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by rafiki6 6y ago
Or more likely, the corps realize that the walkouts are an ineffective form of virtue signaling and it would be a PR nightmare to do anything about them, so might as well let them happen since they really mean very little.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
This is just not how employment works, really anywhere in the world. The company is well within it's right to ask you to leave earlier to protect it's IP.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's clearly more complex than that. To be fair, it seems that she has made it about that to an extent and media ran with it. We haven't heard from google or her superiors. It's clear they didn't agree but
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by rafiki6 6y ago
As much as I support employment rights, you are paid by a company to do their bidding. If you don't like it start a company, but then you're just doing the bidding of the customer.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
This is par for the course at most companies with IP to protect. If you quit they just walk you out.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Does that mean generally speaking everyone is getting paid similarly? I wonder how pay plays into the feeling of superiority might have.
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Ask HN: Does a flat org ever work?
2 points by rafiki6 6y ago|3 comments
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by rafiki6 6y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I think it misses the true meaning of the word colony. Taken your initial explanation, that's exactly what happened. Took a bunch of people and set them up with resources with the intention of se
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Agreed on most of what you said. DS doesn't necessarily need a lot of data. Alot of DS work is not much more than visualizations and report generation to find insights. ML might need a lot of data depending on how your org defines it.
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Ask HN: Early 30s SWE feeling stuck
1 points by rafiki6 6y ago|3 comments
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Great, if we will take software engineers to task over their ethics, let's form a professional regulatory body that licenses them and a union or advocacy org while we are at it. Tech companies have benefited tremendously from the way t
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Because you can hire someone without a masters degree for much less, and they have the skills to do the job. By putting over qualified people in roles that don't use their skills, you have done no one any favors.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You be surprised at how many people would fail their own interviews. I think if companies ACTUALLY cared about hiring the right people for the job they would focus on adjusting their interview and recruiting process. Put your own people thr
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Seems like bootcamps are now filling the gap.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Location: Toronto Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: ML, NLP, Python, Java Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafikmatta I have a decade of experience in SWE. I have spent the last 3 years focus
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Banks have moats. It's really hard to get past these moats. They are so central to the way that the financial system works, that it's really hard to "disrupt" them. Even the tech giants likely wouldn't succeed.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
As with all human attempts to categorize things, the 4 categories should actually be a spectrum, and the ends of the spectrum should be called into question based on PG's definition here. I mostly agree. I think I probably fall on the
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by rafiki6 6y ago
> The truth of the matter is for most organizations, IT is a cost center along with legal and finance. It is not their money maker. They have no interest in innovative IT/software "technology" until their competitor in the
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You too! Something will come along. In the meantime I think the industry is about to have a lot of algo experts lol
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by rafiki6 6y ago
My friend, I'm very sorry to hear this. It seems like you are under a lot of pressure to be the financial backbone of your family. Without any knowledge of your circumstances, is there a way to have a frank discussion with some members
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Honestly, I think it's a sign of the times. We might be at the peak here. I have recently interviewed at a couple of "AI" labs at banks and some MLE positions at insurance companies and one startup, and they are all requiring
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by rafiki6 6y ago
This post definitely seems to be generated by an ML model. There is little coherence and I don't totally understand how the first part (giving a talk on GPT-2) is at all related to the end. It was long bit of coherent individual though
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I really think this is just a company that went to get the best deal because the homegrown offering wasn't as competitive. I still think having TikTok isn't in the best interest of the democratic west, but you're right. There
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by rafiki6 6y ago
But that's kind of the point. Azure also likely doesn't make up the big chunk of the pie for MSFT Cloud. Many more business need O365. That still counts as cloud. By far the largest pure cloud provider is and will continue being A
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by rafiki6 6y ago
It's a lot of money, but doesn't overall hurt the viability of GCP. That business is growing like crazy with or without Chinese companies.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
You need to be more specific about what you mean by the internet. The "internet" is just a protocol and a bunch of cables connecting a bunch of servers together (obvious over simplification to illustrate a point). If you mean spec
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Great article and I think it talks about a lot of fundamental reasons, but not the primary "why". The way most police organizations are setup is already contentious with the population, where as the way that the military is setup
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by rafiki6 6y ago
Absolutely. Life is luck, starting from where you are born and who your parents are.
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by rafiki6 6y ago
It seems that a lot of the best products are built by people who themselves would be end users. IMO product market fit research is great for someone outside of an industry, trying to start a new industry, or with deep pockets to spend on re
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by rafiki6 6y ago
I re-read his memo. I think it was wrong that he was fired, despite the fact that I can't actually agree that his memo was correct. He cherry picked much of his research and actually made a few over arching claims that are not well sup

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