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by rm999 13y ago
Maybe "bad communication skills" is the more precise way of putting it. I work in a very collaborative team that frequently has to communicate with both technical and non-technical people, so being social and at least somewhat friendly is p
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by rm999 13y ago
>cares about your look more than your technical expertise. In all fairness that's not what he said. Some companies - like google - have a very objective hiring process based almost entirely on technical skill. But many other companies i
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by rm999 13y ago
>Or by "objective" do you actually mean the opposite You're being very snarky and assuming the worst in people's comments. Both samspenc and I meant what we said, as most people generally do. Seriously, you've been less civil than you m
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by rm999 13y ago
His comment was not sarcastic and did add some value. The article didn't come off as incoherent to me, the author made a very clear point early in the article ("their products for users [the ones that collect information to inform advertisi
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by rm999 13y ago
I clicked a hackernews link yesterday and forgot about the tab for an hour. When I finally got to it I was somewhat shocked to see it was a google+ page that automatically signed me into hangouts, where several tried to chat with me. About
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by rm999 13y ago
I found this announcement frustrating to read because it contains little useful content. Almost all of it is about how supposedly awesome Windows 8 is and how well it's doing. The relevant part could have been summed up as: there's a free u
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by rm999 13y ago
As recruter says, storage is a commodity. If google raises its prices you could easily move your files onto another service.
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by rm999 13y ago
There's some truth to that, but their profits are growing because their annual revenues are consistently and exponentially growing, not because their costs are going down: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii... Di
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by rm999 13y ago
>Are Google having cashflow problems? Nope, they are more profitable than ever. My friend who works at Google explained to me that a big issue is maintenance. It's a tougher problem than it sounds because if an issue comes up someone ne
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by rm999 13y ago
Lenders don't want poor people to have low credit scores per se - they want people who won't pay back their loans to have low credit scores (I know it's sort of obvious, but I know this for a fact because I've worked with/around credit scor
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by rm999 13y ago
This is a pretty fluffed up article that missed the wave of "data scientists are awesome" articles last year. But I think it's important to not underestimate the shift that has been happening. The race to automate tasks has always been acce
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by rm999 13y ago
It's not a real citation if it doesn't support the point. Linking to a paper and hoping people believe it supports you because it's a paper is poor form. I expect people to be able to analyze their citations - that's pretty standard practic
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by rm999 13y ago
You can't just link to a paper (behind a pay-wall, of all things) and expect me to find the relevant part! Explain why it's relevant. I just spent 20 minutes reading that paper ಠ_ಠ and I see no evidence to support the argument. The paper I
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by rm999 13y ago
> The fear of spiders, ... is believed to be a primal fear, an evolutionary safeguard [Citation Needed] I've heard that too, but all the evidence I've seen indicates arachnophobia is a largely cultural European phenomenon. For example,
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by rm999 13y ago
I agree with you that a lot of SE interviews are frustratingly pointless, but I disagree that coding challenges alone are adequate. A very important aspect of being on a team of engineers is collaboration, which often comes down to solving
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by rm999 13y ago
Part of the problem for reddit is most people don't realize what it's good for. The subreddit system has led to a diverse set of amazing communities that could appeal to almost anyone, but when I ask my friends if they use reddit they usual
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by rm999 13y ago
Looking at the maximum value normalizes for someone's risk profile and financial luck/common sense. I agree with you that for your personal finances all that matters is how much money you got or can get, but normalizing for these factors is
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by rm999 13y ago
> I have never seen a replacement for the algorithmic study outside of a CS degree How much algorithmic study do typical CS students really learn outside introductory algorithms and data structures classes? I mentioned both as something
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by rm999 13y ago
A computer science degree isn't the only way to get a good software/programming job. In fact, I think doing a more quantitative major like applied math or engineering with a base education of 3-4 CS classes (programming, algorithms, data st
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by rm999 13y ago
Cool paper, but the fact that a silly keyword like 'color' is so significant without an author explanation makes me question their results. I really wish they dug deeper and explained unintuitive results like that. There may be a bug in the
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by rm999 14y ago
That actually made me laugh out loud, but I assume they meant their colleagues who are also their friends. Something like the logician's definition of 'and', I suppose.
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by rm999 14y ago
I actually see that as an argument against using j. The meanings of a unit vector in real space and a dimensional unit in imaginary space are different concepts even if it's common to represent both in 2-dimensions plots. It seems to me t
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by rm999 14y ago
Potassium is another (more bizarre) example. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101219083208AA...
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by rm999 14y ago
You should spend your early time at a company gaining an understanding of its business needs (basically understand why you're there) so you can later take 'ownership' of important projects and tasks. Ultimately you'll be judged by your impo
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by rm999 14y ago
I learned how to program by reading through the code for qbasic gorillas (the game in the video in the article) back when I was a wee lad. Therefore, gorillas is the best game ever to me. That said, qbasic was maybe not a best first languag
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by rm999 14y ago
>Graphics in relation to games not so much. You can make a great game with very simple graphics Absolutist claims about how important graphics are can never be true because different genres utilize graphics differently. The immersive ga
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by rm999 14y ago
In India being upper middle class can provide you with a lifestyle (and I think therefore mentality) that resembles upperclass in the West because of cheap labor and weak labor laws. I know doctors in India who have live-in servants, chefs,
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by rm999 14y ago
I didn't have a sinister "53 percenter' motive behind using the number of federal income taxpayers; I simply believed it was the relevant statistic when discussing federal government spending. That said, you're right than 1/4 seems low (eve
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by rm999 14y ago
It's really hard to imagine a trillion dollars, but it's also hard to imagine 7 billion people or 300 million Americans. Usually when we're talking about trillions of dollars we're talking about something at a national or international leve
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by rm999 14y ago
Largely what textminer said. In fact they didn't use anything from the grand-prize winner because it would require too much engineering effort and because their concentration on the problem shifted. They did however use the two best metho

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