quantumhobbit

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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Edit: wrong company. Leaving original below so reply makes sense. Your company contacted me on Indeed Prime and scheduled a phone interview. However no one called at the agreed time and I received no response to attempts to reschedule. So I
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
This sounds like something out of SiliconValley the tv show. Specifically the aquihiring of startups and churning through the tech teams and hoping the next aquihired team builds better tech, when the problem is likely not tech in the first
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Where does one get a job writing actual algorithms and data structures? I actually enjoy that and am pretty good at it. I'm sick of jobs that are nothing but glueing together poorly documented and tested libraries.
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I went to one of those once and while the cost was in total < $100, I received multiple lab bills months after the fact. That makes it impossible to predict the costs ever after seeing the doctor. It is uncertainty in costs just as much
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
I wonder if that price is due to low production and that the price would come down with mass production in war. Maybe not the case here but I always assume this is the case with expensive new weapons that are likely mostly r&d costs bei
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
This is so true. I live in an affordable area two hours from a minor tech hub. I get plenty offers for that hub, but next to nothing nearby. I have a good enough job so I have no interest in moving. Maybe 1/10 are interested in remote
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
I had a video call interview recently and my interviewer was being attacked by his new puppy during the call. Although distracting it made me want to work there.
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
This explains so much of what I have seen in the Spring/Java community.
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I think newer often tends to easier because it has the benefit of hindsight in this case. Also the old tools tend to get more complicated as time goes on.
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I don't know about c++, but turbo pascal compiled so fast that it felt like an interpreter back in the day.
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The same thing happened in particle physics with neutrinos. There were two ways to get explain beta decay: conservation of mass is wrong, or pretend that the extra mass is carried away by an impossible to detect particle. It took decades fo
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Yup. For more accuracy, you can also vary the timestep by small amounts and rerun the simulation. If they give the same results you assume that numerical errors aren't a problem. Depending on the integration scheme used, the errors som
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Frankly video conferencing that doesn't suck would be huge.
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This is what bothers me. What stops someone from shorting and then buying the shares (likely through an intermediary) in order to gain votes. Seems like it would be enough to tip the vote in a close shareholder vote. I don't think ther
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
For some reason people don't use the phrase " so you don't have to" when selling you on complete abstractions like higher level languages. I've only ever heard that exact phrase when someone is shilling an incomplet
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
I sort of sympathize though because there is overwhelming pressure to use the latest fad in software engineering. At one point Hibernate was the cool new thing, so cool that even non technical managers heard of it. And you really don't
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
The idea of "use Hibernate so you don't have to write SQL" while being objectively wrong, also hits on an antipattern I've noticed over and over again. The "- so you don't have to -" anti pattern. Such as
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
http://www.nand2tetris.org There is an associated book. Great intro to the fundamentals of computer engineering.
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And I sort hope it does.
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I was going to complain about the absence of Bradbury's dystopia in Fahrenheit 451, but I guess it could be a combo of Huxleyan and Orwellian. Citizens were pretty free in a Huxley way to consume empty media but would get an Orwellian
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
There will always be some overhead, but yes it seems like some of these frameworks are pretty bloated.
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
I think the conundrum comes up from the "donut hole" of medium sized data. For 1TB use a script and a laptop; for 100TB use Spark running on dozens to hundreds of machines. The problem is exactly that 8-9TB range because running s
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
This paper is a must read: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6753/959eed800e9fad9e330daa... People keep stumbling upon the same thing over and over which is that the ability to scale has significant overhead.
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by quantumhobbit 10y ago
Yup. Telling someone with depression to just "be happy" is like telling a paraplegic to just get up and walk.
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P/E ratios are around 20 on average I suppose. Meaning earnings are 5% of the market cap of a stock. GDP doesn't directly correlate to earnings though.
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Yet another fact: altering the composition of calories, more protein and fewer carbs, seems to help overweight people eat less and/or burn more calories.
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Most of that increase is in warehouse and "fulfillment" workers. I wonder what changes tech employment at Amazon has seen since the NYTimes article a year or so ago.
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My company has a policy of allowing you to work on open source after getting approval from legal. It also seems that all emails to legal are routed to /dev/null . I wouldn't be surprised if other companies act the same way.
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Not that there isn't value in having everyone follow the same patterns, but I find it gets emphasized over just getting work done a lot of the time. I've seen projects waste so much effort making the code uniform instead of delive
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I have one that I was using as a great home theater of to stream Netflix and other online services. I wish they would support it more because it was far more versital than the roku I use now and much simpler to use than a Linux or windows e

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