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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I have prior experience in quantitative finance, analytics consulting, and education technology. Here is my Stack Overflow Careers profile: < http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ely >. My primary experience is in Python,
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Yes, many things. Interviewers are often ecstatic about my skills and experiences, but ultimately say they would prefer to hire people less-skilled who are cheaper and (especially) more willing to sublimate away basic human needs (such as f
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This is really, really not true. Or at least it depends a lot on what you mean by "change." It might be better than it is in Russia, but it is not good at all for most people in the U.S.
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As someone who has been on the job market for a long time recently, I am not encouraged by this. What I've observed is that in response to chronic talent shortages, larger organizations prefer to downsize, cut corners, scale-back offer
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Oldie but a goodie "Economics of Nanotech and AI" (Robin Hanson, Foresight 2010) [0]. [0] https://vimeo.com/9508131
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Hey, I agree. I even wrote up a lengthy diatribe once about this issue [0]. But the reality is that people hire by bullet points and no engineer involved in the hiring process is going to miss a chance to assert superiority by asking about
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I am a beginner Haskeller maybe just crossing the border into "intermediate." What has been most frustrating for me is not really the quality or availability of books or learning materials. Instead, it has been hard to deal with t
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I've used this recipe in my IPython launch script to define SQL-like infix operators for working with pandas DataFrames. You can see that source here: < https://github.com/spearsem/configs/blob/master&
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Yeah, there doesn't seem to be much substance in this. For example, > The last thing I’ll say is about Tony, since he’s the focus of most of these articles. I was in maybe 10 meetings with him total in 18 months. So I would never ch
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I'm saying it produces false positives. False negatives are ok for a conservative hiring process, because you're paying for a super low false positive rate with a higher budget for false negatives. But the whiteboard hazing prod
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Even so, it only pays to be conservative via an overly selective filter if that filter actually selects for what you want. If you zealously apply some filter, believing that you're being extra cautious, but the filter doesn't ac
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> genuinely had tough problems where if they accidentally did something in O(N^2), their half-day compute job would suddenly literally take centuries to complete. Yes, but this has almost zero bearing on the actual interview. Being able
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
At first I was going to criticize Rogers, the article's subject, with some comments I reproduced below [1]. But really, I think the criticism is more with the journalist's description. There's evidence that Rogers is aware of
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It absolutely is a game. And governments don't always succeed in winning the game against powerful coalitions. Besides "the government" is a large, fractured entity with political divisions and its own internal power strugg
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The company culture is quite shitty as well.
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Palantir is one of those organizations that makes me throw up a little in the back of my throat whenever I hear about them. They are sort of like the Nickelback of companies.
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Early last year I unplugged from all social media sites, and for me personally it has been a very healthy choice. I'm still pretty easily able to read anything I want to read on Twitter without having an account or installing the app.
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I am a huge curmudgeon when I read these types of articles. I tend to think back to Moral Mazes and I have no faith or hope that executives will do healthy things in these situations. But I actually liked a couple of the major points in thi
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I dunno, what you say just reads like a bunch of buzzwords that Agile, even supposedly "refined" or "good" versions of Agile, never prioritizes or delivers. More often, when quality work is produced it's produced i
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> Those "consumer variation bullshit startups" are providing a lot of value to people. It's easy to forget how much less fun day-to-day life was even ten years ago. I think this is highly questionable.
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I'm not saying waterfall is a good alternative. Waterfall is just as shitty as Agile, but one benefit is that wastes less of everyone's time with meetings and busywork. But waterfall is equally guilty of a one-size-fits-all mental
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I've never experienced estimation improving over time in an Agile process. In fact, since short estimation cycles are just as susceptible to political games as longer cycles, and this dominates the whole process in any organization, th
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I can't help but to quote the full song Modern Man from Arcade Fire's album The Suburbs -- which basically was an entire album chronicling this sort of issue in San Francisco. So I wait my turn, I'm a modern man And the
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I speculate that DFW's take on it would be something like: sure, we can reap some rewards by working hard and being prepared, but really the amount that those things affect our lives is really small compared to huge, uncontrollable thi
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Hey, I agree. I just don't necessarily always want the very first part to be.
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I didn't seek instant gratification, nor did my partners. And in fact, one thing I had in common with each partner was a mutual dislike of the online interface through which we met specifically because we felt it forced instant gratifi
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After having a few long-term but ultimately unsuccessful relationships via online dating, I'm holding out for some god damn serendipity for the next one. I don't believe in "the one" or any of that flighty bullshit, but
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This is important. I had several interviews with some Singaporean companies and salary was always the limiting factor. It was absolutely nowhere close to what similar positions would pay in major US cities, let alone New York or SF. Yet cos
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Benefits are fine and you should choose where to work partly because you like the benefits. But when benefits become venerated to the status of "part of the culture" and good employees are labeled as "not a team player"
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Not mocking. Just sardonically lamenting. Much of that cargo culting is driven by idiotic investors who want to be able to pop into the office and gawk at a veritable army of hoodie-clad brogrammers who look like they came from someone shak

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