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by geebee 7y ago
You raise an interesting question about the Kenyans' work, whether it is cheating. I normally wouldn't ask people what they intend to do with work they've commissioned from me, unless I suspect they intend to do harm with it,
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by geebee 7y ago
There are plenty of reasons why people cheat, but I'd say one big motivation is when grades and test scores decide who wins and loses in a zero sum game. Medical school is a good example - there are a fixed number of med school slots,
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by geebee 7y ago
Thanks for the info. It's been a few years since the last very serious sewer system backup in the lower Alemany area. I'll do my own research, but if you have any links to this project that address flooding, please post them.
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by geebee 7y ago
Yeah, this happens in SF too, which uses an antiquated gravity based single pipe system. It works cause of the hills, but it does have this problem. I read that a bit of old Sacramento uses this system too, otherwise you won't find it
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by geebee 7y ago
Good post, nice roundup of some of the ways standups can go wrong and right. I do think it skipped a common severe corruption of the daily standup, which is a daily application of micromanagement and deadline pressures. I’ve heard about su
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by geebee 7y ago
They sure can. In fact, with their experience and flexibility, as well as the cushion of money they made by monetizing massive amounts of personal data collected from the unaware, they can probably be hired well above the sorry schlubs who
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by geebee 7y ago
They should and sometimes do. I read a study (from Rutgers I believe) about men who scale back on work to care for children. The conclusion was that while women are more likely to incur a “parent penalty”, this is partly explained by e fact
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by geebee 7y ago
That’s a good thesis. I have no idea if it was true for me, and if course one data point isn’t terribly useful. My impression during my interview at google and amazon was that the interviewers were indifferent to what school I’d gone to, an
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by geebee 7y ago
I tend to agree, though our industry is much less pedigree obsessed than most. A degree from a top CS program will get you an interview at a FANG, but a degree from a top law school (I'm talking really top, like top 5) will largely get
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by geebee 7y ago
beautiful metaphor. anyway, I quasi-agree, though I've become suspicious of managers who claims to be an umbrella protecting their team from the rain. Half the time, they're really just trying to make sure their team doesn't
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by geebee 7y ago
The thing is, the green card sponsorship can take a long time and become another non market mechanism to coerce an otherwise in demand worker to remain with an employer. You can transfer from one “sponsor” to another, but if your new employ
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by geebee 7y ago
I worked for a company that hired heavily through the H1b. The ceo was a good guy who worked in good faith but he was replaced with a bit of an asshole who moved the office from The north bay to the South Bay, changed to an open office, and
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by geebee 7y ago
A law firm came under fire a couple years ago for doing a presentation on how to comply with the requirements for searching for a US citizen n a way that ensures you don’t end up succeeding. Anyone remember the link?
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by geebee 7y ago
It’s a system that allows corporation to decide who is allowed into the us and the circumstances under which they are allowed to remain. A free person could decide not to put up with whiteboard tech interviews, not work on an “agile” team,
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by geebee 7y ago
Good points, I tend to agree. It is difficult to know what sort of market would emerge. I’m not convinced that engineer salaries would drop, since I think this could 1) spark a massive amount of economic growth and 2) vastly expanded the ch
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by geebee 7y ago
At what salary? Do any of the people qualified to be software engineers at apple work at google or Facebook, or in universities, or as consultants or entrepreneurs? Do any of them leave the pipeline earlier to become lawyers, physicians or
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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer (O'Reilly)(oreilly.com)
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by geebee 7y ago
...or someone else gets the job. Period. You're absolutely right. but if the only way to get the job is to promise and deliver more than is reasonable given cost and time constraints, you are vastly better off not getting the job.
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by geebee 7y ago
Partly. But I also think that targeted immigration programs have allowed these fields to staff up without raising wages to levels that educated people who don’t need visa sponsorship can find in law, business, and medicine.
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by geebee 7y ago
i think that if you give PhD programs the power to grant green cards, they’ll become even more abusive. So abusive, in fact, that the only real reason to put up with them is because they control your hopes of getting a green card. I an in f
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by geebee 7y ago
So then why are we supposed to be worried specifically about the pipeline of PHDs? Why would we make a special point to grant automatic green cards to degrees that aren’t really necessary?
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by geebee 7y ago
Another recommendation: "Automatically grant green cards to postgraduate degree holders." This idea may have some merit, but I want to be very blunt about this - PhD programs aren't doing a good job attracting and retaining g
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by geebee 7y ago
"Objective labor market indicators and expert assessments suggest demand for AI talent will far outstrip supply for the foresee- able future." Ok, at what salary? At minimum wage, lots of demand, not much supply. At $500-$750k a y
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by geebee 7y ago
Thanks for your reply! Your pass rate is quite a bit higher than mine - I'm 0/2 on projects, probably 2/5 on interviews (I'm only counting the in-person interviews, don't have a problem with phone screen level). Som
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by geebee 7y ago
Have you studied extensively for the technical exams? I've tried, and I've gotten interviews at several of the FAANGs as well as some desirable mature startups, but I fail at the technical screeinging stage. Not sure if I've
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by geebee 7y ago
Child care in San Francisco, the kind that goes from 8am to 6pm, runs over $2500 a month. That's not ultraluxe, that's pretty standard fare, and my estimate is probably on the low side. A 3br house in an unfashionable but largely
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by geebee 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-... This article asserts that google shielded a lot of higher ups and paid large exit packages in spite of having no obligation to do so. I nee
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by geebee 7y ago
Interesting comment, I relate to it. The recessions affected me pretty heavily. I'm in my late 40s. I graduated into the recession of the early 90s, and was living in SoCal at the time which was really bad (military cutbacks hit the jo
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by geebee 7y ago
I'm surprised the Damore controversy didn't show up in this article. There are a couple of things that resonated for me: "About 20,000 employees walked out last fall over the company’s generous treatment of executives accused
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by geebee 7y ago
I have a cynical take on this. They want to see if you can afford the time it takes to front load data structures and algorithms in short term memory. This is an excellent indicator of whether you have other demands (such as parenting) or e

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