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by gshdg 7y ago
What are you afraid will happen if you take a day off?
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Don't pay a recruiter. The employer always pays the recruiter. If the recruiter wants you to pay them, they're up to no good and you don't want to work with them anyway. Do you have a LinkedIn profile? Polish it up and mar
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by gshdg 7y ago
Yes, I’ve found jobs via recruiters. They usually specialize in a location and skillset, tho. Not everyone on this site is in SV, and we have no idea what you do.
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Actually, one problem is that it doesn’t consistently classify them correctly. For instance, often classifying men with long hair as women.
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The tutorial is pretty darn good. After that, maybe the book Two Scoops of Django?
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I was asked to write a fuzzy word matching algorithm that would allow for a certain number of typos/misspellings. Turns out there’s a well-known algorithm for that[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtei
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“ Google said it had made the change because it was not possible to infer someone's gender solely from their appearance. It also cited its own ethical rules on AI, stating that gendering photos could exacerbate unfair bias.”
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Seems fair to guess most 1-year-olds don't travel much internationally either.
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AFAIK it's a cultural / historical delineation, not a geometrical one. Kind of like how the "US Midwest" is actually mostly in the eastern third of the contiguous states. AFAICT the boundary is roughly the eastern bord
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Although this seems intuitive, it’s not true for all epidemics. The 1918 flu disproportionately killed healthy young adults. Why? Their immune systems reacted more strongly to the flu. But the immune reaction (fever and phlegm) was so stron
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by gshdg 7y ago
Unlikely. They’re only interested in businesses that use software to scale with enormous margins. Consulting scales with salaries. Software scales nearly infinitely.
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Medical science that can completely heal any injury or illness in minutes or at most days.
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It’s not necessarily about “fair market value”. It’s “lowest possible price” but that doesn’t account for quality, communication and cultural barriers, etc. particularly in a market where the customer typically doesn’t know enough to judge
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Firefox because privacy. Also container tabs to keep multiple accounts open on the same site, etc.
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It also omits Antarctica entirely
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by gshdg 7y ago
Force of habit
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I’ve been recruited for these and met people who worked in these roles. Typically it’s called a CTO or Head of Engineering. Sometimes it’s a chief architect or staff/principal engineer title or something like “engineer in residence” or
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by gshdg 7y ago
IP, existing codebases, hardware and software to develop on, hardware and software to host on, the organizational capacity to support development efforts, market the fruits of those efforts, and provide support to the purchasers.
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Nah. If Linux was never invented, this would just be the 20th time in a row someone declared it to be “the year of BSD on the desktop”.
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4 parts rent to one part food to one part everything else (transit, utilities, laundry, etc), for recurring monthly expenses and small luxuries (a beer, a coffee, a movie ticket, etc). One rent equivalent each to clothing and health care (i
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I’ve seen classic forum software that supports comment threading.
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It’s less common in accelerators where companies apply from outside. More common in incubators (distinct from accelerators) when a firm wants to foster and spin off ideas. These are commonly run by investment firms or large corporations.
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People literally used to dust soot off their garden plants -- you can see this mentioned in some books. It was not uncommon for visibility in London to be extremely poor due to soot[0]. In fact, this peaked in the 1950's due to the c
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Smaller companies need generalists more than big ones do. You’re likely best off in early stage startups, small agencies, or your own consulting business. There are also incubators and such who can use that skillset to help bootstrap multip
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Financial literacy includes knowing what various financial instruments are for. Knowing how to think about your budget beyond the expenses that you have every single week or month. Knowing how a credit card works and why that makes it dange
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Financial literacy is far more than math.
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Make a budget.
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The key difference in what you describe is that there are apartments above the businesses. Mixing residential and commercial in a walkable way is what makes a real community. The shopping center described in the article is nothing like th
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These days most of them have an “audio and subtitles” icon at the bottom of the screen when they start playing. You can switch to the original audio, and enable subtitles in any of multiple languages.
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Have you considered a filter by location?

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