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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is nothing new at all, it is called the "Fluent Interface" design. Many Python libraries implement this design, for instance the Pandas library is a popular example. I hate this design approach deep in my soul. It makes for
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree. I've been part of teams in which the person who was clearly most productive and most critical to the team's short-term and medium-term success was laid off. The organization was going through a "restructuring" w
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree with all of this and I think it also carries over to software design too: People tend to think about which design pattern, from some preconceived menu of design patterns, they will need, instead of applying common sense to how the b
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The Fama/French research in this area is really like the junior high school science fair project of the finance world. It's entertaining to look at, and kind of cute, but has pretty much zero applicability to the real world. Also
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Traditional, long-only asset managers are still hired mostly out of some combination of nepotism, status signalling, cover-your-ass advisory board issues. When I worked in a long-only equities asset manager, there even were frank discussion
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This must clearly have come on the heels of YC being turned down by Brandon Content.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My goal is to lobby for broad social change, not merely to locate one single private workspace for just me. Complaining about what is wrong with it is a good way to help others, who might not have even considered that workspace should be tr
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is a fallacy of presuming the market (in this case labor) has to be efficient, and that any irrationalities would be arbitraged away (better employer swoops in and eats Bloomberg's lunch by providing better workspace) and so there
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Vendors tend to standardize on crap. How many vending machines do you see with salad or tofu instead of Doritos or soda? Big multinational IT vendors are even worse than the vending machine example. They cater to situations where a firm has
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm hardly assuming people are all the same -- that's the very thing that places like Bloomberg, which standardize on a one-size-fits-all model for the sake of cheapness yet come up with political stories to plausibly defend it, a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That is in fact an exact situation I've been in, where it had previously been organized as a bunch do ad hoc scripts, and it caused huge problems. It is exactly all of these fractured cases where you're running analyses in some be
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
As a predominantly Python-focused engineer, I've spent considerable time teaching myself R and there is a lot to like about R. For boutique statistical libraries especially. For instance, the enjoyment of using PySTAN is nowhere near a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I too am a Python-preferring machine learning engineer, but my reasons are almost precisely the opposite of the post's. 1. No matter how much you ever think, as a scientist, that you "only do an analysis one time" it is false
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
conda supports pip installation within the context of an environment (much more gracefully, in fact, than does virtualenv). So you're not giving anything up by using conda in this regard. I don't see the desire to have pip as the
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree with your description of Bloomberg's beliefs and motivation for it, and I agree that many other organizations, especially start-ups, cargo cult on the back of this. Since the belief that offices are bad in terms of cost or prod
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is unfortunate. I think it could not be more on-topic. It is as much about the legacy impact of his choices as the parent comment onto which I made it, and it seems exceedingly hypocritical to detach it. But nonetheless I accept your c
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Bloomberg, a company famous for an executive who expressed this same "down in the trenches" preference for cubicles, famously does not have offices. Far from their "egalitarian" culture leading to acceptable working cond
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't see how it's a nice gesture. Not only does it fail to improve what is bad about the conditions, but also it creates an unspoken rule that you're not even allowed to complain, not even allowed to hope, for something be
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Paul Graham expressed this much more strongly than I have, and he wrote about it over 10 years ago: "After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to exp
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I am striving to back up my disagreement with cogent points. The excuses that are used to justify the anti-human way that we allow HR-type thinking to structure our working lives are something I am passionate about criticizing. There are a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I didn't mean to call you a liar. You might believe you are screening for and prioritizing productivity. I'm saying that I don't believe that's actually what the hiring process you're a part of is screening for, e
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree that some standards are helpful. However, I think for the sake of the discussion on this thread, we are talking about all sorts of unnecessary, buzzwordy things that are absolutely obviously not necessary, and in fact are even har
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It reminds me of The Crimson Permanent Assurance short video by Monty Python, I think on the release for The Meaning of Life.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
There are a number of buzzwords in your comment that cause me to doubt its veracity. Without getting into an extended debate about exactly how you detect this productivity in a candidate (something even the best tech firms openly admit is e
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The frustrating part is that even when this is brought up and openly described and discussed explicitly in the context of working towards a better and healthier hiring practice, manager and HR types still insist on the cargo cult nonsense
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
"Look at that one, honey! He's wearing a Ramones t-shirt while head-banging and playing air guitar. Oh, and look over there! That whole section of the room appears to have fallen out of a Warby Parker catalog..."
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> appears to be “strategic” The key word is appears which is just a game of status and certification.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In my experience, hiring managers, and almost all companies apart from extremely early-stage do-or-die start-ups, simply do not care about productivity. Sure, they'll use productivity as a political excuse to fire you, overlook you, or
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But this is required for the hiring staff to give the appearance of being important and needed within the company. If managers really understood how effectively non-management engineers can find and hire acceptable candidates when you remov
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I see, thank you for clarifying. I misread your comment, but if it is a general comment about the concern for version history of code that supports a scientific conclusion, then I absolutely withdraw my comments about it being insulting or

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