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by geebee 10y ago
Awesome post, thanks for writing it up! I haven't been very involved in using random forest at work (yet, I hope to), but I've done various mathematical programming work in the past to generate business insights (mainly through re
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by geebee 10y ago
Another interesting factor just occurred to me, that supports what you've said here - at UCSD, by the time you'd done your two year undergraduate survey and year of upper division regional focus through the history department, you
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by geebee 10y ago
That's interesting. A professor at Berkeley told me once that Berkeley Engineering, along with a bunch of other universities, once threatened to withdraw from ABET, largely because they felt that the requirements were getting so heavy
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by geebee 10y ago
I have this reaction when I read these articles as well. I'm sure that there are plenty of people who are dismissive of humanities majors, but I've experienced a real problem, over the course of my career, with people who want to
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by geebee 10y ago
Just for another data point, I double majored in English Literature and Mathematics with a CS emphasis, and I did have to work harder to get a lower grade in the advanced math and CS classes. Just to be clear, I do consider humanities to be
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by geebee 10y ago
Yes, that makes sense. I'm not sure I'd read anything by you until this post, but it sounds like you're talking more about where you are putting your framework development efforts, rather than what you'd use as a framew
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by geebee 10y ago
Great article, and only 391 posts. Clearly I need to show up 24 hours after the fact and put in my two cents ;) From what I've read here, it really doesn't sound like his time with rails is quite "up". It sounds like h
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by geebee 10y ago
I found it a bit strange, but not that strange. First, a "thesis" isn't too uncommon at the BA level. I majored in math at UCSC where this is an option. Can't say if this is something people do in CS, but I wouldn&#
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by geebee 10y ago
A "no true scotsman" argument would define good developers as developers who "don’t need velocity, daily stand ups, points estimations, spikes, scrum masters to deliver high quality software". A different standard, such
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by geebee 10y ago
It happens when people use the mod system to vote their position on a topic. I'm guilty of this, and I do think "agile", as a noun in quotation marks, has gone badly wrong. A lot of us have just gotten really burned. It&#x2
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by geebee 10y ago
I was unable to find that quote… are you referring to a different article? If so, would you source it?
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by geebee 10y ago
Maybe Los Angeles? Doubt it, though.
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by geebee 10y ago
In fairness to marcoperaza, this is partly a problem with the term "homeless". It is ambiguous, and in a way that can cause problems in meaningful discussions. San Francisco has a number of problems with "homelessness".
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by geebee 10y ago
I refused to do a take-home interview exam for the first time a couple of months ago. I don't think a $100 gift certificate would have made much of a difference. The opportunity was a decent one but I've just had very bad experi
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by geebee 10y ago
Yes, anyone attempting to say that living in a first world country on $125,000 "sucks" is open to this criticism. I'd probably avoid phrasing it this way. However, I'm generally in agreement with the post. I live in a
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by geebee 10y ago
A language with more strictly enforced interface inheritance would probably require a more, uh, deliberate intent to stick an electrical outlet into pig's snout, but you could probably still go ahead and do this if you were really hell
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by geebee 10y ago
I think this is a strong point. If rails is yesterday's technology, then what is today's? To be clear, by no means am I trying to claim that Rails is the clear winner over other technology choices, or that a good answer to this q
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by geebee 10y ago
I can't think of an orm that can't handle joins. I can think of way that relatively inexperienced devs might use an orm in a day that doesn't take proper advantage of it though (seen it). I don't see this as a reason t
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by geebee 10y ago
Activereord certainly saves me a lot of time. I think the reason orms get a lot of flak is that people see them usedin wildly inefficient ways that could have been solved with a simple join or other basic sql operation. Or alternatively p
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by geebee 10y ago
Yep! Nothing wrong with yesterday's technology if you're solving yesterday's problems! I don't mean that in a sarcastic or glib way, most of your problems really are yesterday's problems. Or even yesteryear's
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by geebee 10y ago
The daily standup ("scrum") did make some sense in the context of agile development. The idea is that you embrace the unpredictability of software and respond to change. So you take on a task, but you accept that the task is lik
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by geebee 10y ago
On a personal level, it is very important to deal with the unfairness in live, because as you've pointed out, unfairness is inevitable. However, "life isn't fair" isn't a good mantra for forming public policy, eithe
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by geebee 10y ago
People exaggerate this in both directions. Some people do say, inaccurately, that H1B holders are unable to change jobs. Others say that nothing prevents them from doing so. Both are inaccurate, though the also both contain some truth. H
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by geebee 10y ago
This is interesting, and it came up recently in a WSJ study that showed that the eliteness of your college doesn't matter - if you major in engineering or CS. I started to wonder if maybe there's another distinction that is hidden
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by geebee 10y ago
It may in fact not be a valid comparison. But if we're going to speak of a "shortage" of people going into graduate STEM programs, we can't discuss that in a vacuum - we need to consider the other options available. Her
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by geebee 10y ago
Although these general numbers won't be a surprise to someone who has experienced a PhD program or is well informed about them, I do think the detailed data is useful. Congress recently considered legislation that would automatically g
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by geebee 10y ago
Isn't that a tough question? There's no way we'll ever answer it, especially on a web discussion board. It's an important question though, mainly because it comes up every time people have a passionate, and perhaps legi
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by geebee 10y ago
This was a good article. I do think that the data structures and algorithms whiteboard exams amount to more than "trivia" and I do think there is value in them (my problem with them as I've posted on this board, is that becau
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by geebee 10y ago
All that is true, but I went through some interviews last year at Google, and honestly, you really can't afford to be thinking about things like this. Nobody is going to ask you to just implement DFS, but you may get a problem that es
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by geebee 10y ago
That's reasonable, but I'd like to share an experience I had interviewing a long time back. I'd been writing lots of mathematically intensive code for building and solving large scale linear programs for about a year, and I i

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