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by fsk 11y ago
I reversed my attitude for interviews. If the employer has an interview process that doesn't respect my time, my experience, and my ability, then I don't want to work there. My attitude isn't "As a candidate, I failed t
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I live in NYC. A couple months, I applied to all NYC HN ads, including the ones that said "You don't need experience in our tech stack." I got zero onsite interviews. I know that I know my stuff very well.
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You're an undergraduate now, so I'll give a lesson in how the actual job market works. You get a job using languages/tools X, Y, and Z. When you apply for a new job, they'll screen your resume based on what languages an
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>People used to be in tech because we loved it. Today, it is all about the money and I hate it. It's Gresham's Law. When most of the people in a field are there to chase the money, the people who really enjoy it and are good a
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I'm starting to hate sites that don't render anything unless you enable Javascript. HN should ban them or have a setting where you can filter them out.
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I went to grad school for a Math PhD for 3 years and then dropped out to switch to computer programmer. If I didn't go to grad school, I would have regretted it, but having done it, it seems like a waste of time now. That was on reaso
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Taxation is theft! Imagine a country of 5 people where 3 of them thought they were allowed to break into the home of the other 2 and take whatever they wanted and spend it on whatever they wanted. But back to the OP, "failure to file t
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I've seen job ads that ask for your StackOverflow ID, presumably to check your karma total there.
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Nowadays I only stay late if I'm troubleshooting a production issue. Otherwise, I just take notes of where I am, what I was thinking, and finish the next day.
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>What does it say on the blank first page of the Zappos employee manual? All employees are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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The people who say you should work 16 hours a day are the ones hoping to get rich at your expense. Also, after 40 hours a week, productivity starts to go negative. Stick to 8 hours a day. Work for a couple of years as an employee and buil
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Someone can't "disrupt youtube" until costs come down to the point that Google's search/ad cash cow isn't subsidizing YouTube anymore. At some point, hosting video yourself on an aws instance will be feasible.
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Peer review is censorship. If you have a truly original idea, you're essentially calling out all your peers for being frauds for not noticing it themselves, so they will ridicule or censor you.
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I've read and noticed some interesting things since I left graduate school. I just make them a blog post, rather than going through the hassle of trying to get it published in a major academic research publication. Since I'm not
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In the 1950s-1960s, the university system was expanding, in part due to the post-WWII GI Bill. Anyone with a PhD was pretty much guaranteed a decent job. A pyramid scheme works well when the pyramid is expanding. It doesn't work so w
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In Math, it's almost impossible to do serious undergraduate-level research. It takes about 2-3 years of graduate level study in a specialty to get to the point where you are at new territory. Almost all the easy theorems have been pr
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I was similarly frustrated when I left a Math PhD program. I realized that my best-case outcome was probably a tenure-track job at a #100 ranked school, and my worst/likely-case outcome was being a permanent adjunct with no other marke
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There were several drugs I tried where I couldn't stand the side-effects, and only one that I actually liked. As a patient, if you feel the drugs aren't helping, you should be prepared to fire your doctor or even stop taking them.
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It sounds like he's talking about the incompleteness theorem, that there are statements that are true but we can never find a proof. That's closely related to the halting problem and the idea of computability. There are some pro
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http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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Also, if you have too many pageviews, Google Analytics only gives you a sample instead of the full data. I like piwik. It isn't that hard to set up your own analytics with piwik or another tool.
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With a gold standard, you have little/no inflation. (Although from 1933-1971 it was only a partial gold standard, because individuals could not redeem their dollars for gold. Only foreign central banks could trade dollars for gold.)
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or you could use a relational database and do SELECT * FROM scores WHERE game_id = :game_id ORDER BY score DESC
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When Netflix first started, they were able to buy the streaming rights to old movies and TV shows for cheap, because executives thought they weren't worth anything. Now those contracts are expiring, and the studios want to jack up the
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I've seen that a couple of times, startups that insisted on rolling their own code for everything instead of using standard tools. I worked one place that wrote their own build tool (instead of using Make or Visual Studio). They wrote
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I see, he has limit ordinals in his embedded order with the sequence 1 - (1/2)^n, with 1 being the equivalent of omega. You probably even could get an embedded omega squared with 1 - (1/2)^n - (1/3)^m with m>n So 1/2
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BTW, that blog has a corrupted RSS feed. (Try loading it in FireFox.) I tried posting a comment asking for them to fix it, but they didn't. It looks like a simple error, just an incorrect newline at the start of the file.
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That's the difference between venture capital and bootstrapping. When you have outside investors, they will eventually want to cash out or sell their investment. If you bootstrap, you can have a business that generates a consistent $20
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The reason you need net neutrality is that the phone/cable companies have a monopoly for last-mile wire access to your home. If they want to get rid of net neutrality, then they should also lose their last-mile monopoly.
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tl;dr version He constructs a weird order on the rational numbers, and they play the game on that ordering. He also has steps for limit ordinals. For example: Cheryl: I have given each of you an ordinal. I didn't give both of you the

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