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by inertiatic 3y ago
Moved where I'm at a few years back to be close to extended family. Moving elsewhere within the country wouldn't really net me many more opportunities (expect maybe for middle management roles). Moving to other EU countries for a
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by inertiatic 3y ago
Almost 10 YOE on top of a MSc, looking for remote roles mainly in Europe. Looking for work for the past few weeks, sent out close to 500 applications. I heard back from maybe 20 companies, 10 won't hire remotely (anymore?) and asked if
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by inertiatic 3y ago
Do you think the same argument applies to communism?
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by inertiatic 4y ago
And your country owes you why?
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by inertiatic 4y ago
Getting laid off soon, so I still have a few months to look for a job. I work in a somewhat niche field (search / information retrieval) and wanting to stay in that limits my options heavily. Things are looking very very grim, even com
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by inertiatic 4y ago
Could you point me to resources about best practices in this domain? I've struggled with this and it would potentially help.
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by inertiatic 4y ago
>And if one thing that COVID has taught us is how incredibly unnecessary you are to maintaining civilization I don't think you understand how the world dealt with COVID. Governments needed software fast to deal with things like tra
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by inertiatic 5y ago
As a person who used to take interviews, I thought discussions were the best way to figure out if someone is competent. I mean, when I ended up in a discussion with someone, I felt like I did great. I had a good time and it frequently led
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by inertiatic 5y ago
I can realistically do most mediums quite quickly, missing an edge case here and there without a test-fix loop like LC provides. On LC and in Python I find most of the medium problems trivial. This is not my problem. My problem is I find th
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by inertiatic 5y ago
Working for a UK company here, although remotely from another country, making around $90k as a lead engineer in a somewhat specialized field. Seeing as salaries are constantly rising due to WFH being so common, and with anecdotal data from
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by inertiatic 5y ago
Because: a) speaking "black shoes" into your phone is a better experience than scrolling down an arbitrarily long list of categories. b) Is shoes a category? Is it clothing? Is it boots? Oh I need an ontology now? Will users find
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by inertiatic 5y ago
Never checked? They're statically checked. Also, tooling like https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/ can do runtime checking for important parts of your app or you can use this https://github.com/agronhol
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by inertiatic 5y ago
>I always know its type just by looking at its name. Do you ever feel the names are getting too verbose and it would be great to have tooling that would allow you to get that information on mouse-over instead of having it make your lines
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by inertiatic 5y ago
You are making a recipe search app without actually paying attention to the information retrieval part of it, which is arguably the most important thing! Using any sort of backend that tokenizes (and why not, lowercases and stems) and does
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by inertiatic 5y ago
Can you explain how that works for someone ignorant like myself?
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by inertiatic 5y ago
I don't know who to believe. Compensation has indeed skyrocketed for remote positions, I can see as much from job ads. At the same time, I'm participating in hiring for a UK company (for remote or onsite positions that pay nowhere
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by inertiatic 5y ago
Apple sells 7 million iPhones a year in the UK, Google tells me. Even at just 100 profit a unit, should be way more than 50 million in profit. Ignoring income from other things like accessories, the store etc.
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by inertiatic 5y ago
My guy, we're talking about inserting N items to a data structure. Or executing an algorithm where the input is a set of N items. The N here is the number of items you're inserting . There's another number that we can consid
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by inertiatic 5y ago
>The N in O(N) is the number of elements already in the collection, not the number of items you are inserting. For a hashmap, the operation of inserting N items is O(N) and yes that N is the number of items you are inserting. So flat out
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by inertiatic 5y ago
You know, inserting N elements into a hashmap is O(N).
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Cython can be as fast as C for simple use cases. Because you're writing regular Python for a production service though, and not artificially writing optimized examples, then you will occasionally have to pay extra costs. Are you perhap
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by inertiatic 6y ago
You read >I doubt you could have made it faster even writing the entire thing directly in C or C++. as > a statement that they implemented a proper and bespoke algorithm, not that the speed of Python is greater than C. ?
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Defining custom sort orders in Solr is as simple as uploading a text file with the values you intend to use for ranking. This is a great feature that is in fact missing from Elasticsearch and saves you so much reindexing time. There certain
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by inertiatic 6y ago
The article/blog post itself seems a bit pointless, minimal content and comes along as more of a humble brag. However I guess it triggers discussion so it's not without value entirely. I have experienced countless rejections. Tens
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Most of the world uses Android to run their browsers, right? Should I develop on Android?
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by inertiatic 6y ago
That's very weird. I'm using both, Linux for 8 hours at work and then Windows for my personal computing needs. I live mostly in the browser. Both OSes basically work. I can move my windows around lag free, entirely, always. Blueto
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Mocks should be used when the call you depend on is hard to get to behave in the ways you need for your test. "Randrange" isn't hard to get to behave in the way you want. In fact, the way you want it to behave here is all it
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Perhaps what you're saying is a better way of expressing it, but I meant nameless as in being able to put a name to a specific form, identifying it. I think most corporations don't even have a name anymore. It's X (Google fo
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by inertiatic 6y ago
Where is the point where you should be able to protect your interests against nameless huge entities? Is it based on your flat income or on how many times the cost of your labor they make off you?
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by inertiatic 6y ago
First, I don't get why diversity is given passing mention when there's nothing related specific to diversity or gender politics in the solid idea discussed by the article. I also tend to value this sort of work and I aspire to be

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