ps101

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by ps101 7y ago
You just blew my mind.
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by ps101 7y ago
Your first sentence: > I am learning Python. Your second sentence: > I want to quit my current job and start a business. Later in the thread: > I am not good at sales. Should I learn selling...? Advice
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by ps101 7y ago
I'm learning Rust because: 1. I want to add a low(er) level language to the ones I already know and use. 2. Though I did some C/C++ in high school, getting really into depth with C++ at the moment seems really daunting. 3. I don&#
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by ps101 7y ago
Don't put up with it. People reading this will have the rare luxury of working in an industry and in positions where they have a lot of leverage and a choice of employers. (Disclaimer - it's easy for me to write this from the EU w
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by ps101 7y ago
> It's generally a policy to keep pay and pay negotiations confidential. I know that your general point is about the personal relationships, but I want to point out that this policy is bullshit. You can legally disclose y
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by ps101 7y ago
It's actually okay for many jobs and workplaces.
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by ps101 7y ago
Stay away from: - MOOCs - Udacity - Kaggle I'm not being facetious, this is my honest advice.
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by ps101 7y ago
As a non-technical manager it will be very difficult - just make sure that the selection process has a technical component. As a technical manager (and opinions here will vary), focusing on linear algebra is a great filter, because it'
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by ps101 7y ago
> but I feel like I'm missing the point of this There is no overarching point - each of the resources that you've listed have their own reasons to share educational content for free, it's up to you to use it as w
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by ps101 7y ago
Learn as much about ML as you're interested in but don't worry about becoming a dinosaur at all.
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by ps101 7y ago
> There is a way to implement this in an objective way... No. The post above you refers to assigning value, what you're suggesting is the opposite. So it definitely isn't "a way to implement this". It's
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by ps101 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the reasons for this?
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by ps101 7y ago
Genuinely asking as I don't work in that space - what's the advantage of this location diversity?
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by ps101 7y ago
I wasn't referring to: [you earn more] --> [you pay more taxes] I was referring to: [your job has some positive or negative effect on society] -.--<?><<!>-<>?>---<.. [your income]
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by ps101 7y ago
The interface really puts me off though.
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by ps101 7y ago
Microsoft is also getting some love because they've been doing right by the open source community and haven't ruined Github yet, nor does it look like they're going to.
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by ps101 7y ago
Income isn't tied to contribution to society though. And that's okay.
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by ps101 7y ago
It's never inconsequential who you employ, regardless or your position in the market.
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by ps101 7y ago
being opposed != being obnoxious Being opposed should be encouraged even if it's just a way to internally test ideas; being obnoxious should be discouraged. You, your team and your manager should be able to make that distinction. If wo
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by ps101 7y ago
Instead of either their old or their new approach: 1. Don't tolerate jerks regardless of their level of "brilliant". And simply not being likeable isn't enough to categorise someone as a jerk. 2. Give your employees hone
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by ps101 7y ago
It's not possible at the moment. A week or two ago they introduced shinymeta which allows you to save the state of the R environment but that doesn't extend to js objects.
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by ps101 7y ago
1. Search Google. 2. Go to the Stack Overflow links. 3. If there are none, you go to the Github links. 4. If that doesn't help, you take a coffee break and work on something else when you come back.
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by ps101 7y ago
It's not about winning - people will complain because that's what people do. Users complain about free products as well, sometimes rightfully and sometimes with too much entitlement. It's not about the monetisation model. Cre
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by ps101 7y ago
Upfront sale is not like the others at all because it doesn't interact with addictive behaviour in the same way.