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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
The point about stereotype threat is valid, although it also means that we're unable to get any insight into a major axis of interview performance. I think what we have here is an attempt to imply, consciously or not, a causal link bet
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
It doesn't necessarily say anything other than "where you work now has some predictive value for how well you'll be perceived by interviewers" in which case these aren't "top performers", they're &quo
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
It's not the results I find repugnant, it's the assumption that the results have any real world validity. The _something_ they're measuring is as likely to be demographic biases as it is technical or communication skills.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Is there any statistical reason I should assume an interviewer at FAANG has some kind of special insight into what good technical and communication skills are? Were any attempts made to adjust for demographic biases? Is it possible, for ins
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Personally, as a (now relocated) Bay Area native, I agree. Over, I think there's still a lot of prestige for large Silicon Valley firms, even if some of the gloss has justifiably started to fade. This article certainly assumes that myt
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
This is a lot easier to say when you're established in the industry and you have a "feel" for interviewing. When you're breaking in, you have to learn all the computer science shibboleths and industry jargon before peopl
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I'm glad to see this getting roasted in the comments, as it's a really good example of how companies put out self-serving pseudo-statistical nonsense in an effort to promote themselves. There's no effort to quantify what &quo
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I think it's a lot to be tempted with, but it's also relatively easy to stay in compliance: don't trade your company's stock during black out periods, don't talk about revenue with friends or family, and be vigilant
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I think this is a fair criticism, but in all honesty a determined attacker would probably have better vectors both in terms of companies to trade against and in terms of people with access to actionable information. Also worth noting there
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Unfortunately I need to know, because if the numbers are off I need to help fix them. I do take my responsibility to keep revenue numbers within a small group of people very, very seriously, because who knows if someone else would be too te
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I work in billing software for a publicly traded software company and this is a constant temptation. I'm never gonna do it because I'm not gonna blow up my career for a relative pittance, but I can't tell you how many times I
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
The best counterexample I can think of is the unwillingness of drug companies to produce new, narrow-spectrum antibiotics. We're facing a looming crisis of bacterial antibiotic immunity, we know that producing the aforementioned antibi
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
This is about as off topic as you can get. The author doesn't discuss some kind of proportional assembly at all. Why shoehorn this in at all?
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Guess I'm going to wholeheartedly agree with Reason Magazine today. Doesn't happen often, but they're totally right here; security theater was a knee jerk reaction and the sooner we get rid of it the better.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Oh man, as a programmer who fancies themself a systems thinker I do find this argument a little seductive. I'm not going to argue that software development doesn't promote strong systems thinking skills but I don't know how m
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I'm not convinced that the trend towards greater complexity and rot exists in and of itself. That smacks of a teleological interpretation of human history and one that's grounded in a very brief and aberrant period of our species&
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Actually, whoever posted that copied this comment (glad my timestamp is first edit: just so we can avoid any drama over authorship ). Which is fine, IDC, but you telling me it was there is the first I heard of it.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
This is the kind of political analysis I've come to be very, very critical of lately. It's not even that I disagree with everything here; it's a truism in anthropology that more complex forms of political organization, like s
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I mean, there is a large (by Lemmy standards) Leninist server, which is indeed pretty left. But the idea that Leninism is widely embraced by the contemporary American left is a bit hysterical.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I mean, it's great that you personally believe something, but to make ethical medical decisions we need lots of clinical data. If your belief is well founded, which it damn well might be, the data should bear that out.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I think there's a case that this is depraved-heart murder, at least in some states. And since this occurred in all 50 states, I'd contend there's a good case for serial murder in at least a few of them.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I'm really pleased that Stoicism is seeing something of a resurgence. While Jack Dorsey and some other silicon valley types espousing it can be off-putting, there's a lot of value in Stoic ideas, and many of their practices antici
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
At what point does this cross the line from "selling a legal product" to "mass murder"?
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I think it's reasonable to expect the FBI to not expose this. I'm with you on Elasticsearch being too insecure but you're talking about secret government info. If they put that on the open internet that's a serious failu
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
I mean, the FBI should 1000000% know better than to expose their unsecured Elasticsearch cluster to the internet. While Elasticsearch should be more secure by default, I'd say the blame is much more on the agency.
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
By default, Elasticsearch is unsecured. If you manage your own ES cluster, you have to go through a few steps to secure it manually. Lots of people either don't know/don't care about this though, so they regularly expose thei
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
That's fine. I'm not against temporary subsidies, especially during particularly weird times. But I am frustrated by how the same people who regularly preach about how we need to let the free market work are now mewling about the
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Businesses have no right to exist. If you can't pay the prevailing wage, then you don't belong in business. I know that sounds harsh but that's the reality that workers live with every day. Can't pay the prevailing rent?
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by kieselguhr_kid 5y ago
Exorbitant rent is a fact of life in major cities
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by kieselguhr_kid 6y ago
Then we'd probably destroy our ecosystem more quickly. People in cities much more efficiently than rural or suburban people.

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