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by geebee 9y ago
Well, MIT, sure. But is Harvard really a remarkable CS, engineering, or applied science research institution comparable to Berkeley or Stanford? It's interesting what happens when you look at rankings of engineering programs, especial
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by geebee 9y ago
There can be a competitive advantage in aging technology. For instance, suppose you were writing an app that makes heavy use of scientific or ML libraries in python, but your UI is a mainly layout and forms with admin, login, accounts, and
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by geebee 9y ago
I'm coming in a little late here, but I really did mean it was just an indicator. Visualizations are still important. In fact, a moving graphic might mean that the kid on the kindle is, in fact, using a visual aid to conceptualize ho
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by geebee 9y ago
May I share a related vignette? I have a kid in middle school, and he has a tablet. These things are often pushed as "educational". Pop quiz: you walk by, and you need to determine, within a couple of seconds, if what he's
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by geebee 9y ago
I read pretty widely in what I would call mainstream media, progressive and conservative (within limits). I don't want to get my news from Facebook, so I routinely ask to "see less" of almost all politics, especially regardin
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by geebee 9y ago
Thanks for your reply. It sounds like my claim about Berkeley may be a bit out of date. Close, but no longer quite the case.
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by geebee 9y ago
The part about ping pong and beer vs a more formal workplace is really interesting. I've been reading more about this lately. One story that struck me was about a journalist whose newspaper was purchased by a tech company, and the cul
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by geebee 9y ago
<Doesn't make them less private> Ok, now I can see why we disagree. Private/public is, to me, not binary. There are degrees. A homeowner, for instance, does get a favored tax status where it comes to income taxes (though t
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by geebee 9y ago
I mentioned this in a comment above - Harvard is a private university that is blessed by favored government status. The exemption on endowment growth is worth more per undergraduate than public colleges receive from the state (apologize
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by geebee 9y ago
<As a private organization it is perfectly entitled to pick and choose what matters to it.> This is an aside, but I don't entirely agree. The tax exemption Harvard receives on its massive endowment is, per undergraduate, worth m
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by geebee 9y ago
"I am a professional, I get things done for other people." I get what you're saying here (I think). Part of being a professional is putting your own ego aside and not making it all about yourself. However, a true professiona
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by geebee 9y ago
Great article. Thanks to Dan Wang for writing it. My main difference in perspective with this article (I'm hesitant to call it a disagreement, because it's more a matter or perspective than any specific conclusion) is that I don&
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by geebee 9y ago
Almost nobody I know would say it should disqualify you from the profession, but I can see why you're nervous about this. After all, law now generally requires a $150k+ degree and three years of your life. Plenty of people, including
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by geebee 9y ago
I don't see this as such a problem. For instance, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis, and so forth, are only a small part of what makes a good actuary. But they have a formal exam that you need to pas
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, no doubt that's a huge part of why we have these interview-as-exam experiences in software development. Still... the exams are harder than you'd need to simply weed out the fakers and cheaters. I can do various linked list
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by geebee 9y ago
This question may be a bit too late, but I am curious. I didn't get through at Google. However, I only asked for 3 weeks to prepare, and I have outside obligations (kids, coaching, that sort of thing). I can easily traverse a binary
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by geebee 9y ago
I'm not really suggesting much here, more identifying a problem. I suppose my question is, what are some of those bad interview processes, especially around the coding interview, and how would you address them? To an extent, you have
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by geebee 9y ago
For starters, thank you for hanging out on this thread and answering questions. Where it comes to taking a realistic look at what it takes to be hired at google and other top tech companies, I think you give great practical advice. I'
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of edge cases. And of course, it's reasonable to point them out. But again, do you think that, generally speaking, these edge cases (and notable underemployment among law grads) indicate that the ABA is largely i
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by geebee 9y ago
Your general point is well taken, but do you think the fact that there is notable unemployment among law grads demonstrates that the ABA requirement (in most states) that people complete a very expensive three year degree is not an example
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by geebee 9y ago
The median salary for a lawyer in SF is about 200k a year. Try finding a lawyer who will work for cheap. Plenty of people are denied essential legal services because they can't afford a lawyer. Sure, the regulatory capture of the leg
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by geebee 9y ago
I'm not sure it is ok under those circumstances. Lawrence Lessig suddenly changed his focus from copyright law to corruption after many years. He had an epiphany of sorts - he's been right for decades, but it doesn't matter.
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by geebee 9y ago
The problem is that our legal system almost certainly won't reach that decision quickly and at low cost. Even if she wins, she loses.
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by geebee 9y ago
How about law schools forcing everyone to do massively expensive degrees to be allowed to take the bar? Keep in mind, you can support some kind of exam and educational requirement while asserting that the scope and scale of ABA requirements
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by geebee 9y ago
You know, I don't think this is necessarily about socialism. It may just be about capitalism, with rules. I personally do believe that some measure of antitrust regulation is necessary to preserve a market economy. Similarly, other
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by geebee 9y ago
Why haven't more research institutions expanded the roles of staff scientists? One reason is that they can be hard to pay for, especially by conventional means. Some funding agencies look askance at supporting this class of profession
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by geebee 9y ago
I met a guy in college who was trying to take vector calc, physics, and data structures and algorithms, while supporting himself in San Diego working part time at Nordstrom. He had to drop data structures. I didn't stay in touch, of
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by geebee 9y ago
Yeah, sadly, that's a common problem in software development. People often use technologies on projects because their resume needs them, not because the project benefits from them. I wonder what our technology choices would look like
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I use it most for numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, and a bit of graphing. I use it because there is so much data processing, formatting, piping, munging, and so forth involved in analytical work in data analysis, and I think python brings in t
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by geebee 9y ago
There are a few ways to go about this. One is very programmer heavy. There's a lot of data processing that goes into machine learning, but you can't quite separate the two. Often, the programmer who prepares and processes the da

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