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   U of T students trade cash for seats in full classes(thestar.com)

   2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Thank you for sharing. Hiring is very tough, and I appreciate the war stories. At what point does a 4-5 day project morph into a 10 week internship or contract project? (Even after 10 weeks it can be tough to decide on an offer!)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Same. Chrome automatically downloaded it for me too. Twice.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Right. But can't most anything that is computable be done with existing technology operating in parallel? (I'm not sure about solving death, but in general high performance computing) I'm interested in what's inherent
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Am I the only one who thinks we don't need Moore's Law anymore? The game has moved from computing to communication.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I think that answers whether or not it's worth doing. Thanks for sharing your insights into the process. Hiring is a very hard thing to do right. (Maybe impossible to do right, only possible to do less wrong)
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   Open-Government Laws Fuel Hedge-Fund Profits(online.wsj.com)

   3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This highlights the problems of strategic thinking in general. You can always miss something, which is why strategy should be taken with a grain of salt. It's also why some of the great strategists fail as managers of their own firm.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It's hardly realistic to expect employers to act with their employees' best interests at heart. This is a little harsh. Many companies do put their employees first, so that they can keep the best ones. They just have to be in
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm curious how much this narrows down the field, and if the right folks drop out. That will help decide if you're on the right track. I assume that you're filling your needs, so it does work. Do half the people decline the
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's a good sign of how humane the process is if you left it with a good feeling about the company.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    There is a tremendous amount of bias and selective memory involved in recruiting. The tracking system and notes help fight this a lot. General comments like "Math majors can't do recursion" or "We do best with employee
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Great quotes. Much as I hate to buy books of tweets I did get this one.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. Losing their spot as the business social network would kill them.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Agree. The lawyer should draft it, and the chairman or CEO should post it.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Brazilian Jiu Jitsu also has a combat aspect. Injuries are expected. Strange to expect so many injuries from a pure fitness activity.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hear horror stories of injuries too. In the end it's self defeating if you are injured all the time or so exhausted that the overtraining hurts the rest of your life.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Indeed because having the fancy certificate can help get you into the interview but its skills and personal fit that get you out.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It is very hard for me to have sympathy for someone who spent 5+ years at a great school, likely funded, in a useful discipline that struggles to get a job. I would like to hear from academic departments on why they said no the academic sup
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I do see them hitting at the price point for all but the top schools, as they should. MIT will always have a long line at the door waiting to pay full price. Should Illinois Institute of Technology?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Indeed it is non-fiction. Somebody really is that dumb.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    And here I thought the secret was that the amateur followers are just a bunch of jackasses who like to brag on Facebook.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's not a matter of needing each other. As long as there's a positive NPV on working together, they'll do it. They each might say, "We benefit X, but there's a risk that costs Y." As long as X is greater th
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Wow, so it definitely knocks you out of a full season. Glad to hear that it worked out for you.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Personally, I think that the fact that software patents started being granted so late in the history of programming (which was in full swing 30 years earlier in the 1950's) will cause all sorts of problems for the software industry.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I like the "What's changed" bit too. The other good thing is the James Bond analogy. My eyes glaze over on any presentation that doesn't tell me the punchline in 5 minutes, and VCs see a lot more of them than me.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "Sports are good, but I agree: get them the fuck out of academic institutions. They have no place there." Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that "Sports and physical fitness are good and should be encouraged for every
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I hear you on visualization. A lot of big data is just, "I have a billion row, hundred column table that I want to join with 5 or 6 other tables, and do some time series math." It's computationally intense linking of tables
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's amazing how much of the world financial system is built on the back of Excel too. Probably the other extreme there - a little too much VBA where bigger and better tools would work.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It seems these are very upper middle class issues. Compare this to Chicago... http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/09/03/one-week-in-safe-pass...