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by st1x7 6y ago
> People often say "The best founders are able to attract the best talent because they offer options. They also are able to attract them at a far lower salary" People don't say this. Shrewd founders say this so they can ta
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by st1x7 6y ago
I think that you're misrepresenting the process of solving these problems. Recognising that you need to use a certain data structure or that a problem falls in a larger class of similar problems is a skill that you can develop. Just be
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by st1x7 6y ago
> They are a nice way to filter people who are not willing to spend a lot of time studying challenges to have job interviews though. They filter for general problem solving skills. Whether you acquired those skills through a degree, self
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by st1x7 6y ago
Not being directly relevant to the role also has its benefits. It means that you can interview for a job without necessarily having experience in the company's exact problem domain or with the framework that they happen to be using thi
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by st1x7 6y ago
Yes, if you get hired for a job with the title software engineer, you are one. There are no education requirements for this. Same with any other title in tech. The distinction between developer and engineer doesn't really exist - engin
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by st1x7 6y ago
What business do you want to build? What makes you think that the dataset that you have is useful? Is the dataset in tabular form or in free text?
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by st1x7 6y ago
Even this oversimplification is wrong. Back then we had a bit over a third of the current world population and a much worse standard of living across the globe. Progress is about making good tradeoffs, not about picking perfect solutions. O
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by st1x7 6y ago
Getting investment money from anyone who invests in an S&P500 index. Which is a lot considering how often the S&P500 is considered the default index.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I think that your actual question is different from the title of the post and people seem to be responding to the title. The two questions are: - how do you deal with knowing that you're on either of the far ends of tech salaries? (cal
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by st1x7 6y ago
That's not always the case. In the last couple of big printing cycles, the newly created money ended up in financial assets (like stocks) that are predominantly owned by people on the top end of the wealth distribution.
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by st1x7 6y ago
This sounds about right but you're arguing with a point that I'm not making. Sure, they're successful and have market dominance, my point is that this isn't based on them necessarily having a better product or being a be
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by st1x7 6y ago
As a company that is running mostly on brand status, Tesla is probably the easiest competitor for Apple to beat in this space. The real competition are the companies that have been building cars for decades.
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by st1x7 6y ago
- they're specifically picking a prior made of only the skeptical predictions of famous people about some technology that turned out to be wrong. - they aren't updating the prior with new information, they're just pointing i
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by st1x7 6y ago
Does some of it feel kind of redundant? I suppose that people have different reasons for learning languages but as someone who knows Python, Ruby is one of the languages on my not-to-learn list since it would neither allow me to work on any
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by st1x7 6y ago
> They're saying no to a company's revenue stream They're saying no to certain privacy violations on their platform. This being detrimental to Facebook's revenue says a lot more about Facebook's business model th
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't see how pointing out incorrect predictions from the past is constructive or helps address the question. In the same line of thought you could have collected a list of correct skeptical predictions and listed a bunch of technolo
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by st1x7 6y ago
It might just be a small sample size, I don't see why there wouldn't be plenty of people in the £60-80k range. And there should certainly be more people around £60-80k than £80-120k.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> High taxes This can't be the answer since we're talking about pre-tax salaries. On the other hand, higher taxes just mean that the difference in post-tax salaries between Europe and the US is even bigger than it seems initial
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by st1x7 6y ago
> at least a year now (...) they show a privacy disclosure splash screen before turning on many features for the first time. This has been the case from the start of the Apple App Store. Here is a 3 minute video of Steve Jobs talking abo
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's more than just the value conversation. The best interviewees are relaxed and act like they have other good employment options (and they often do). If you've been laid off and don't know how to make next month's rent
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by st1x7 6y ago
First you really need to decide what you want to do next. The roles that you've looked at vary a lot and some are easier to transition into. - Data engineering? Could be easy to switch to but to some people it would look like taking a
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by st1x7 6y ago
> Did Google's AI run amok? No, there's no AI in what you're talking about and it certainly isn't running amok. A classification algorithm flagged a video showing the inside of someone's body as not suitable for
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by st1x7 6y ago
This sounds right but how relevant do you think it is several years after graduating?
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by st1x7 6y ago
The course is decent but I really don't get how it's relevant here.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> My suggestion is to find gaps that aren't integration efforts, if possible, that are instead extension efforts. Yes! This can go even further and the technical integration work can easily slip into soft/people/team/
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by st1x7 6y ago
Can anyone elaborate on what Carmack is suggesting here? To specialise in some tool early in your career? Or something else? I don't quite get it. (Or at least I don't get why it would be such a good idea.) Carmack is usually grea
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's difficult to not act desperate when you actually are in a somewhat desperate situation (for example it's x weeks/months until you won't be able to pay your bills).
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by st1x7 6y ago
I'm a data scientist for a large company. Educational backgroud - master's degree in data science after an unrelated bachelor's and a ton of self-studying. Tools - mostly Python at work, otherwise Julia/C++ and I also kn
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by st1x7 6y ago
This strikes me as very out of touch with reality. You can't go directly from hello world to 100+ lines of 3rd-party code that uses pointers all over the place and just brush it off with "don't worry about the complexity&quot
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by st1x7 6y ago
As some who has attempted to use emacs and given up multiple times, I'm actually surprised to hear this. I thought that the difficulty is frontloaded and once you have things set up and some experience with it, it's quite easy to

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