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by stevegalla 6y ago
If I recall correctly (from his podcast episodes), he has said he knows what is required to get to the top of his field, but he isn’t willing to pay the price. Perhaps he will point to that in the future to say why he hasn’t won Turing awar
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I’ve heard a few descriptions of swivel chair: 1. swivel chair work is any work that requires someone sitting in front of a computer to do. 2. swivel chair work is when you’re having to swivel your chair from one screen to another. This req
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by stevegalla 6y ago
How is the offering from companies like UiPath any different from “macros”, such as AutoHotKeys or Macro Express?
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by stevegalla 6y ago
What about the people in PST who work outside of normal office hours? Should they be penalized because they are effectively working in a different time zone? Should those in different time zones that decide to work PST regular office hours
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by stevegalla 6y ago
They don’t even need to be in a cheaper location. I have worked with two kinds of employees that are willing to accept lower pay. - those moving for a better lifestyle who have earned and saved considerably more elsewhere. I call these “wor
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by stevegalla 6y ago
> I don't have any TAs, professors, peers etc to ask or grade my stuff when working my way through a text book in my spare time. How can I be sure I understood stuff correctly? I definitely agree with you on this. However, there are
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by stevegalla 6y ago
How do tech consultants approach their work? I am definitely biased by my past experiences with tech consultants. I’m trying to sort out if it’s a service provider issue or if it’s a customer side issue. From my limited perspective, it seem
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by stevegalla 6y ago
> I don’t know what an ISA is I’m not certain, but I was able to find “income sharing agreement” in this document. https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2114/BILLS-116s2114is.pd... Edit to add: Possible rela
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I have seen it argued that because HN is founded by Americans everything should be assumed to apply to America unless otherwise stated. As HN readership isn’t strictly American, I don’t see why specifying that engineer is a legally protecte
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by stevegalla 6y ago
A lot of college/university course work is openly available on the internet. This includes syllabi, textbooks, class notes, tutorials, homework assignments and solutions. If one wants to learn, for example, algorithms, one does not nee
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by stevegalla 6y ago
It doesn't appear to be. From Wikipedia, "There is another type of university in Germany: the Fachhochschulen (Universities of Applied Sciences), which offer mostly the same degrees as Universitäten, but often concentrate on appli
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I think there are two ways you can go about incorporating this. 1. You can look back on projects you’ve done or projects you’re working on and try to see how they fit with your work. 2. Trim the list down and add the remaining items to a li
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by stevegalla 6y ago
If development is in product, how long has development been in product? Is this a recent change where development was transitioned from IT to product during a recent transformation? Not directed at you, just some general comments. As someon
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I suspect those 4 cities are doing more than just wearing masks. I’m having a hard time tracking down the interviews (I think it was Dr. Jim Yong Kim who said this), but there are two types of transmission between households and within hous
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by stevegalla 6y ago
You’re welcome! I don’t think there is such a thing as strict waterfall. Waterfall vs agile (or even spiral, or V shaped development) arguments don’t make much sense to me. IME, everything ends up being “iterative” in practice. Everything i
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by stevegalla 6y ago
At least in Canada I’ve seen two different unions at the same place. One Union for managers and one union for the other non-manager employees. I don’t think there is anything stopping managers from forming their own different union.
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I worked in automotive manufacturing at a tier 1 supplier. I think this is easier to read than the “Enriching Production” book: http://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/gwt/biblio/enriching-pr... I think there are two
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I appreciate the principles, thank you for sharing them. I started my career in automotive manufacturing before becoming a business analyst on a team developing in-house business automation tools. The program I studied did cover an engineer
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by stevegalla 6y ago
Can you please comment on the advantages and the effect on your programming? Do you think these advantages are common among those who have (mech/electrical/chem/etc.) engineering education and training who move into software
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by stevegalla 6y ago
What is your background and what is your goal for learning the methods? This is somewhat long and there is a disclaimer towards the end, but hopefully some of this is helpful. Working through a book can mean reading what’s on the pages and
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by stevegalla 6y ago
TL;DR 1. Consider Ishikawa (“fish bone”) diagrams before applying the 5 whys or as a way to help organize the 5 why process. 2. To improve a system, first determine what is constraining the performance of the system. This is 80/20 thin
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by stevegalla 6y ago
I have. I went from 235 pounds to 150 pounds in a one year time period. It was consistently between 1-2 pounds lost a week. Of course human bodies are complex and there is no one size fits all. My anecdotal weight loss won’t match with your
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by stevegalla 6y ago
What is really meant by “being taught how to teach yourself” or “learning to learn”? Why does this have to be done in a university setting? Is this explicitly conveyed or is this an outcome of going through classes and it’s what it takes to
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by stevegalla 6y ago
The University of Victoria (UVic) in Canada has a CS[1] program and an accredited BSEng[2] program, which might provide a useful comparison on an engineer’s vs a scientist’s education. Disclaimer: I am not a graduate of either or those UVic
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by stevegalla 6y ago
If I’m not mistaken, Wasserman’s lectures are on YouTube under “Intermediate Statistics Larry Wasserman (CMU-36-705)“. You can find course notes and assignments for 36-700 and 36-705 on the web, which seem to use All of Statistics as the co