sage76

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by sage76 2y ago
> proficient within 500-800 hours of playtime Depends on the definition of proficient. It would take someone of great natural talent to get to global in 500 hours.
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by sage76 2y ago
This is true. Even at mid levels of faceit, people throw full executes and run around clicking heads easily.
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by sage76 2y ago
Except MBA claims to be a signal of management capability. With that prior assumption, it is a catastrophic failure.
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by sage76 2y ago
> Many of us who really enjoy software development feel a bit like rock stars. For a bunch of supposedly smart people, I am always disappointed at how easy it is to exploit developers. The devs did the deathmarch, and the vendor and CTO
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by sage76 2y ago
Yeah agreed. In fact, orgs that try to pretend like they have no hierarchy frequently have worse culture and higher employee turnover. See: Valve.
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by sage76 2y ago
> how to exaggerate in ways that you can plausibly defend later, how to figure out what someone wants to hear and tell it back to them in a way that makes you look good, how to take something you did and explain it in a way that makes yo
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by sage76 3y ago
Nice. How does it send the mail? Do you need a local mailserver running?
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by sage76 3y ago
Just curious, do you remember the name of the book and how big it was in terms of content and exercises?
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by sage76 3y ago
Pattern recognition and machine learning by Christopher Bishop.
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by sage76 3y ago
I am writing a solution manual to this textbook, by solving EVERY DAMN exercise and writing it up in latex. It is EXTREMELY time consuming. The actual solution manual is already available online. I might gain an understanding of this field,
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by sage76 3y ago
> most academics are tone-deaf and incredibly petty individuals Yep, their egos get inflated from interacting with students all the time. If you have been teaching the same subject for 10 or more years, and you are constantly interacting
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by sage76 3y ago
Yeah, whenever we had this issue in a class, we just ended up focussing on doing WHATEVER IT TOOK wink wink to pass.
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by sage76 3y ago
The CEO was caught cheating in a Chess tournament.
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by sage76 3y ago
> Altman will put in some ambitious but clueless Microsoft manager to run it and move on to his next thing Gervais principle agrees with you.
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by sage76 3y ago
The point about context switching being costly is definitely something that the general public doesn't get. If you ask most people whether they can multitask, they will proudly say yes. Bosses don't care about deep work either. I
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by sage76 3y ago
For anyone who is familiar with his work, are his assertions scientifically backed or is it more pop psychology?
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by sage76 3y ago
I'm not in Europe, but at least in India, I hear a lot of news of layoffs. I left the field but my friends tell me the market is brutal. So maybe it's not you.
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by sage76 3y ago
> The kind whose ancient family estates are now AirBnBs in the Empty Diagonal of France where tourists can cosplay as grape stompers or characters in a French New Wave film where some tortured artist flees to the countryside and ends up
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by sage76 3y ago
Thanks.
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by sage76 3y ago
A series of bad experiences. Hard to explain in a comment.
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by sage76 3y ago
> Anyone else dropping out of this field? What are you going into next? Already out. Haven't decided what next, but I am 100% done with being a fullstack or backend dev.
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by sage76 3y ago
> you must atomize your anticipated work into individual bite-sized and estimated tasks Based on a 2 line description from a product manager, so you actually have no clue on the scope of the task until you start working on it. This is ho
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by sage76 3y ago
So you kept your job along with your Middle East studies?
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by sage76 3y ago
Maths stuff. Pattern recognition and machine learning by Bishop.
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by sage76 3y ago
Nothing yet. Just studying things that interest me. But I have to figure out something in the near future. It just can't be software development.
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by sage76 3y ago
If you don't know, hiring managers won't know the number either. Just make some plausible sounding number up and add it to your resume. To be clear, I hate this sort of shit, but the game is the game.
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by sage76 3y ago
It's about signaling to hiring managers that you are willing to play along with their bullshit. None of the companies I worked at disclosed to the engineers what features led to what results. So I made shit up and nobody called me out
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by sage76 3y ago
> I am finding that more and more people are looking for extremely specific and narrow experience. Like, if you haven't used <x> technology and worked in <y> domain, they don't want to even speak to you. They'd
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by sage76 3y ago
Do people really finish these books cover to cover? I have been working on Bishop's PRML, and it is extremely time consuming to really finish the book, and do all the exercises. I saw a blog from a guy who did the same, and it took him
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by sage76 3y ago
Same here, I feel like I could have done a lot more at college, knowing what I know now. I couldn't see the big picture, and I felt uninspired most of the time.

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