kradroy

17 ms·

121.
by kradroy 7y ago
The commenters also egg on the camera man to get closer and do risky things.
122.
by kradroy 7y ago
Just wait. When I signed up for it the bizarre/comedic posts took a while to appear. I have to agree with the article that there are some disturbing sentiments on there. In my immediate area in SF there's a lot of homelessness,
123.
by kradroy 7y ago
Your comment encapsulates most of the controversy and disagreement in this thread. Many engineers and technically-oriented people are naturally inclined to accept a fixed worldview: binary logic, set theory, F = ma and not F=ma^2, etc. If
124.
by kradroy 7y ago
I feel it's more like there's chicken shit everywhere always, but most of it is inconsequential and unremarkable. The exceptional cases (e.g. Theranos) draw attention again to the existence of chicken shit and the dangers of cons
125.
by kradroy 7y ago
I learned this in freshman interpretation class in college. In the beginning I fought against the TA (English PhD candidate) teaching the class and I ended up with Cs on my assignments. Then midway through I started playing her game. &quo
126.
by kradroy 7y ago
The US Federal government sells land/property all the time. And as a consequence of the old adage "time is money", an indefinitely existing organization has an indefinite amount of money. Those institutions you mentioned have
127.
by kradroy 7y ago
They should tear down the Fed Mint building behind that Safeway and turn it into housing. I don't even believe that branch does anything other than print proofs. A waste of space, but it's not happening during this presidency for
128.
by kradroy 7y ago
I wouldn't expect that. Algorithm interviews as they're practiced tend to favor memory abilities and not cognitive. It's hard to come up with standard algorithms on the spot if you haven't been exposed to them. I do know
129.
by kradroy 7y ago
This is one of the trick questions they can ask to eliminate idiots. It's basically a creative writing exercise. I have a pretty Sartrean view on work. I play at being my occupation. The career/job doesn't define my existe
130.
by kradroy 7y ago
"But what I was looking for was something that I could do for a living that was also driven by this type of motivation: the intrinsic kind." Read the study I linked in my other response. Doing something "for a living" m
131.
by kradroy 7y ago
Gov. Brown struck down the proposed safe injection sites.
132.
by kradroy 7y ago
They have some of those throughout the city. However, they require attendants to be on site during operation because people shoot up drugs, prostitute themselves, or sleep in them. The solution will require much more than some free-to-use
133.
by kradroy 7y ago
It could be, but here we only see a fragment of this person's life. I've often found that people who do this type of thing come from well-heeled families. And they conveniently leave out the details. "I quit my $500k/ye
134.
by kradroy 7y ago
The title is "Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts" This needs to be "Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts if You're Not Expecting a Reward"[1]. His career at Amazon demonstrated that. Like another commenter stated: "Hi
135.
by kradroy 8y ago
If you're willing to risk your credit score for a bit, just don't pay the bill. Eventually some entity down the line will accept less. If you don't want to do that, then you have to eat it; immediately or in installments.
136.
by kradroy 8y ago
Did you pay the bill outright without negotiating?
137.
by kradroy 8y ago
If you're employed and your employer is generous, then your insurance premiums can be inexpensive (low double digits per month if you're single, low triple digits if you have dependents) . My wild speculation is that most employer
138.
by kradroy 8y ago
Almost never. Often there's an aspiration to reach Google-level operation. Invariably some director/VP insists on building for that future. Then it turns out sales can't break into the market and adoption is low. Now you hav
139.
by kradroy 8y ago
I'd dare to say that many groups/products at Google aren't even operating at Google scale. I'd also dare to say that some Google products operating at Google scale can be a bad thing (i.e. unprofitable). The latter sta
140.
by kradroy 8y ago
I have this silent debate with my engineers from time to time when one of them gets an itch they feel the need to scratch with an industrial strength back-scratcher. I usually go "lawyer mode" and ask them question after question
141.
by kradroy 8y ago
The same happened to me, sort of. I never once had a psych say "You might try exercising to treat your depression." They would only prescribe medication. Then a few years ago my GP, who took over maintaining my prescriptions, a
142.
by kradroy 8y ago
You can hover over the graph and it'll show you the percentiles in increments of 1. The 50th percentile is the median. I'm a little suspicious because the median and mean are equal for several of the larger subsets (years of expe
143.
by kradroy 8y ago
A good manager shouldn't resort to micromanagement even if the employee requires it. You're not supposed to be their secretary or mommy. A good manager would coach or train them to become more organized. A manager is responsib
144.
by kradroy 8y ago
The buildings might get 2 stories taller! At least they chose a reasonable time for the meeting. I don't know what to do in SF other than trying another round of electing supervisors at large. The way the "supervisorial courtesy
145.
by kradroy 8y ago
The merchants eat it all, basically.
146.
by kradroy 8y ago
> On the one hand, he is trying to teach people the importance of empathy and perspective taking for any creative individual. This is the bridge that connects the two: person who doesn't care to read a message - person who wants peo
147.
by kradroy 8y ago
In the US fines are not tax deductible, so that's one fiscal difference between taxes and fines. I have no idea if Spain considers fines to be tax deductible or not.
148.
by kradroy 8y ago
I tried to go all out on TJs, but I couldn't make it work. They are, like one commenter above said, "the disappearing middle" even though they're kind of the bottom. Costco beats them out for most of the things I'
149.
by kradroy 8y ago
I'm a hiring manager who shares this view. I see three distinct but overlapping skillsets with creating machine learning - as they mention in the article: data engineering, data science, ML engineering. I would never hire a person wh
150.
by kradroy 8y ago
I grew up in a majority hispanic community, but I'm not hispanic. I find it very hard to say "latinx" because that's not the label used when I was growing up. However, "hispanic" is apparently exclusive and s

More ›