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by geebee 5y ago
there's a lot of wiggle room to differ about what you need to learn. If you managed to prep for this with no degree in 3 months, well dayum. I consider that impressive, and I'd say that's not a low bar at all. I'm not al
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by geebee 5y ago
If only it were like the SATs. With the SATs, the questions are eventually published, and you get a score report indicating exactly what you missed and why, along with a percentile breakdown. Google's interview exams are graded in secr
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by geebee 5y ago
I strongly agree, cannabis can have really unpleasant side effects, and it can be unpredictable and volatile. It does differ from coffee and even alcohol in this regard, though in a varying way. Start with coffee. Coffee isn't dangerou
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by geebee 5y ago
Agreed, thank you for this. I think we should do more to defend quiet spaces.I work for a library, and much of the emphasis is on creating "collaborative" spaces. Those are important too, and I fully understand the irritation libr
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by geebee 5y ago
I weigh in on this now and then. The H1B visa is a visa created by tech companies that allows them to run a shadow, parallel immigration system where they get to decide who is allowed to live and work in the US, what they are allowed to hav
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by geebee 5y ago
Thanks for posting your comment, this is an important issue to me. I would have thought, originally, that legalization would do a better job suppressing illegal grow operations than decriminalization. Decriminalization can create a murky se
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by geebee 5y ago
I'm cynical too, though I frame Amazon's motivation somewhat differently: what low-cost political positions can I vocally support to placate the party that would normally support workers and oppose corporate power?
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by geebee 5y ago
Right, and vaccines also reduce the odds that you will become infected in the first place, which is a big factor in spread.
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by geebee 5y ago
I think the issue is that Breed was violating her own guidelines, and then offering the remarkably accurate defense that the guidelines that she established as mayor are not reasonable.
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by geebee 5y ago
BTW, to whoever posted this, looks like a great article, but the DOI link is broken?
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by geebee 5y ago
I've had to use a binary tree couple of times. And when I did, I recognized the problem as a binary tree problem, and I read up on binary trees, and then used them. For about a month after, I'd have been able to do a lot of tree o
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by geebee 5y ago
I'm glad to see I'm not the first or only one to make this point, but I'll reiterate... it isn't fizz buzz. Trust me, I can write fizzbuzz. I can write loops. I can do basic tree traversal. If I study (yet again), I can
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by geebee 5y ago
Hmmm. The top 1% nationally is somewhere between $500k and $700k annually. Even here in SF, you can live in a nice house for that kind of dough. Did you mean top 10%? Now you're down to about $150k. I do think a two income household at
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by geebee 5y ago
People you care about will regularly experience this, if it hasn't happened already. You'll be shocked and depressed when you discover who is doling out the shame and abuse, you will not recognize who you thought they were, and yo
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by geebee 5y ago
My understanding is that he also had a history of giving light sentences, not just to upper middle class defendants, and that his banishment has gone well beyond losing his job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/201
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by geebee 5y ago
No... not the salary range for nursing isn't quite that broad, but it is very broad. Consider the salary for a nurse anesthetist in a high cost urban center, vs a registered nurse or nurse orderly in a low income rural area. The median
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by geebee 5y ago
Thanks for the link. This is an important part of this discussion, and something I don't understand well. If I'm going to compare compensation in different fields, it's important to know how variable compensation, like stock
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by geebee 5y ago
Hmmm. I wouldn’t say surely, but I don’t really know. IT can range from immensely difficult math heavy curricula to watered down technical training. And my understanding is that rigorous nursing does require a lot of science (though I Don’t
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by geebee 5y ago
I think you're onto something there. Starting out in software engineering can be a great way to enter the workforce, mainly because it allows you to join a team in a very high-value role. If you avoid jobs where you're a cog, and
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by geebee 5y ago
I actually think we have the same problem, to a much lower degree, in the US. Clearly software engineers do get paid extremely well at top companies, and are paid reasonably at lower tiers. But in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, software
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by geebee 5y ago
Ocean temps by Perth are hotter, though. 69 on average in Perth from what I've read, whereas SF ranges from 55-60 depending on the season. To be clear, I'm not saying that SF can't hit 116, just that we should be wary of comp
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by geebee 5y ago
That's largely true, though tax law does reduce the tax hit for people over 55. California recently amended prop 13 so that people over 55 can carry their existing property tax 3 times, and modified it so that they can purchase a more
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by geebee 5y ago
I'm not sure they'll even drop if building codes are relaxed. After all, those SFH owners also own the land beneath their house. The price per square foot of living space could drop while the price per square foot of land goes up.
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by geebee 5y ago
they probably can rise "forever" as long as the rate of increase keeps pace with general wealth and economic growth. now, a bubble can't last forever, but moderate price increases (inflation) are pretty normal.
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by geebee 5y ago
I like it too. I really enjoy knitting together data feeds from a bunch of different sources. I like using the ` character to deal with bizarro database headers that were imported from spreadsheets where people used strange characters or SQ
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by geebee 5y ago
I agree, but I still think this misses the point about the specific impact of the H1B on STEM workers - the focus of the ieee article. The H1B isn't really about generalized high skilled immigration, it's a more narrowly tailored
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by geebee 5y ago
I agree, but the H1B really isn't a general immigration category, or even a general skilled immigration category. In a free labor market, workers are free to choose a field in response to market conditions and their own personal prefer
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by geebee 5y ago
"how would you annotate this if you needed it to be injected as a Spring dependency" well, I mean, you get to ask what you like... but this is how you determine if someone understands what they've typed on a conceptual level?
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by geebee 5y ago
Thanks for posting. I'm always very interested in hearing form people who mention how ostensibly senior people fail fizz buzz. My question is: what happens after people pass fizz buzz? Failing fizz buzz is how you filter people out, bu
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by geebee 5y ago
I think you make make an important point here. Right now, I think many people (in the US, anyway) are now creating a counter-narrative to the previous "war on drugs" mentality that vastly overstated the dangers of cannabis and vas

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