jknoepfler

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by jknoepfler 10y ago
Reasonable argumentation is a precious social resource that we should cultivate, promote, and protect. I think you express a view common to many here, and I hope this forum is able to continue fostering a culture of reasonable disagreement
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
for the sake of precision it should be pointed out that learning about mathematics by reading alone is not the logical compliment of learning about mathematics through reading and book exercises. the term "exercise" by its nature
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
So, if I'm reading this article right: 1. YouTube streamers are getting paid to play games on stream by content creators / publishers. That's great, and much more interesting than an ad (it's nearly impossible to the pro
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I accept the Amazon specific revision that "in the eyes of the reviewers, you did not meet the bar." The rest of the advice follows just as naturally from this premise. The only variable that is eliminated is the current applicati
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
In the eyes of the interviewers, you were not the most qualified candidate for the position they were hiring for. That's nothing to feel bad about, it just means that if your goal is to be hired by Amazon or Google (or etc.), you need
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I'm surprised by the number of developers who think the "right abstraction" is always attainable now. In situations with complex, shifting requirements, particularly with a new product, it is very easy for a good dev team to
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'm not questioning the author's decision to study rather than build something. The author's goal was to get a job, and he did the thing you do if you want a job. I've worked as an SDE at Amazon; it was a
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
It's interesting to see how "whiteboard interview" prep mirrors standardized test prep. What is frustrating is that the prep month (?! a month is an eternity) could have been used to contribute to an personal project of choic
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I agree with you, apologies if I was talking past you instead of with you.
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I don't disagree with you that "how it feels" is an important aspect of our lives. It is not, however, an important aspect of answering the question "is tech hiring down 40%". If someone says "pneumonia diagnos
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I really don't mean to be rude or disrespectful, but how it "feels" isn't really interesting or relevant to the question of "is tech hiring actually down". The OP presented data to support its claims. The data
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
Completely agreed. A 40% decline in real tech-hiring rates would be a shocking, sudden decline. The simpler, most consistent, and most likely explanation is that the author's data isn't representative of the big picture. It's
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
Content titled "according to science" is inappropriate click-bait, and should not get an audience. The phrase is vacuous (there is no agent called "Science," it would make as much sense as "according to Democracy&qu
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
One can consistently accept a study as well-implemented/operationalized while acknowledging a reasonable chance that the results are garbage, and that repeating the study might not yield significant results.The proper conclusion of a s
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
If we pretend scarcity doesn't exist, and that the proper way to deal with it isn't at least partially though the free market, then ok.
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
This must be a very complicated space to work in. I hope the quality of public discussion improves over the years. edit: another poster dug up the effect before me :)
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I would encourage you to look at the actual national data around homeless rates and public investment into programs to fight and prevent homelessness. As a matter of fact, care for the homeless is something that people do invest in (althoug
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I found this article to be very thin on data to support its thesis that: a. there is a homeless crisis in Seattle in particular b. this crisis was caused in part by a systematic erosion of infrastructural support for affordable housing and
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
First, to be blunt: you should have asked for a definition of toxicity when you were presented with this criticism. Barring that, you should ask for one now. You should ask the person delivering the criticism if they have suggestions for ho
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
The narrative would be more persuasive if it incorporated a story of how the paper evolved meaningfully in response to peer criticism. The question lingering in my mind after reading this is whether and how the paper was substantially revis
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The author did explicitly factor in inflation.
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If Coca-Cola's recipe were given away for free, with the explicit requirement that users who modified the recipe, then sold the product as Coca-Cola pay a fee, then yes... But in general no, not like "when ice and lemon is added t
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by jknoepfler 10y ago
I submit that Microsoft is staffed and led, in part, by talented software developers, many of whom are invested themselves in open source philosophy. When ideas make it into the light of day that reflect this internal culture, I think it is