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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If the candidates look like garbage, why are you screening them? You can't always tell. You begin part of the process, then the company says how great their Agile teams are, or how "collaborative" their open-plan surveillance
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The flip side of this is that most companies are "garbage" as you put it, and a lot of them simply do cargo cult imitations of the more popular companies. If a startup is saying they're going to disrupt the online vegan runni
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The desire for this sort of flexibility is a mistake. It sounds good, but it's naive. It's sort of like saying you want a single class in your OO design to be "flexible" so you make the class into an undifferentiated mes
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I did not do Olympiads, but I did score highly in math modeling competitions and won a competitive PhD fellowship. I have had the exact same experience. I will get comments like, "That's the best submission we've seen for tha
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Any time a company asks me to do a HackerRank test, I immediately reject them. It's just not possible to have a quality engineering team and to also believe the results of HackerRank tests correspond to on-the-job success. HackerRank i
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That is a good point. I had never considered that they would actually Harrison Bergeron their own people, but it's entirely plausible. If they want predictability more than output, it would make sense, and then they extract value mostl
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More often, the person is just a token hire who functions more to ensure legal deniability on the company's part for anything that might pop up related to a diversity issue. I hope more companies hire diversity officers for the sake of
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I've always been very put off by their rah rah support for Agile. In many ways, I think Spotify cargo cults on the Netflix culture document, but they don't actually have a tech culture identity that they've created for themse
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I discontinued my Spotify service about 18 months ago because I went through the process of deleting my Facebook account, and the backend Spotify account was linked to it. It turned into a pretty unexpected ordeal, I had to call Spotify cus
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But the comments are drawn from the distribution of Hacker News readers. You can't presume that just because you see a thread of ten comments as an off-topic distraction that so must the other thousands of readers, especially if there
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It makes sense to me for someone to down vote the most top-level comment that led to an off-topic thread. But then further down voting comments that are replies within that thread makes little sense, and could be mistaken by some as vindict
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On the other hand, you could argue that if a comment generates substantive replies (as opposed to just replies that say "this is off topic") then it's actually pretty strong evidence that the community feels the comment is o
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This usually applies to commodity work, and there's a long history of Taylorism. It makes a lot less sense in knowledge work, where the problems are not standardized and often solutions are unknown. In these cases, the uniformity desir
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I would agree if it was just me. But Googling around for some of the stuff that's happened, like with Michael O. Church, some blog posts about alleged anti-semitism in HN moderator actions, I think it's hardly just me. I also don&
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Hopefully this thread's not too stale yet to escape notice. I just wanted to add that the user above, Jack, absolutely made good on what he said. He sent me some very well-written, extremely professional, and constructive feedback abou
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
After that, the interviewers asked the questions about how to develop a news feed ranking algorithm at a super vague, high level. I spoke about how you would need to account for seasonality or cyclic effects -- e.g. election news would clea
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The more concrete feedback is in the previous post (you commented on that one too). But I will elaborate here: On 8/4/15, I received a message from an Asana representative via Stack Overflow Careers. After a few back-and-forths di
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The problem is that Asana seems to have preconceived ideas of what answers are supposed to look like, but the questions are vague and open-ended enough that even very good candidates can give good answers that simply diverge from the manner
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I did an extensive set of interviews with Asana and did not enjoy the experience. After an initial screen, I was required to complete a fairly extensive take home data science problem that involved querying an AWS-hosted database, fitting a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This goes for working environments too -- where it may not be ethnic or political minorities being intrinsically oppressed, but instead anyone expressing minority opinions within the context of the organization. Open-plan surveillance works
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I disagree. I have sometimes faced reply comments that are quite unreasonable and at times meant solely as insult. It's very rare here, but still a risk. But what's far worse is that the moderation of Hacker News functions with ve
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I desperately want someone to parody the montage sequence from The Departed showing Matt Damon double-agenting his way through police academy and Leonardo DiCaprio double-agenting his way through mafia initiation, except this time showing
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
While conda is newer than virtualenv, pip, and easy_install, it's not really "new." Conda also is orthogonal to the source repository. As I mentioned, you can easily let conda manage the environments of your pip-installed pac
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I'm not sure falling back to pip is a good default. You might rather be alerted to a package's absence on anaconda.org than to have it silently installed elsewhere, for example for use cases when you totally want zero pip installe
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Most often you won't need to use pip, and `conda install ...` is preferable (for example, pretty much everything on PyPI is mirrored to anaconda.org, and if you ask them to support a well-known package that's not already available
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Yes, but as far as the economists are concerned, asking for someone to rectify CAPM with the low-volatility anomaly is just nuance. The author of this piece is saying, Let's not just throw unconstrained nuance at a theory: let's l
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This doesn't make a lot of sense in this example with CAPM. The economic theory provides something that is abjectly wrong. It is literally claiming there is a positive relationship between two quantities when the evidence suggests the
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I would posit the social signalling theories of Robin Hanson as perhaps a theory of this magnitude. The problem is, though most of Hanson's theories have plausible explanations and "feel" right, there is very little experimen
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Why do you exclude economics? I see economics as practically leading the way with regard to dismissals like you suggest. One example I have first-hand experience with is the low-volatility anomaly. CAPM-like theories predict a roughly linea
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At all of the studios where I've interviewed for either tools jobs or R&D jobs, C++ seems to be lingua franca. Knowing Python is basically a plus, but not taken seriously. For example, I used to work on portfolio construction syste

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