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by jstx1 4y ago
> What does “taking full responsibility” even mean? It means "I'm not blaming anyone else for this". Which might not mean much but it's probably better than the alternatives.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It's real but it's not new - versions of checking out mentally / being over it / not caring have been around for a long time.
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by jstx1 4y ago
It was Jim Cramer - FANG (without Apple) were 4 stocks that he liked back in 2013 and it kind of caught on and evolved from there.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> IBM, Intel, Yahoo, AOL, Oracle, to a certain extent Microsoft(...) Do you see a near future where today’s FAANG shuffle to become a different acronym By market cap the six largest US tech companies are Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amaz
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by jstx1 4y ago
Why do you think that freelancing would be any different?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Very interesting, I don't know what to make of this. Is it good news for PyTorch? It was doing great under Meta anyway. Is Meta going to be less involved? Is this is a way for them to reduce their costs or do they have some other incen
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by jstx1 4y ago
So basically Go?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Rust has quite a few additional features though.
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by jstx1 4y ago
Go without the garbage collector.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> If it's senior+ then yeah you might expect more. More than an exhaustive correct answer?
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by jstx1 4y ago
Yes, definitely. What's the alternative - hire people who don't answer your question correctly? Only hire people who can give a good answer that's different from the book? Hire people who have read the book but are good at pr
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by jstx1 4y ago
Much easier to not pay attention to any of this than to wonder if/when it will end.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> The writing is on the wall, management is putting together a case and starting to use "HR Speak" in Slack and Email. What does that mean more specifically? For some people it's very easy to be paranoid about getting fire
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by jstx1 4y ago
> it becomes very centralized and simply a playground for whales So the same as it is now basically.
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by jstx1 4y ago
This seems like a very superficial conclusion, they're very different in practice. - you can't go broke from spending too much time on facebook/twitter/instagram - doing something dumb on social media usually doesn'
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by jstx1 4y ago
1. No, it's not all cleaning data. 2. Yes, it's possible to get those jobs. 3. Is there any point - if you want to, sure, it can be a great career. Given that you sound kind of skeptical, maybe look for a field that interests you
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by jstx1 4y ago
He was doing this kind of stuff while he was at Tesla too - https://github.com/karpathy/cryptos
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by jstx1 4y ago
Any theories on why Haskell scores so low on stackoverflow's 'most loved' metric? It's only 56.44% which means that 43.56% of the polled Haskell users don't want to use it in the future. In the same chart you see a
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by jstx1 4y ago
> I haven't found anywhere that makes it easy to find jobs that are specifically in person, or at least hybrid. In person (with some flexibility/hybrid allowances) is still the default on most platforms. Go on LinkedIn and sear
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by jstx1 4y ago
It makes sense to ask this about new/niche languages, most others will be supported and around for a while. And the niche languages are a rounding error in the job market (they come up on HN disproportionately more often). JavaScript a
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by jstx1 4y ago
Kotlin is developed by JetBrains but it's what Google endorse as preferred language for Android development. > Java (Oracle) Java is huge at Amazon and Google, and it's used at every other company on the list too. Same with C++
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by jstx1 4y ago
Harvard's CS50 course is the best place to start (I think much better than MIT 6.0001). The teaching is great, and it covers a lot of stuff without dumbing things down. They also have a couple of follow-up courses which focus on web&#x
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Of course firing is an option Certainly not the first option. You bring it up with them, you modify your process and manage a bit more closely, you agree on some concrete objectives; and if things don't change that much, you make
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by jstx1 4y ago
That lowers the bar from "alpha" to "non-incel". It's a low bar.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Exactly as in the animal kingdom, the alpha males get to spread their genes around. Oh rubbish. You need to have unprotected sex to spread your genes around. That's it. Nothing to do with being alpha.
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Lex Fridman Podcast: Magnus Carlsen(youtube.com)
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by jstx1 4y ago
My workflow is: 1. Experiments in notebooks. Notebooks are saved under git but mostly as a backup, I don't care how nicely they play together. I don't get why you would discourage notebooks for running experiments, doing it with .
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by jstx1 4y ago
The title makes it sound like it's DuckDuckGo Email. Which it isn't, it's email protection. Which isn't explained at all.
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by jstx1 4y ago
> Put another way, is it better to be a ultra pragmatic could-care-less hacker or an opinionated craftsman. Is that really put another way? You can't swap out generalist for careless hacker and specialist for craftsman, they don&#x2
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by jstx1 4y ago
I don't think that your background changes things all that much. A good textbook/course on something from CS (DS&A, compilers, operating systems etc) is a good resource regardless of whether you have a math degree, or an Engli

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