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by ken47 9y ago
Anecdotal evidence as an Asian male: way back when I was in high school, I applied to a particular brand name university in the US. In my class, I had the best or second best admissions profile. The rest weren't really even close. I w
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by ken47 9y ago
These are interesting "security flaws," given the level of access an attacker needs to exploit these. I wonder what (other) security professionals have to say about this white paper.
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I thought they were Neanderthal.
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I find it curious that you are trying to define a job based on credentials, instead of defining it based on what the job entails.
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This isn't surprising. Intel has established a pattern of BS'ing when confronted with their mistakes / wrongdoings. Do they think their consumers aren't smart enough to see through it? I was already leaning towards AMD&#
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That may sound nice to some people on paper, but the reality is that it creates a negative feedback loop. Consider the following review of the company from a senior software engineer. This review is not unique in its opinion: I worked at Ne
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by ken47 9y ago
I was mostly self-taught when I entered the industry. Years later, I now work for one of the bigger companies in Silicon Valley. I want to preface this by saying that you do not need to be a CS expert to get started in software engineerin
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by ken47 9y ago
I don't doubt the quality of GT, but rankings, especially the worldwide variety, are absurd at their face, and they are part of this self-destroying system that is causing runaway education costs.
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If AZ is truly superior to Stockfish, why was Stockfish given an amount of RAM that could only be considered standard for the 1990s?
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I disagree with this line of reasoning, because exaggerated numbers are more likely to be make it to the front page of HN. In fact, the optimal lie (wrt the probability of it being upvoted) contains compensation claims that are just on the
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by ken47 9y ago
True, if big. Anyone could write up such a Blind post. And when it comes to anonymously bragging via lies on the internet, there is no shortage of prior art. To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if the growth rate of engineering applica
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by ken47 9y ago
There is a well known delineation between applied math and pure math. It seems that such a convention has yet to be established for CS.
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For those who are anti net neutrality or "on the fence," if you are in tech, keep in mind that the removal of nn will likely put downward pressure on your compensation.
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I've witnessed the imperfection of using the brand name of a degree as a measure of ability. Numerous times throughout my career as an engineer, I've seen someone from [INSERT WELL-KNOWN DEGREE HERE] outperformed by [INSERT LESSER
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by ken47 9y ago
The future of lower-tier universities is bleak. Once MOOCs have been refined, top-ranked schools will dominate market share, and if they play it right, will make a lot of money. Who would rather take classes at a run-of-the-mill state sch
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MOOCs will make that happen within a decade's time.
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Sure, college is a worthwhile investment if you are allowed to attend Stanford or Berkeley-caliber institutions. The vast majority of Americans do not have that opportunity. And in light of America's student loan crisis, what politicia
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FYI, some non-trivial bodies have ranked U of M as the top public university in America.
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I disagree. The things you say may have been true decades ago, but are not entirely accurate today. The US's banking industry's reputation took a big hit in 2008, and it has become increasingly common for top university students t
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by ken47 10y ago
Have you actually used Typescript? It's definitely better than Python, and I'd personally prefer it to Haskell / Livescript. I would love to hear what people actually think the "flaws" are with ES6 Javascript and Ty
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Typescript is GREAT. Strict null-checking eliminates the dreaded null-pointer exception. It enables type-safe mixins. It allows for mapped types. Literal types, especially string literal types, makes it so easy to work with pre-existing JS
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If I were on the job market, this would be a big positive influence on my decision to apply. It's not so much a matter of whether I would take advantage of this perk or not. It's a very good reflection on the management's att
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by ken47 10y ago
Javascript has taken a quantum leap with es6, and if you look at what Typescript and Flow are doing, another quantum leap in that dimension. C# is great, but I think the latter, especially Typescript, bring the Javascript community into the
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I'll second that. I use an IDE from the Intellij family and things work fine.
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Broadly speaking, it comes from the value they provide to other humans, aka a person's value to society. At this point in human history, career is generally a proxy for this metric. E.g. doctors have high social value because they save
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Twitter is not the best example, as their struggles are well-known.
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I don't think Andrew Ng would agree with your assertion. His Coursera ML class assumes little more than a basic high school math education, and at the start of the course, he teaches the very small subset of linear algebra required to
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> Elite isn't about the quality of the instruction. If you read the article, I think the author would disagree, as he refers to Yale and Columbia, not himself, as an elite education. Here's a thought experiment. If Harvard&#x27
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Does it not require intelligence to understand how to be fulfilled without wealth? I think most of the smartest people have figured out that there are more important things in life than becoming as rich as possible.
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As someone who went to an "elite" institution, I wonder why all education can't be elite. In the past, there were physical limitations -- only so many students could fit in a lecture hall, on a campus etc. So the optimal arra

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