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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I agree with this advice, and especially the follow up comments about being well-rounded in general. But one thing I hate is when a business or a manager tries to politicize this whole "t-shaped skills" buzzword, by arguing that i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I used to use Moodscope to record daily subjective ratings in some key areas, like whether I felt "strong" or "productive" or "powerless" or "scared". The process of entering the data about myself eac
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The second chart -- where it's referred to negatively as a "cliff" -- is the only kind of workflow that I think is healthy (at least for the kinds of problems that I've tended to work on). I rarely work longer hours in t
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Relevant: < http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/defective.html >
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I lived in Boston for a long time, > 8 years. I actually just left there over the summer b/c the job market was so poor. I interviewed top to bottom. I worked in a finance company there after I finished grad school there, and I left
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I definitely agree. This is why I almost always reject further interviews with a company that unnecessarily uses open-plan offices. What bigger slap in the face can they give to a developer? They are basically saying, up-front in one of the
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is definitely true ... and there are a lot of little hubs (like the defense work opportunities near Wright-Patterson in Dayton) that perpetuate this problem by doubling down on "enterprise" solutions. As a scientific Python a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I hear this a lot too. All the research I've ever been able to find on the topic suggests the opposite. Teams become less productive when using open-plan style offices, not more productive. But you'll never win that argument wit
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Actually, a lot of the book Peopleware was devoted to showing that even in dense urban areas it is still cost-effective to provide private office space for knowledge workers. What you spend on extra real-estate is easily more than made up
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In some cases, I have known other people who worked in the companies and attested to the poorness of the work environment, or been able to read large and very public accounts of employee discontent within them. Another good indicator of the
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I live in the Midwest and would happily consider living here long-term in order to work at jobs like these, except that the jobs are generally terrible. They don't pay well, even by lower-cost-of-living Midwest standards. Yet they do a
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I actually ask during interviews if a company uses any type of Agile/Scrum/Kanban/"sprint cycle" workflow or uses JIRA/Asana/other Agile-focused metric trackers -- and immediately reject doing any more rou
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I disagree. JIRA goes further out of its way to accomodate Agile/Scrum stuff than many other issue trackers. I was on a team once where we used FogBugz (without any of the metric tracking nonsense -- our managers didn't even log i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
In the spirit of "betting is a tax on bullshit", this seems like an interesting opportunity to try it out. Why not find some way to make panelist rankings public (or some function of panelist rankings)? If you serve as a panelist
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Thanks for the link to JitPy. I will definitely read more about it. Just from the first parts of the docs, though, it looks very limited compared with Numba. In Numba, there is a distinction between 'python mode' and 'nopytho
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm not sure I appreciate that criticism of Cython. A general strategy in Cython is to use the annotation feature (cython -a) and visually inspect the degree of CPython API necessary for the lines of Cython source code. I've gener
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Can you comment on the difference between Pymod and Cython? Cython's pretty mature now and it's straight up amazing how easy it is to generate cross-platform extension modules. It even exposes a lot of C++ too. Cython is a separat
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But as Numba has shown, it's achievable to write a CPython-to-LLVM-IR compiler for subsets of the language, then add NumPy-awareness, and add multiple targets like GPUs, and achieve better-than-PyPy speed ups jitting pure Python (CPyth
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm with you except that I think the "unit cost" thinkers are only shifting towards Agile/Scrum because the cool kids are doing it. In the brand of Agile/Scrum that those shops create, it is anything but engineer-fr
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
My feeling is that it is indeed worth it to be pedantic about these kinds of best practices in a start-up. In fact, when I left finance to join a start-up, literally the whole reason for doing so was that the start-up was supposedly a place
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
One objection I have to this is that no matter how much someone believes they can guarantee a certain job or task will be confined within a subset of general computing, inevitably the software gets pressured by business use cases to 'b
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
See my other comment: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10560943 >.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
By doing seemingly ethical things on a day to day basis, you can be helping the larger organization to do such significantly unethical things overall that it more than overtakes the aggregation of your small ethical actions. So the choice t
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This is actually very, very debatable. I agree. I just think it's just as debateable for pretty much any other mode of employment. I too worked in quant finance for several years. Believe me I understand. I quit finance because of
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I don't know the specifics of your friends' jobs, and with more data about them I am completely open to being wrong about it. Most people in financial jobs also harm no one, and though they accept higher wages, they also create fa
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Can you give an example of an organization that doesn't "game the system and/or exploit people/resources" under whatever operational definition you're using? That might help me b
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
What kind of job can you get that actually is ethical? I don't know of any. To me, it seems like you just have to pick which vertical scam you want to give your labor to, and choosing between them based on which affords you a better&#x
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But a university (or a department) could manage a centralized set of software developers who get assigned to different lab projects over time. If Professor A's grant goes away, then you just pick up more work on Professor B's gran
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I've interviewed for a number of these types of jobs in the last year or so. The pay is just too poor to even think about it. One large university with a super well-funded and growing medical school in a huge mega-city was looking to h
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Doesn't this just mean that Apple, Google, etc., are rent seeking? If there's a creek behind my house where the community comes to get fish, that's value for those people. If I see them doing it and build a giant fence and st

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