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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I was excited about this until I saw it's from jet.com. Heard too many things about bad dev practices there to believe a conference presentation about it. It's unfortunate there aren't more F# jobs. I've always worked ex
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> a-job-every-2-years treadmill This is already caused as much by companies as it is by candidates who are job hoppers. When I see a resume with short stints, it basically has no effect on me any more. If the person is good and I do my
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> I will end up with many not-so-best-fits I am not sure I believe this. First, if you are aware that you're not good at assessing it, then have someone else in your company do the assessment, or hire someone who can (possibly on th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Will talented people be willing to give up their full time job for a job they may very likely get fired from? Maybe, maybe not. If they are already on the job market, then they probably don't mind looking for a job. If they feel t
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The most salient detail about the way methodological errors compound is that by engaging in more replications, you can beat down the rate of spurious results in the replications. It's of little importance that it is multiplicative with
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In the spirit of this advice, if you are serious about really finding the best people, you should offer very comprehensive severance packages as part of every offer -- on the order of 6-10 months of salary, possibly even "grossed up&qu
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't think so. Saying that only 1/4 of replications are, on average, useful because of methodological flaws is an extreme claim. Given the costs associated with reproductions, if anything even close to 3/4 of them are on a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Why should we expect methodological errors for the replications to be anywhere near that? I'd expect them to be in the low single digit percentages. And across different replications, such methodological errors should rarely be correla
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I worked in an environment like this before and found it unsustainable. The number of defects and mistakes from everyone in the open-plan area was significant and was a major cause for re-work. Even though the company was making money, it w
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What most firms mean by "data science" is basically just using tools for data cleaning, visualization, and using APIs like black boxes for a few different kinds of models. You are often not even allowed to take a software design a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That's rarely why these enterprise frameworks are bought or operated. More often it's for various permutations of the "no one got fired for buying IBM" excuse. Big showy re-orgs around Hadoop are mostly for status effect
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
One of the best pieces of sleight of hand that modern companies are pulling on modern engineering job seekers is the complete demise of the job description. Job descriptions act like a constraint on the human complexity of a team or organiz
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That makes sense. The most egregious interview hassle I had was with a large insurance company based in Connecticut. They had me do 1 HR phone call and then a difficult 1-hour technical phone interview. After that interview they gave me a l
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But what was weird is that they did go through a non-trivial amount of the initial interview process with me, then became silent for 3 weeks, and then said that they had an internal candidate. (It sounded to me like the internal candidate
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This a thousand times. For many firms, the roles of "data scientist" "data engineer" "distributed system engineer" and "platform engineer" are all fully synonymous, and all of them really mean "H
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I recently applied for a position at Etsy, and one of the main points I make in my self summary is that I am most motivated by craftsmanship and an attention to quality (I think a lot of developers feel this way, and more should practice sp
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm a vegan and live just outside of Fort Wayne, Indiana. I expected the worst moving here from Boston, but it has been extremely easy to make all of the same vegan foods I loved cooking when living in Boston and shopping at Whole Food
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I really need to start being more fictional. Maybe I'll read Broom of the System again.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I wonder how the Borg managed to deal with latency issues.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Eh, they are probably too busy looking at porn to care.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think the MindGeek / Pornhub monopoly demonstrates the lengths to which content providers will go to avoid switching away from ad-based revenue, and also the extreme aversion consumers have to the entire premise of paying for creati
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
If you don't mind committing to Anaconda Python distributions, then you should simply use conda. You can still pip-install things within a conda environment, and conda can manage more dependencies than just Python dependencies (a commo
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This is a problem related to A Priori Probability, where you're essentially turning research, which could have been statistically applied to a larger population given some statistical confidence, into deductive reasoning which doe
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is one of my favorite posts about valuing start-up options: < http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/11/how-much-are-startup-... >. But, funny enough, any time I have been in a negotiating position wi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
That sounds tragic, especially since it has been well-known even since the time of Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month that small teams are often much better than large teams, and that team productivity does not scale at all linearly with
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What makes it even more egregious is that some of the absolute best engineers on the planet are in Europe. It is a powerhouse of design talent, the birthplace of tons of pivotal scientific ideas, has many bastions of functional programming,
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Many also offer needlessly poor relocation packages -- mostly because engineers are foolishly willing to accept them. A flat payment of even $8000 is not reasonable for someone to move across the country, even if they are moving alone and s
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Many people are uncomfortable talking about or negotiating salary. So the feedback you are receiving might just be a candidate's polite way of reframing their choice that was actually based on salary. Also, are you factoring equity int
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Agreed. Personally, I would love to move to Denmark, and I am actually on the job market right now (I do scientific computing with Python and some related data engineering tools, so I have no idea if I fit the OP's company) but my imme
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm proud to report that at my undergrad institution, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, they very successfully adhered to these rules (and I was taking ODEs there way back in 2005). They had a custom textbook created for their 2-cou

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