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Ask HN: Is Facebook a good company to work for?
2 points by st1x7 6y ago|2 comments
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IBM to cut 8000 jobs in Europe, including up to 2000 in the UK and Ireland(channelpartnerinsight.com)
3 points by st1x7 6y ago|0 comments
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by st1x7 6y ago
Tomorrow on HN: > What SaaS app would you pay the most money for? Please only give answers that can be written in a weekend with the tools and frameworks that I know.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> aficionado Just as I thought that it couldn't get worse. The alternative is to say that you're a developer in a given language or a user of the language. You don't have to create a whole tribe around it.
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by st1x7 6y ago
The terms also emerge for certain languages with a specific type of community around them. For example, I don't know if C++ developers really care enough to give themselves these kinds of labels.
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by st1x7 6y ago
As a sidenote, does anyone else find the language identification terms cringey? Rustacean, gopher, pythonista... just atrocious.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> It has been 11 years since I left college and I still haven't been able to get a job. So what have you been doing in those 11 years?
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by st1x7 6y ago
You're throwing a lot of things out there and I really can't see a real connection between the Go documentary and all of this Palantir/no-prejudice/no-emotion/favorite-food talk.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> And perhaps there is not much difference between computers and humans after all... My point is that at the current state of technology the difference is so huge that it's almost inappropriate to use the term intelligence to descri
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by st1x7 6y ago
Your comment made me weep for humanity.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I don't want to be dismissive of the way you feel. I just want to point out that you have nothing to worry about. Now that AlphaGo exists humanity is exactly where it was before it existed. AlphaGo isn't intelligent like you and I
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by st1x7 6y ago
Is Linux really that easy to recommend these days? I'm genuinely asking, not sure what the current state is. My impression is that over the past few years Linux has gotten a bit better at just working out of the box, Mac would be good
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by st1x7 6y ago
True but order of importance is different from order of study. You should really start with calculus because you can't study probability without it.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Multivariable calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, probability theory, statistics.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I actually think that we agree on the PhD requirement. > Having PhD shows that you have committed to one field hard enough and long enough to be granted the title even if it is PhD in philosophy. Yes, exactly. That's what I meant by
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by st1x7 6y ago
Yes, and I have been since I was a kid. There have been several periods when my personal and professional life have taken huge hits and I felt like I was set back several years on a number of occasions. It feels like it takes a lot of work
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by st1x7 6y ago
I work as a data scientist and have some perspective on this. There's no boat to miss, you'll probably be fine. Just keep a couple of things in mind - The fundamental skills that you need are mathematics and software engineering.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I work as a data scientist and every statement in your post sounds incorrect to me. SQL is useful but it's far from the most important tool. It's certainly unlikely to land you a job. It definitely won't solve 97% of problems
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by st1x7 6y ago
The problem with the "achieved x % this-or-that" statements is that they require a lot of context to understand and are very difficult to verify. Don't tell me that when you're screening hundreds of resumes you can suc
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by st1x7 6y ago
I was with the author until I got to the actual advice. "Worked with technology X" seems a lot more relevant and useful than "achieved x% improvement" or "reduced cost by 30%". The latter doesn't just sign
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by st1x7 6y ago
Of course. I just don't see what's on the other side of this tradeoff. What was gained through the redesign?
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Ask HN: Which big tech company do you feel good about?
3 points by st1x7 6y ago|2 comments
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by st1x7 6y ago
I'm not a designer so I might be missing some of the terminology here but I really dislike the move towards "buttons that don't look like buttons". Have a look at the old and new Notes app for example. In the old one it&
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by st1x7 6y ago
Don't write the parser yourself. Whatever language you're using very likely already has one that's much better than what you can build and maintain by yourself.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Having downloaded my data from both Apple and Google, "Google levels of data collection" seems inaccurate.
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by st1x7 6y ago
What's the alternative?
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by st1x7 6y ago
And the corresponding list for women goes like this: 1. Don't date guys like whose attitude is like the one demonstrated above
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by st1x7 6y ago
Please no. Excel is great when it stays within its lane and use case and doesn't try to be everything. Jupyter is okay-ish is some places but in general is way overused. Mixing them together would be a move in the wrong direction and a
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by st1x7 6y ago
It only seems questionable because of your specific name. If your first name was Zhang or Priya, your race would also be quite obvious.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Ghosting Facebook by using Instagram instead. Facebook as a company isn't going anywhere.

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