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by kradroy 8y ago
At first I felt the same way because I may be a beneficiary of these types of policies. Who likes being a charity case? But then I realized that this is just work, and I don't really care. If it gets me closer to a comfortable retir
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by kradroy 8y ago
I think the subtext is that you're always taking a risk with start-up options, so minimize the risk by assuming the worst. Your basis for comparison/negotiation should be other offers, or your existing job and other offers. In a
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by kradroy 8y ago
It's not too farfetched given that Evan Williams founded the company.
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by kradroy 8y ago
I'm in your boat. I get hit up by Google 3-4 times a year. I was interested once and did the pre-screening. When I got their prep packet I looked it over and then promptly canceled my interview. I wasn't going to review stuff
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by kradroy 8y ago
It does, but not like you'd think. If the backup is dormant, the right-to-be-forgotten portions can remain there. Once it comes out of cold storage, those RTBF requests have to be processed over the restored data. Although, in most
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by kradroy 8y ago
I built an entire prototype ML system/pipeline using shell scripts that glued together two python scripts that did some heavy lifting not easily reproduced. I got the whole thing working from training to prediction in about 3 weeks. W
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by kradroy 8y ago
You're a true leader with your inspiring, insightful comments. I've worked with these engineers for the past 5 years as a technical lead and as their manager. I'm thoroughly qualified to pass critical judgment on them. I ins
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by kradroy 8y ago
I'm a manager who recently transitioned my team to Scrum. I see many parallels from the doc to my team vis-a-vis the Scrum process as implemented by our scrum master. I think it's an awful process and I'm questioning whethe
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by kradroy 8y ago
I disagree that "closer" is a distinct class. It's a necessary aspect in any class. In most companies if you don't "close", you get fired or put on a PIP (and you don't get coffee). There is another clas
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by kradroy 8y ago
This is really hard. Really hard. It can take years to get an engineer to that sweet spot. When I build teams I usually select "builders" and "improvers." Improvers can't create new systems because they spend all
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by kradroy 8y ago
Good luck to them. Although I don't feel a spreadsheet is the most flexible representation of a "database", it's probably useful for their audience - non-dev knowledge workers. If they could bake in GDPR compliance too
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by kradroy 8y ago
I think this is true for most professions. Just look around you at work. You might see similarities/differences among/between groups: managers vs ICs, senior vs junior, execs vs non-execs. It's not homogenous across profes
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by kradroy 8y ago
You definitely have to be aware which way the wind is blowing when re-orgs are happening. The closer the re-org is to you, the more you should pay attention. I was recently in one of these situations where I came out on top and was able to
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by kradroy 8y ago
It's less of a thing to put that childish language in a job posting these days. It'll come around again though. The more insidious thing is the requirements themselves. They're usually broad and often don't fit the ro
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by kradroy 8y ago
8 years ago I used NLP to generate fake user profile bios for a social media company (not one you've heard of). The SEO/marketing guys went nuts over it and started using it for everything. It was super effective and they had th
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by kradroy 8y ago
It took me about 15 years to get my BPD2 diagnosis. I was diagnosed with unipolar depression in college. I don't remember how many different depression meds I tried. SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, etc. I was often noncompliant for all the s
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by kradroy 8y ago
My father told me long ago: "After you've done the work the only thing you should sign is a check you're about to deposit."
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by kradroy 8y ago
No harm, no foul. Glad I could help. I was doing research in this area in 2005-2006. Mine was focused on recall of English vocabulary by ESL learners. I chose to explore spacing intervals (a hot topic then). The font disfluency aspect i
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by kradroy 8y ago
What I'm puzzled by is their need for creating a new font and marketing it. All prior studies finding this improved recall effect used already available fonts in the experiments. I can't find any license for Sans Forgetica, so I
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by kradroy 8y ago
Compelling, but the Sans Forgetica font's effect is focused on recall/remembering. From the two abstracts you linked (I'm not paying for the papers) it appears the experiments were testing the effect of disfluent fonts on re
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by kradroy 8y ago
That starts getting into difficult territory. A strict interpretation of SB 826 would require a person to self-identify as "female" and nothing else. It would be a legal question to be decided by a court if genders such as &quot
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by kradroy 8y ago
According to CA SB 826: (f) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Female” means an individual who self-identifies her gender as a woman, without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth.
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by kradroy 8y ago
In California: "Gender identity is a person's understanding of their gender, or perception of their gender identity (which may include male, female, a combination of both, or neither of those), a gender differing from the one assi
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by kradroy 8y ago
No. Interpreting CA SB 826: a board of all women would be in compliance. The bill itself does not mention men at all.
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by kradroy 8y ago
I was going to suggest this from my experience. I hate to burst GP's bubble, but the attitude and environment at his next job probably won't be any better in regard to "best practices." It's extremely difficult to
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by kradroy 8y ago
You're not losing your mind. Your perspective is different, and it might perhaps change over time. From your description of your upbringing it sounds like we have/had a lot in common. I was raised by a single father who made $4
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by kradroy 8y ago
I've never heard the term "HARKing" before. This is exactly what my advisor had me do on our experiments that couldn't confirm our initial hypotheses. I knew it was wrong because we set up the experiments in a way to e
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by kradroy 8y ago
I remember a Howard Stern interview (back in 2005-6?) with Paul McCartney where Howard asked if Paul was making his new wife sign a pre-nup. He wasn't. His response was "A pre-nup for someone who's worth half a billion doll
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by kradroy 8y ago
I work at a company where they're very transparent about bonuses. I've been told by the VP of my department that it's always advantageous to align my compensation with that of the higher-ups. They usually opt for higher bas
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by kradroy 8y ago
The experience part is key. I have junior engineers who implement solutions without understanding the whole they're adding to. They end up believing they're peeling an onion and start crying. There is no onion. It's a pot

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