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by opensrcken 4y ago
I initially thought the author was being metaphorical. Teaching poker to a kid is a very risky proposition. If they have any propensity for addiction, the dopamine rush of gambling may take hold of their thought patterns before they have th
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by opensrcken 4y ago
This is an interesting take. I find CS to be a beautiful subject that I've enjoyed studying in my free time, and would probably enjoy it even more if I really delved into it. But I have a hard time justifying the time and cost. The key
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by opensrcken 4y ago
As someone who tried out Go before generics and didn't like it, I'm curious how Go generics compare to generics in Java or Typescript.
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by opensrcken 4y ago
It probably isn't as bad as the corporate world, but I'd be curious to hear why you think academia is impure in this way.
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by opensrcken 4y ago
I disagree with part of this. Nature has proven that general intelligence can be achieved in a compact, energy-efficient form: humans. Has nature ever proven that nuclear fusion can be sustained at human scale? I would bet that agi comes fi
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by opensrcken 4y ago
No, it's not. If you get lucky with stock market movements, that might be your total annual comp , which is not your wage. I made close to what you're claiming at senior level, at the recent peak of stock market insanity, but I
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by opensrcken 4y ago
Pay definitely doesn't increase by 600k+ as you go from senior to staff. Yikes. Are people larping on HN?
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by opensrcken 4y ago
The post is not only too braggadocious for my taste, but some of the figures quoted are highly unlikely. I would personally not work for someone with this kind of ego, but there are many such people in positions of power. This article is re
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by opensrcken 4y ago
Clients and employees of SemiAnalysis may hold positions in companies referenced in this article. This article lacks the evidence to warrant the boldness of its arguments. And after reading through the paragraphs of poorly based assertion
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by opensrcken 4y ago
> 4. One AI engineer from Tesla could solve Twitter's bot and spam problem. This a comment written by someone who is clearly not an engineer dealing with high-scale backends, and is definitely not an AI engineer.
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by opensrcken 4y ago
These kinds of articles always seem to get a lot of comments, and so many hiring processes seem to miss the mark. If the criteria that you use for engineering hires has nearly 0 overlap with the criteria that you use for engineering promoti
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by opensrcken 4y ago
Unless you know, with certainty, who is responsible for customer-facing communications , how can you publicly call on a specific person to be fired? Even if you did know, and are correct in your implication, how do you know that she didn&#x