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by probinso 10y ago
If the company's Target is noticeably low, then I really want them to put up the salary. I do however want them to be very honest about there range. This allows for me to be much more particular about what my other needs are from the c
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by probinso 10y ago
that means that its working with perfect privacy
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by probinso 10y ago
xps series is great
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by probinso 10y ago
The larger the code base, the more important IDE integration is for on-boarding. The more experienced the team, the less important IDE integration is. When in doubt, choose prolog.
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by probinso 10y ago
He is the most public, easily trolled troll.
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by probinso 10y ago
Start by finding a linguist. You can find one at your local university. Let the linguist design your first project. It should be something that they don't know how to solve, but have wanted to know. Don't worry about if it is feas
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by probinso 10y ago
start a project with someone. write your own data scraper, and implement a model.
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by probinso 10y ago
I use github for cover letters and have branches for tailored companies, with the company name as the branch name. I have only one acting copy of my resume. I do not change it per company.
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by probinso 10y ago
I use it in interviews. That is about it.
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by probinso 10y ago
Encapsulation in object oriented programming is a term we use to describe joining of conceptual topics. A class generally models a conceptual topic, the data and methods on the class allow a clean interface to operations from that topic. Th
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by probinso 10y ago
I've worked at three weeks,5 weeks and unlimited. The reality is that I like 5 weeks more than Unlimited. When I was working unlimited I actually was able to take as much time as I wanted, but it was obvious that different employees ha
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by probinso 10y ago
the internet is a pretty good resource
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Ask HN: What platform/tools do you use for Math and Sciences Blogging?
2 points by probinso 10y ago|0 comments
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by probinso 10y ago
The problem is Google doesn't need you. Google gets onefinity applications per day. If they shave %90 percent of cold applicants this way then they will not hurt for more applicants. A company that large will gain it's best partic
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by probinso 10y ago
hyperlinks
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by probinso 10y ago
As artificial intelligence increases, the number of jobs will start to decrease. Once the job started decrease, the policy makers will step in and AI will be in handcuffed. This will result in many monotonous jobs without a learning curve
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by probinso 10y ago
Self-documenting code... really
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by probinso 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that there's no Cool Tech in the valley anyways
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by probinso 10y ago
I suggest you take a look at groups like skillsfund. they audit boot camps and provide scholarships. the risk in going to a bootcamp, is that most people who would like to go to a boot camp are very easy to take advantage of. career transit
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Ask HN: Does your company find value in exit interviews?
6 points by probinso 10y ago|7 comments
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by probinso 10y ago
Age 27. Had same problems. School is one of the most addictive drugs you can take. Dedicated learning is completely different from on-job training (which mostly doesn't exist) and experience through work. The pace of job-learning is si
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by probinso 10y ago
If they have a project that they list on their resume that is also on their github, then take a quick look. Just enough to decide if you can ask them questions without getting their input first. Also, if they list a bunch of languages, but
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by probinso 10y ago
To not ever use a computer again
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by probinso 10y ago
The PPAML project yielded a lot of cool work, I think that many people are still figuring out the most impact use case. I believe that the most mature new production language is Figaro, out of Charles River. They have some good example proj
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by probinso 10y ago
Jeremy Kun's blog is exceptional
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by probinso 10y ago
I've had recruiters contact me from information that can only be found from my website. A good way to track is to extend your e-mail with the '+' notation for different sources. for 'username@website.com' you can ad
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by probinso 10y ago
If you're more familiar with JavaScript then checkout WebPPL. * made by the same people as 'church' If you're more familiar with Haskell, then checkout hakaru. If you are more familiar with Scala, or Java, checkout figar
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by probinso 10y ago
Open vacation means that you should definitely take vacation. Normally when you leave a company, they have to pay out your vacation time. This is great for companies or fields that turn employees quickly (like a lot of these tech companies)
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by probinso 10y ago
get a job
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by probinso 10y ago
I think that this mostly depends on whether you're supporting a family. If you have no dependents then you can adjust your life expenses very easily. I have taken jobs at 40% of another offer, Because the work was way more interesting

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