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by ng12 4y ago
This is easily my favorite museum building. The collection is somewhat niche but the building alone makes it a worthwhile visit.
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by ng12 4y ago
This was very sad to read. My grandmother was on hospice and her worker was an absolute saint -- she went to bat for my grandmother several times against her nursing home and social worker that were tired of dealing with her decaying mental
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by ng12 4y ago
I did the same, except I ended up at two startups which became toxic and stressful and not nearly worth the effort I put into them. Maybe I'm just not good at picking startups. Anyways, I'm back at a boring but high paying job and
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by ng12 4y ago
> You will not automatically get an offer, but get directly in touch with the recruiting team and thereby increase your chances. Surely this is the easy part?
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by ng12 4y ago
What's crazy to me is Hollywood is more focused on casting non-white actors in medeival fantasy roles rather than actually making culturally diverse movies. Chinese, Indian, and African history is fascinating and I would love to see mo
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by ng12 4y ago
I've become pretty skeptical about "Product Management" as a function. I feel like it's one of those ideas that's cargo-culted from Google without anywhere near the same rigor. A good product person is worth their w
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by ng12 4y ago
It's highly dependent on performance since quants are tied directly to a PnL number. If that number is really, really good they're making millions. More average quants are still making a premium over senior SWEs, underperforming q
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by ng12 4y ago
Cool. Just a few thoughts: The tech and engineering discipline are always going to be worst than FAANG or one of the darling startups. That's part of what they pay the big bucks for, to minimize attrition. The flipside is that you can
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by ng12 4y ago
I have. The hedge fund world isn't really as enigmatic as they would have you think. It's the same as anywhere else: work at a reputable company, get an interview, do well. I don't think it's much different than working
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by ng12 4y ago
> If you're a good engineer and can sell your work, contribute visibly to open source projects in your area of expertise and can present at conferences you'll have more opportunities than a worker bee at FAANG. That's way
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by ng12 4y ago
Nintendo is notoriously as hostile as they come, especially to the PC gaming market. Since Valve is all-in on PC I don't see why they should be the ones to play nice.
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by ng12 4y ago
Reddit added this as well within the last week. You can no longer view 18+ subreddits without being logged in.
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by ng12 4y ago
Ah, yes. If there's one thing that can solve racial injustice it's mindless bureaucracy.
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by ng12 4y ago
FWIW I don't think Jane Street actually interviews anyone in OCaml except for maybe niche roles.
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by ng12 4y ago
The idea is you shouldn't really need to. You have tools to memoize expensive operations in a React-friendly way, but even then you shouldn't really have to think about render cycles. YMMV but I the only time I've ever had to
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by ng12 4y ago
Why stop there? They should get their own end users as well.
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by ng12 4y ago
That's fair. Guess I'm mostly talking about the other end of the system :)
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by ng12 4y ago
> Damn that sucks, not much you can do except manage This has been my entire experience with gastroenterology as a field. Once they rule out cancer there's really not much they can do for you. Meanwhile, I'm waiting for the rev
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by ng12 4y ago
Because it's ridiculous. That "developers" GitHub group has 400k people in it.
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by ng12 4y ago
So what? Historical names for other cultures usually come from the context under which they were first encountered. Arab sources call the Crusaders Franks because the first wave was mostly French. It's very common.
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by ng12 4y ago
I'm sorry for your friend. Truth is even a lot of doctors don't appreciate how difficult controlling type 1 diabetes can be. Having lived with it for over 20 years I'm still shocked at how ill-prepared I was once I came home
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by ng12 4y ago
There's a really great writeup of one incident on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/owtzl9/video_ga...
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by ng12 4y ago
Angular is popular at places the HN crowd tends to not work at (banks, consulting, fortune whatevers). Not sure why that is.
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by ng12 4y ago
You hit the nail on the head I think. You meet a lot of these types when you spend time doing volunteer work. Eloquent, relatively intelligent, very street smart, and pathologically unable to take accountability for anything in their lives
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by ng12 4y ago
Well, that's a really great sign you don't want to work there. If I don't have a good interview experience I don't want the job.
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by ng12 4y ago
> Do you agree that the government has the right to ban encryption and other details relating to privacy? I think it would be very likely that a law passed by the legislative branch banning encryption would not be ruled unconstitutional
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by ng12 4y ago
This is not true, the 4a never gave you unrestricted right to privacy. As a simple example: the 4a will not get you out of a breathalyzer test if you get pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving. I am all for reasonable abortion access bu
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by ng12 4y ago
I feel you. I remember the old days of trying to build SPAs in jQuery and they were dark ones.
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by ng12 4y ago
I'm fairly certain you're trolling but as a good rule of thumb if you find yourself fighting your framework you picked the wrong one.
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by ng12 4y ago
> But the web platform isn't perfect, and I suspect most React developers have come across a situation where you’d love to be able to just tweak how your component is being rendered. Honestly, I haven't. The only potential cave

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