonable desire for revenge. I didn’t imply that I want that. You’re creating a false dichotomy between not enforcing laws on one hand, and being vindictive on the other. If those are the only alternative

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