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by sp527 10y ago
So what we're concluding is that a company has difficulty remaining competitive unless it fully abuses the system within which it operates? Hmm...
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by sp527 10y ago
I'd like to hear one. Server side rendering if/where needed, don't overload on NPM modules, drop jQuery entirely, react lib served by a CDN. SPAs fail in the hands of amatuers. They excel as a way of instituting rigor in dyna
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by sp527 10y ago
Arguing that someone may be biased on the basis of their race is not racism. It's at worst generalizing or ad hominem. This had nothing to do with Curiel being Mexican specifically other than the nature of the circumstances (Trump migh
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by sp527 10y ago
Honest question: if that's really what you believe (that he's fundamentally unpredictable), why would you vote for him?
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by sp527 10y ago
This is a man who has demonstrated an extraordinary and heretofore unrivaled degree of ignorance and stupidity on the public stage. Clinton's no angel herself, but at least she has a brain. I think there's an IQ hurdle a potentia
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by sp527 10y ago
Agreed remote could be a lot better. I think it's improving though and probably more so for some positions than others. I would gladly hire a remote DevOps engineer, for instance.
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by sp527 10y ago
If I could buy a 3BR apartment at $1.5M or a 3BR single story 2000 sq ft hut for $3M, guess where my money's going. But it doesn't matter. The Bay Area region is going to see serious emigration over the next 5 yrs and it'll b
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by sp527 10y ago
Hah I rushed that answer but yes totally agree. When I'm dev'ing for web, I always monitor perf against a crappy old Android phone. Similarly, Chrome devtools makes it easy to simulate a bad network connection. I try to make sure
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by sp527 10y ago
Nah most companies still insist on their process but I don't think I've ever been denied an interview (it's usually HR screening resumes and they won't pass on people with a background at companies like FB/Google).
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by sp527 10y ago
If you're obsessive about sleep, I think you'll be fine :) My mistake was doing 3 20 min sessions of pretty intense HIIT a week and then not getting nearly enough sleep (averaged maybe 6 hrs). I felt chronic fatigue at work - it f
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by sp527 10y ago
I still remember when some were attempting to portray Mayers' demotion from the exec ranks at Google as sexism. In reality, Google had probably already recognized certain issues in her managerial style.
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by sp527 10y ago
I was thinking DBaaS as well, which is the part that's usually under-emphasized. NoSQL for specific tasks and (sharded if needed) relational with stored procedures for anything complex. When you think of Postgres as its own (heavily op
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by sp527 10y ago
Clientside code execution makes sense. Every last thing that can be offloaded to the client should be. The tooling around this concept may be insufficient or difficult to use, but the underlying premise is undeniably sound.
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by sp527 10y ago
I worked three years full time and now on a startup. I've come to realize that most of the performance improvement for me with the latter is attributable to a difference in sleep duration and quality. I'm someone who needs variabi
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by sp527 10y ago
Usually if you learn something that builds constructively upon who you are, then you can chalk failures up as successes. Early-stage startups very much feel this way: like a process of developing an intuition for understanding how to make s
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by sp527 10y ago
I've worked at Google and Facebook and I've been rejected from almost all of the top companies at one point or another (including Google, amusingly). It really doesn't mean much other than that not all the variables lined up
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by sp527 10y ago
I happen to agree with this. I think the tech industry is the wrong place to make the discrimination argument for a number of reasons. First of all, expecting profit-maximizing entities to deviate from a purely meritocratic hiring process i
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by sp527 10y ago
Fair point but that's neither what the title says nor what he wants you to believe. This is clickbait. And technically what I described is an economy of scale wrt software development the same way the assembly line corresponds to car p
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by sp527 10y ago
This is a complete misinterpretation of the concept. The only economy of scale that matters in software is that (in theory, barring certain scaling considerations which are in any case becoming more abstracted out thanks to IaaS) the same p
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by sp527 10y ago
This is not very interesting. Anyone who has attempted even a cursory inspection of market returns understands this rationale. The more interesting problem is to attempt to train an investment curve based on some normalized metric for marke
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by sp527 10y ago
Keep at it and don't give up! My guess is you're trying to interview at better companies that have difficult hiring processes and that's great. You improve at interviewing as you go along. Make sure you study/practice as
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by sp527 10y ago
One of the best things I've ever done for myself: quit my job. Stating this not to brag but to make my point: 8 months ago I was clearing north of $140k plus options at a top tech co (plus all the usual perks/full benefits) at age
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by sp527 10y ago
Couldn't agree more about not exiting software engineering completely. Had this experience at a prominent tech company (wherein promotion = no more coding) and it became so bad I had to walk away. I'm trying to tailor my career no
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by sp527 11y ago
It wouldn't just be interesting - it would literally tell you the mathematically most important nodes in the network. No need for long-form think pieces that circumnavigate known solutions. Just run PR, give us the results, and move on
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by sp527 11y ago
Lol why didn't he just use PageRank...
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by sp527 11y ago
My last employer didn't offer reasons quite simply because that would have been intractable with our candidate flow (legal issues aside).
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by sp527 11y ago
Great advice, though I'd make explicit a single caveat: work at least a year or two at a reputable tech company after college. It's actually a more effective environment for networking (it seems every person in tech wants to strik
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by sp527 11y ago
Could you expand a bit on your inclusion of 'Elements of Statistical Learning'? That book is essentially the holy grail of ML understanding and I find it difficult to believe you were able to grasp any meaningful proportion of it
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by sp527 11y ago
There are entire companies, many worth well into the hundreds of millions, built around dynamic languages. The notion that they can't scale to enterprise-grade application quality is a vestigial exhortation of a bygone era of pedantici
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A Short Lesson in Perspective (2012)(lindsredding.com)
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