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by kradroy 6y ago
It's not legal for a US state to declare bankruptcy. There are three relevant parts in the US Constitution that preclude this action. One says that US states are not allowed to abrogate their contractual obligations (pensions, debts,
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by kradroy 6y ago
Those places do care about school name to the same extent. You'll get a junior position there, if you have a Harvard/Yale/Princeton degree, but you're not advancing unless you come from a well-connected (and likely weal
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by kradroy 6y ago
Dear trend-following worrier, For all the effort you're making know this: you'll eventually be evaluated by a Gen-X or Millennial hiring manager. We largely don't care where you went to college. We've learned that name r
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by kradroy 6y ago
I implemented Agile scrum on my team at the behest of my organization. I did it enthusiastically at first, because I thought it might make a difference. My opinion changed within the first 6 months. I think it's a waste of time. Our
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by kradroy 6y ago
My view is: "You can be 'friendly' with coworkers without being 'friends'." My test for friendship is: "Would I call this person to bail me out of jail?" The answer to that question from me has alw
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by kradroy 6y ago
Independence and reliability are both driving factors for me as a manager. I have a junior dev with 2 years experience and he had to move due to family situation. He asked for permission earlier this year, and I didn't hesitate in say
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by kradroy 6y ago
You can certainly hold hands over Skype/zoom/Slack. I don't think there's a physical proximity requirement for hand-holding.
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by kradroy 7y ago
I have never thought about all-out selling during this. In fact I'm buying more with each dip. I feel that securities are a bargain right now. With select selling I'll also be taking advantage of tax loss harvesting for years t
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by kradroy 7y ago
I didn't get that from the article. As a 15-year engineer who turned manager I would say the list sounds pretty reasonable. The biggest problem, which the article mentioned, I see with junior engineers is the inability to see the &quot
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by kradroy 7y ago
Very true. If you've solved the labeling/extraction problem using a means other than ML, you can use that means to generate synthetic data. The situation at my company is exactly this. Say you use regular expressions to extract
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by kradroy 7y ago
Hot take: you could hire someone who did absolutely well in the interview, and they could find a few weeks into the job that they loathe everyone, and go on a social media rampage. Nearly every company has a policy regarding socia
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by kradroy 7y ago
I work for an SAP subsidiary and this is the correct answer. You buy SAP software to 1) reduce your chance of getting audited and 2) get through expensive audits quickly. The everyday end-user of SAP software isn't the one it's de
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by kradroy 7y ago
I used Macroquest as well for leveling up tradeskills. I did a few skills manually. Blacksmithing was the worst, and there was no way I would do it manually. I also used ShowEQ for checking whether certain mobs were up in a zone. Looking b
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by kradroy 7y ago
I second this as well. If you're really the type who's talented and motivated, then don't waste that talent and motivation on making someone else richer. Start your own thing. If you don't know how, then learn how. And i
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by kradroy 7y ago
I disagree with you. Both ways work. Starting from theory, or starting from practice. However, in a business setting, starting from practice is much more effective. As a lead dev and a manager who's had over 20 years of experience in A
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by kradroy 7y ago
This is largely true. However, I've been cleaning up and scaling those systems glued together by dilettantes for years. My salary has been increasing, on average, 10-12% yearly for quite a while. I'm in management now and my prima
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by kradroy 7y ago
FTL communication has not yet been observed/discovered. The parent's last sentence explains the restrictions in this case. >the spin you observe is effectively random, so there’s no way to know that the results match up unless
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by kradroy 7y ago
Bullets have been obsolete for decades. Wars are currently fought by selling shitty financial instruments en masse to your opponents while you sit and watch them implode from afar.
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by kradroy 7y ago
A concise resume is very appreciated. I normally have a recruiter filtering resumes for me, but when hiring for a data scientist role I went through the list myself. There were almost 400 applicants. I could only spend max. 30 seconds per r
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by kradroy 7y ago
It's about as good a filter as asking a candidate what a "gyascutus" is.
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by kradroy 7y ago
Eh, HAVING is something that can be learned in 5 minutes. So filtering out for that is probably generating a lot of false negatives. I quiz them on indexes and table design. Those can be done without writing a single SQL query.
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by kradroy 7y ago
I should have put my grad advisor in the acknowledgements section of my 3 papers instead of as an author...
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by kradroy 7y ago
I learned that in grad school. From the transmitting side: "criticize the ideas, not the person." From the receiving side: "they're criticizing your work, not you." This was actually the most useful thing I learne
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by kradroy 7y ago
Learn to be flexible. I've been writing and reading code for 30 years. You'll fight a losing battle if you try to enforce much more than "code must pass tests and work in production."
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by kradroy 7y ago
I'm a manager and you'd be surprised at how many engineers (and people in general) can take issue with wording in communications. And all it takes is one person. More times than not that person is an overachiever - one who wants
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by kradroy 7y ago
My advisor was guilty of pushing me to do #2. "Your original hypothesis was disconfirmed? Find one that the data does not disconfirm and that'll lead to a follow-up paper!" I dropped out of grad school because I assumed this
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by kradroy 7y ago
Well, that does happen implicitly, except the full statement is "Sorry, we are full to our limit of low income residents." They eventually get replaced by richer residents.
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by kradroy 7y ago
I require systems design questions for anyone with >3 years of experience. We also do a coding and PR exercise. My team manages some machine learning systems, but I couldn't care less if they know how to implement SGD in some form.
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by kradroy 7y ago
There are plenty, but they're mostly graduate degree programs. A full undergraduate degree in software engineering is probably impractical, as it were. CMU offers a minor in Soft. Eng. It requires 6 courses (one is fluff) and a minimum
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by kradroy 7y ago
I believe it's even better to watch dubbed shows that you already know very well. I greatly increased my spoken German comprehension by watching dubbed episodes of the Simpsons. I had seen most of them a dozen times in English and kn

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