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partyboat1586
7y ago
For permanent roles sure. You might as well be a contractor at that point and contractors get paid more.
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Fair enough there is an element of skill. It's still a foolish idea to be a Lion tamer.
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Lion tamers are also regularly killed and or maimed by their lions.
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That's the problem with cities. Such high population density, so many people fighting for your attention. You have to ignore the people around you to some degree to get anything done. It's far too easy to just completely switch of
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I've always been good at the alternative uses test. I'm better with possible than probable. Is there some kind of standardised test I could take for it?
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Like a debt collector but specifically for drug money.
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Textbook correlation vs causation.
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I'm the same way with remembering facts. Like a juicer and a sieve I quickly turn experiences into facts, potential facts and general concepts. My memory for facts and concepts is better than most people I meet but my chronological mem
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When I try to imagine a simple solid yellow circle fixed in place I can't. Immediately my mind transforms it into something else. It starts disintegrating into different parts, changing color, moving, the background changes color, it s
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I have the same memory problem and keeping a journal has changed my life. I can look back and see what I was doing on a particular day and get a clearer picture of my mental landscape at the time. This helps me to stop repeating negative pa
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Absolutley agree. Before working for a small consultantancy I worked for two startups and a big company. At the startups I had next to no guidance but I guess I learned self reliance. At the big company the pace of work was too slow (althou
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Conversely it could help someone who is in denial and experiencing disphoria to come to terms with themselves.
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They are not fast enough for real time 3D pose estimation (60fps)
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Clean code is so subjective it hurts. Being audience aware basically means trying to guess the company and interviewers coding style from minimal information.
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Some people are better at pretending to be excited than others. Recruiters for example are very good at it. Not all engineers are bad actors.
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Ah yes the soothing feeling that at any one time no matter what I am doing I am loosing out on doing something else. Such are the inner workings of the ever rational and goal focused financier who embraces this reality in its fullest form a
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Some hiring processes are accidentally bad and benefit from feedback. Other processes (like 6hr take home tests) show an irreconcilable difference in value systems that mean it was never going to be a good fit. No amount of feedback is goin
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Yes, this experience of knowing before verbalising confirms it for me. I find it happens most when I'm solving a problem and I know there is a line of thinking I could go down but have not yet gone down, an intuition for some nuance of
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Woah, slow down there governor. Don't you be bringing your filthy verbose Java idioms into our precious JavaScript. My father was a ECMAScript programmer and his father before him was a perl hacker. We don't take to kindly to extr
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7y ago
Why don't you contract days for bigger companies? Day rates are very high for someone with your experience. Also you can usually negotiate to be on site only some days of the week or even month
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A true general intelligence would need to handle any environment. The only such intelligence would be universal intelligence which has experienced every possible environment. Unfortunately this kind of intelligence is cheating because it&#x