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by kradroy 7y ago
A psych NP was the only person who correctly diagnosed my condition and treated it successfully. I went to 5 psychiatrists in 10 years who couldn't get it right. She had worked in a hospital setting for quite a while. I'm guessing
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by kradroy 7y ago
I'm dying for this. My team builds ML models on text corpora. Most of this data is sensitive. My company has very strict data privacy policies and it's a pain to even share the data with other teams in the department. I'v
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by kradroy 7y ago
The latter is correct. The price per sq ft will be at parity during development. Then buyers will compete for the smaller units that replaced the SFH properties. $/sq-ft will rise and pass over to existing, neighboring SFHs.
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by kradroy 7y ago
The monitoring app is a hoop I guess. I would hate it too because it's a form of control over the work. I once had a client who, at the negotiation of the contract, wanted me to work from an "office" (an in-laws quarters) for
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by kradroy 7y ago
I don't think it contradicts the point. When you have a legacy system that "sits in the corner" earning money, you're [the company] paying engineers to retain their services in emergencies. Features get added too, if yo
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by kradroy 7y ago
Why are there so many violators marked as "unknown"? Is that from the sanction being redacted or the aggregator's lack of information? The header paragraph states that not all violations are made public, but the ones that a
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by kradroy 7y ago
There was a good article comparing and contrasting the way San Francisco County and San Mateo County handle their homeless. Summary is that both are a bit extreme (SM jails homeless for petty crime; SF basically does nothing, even in murde
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by kradroy 7y ago
To any teens out there reading this: It's okay to be a failure or a loser. Don't listen to your parents', teachers' or peers' bullshit. Live the life that makes you happy.
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by kradroy 7y ago
I had the same experience on Wikipedia over a decade ago. My change was correcting a spelling mistake. A legitimate one. Not a British/American English difference. It was reverted within a few minutes. I never contributed again. I
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by kradroy 7y ago
To answer your question with a question - Would you be satisfied if they could solve the problem in that setting? Is making a laptop available to them for problem solving that much trouble? Or, rather than looking for _any_ competent candid
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by kradroy 7y ago
It's why I wrote "Whiteboards are for throwing around ideas; not for solving problems."
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by kradroy 7y ago
The whiteboarding in the problem setting might be the issue. How many engineers actually whiteboard regularly? It's as old fashioned as waterfall design. Everything has a REPL shell (even Java!) now. Hell, even CloudFormation stack
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by kradroy 7y ago
Purchasing items on Costco.com for delivery, at least in the Bay Area, incurs a premium of about 20% on many (all?) items. This is to ensure the Instacart delivery people are paid fairly. On top of that there's the tipping that is alwa
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by kradroy 7y ago
It is a perspective, but I think the culture in most places in the US would render this option unviable. I can guarantee you that if this were to be attempted in SF, they would have to have the drugs administered by medical staff. They cou
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by kradroy 7y ago
Decision making is fraught with lack of knowledge and uncertainty. I favor rough consensus. Face it - you're never going to get the best or "right" solution in most cases or practically ever. It's good enough to get s
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by kradroy 7y ago
We used to have an engineer who used this maneuver. He abused it because it was effective. We do have an issue on our team with engineers being indifferent to new ideas, and our manager loves consensus. Regardless, this engineer thought h
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by kradroy 7y ago
I love that the tooling for ML experimentation is becoming more mature. Keeping track of hyperparameters, training/validation/test experiment test set manifests, code state, etc is both extremely crucial and extremely necessary.
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by kradroy 7y ago
I was in speech recognition tech during that time. It all tanked, but Dragon got screwed the hardest. ScanSoft (now Nuance) made out like a bandit with all the tech fire sales post-bust.
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by kradroy 7y ago
We started using OKRs this past year. I can't tell you what our current OKRs are. We even create "sub-OKRs" that align with the higher level OKRs. It feels like a pointless exercise, because we do what the author describes
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by kradroy 7y ago
I think this is a bad development. The allure of getting paid for something you do for free can be too great. This may lead to OSS devs, especially those who do the work for free now, expecting extrinsic reward for their work. Extrinsic
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by kradroy 7y ago
Our interviews have consisted of something similar, but never in a way that produces actual usable work. We've had candidates "add features" to code, except the code in question was in a language they don't know. So th
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by kradroy 7y ago
I had that type of "interview" 10 years ago. I got the job. It was the worst job I've ever had outside of being a grad student.
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by kradroy 7y ago
A previous manager once told me how to deal with product managers: "You tell them what you need from them . Not the other way around." Don't let the PM write the spec. They state the problem and you ask them questions to
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by kradroy 7y ago
Only when you do the wrong things will you learn what's right. There's something to keep in mind about the nature of time. It's possible to make a billion dollars in a day, but it's not possible to spend more than 24 ho
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by kradroy 7y ago
I'm normally fine with employees sharing their salary info. Since I'm a manager of individual contributors I can't do much myself in granting compensation changes. I can make recommendations, but I'm not the final appr
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by kradroy 7y ago
Nothing regulation related in SF is "simple". They've known about this issue for years. There are stories every year in the papers about low income individuals and families being squeezed by HOA fees in their "affordab
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by kradroy 7y ago
As someone who's done over a dozen fixed-fee jobs - DON'T DO IT. There are too many unknowns, even in "simple" jobs. It won't be worth your time and you'll regret it. In order to make fixed-fee contracts wor
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by kradroy 7y ago
These are all excellent and were all things that I practiced/discovered in my consulting days. The only thing I would add is: Never reduce your hourly rate for any client. For repeat clients they will expect that rate again. Many o
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by kradroy 7y ago
I had to do a git history rewrite via "git filter-branch" and one other method. I can attest that you really have to go out of your way to actually permanently get rid of anything in a git repo. It's always funny to me whe
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by kradroy 7y ago
#1 can be tricky in SF. If you mix affordable and market rate housing in the same development, there are still "luxury" amenities in the building. The HOA fees are not capped by law and with special assessment fees could possi

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