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by geebee 4y ago
One interesting thing to come of these discussions - a lot of the problems with US News methodology arise from the attempt to push certain metrics from 90% to 100%. Class size, faculty with a "terminal" degree, class size, admissi
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by geebee 4y ago
It sounds like they should have paid to keep you. That said, I've written software that I would expect would require more engineers to keep around long term, in production. Better testing, security, reliability, scalability, maintainab
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by geebee 4y ago
Upvoted because I think you bring up an important question. In many ways, leetcode style whiteboard exams are the BarrierToEntry(TM) for our field. My problem with this analogy is that our field has no examinee "bill of rights" th
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by geebee 4y ago
Thank you for the link! They were all interesting, and yes, all the result of having a high scale. For anyone curious and thinking about watching the video (I recommend watching it), the topics were 1) should you immediately re-run a failed
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by geebee 4y ago
I've heard about this, in different contexts. What it mainly comes down to is that incremental improvements can have massive impacts when you can apply them at a scale available at FAANG. I first read about this outside the context of
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by geebee 4y ago
They do, now. Many stores in SF malls that formerly had 2 entrances now close one, and post a security guard by the other.
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by geebee 4y ago
I do think we should consider one point - SF has an open border with a country of 330 million that has no comparable welfare state. Imagine if you transplanted Stockholm, city only, to the middle of the US. Swedish style welfare and governm
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by geebee 5y ago
This isn't really true. The ivies are bound by the rules that govern private institutions that receive federal funding. For example, they are not free to disregard Title 9 or Obama's "Dear Colleague" letter without jeopa
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by geebee 5y ago
A precise definition in the abstract would be difficult. However, examples are still very useful. Typically, there's an initial easier screening followed by a much harder coding test. Rather than discuss them in the abstract, why not p
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by geebee 5y ago
We've talked about this so many times on HN, and I've weighed in on this so many times. But it's an important enough topic that we should have the discussion again. You left undefined what you mean by "some sort of basic
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by geebee 5y ago
Oof. The online test. Probably the auto-graded kind. The kind that pushes all the inefficiency of the process out on to the developer. Well, take it if you want. I'll never do it. But then again, I have missed out on what might have be
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by geebee 5y ago
I'm really wary of this. House wiring would be more useful than Shakespeare. That's not to knock house wiring, or statistics. I'd love to know more about both. But don't deny yourself an understanding of the meaning of l
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by geebee 5y ago
My big problem with GATE programs, as they were implemented at SFUSD, is the question of what happens to the kid at the 89%ile. I am not at all against elite education, nor do I believe everyone should proceed roughly at the same pace. But
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by geebee 5y ago
That's an interesting point. I used Rails extensively when I was a web developer. I gave this up when I shifted back to an analytical role and started writing much more numerical code in Python for analysis rather than application deve
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by geebee 5y ago
I said yes, but only with the assumption that this is specifically for software engineering roles. You can land a high paying job in other roles without the leetcode grind. You may pay in other ways, in terms of the nature of the work or ot
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by geebee 5y ago
I've floated an idea previously here on HN: any company that applies for an H1B must make all salaries public the way public employees' salaries are public. By this, I mean total pay by name and position. I feel that if I private
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by geebee 5y ago
Magnificent essay. We’ve discussed this extensively (too much) here on HN but this essay is a valuable contribution because of its completeness and insight. I think this essay understates how difficult the coding test screenings can be. I d
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by geebee 5y ago
I quit facebook (as a user, never worked for them). I may drop Netflix. I've been mad at apple ever since I bought a powerbook that crapped out within a year and a few months, just outside the warranty (I never bought the extended, it
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by geebee 5y ago
I think this article makes sense and makes a strong case for valuing a PhD if you have already completed one and don't plan to enter academia . You haven't wasted your time. But it doesn't make a strong case for choosing to
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by geebee 5y ago
Interesting to reflect on how this plays out in the tech world. I know a lot of people who work in tech and outside, and my impression is that the interview process outside tech (and specifically data science or software engineering roles)
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by geebee 5y ago
I agree, but the format and limitations of twitter are unusually prone to degraded public discourse.
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by geebee 5y ago
I've never written a tweet. I avoid comments too much. I do use it to follow reading lists from a few journalists, writers, academics, and artists. There are much better ways, but twitter is what everyone uses. Comments are often terri
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by geebee 5y ago
Yes, that is very different from what I experienced at Berkeley as well. There were some notable differences between my PhD application and undergrad, in that PhD admissions committees weren't really interested in the undergraduate dog
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by geebee 5y ago
Interesting story about the lecturer. The RAND institute proposed an alternative approach to PhDs modeled more on professional degrees. Law professors, for instance, typical complete law degrees in a very predicable 3 years and build their
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by geebee 5y ago
Just as an anecdote. I was in a doctoral program in engineering, and I mastered out into a 90k/yr job (this was in the early 2000s) writing cplex code to optimize supply chains. A buddy in the PhD program was doing nearly identical wor
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by geebee 5y ago
Fascinating. Was there a lot of coursework, or was this dissertation-based? The reason I say fascinating is that people do part-time law degrees (25-30 hours a week estimated commitment) while working at times demanding jobs. However, I am
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by geebee 5y ago
One factor - I was under the impression that European PhD programs are much more dissertation focused, whereas US based ones are intensely coursework focused for the first few years. Is this the case? I was in a US based PhD program (at Ber
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by geebee 5y ago
who in this thread claimed that Raskolinov's real motive was "raising some cash and getting away with it"? You can provide a sort summary of an argument you find compelling regarding Raskolnikov's motivations without add
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by geebee 5y ago
I agree with you, thoroughly, but I don't think it's entirely fair to write a one-liner like this. If you're going to say this, you should write an explanation for why.
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by geebee 5y ago
There may be a difference between data science or ML work and software engineering. It's commonly stated, accurately IMO, that you don't really need an advanced math background to be a software engineer or developer. I tend to agr

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