okaram

9 ms·

61.
by okaram 3y ago
I have found a sure way to get estimates... Do the work, and say how long it took me.
62.
by okaram 3y ago
I love to sleep in darkness. Stayed at an Airbnb with a windowless bedroom. Best sleep I ever had.
63.
by okaram 3y ago
I'm not sure which random distribution you mean ... But if you assume a normal distribution with constant mean, and, say, 100 years of records, the chances of you still getting the hottest now are very very small
64.
by okaram 3y ago
If you believe this started as the US doing anything, I have a bridge (or an LLM) to sell you ... The US (and the West) reacted to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I think they've done an amazing job given the horrible starting premis
65.
by okaram 3y ago
And most big companies too ... Faang / banks / whatever
66.
by okaram 3y ago
Different people are different; I enjoy my work, and take pride in it. If I'm so demotivated I'm only putting the minimum effort, I start looking for the next job
67.
by okaram 4y ago
I more or less agree... But, does it make it any less true?
68.
by okaram 4y ago
The main problem is that what you call foundational knowledge is different from what the next person does, and the union of all the 'foundational' knowledge is way bigger than a CS major in the USA. Your typical liberal arts deg
69.
by okaram 4y ago
If you think we have a perfect way to measure (or even to define) pure skill I have a bridge to sell you ... We're always hiring based on attributes other than skill. If we're lucky and purposeful, skill becomes a part of the hiri
70.
by okaram 4y ago
You forget one thing ... You also discover the 20% of manure that isn't true, or doesn't apply to you.
71.
by okaram 4y ago
You are defining male and female that way. If you go by that definition, you can define a transgender person as someone who deeply thinks and feels they ought to be of the other gender. They are not 'mistaken' other than by y
72.
by okaram 4y ago
Can you point to one? Usually the stick PCs will connect to an HDMI monitor, and may get power from USB, but this seems a different use case.
73.
by okaram 4y ago
This is a gotcha only if you assume programs use perfect meritocratic measurement of your skills and knowledge to decide who gets in. In real life, there is some correlation, plus other uncorrelated items and just plain luck ;)
74.
by okaram 4y ago
You may be better off going to physical sites. Go to meetups for a few programming languages, meet some people etc
75.
by okaram 4y ago
It's not so much the (closed) gaps, but the time since last job. The first job after you take a year off will be harder to get. After that, most people won't care.
76.
by okaram 4y ago
I think it's one of those things, where if you have a hammer in your toolset you'll probably bang on a lot more things :) I've seldom implemented parsing, since we had Lisp, XML, and now YAML. However, I use language translat
77.
by okaram 4y ago
Definitely not the only thing. Maternal mortality is another big thing. War, famine, malnutrition.... Although the max age hasn't increased, the proportion of people who reach it has.
78.
by okaram 4y ago
If your students are striking, chances are you won't attract good students, and are not balancing priorities well.
79.
by okaram 4y ago
But that one is for MS SQL Server, not Oracle
80.
by okaram 4y ago
Kind of ... Suggests ... And it was true at the time, for the strains we had.
81.
by okaram 4y ago
It's sample bias :) Unfortunately, it became not just politicized but partisan. Republicans 'like' him and Democrats do not.
82.
by okaram 4y ago
It wasn't blatantly obvious that the cure was worse than the disease, especially because it wasn't. There is room to disagree on how much and for how long we should have distanced, and which government interventions were more usef
83.
by okaram 4y ago
Most layoffs will include some low performers, but almost never only or all low performers. If lucky and done right, performance will (inversely) correlate with probability of layoff.
84.
by okaram 4y ago
I don't know of any big company with unlimited PTO.
85.
by okaram 4y ago
Different people have different experiences. From what I have seen, it's slightly hard to get the first position, easy after that. It's not hard to get a position after 10 or 20 years, but, if you lose your position, you may need
86.
by okaram 4y ago
Meh ... From their announcement: we will hire backfills to replace employees who move on to new opportunities, and there are some targeted places where we will continue to hire people incrementally
87.
by okaram 4y ago
How would you define it? What loopholes? Why isn't any of the other published measures not enough for your purposes?
88.
by okaram 4y ago
That's a pretty big assumption :) There's always management infighting, especially in lean times.
89.
by okaram 4y ago
Maybe no city has managed to make public transport better than a car in every circumstance , but many times public transport is better. In fact, nobody would take public transport if it wasn't better for them . In cities where public
90.
by okaram 4y ago
1. Most of those are not actual treatment, and the association is spurious. 2. Tons of depressed people are still depressed even though they exercise, eat well and sleep. 3. Tons of people are making fortunes peddling these and similar &#x2

More ›