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by rafiki6 8y ago
No one has actually provided a counter argument. A list of 1000 over billions of humans just shows how rare this idea is. That article isn't arguing semantics, and as a matter of a fact it is showing that the truthiness of an autodidac
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Not sure why I got down voted. Is there anything I said that's factually incorrect?
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Natural selection is definitely still at play. For e.g. look at the parents who've decided against vaccinating their children which is now leading to the re-emergence of many diseases and viruses we've already eradicated. That&#x2
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by rafiki6 8y ago
"Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree." My bet here is that he's counting retail Apple Store employees. I'm not entirely sure t
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by rafiki6 8y ago
So you're looking for something that's so rare it's probably a myth? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsnr.2014... I think what you meant to say is you're looking for peo
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by rafiki6 8y ago
My take on this is that once an economic model begins to fail, the society that is based on it will inevitably also fail. Eventually wars breakout (usually resource wars), and a new dominant player emerges and their economic model gets impl
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I think it really depends on what stage you "fail" and what causes the failure. In my own experience, I was really young and tried something for about 6 months. It didn't pan out because those who I was working with weren&#x2
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by rafiki6 8y ago
You just told me that Google is the MLB. I don't see any evidence for this. Many great software companies exist. You are working on the assumption that everyone applying to Google is coming from low-rate companies. Further, if I get hi
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Can I ask why you might think that you were not at the same level? Why is Google a special software snowflake and none of your external experience is transferable?
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Outside of the obvious reason of needing a job, I can't understand why she didn't immediately begin to interview and look for a job elsewhere. This goes for both men and women. If you are clearly being underpaid for your level of
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by rafiki6 8y ago
In order: 1) Responsibilities + who I will report to 2) Hours 3) Real Hard Requirements (what I will be interviewed on) 4) If travel is required 5) Salary (don't give me a range, I will treat the salary you post as a middle point anyw
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I haven't ever changed my mind about a language, because instead I choose not to have strong opinions about something to begin with. Fact is most developers are not experts in a language or framework, even if they've worked with i
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Honestly, I think the best career advice I've learned is to not be idealistic or over invest in a product or company. At the end of the day you're hired labor unless you own the company. You can go join a competitor who is working
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Same argument can be made for how humans have and still do treat other humans who they decided to label sub-human and thereby less worthy of living a suffering-free existence. The trend is when humans have too much power over literally anyt
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by rafiki6 8y ago
The only thing I'll disagree with is "SQL is permanent". Nothing is permanent. SQL will live for a long time, but eventually it will be displaced by something else once something displaces RDBMS as the defacto data storage st
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by rafiki6 8y ago
How far away is the hardware? I think AR is truly the next evolution in human-computer interaction, but every time I explore the hardware it still seems like an entirely immature area. We haven't even really reached the "Palm Pilo
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by rafiki6 8y ago
This sounds like a really typical implementation of an AML system. My guess is they actually shut it off because it generated too many false positives. In authoritarian countries, corruption charges are generally trumped up when an official
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Because for many employers, they live under the false pretense that not giving you a raise is saving them money. Granted, it works most if the time. Most people stick around out of complacency or even inability to get a new job. This makes
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Correct. You should always include your salary as a business expense. Being your own boss, you can set that salary based on your personal expenses.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
The responses below are kind of funny. The government already runs key infrastructure. I'm not sure if the argument is government vs. Corp. Frankly governments are more likely to consider public interest than corps are. That's not
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. Not sure why the task of operating DNS' isn't the domain of governments the world over. It's kind of like operating a post office. Post office's are the ones who have the routing information and
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Logical reasoning is required, and the ability to determine an efficient solution for the task at hand is required. Keep in mind that many of these algorithms that are tested for are not intuitive and took researchers years to come up with.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I have tried that strategy but many people get offended when you question their googlefoo.
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by rafiki6 8y ago
As much as I love a good conspiracy theory, and yours is pretty damn good because this industry has colluded to keep wages down, I'm hard pressed to believe that this is the case. Interviewing is hard. Startups are led to believe they
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by rafiki6 8y ago
Create a data science focused product and sell it. Let people "dig" for their data, as there's supposedly value in it. Create ASICs for Crypto currency mining. That's probably the most directly analogous.
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> I am bad at the fundamentals. Correction, you are bad at memorizing algorithms or coming up with them in interview settings under time pressure. This can be valuable in some jobs that are heavily algorithmic. Many development jobs are
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I think many people just haven't traveled to for e.g. many European countries where tipping culture is mostly non-existent because over there people the service industry receive appropriate wages and the prices of things are adjusted a
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by rafiki6 8y ago
I can't down vote your snarky comment, but yes I'd be absolutely happy to stop tipping, if the country I lived in paid fair wages to the people working in the service industry. The idea of rewarding high performers can be similarl
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I up voted this because it's hilarious
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Or increase the cost of your product or service and offer incentives to employees after you've already raised their wages.

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