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4y ago
Maybe it's a crappy company giving feedback poorly, maybe you're misunderstanding what the position is. Solution architect (or solution-anything) positions are very often not that technical and focus more on client relationships.
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4y ago
Doing simple things in Kubernetes isn't that much more complicated than doing simple things outside of Kubernetes.
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4y ago
Companies requiring their employees to change passwords every 3 months.
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4y ago
Don't read books, take classes instead - Khan Academy, MIT 18.01, 18.02, 18.06, Harvard Stat100 etc.
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4y ago
> Vim modes don’t approach even 10% of the Vim features you need to reach the bare minimum of efficient editing. What's the 90% that's not available in VSCode with the Vim extension?
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4y ago
CPython Internals by Anthony Shaw - https://realpython.com/products/cpython-internals-book/ Podcast episode with the author - https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/240/a-guided-tour-of
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4y ago
No. I'll gladly stop eating animals when we have lab-grown meat some day but I'm not interested in these plant substitutes at all. If I want to eat plants, I'll have plants that aren't pretending to be meat.
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4y ago
I’m not sure how the book helps even if you do need distributed databases and message queues.
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4y ago
> What value to the community does it add posting this single data point under his own name? People get an idea of what's possible. If you're making £50k and you see an anecdotal report of a £90k salary in the same market, that
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4y ago
Yes, definitely.
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4y ago
> But you do get unlimited health-care for you and your dependents Healthcare in the UK is not a solved problem at all - long waiting times and lots of stuff that should be covered in theory but in practice can't be accessed by many
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4y ago
It's about what the money gets you, not about what percentile you're in. Who cares how much above average you are if everyone else's salary is also crap.
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4y ago
You should at least compare it to Amazon UK to get a better idea of the difference.
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4y ago
Company A can decide to not interview you because the publicly shared salary of your current company (B) is very far away from the range of company A.
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4y ago
Seems like a bad time to attach your name to crypto. I don't know what Google are getting out of this. And who's the target audience for using crypto to pay for cloud services?
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4y ago
Pylint catches it - https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/user_guide/messages/warni...
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4y ago
It's not like there is aversion overall; you're seeing two effects: 1. people being really excited by Rust, learning Rust, using it for hobby projects, rewriting things in Rust etc. 1.1. sometimes the excitement has downsides - pe
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4y ago
It's very difficult to get diagnosed and there are many possible causes - hormonal disruptions, nutritional deficiencies, sleep apnea, covid, depression... Depending on your healthcare provider it might be difficult to even to be taken
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4y ago
- get a new job - it's easy for me to recommend this because I don't have a family to support, and I don't have to deal with the same amount of risk/uncertainty of potentially landing at a worse company - £60k is low for
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4y ago
Why don't have this in the browser options for any browser - always show banners, always hide them, auto reject, auto accept, white/black list based on rules etc - let your users pick the behaviour they want.
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4y ago
It's fine, you'll only get so far with a book anyway. It's a good idea to get the book phase out of the way as soon as possible and A Tour of C++ is a fine way to do it.
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A lot of this comes down to personal preferences. As someone who prefers direct language and doesn’t take things personally, I’d rather by asked “why”. I understand that you’re asking for reasons, I can share my reasons without feeling like
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4y ago
It doesn't look good when you're dismissing things you don't understand at all.
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4y ago
Clearly younger Steve Jobs based on the voice. How did you generate it?
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Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
(nber.org)
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Choosing to go to a mediocre university to study something weird instead of doing a CS degree at a prestigious university (I would have been able to get in).
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I don't how you expect a non-binary example when you've titled your own question "Sigmoid Functions & Binary Classification".
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For the first point - at least read what I wrote after the sentence you picked to quote, and try to address the example with unlocking the phone. For the second point, read what I wrote before the sentence you picked to quote. Also, your no
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1. It's built into the task, not into the solution. How do you classify without binary outputs/probabilities? If you want to know if a picture contains someone's face or it doesn't, you need a binary result purely based
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Probably the other way around, I’m more likely to use > and >=.
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