suresk

17 ms·

121.
by suresk 8y ago
I think it is hard to infer much from some of these data points. There may be some correlation between "high performance" and "self-taught", since it takes a decent amount of motivation and talent to even get your first
122.
by suresk 8y ago
I think it's important to note that this is very location-dependent. In Utah, where this survey was taken, I'd be willing to bet the number of people with developer-like titles consistently bringing home > $250k take-home proba
123.
by suresk 8y ago
Reports on Glassdoor have always felt kind of on the low-end, not sure why. > Anecdotally, I have been told by a couple former managers something along the lines of "the highest payed engineers in Utah are in the 120k range," w
124.
by suresk 8y ago
Sort of.. For a given area, experience level, and skillset, there is going to be a general range that will give you an idea of where you are. Recruiters are sometimes helpful for figuring that out, and so are reports like this. I don't
125.
by suresk 8y ago
Every time I've thought about moving away from Utah, I've found it almost impossible to find a place with a better salary/cost of living ratio. There are a handful of things to not like about Utah, but in the software industr
126.
by suresk 8y ago
At this point in America, pretty much everyone who has weapons and authority to use force is pretty ideologically aligned with the 1%. There is a pretty strong narrative in that group that all of these problems that many would ascribe to po
127.
by suresk 8y ago
I get a lot of flak for this, but there are definitely times I miss XML for certain things and find it way easier to work with than JSON or YAML. I definitely understand some of the backlash against XML that happened a decade or so ago and
128.
by suresk 8y ago
Yeah, my wife and I are definitely disappointed they could find a way to make it work, largely because of discoverability. It definitely made it easy to find new toys, see how they would look/feel in person, etc. Others stores just don
129.
by suresk 8y ago
Apple sells high-margin products that are typically priced the same (or roughly so) everywhere - I don't know that there are interesting lessons for all industries to learn here. Wasn't Ron Johnson's attempt to take some of t
130.
by suresk 8y ago
What is so special about coal miners? Tons of other industries have undergone or will be soon bigger shifts in unemployment. Retail workers have been hit hard by online shopping. Taxi drivers have been hit by Uber and Lyft and the like. Tru
131.
by suresk 9y ago
> Your talking about the "trolley problem" and it is a ethical question as opposed to moral. This is literally a fuckup Right, thanks for the correction. The ethical question I was getting at is "What is the tradeoff of ma
132.
by suresk 9y ago
For all of the theoretical moral questions that have been brought up around self driving cars (the proverbial lever that lets you kill one person instead of a handful, for example), it's interesting/inevitable that this one came u
133.
by suresk 9y ago
Between this and the "no GeForce usage in datacenters" thing, I'm really starting to dislike NVidia. I was hoping AMD would be able to be more competitive with them on both the gaming and deep learning fronts, but manufacture
134.
by suresk 9y ago
One of the most oft-discussed questions around self-driving cars is what should happen if your car can choose between two options: 1) An action that will have a better chance of protecting the people inside the car, 2) An action that will p
135.
by suresk 9y ago
The last time I tried to do that, they wouldn't do it. They just said "sorry, sometimes we don't get stuff out in time". It's getting to the point I'm about to cancel - they are late more often than not, and cu
136.
by suresk 9y ago
My personal laptop is a 2012 15" Retina MBP, and my work one is a new 15" with the TouchBar. This is, by far, the longest I've kept a laptop and I'm sorta dreading having to replace it (it is having some reliability&#x2F
137.
by suresk 9y ago
Those are all good points. I guess the one part I remain a skeptic about is whether or not people are going to be ok with it, much less demand it. It feels like the underlying attitude towards policing is the sticking point - the same attit
138.
by suresk 9y ago
Fair enough.. It is definitely an idea with a lot of merit. I guess I have three questions: 1) Do you think this is politically feasible? Being seen as "tough on crime" is almost never a bad thing in any kind of election, and what
139.
by suresk 9y ago
> really, in almost all cases in the US, "assault officers", and we should separate the two concepts, stop hiring new assault officers, and start hiring a new class of less-armed police officers I don't see police acceptin
140.
by suresk 9y ago
tvm was the first thing I thought of when I heard about this. If you're involved in the tvm project - are you aware of any major deep learning libraries working on utilizing it? I'd imagine MXNet would be the first one to try it,
141.
by suresk 9y ago
CNN models being "flaky" on GeForce hardware isn't something I've heard of? NVIDIA has made some deliberate decisions to make GeForce cards less attractive for deep learning in terms of performance, but I don't thin
142.
by suresk 9y ago
It looks like the same group that is behind MXNet recently released TVM [1], which lets you use Cuda, OpenCL, Metal, etc as the target for tensor operations. I wonder if that means support for AMD cards will happen in the near future? 1. h
143.
by suresk 9y ago
It's really nice to see Apple releasing this, and it looks like it is still actively being developed, too. I used it while taking the University of Washington ML courses on Coursera and really liked how easy it was to use, so I was bum
144.
by suresk 9y ago
This has been a very sporadic issue that I've seen once or twice per year at most, for quite a while with OS X - somehow, another window is able to steal focus from the login screen. I've never been able to reproduce it reliably o
145.
by suresk 9y ago
The risk with this approach is that you become a showroom for Amazon. I knew a guy who ran a shoe store and provided a high level of personalized service when selecting the right shoe for your feet, gait, use, etc. Hiring and training emplo
146.
by suresk 9y ago
I thought GraphLab Create had some nice functionality, it is too bad that the Apple acquisition appears to have effectively killed the publicly available product. It doesn't look like you can even pay for the commercial part anymore.
147.
by suresk 9y ago
Fair point, re: Intel. I will have to check out that tool, sounds like it could be useful. I guess, though, this highlights part of why it feels so gimmicky. I, like a lot of people using MacBook Pros, spend about 60% of my time on my work
148.
by suresk 9y ago
The new MBPs are such a mixed bag for me.. I got one at work, while I still use a 2012 MBP, and I go back and forth on some things.... 1) New keyboard took a while to get used to, and it does seem like they are a little finicky. After a whi
149.
by suresk 9y ago
I optimize my spending heavily around cashback credit cards. I wanted a way to make it easier for me and my wife to keep track of which cards we should be using, so I built CashbackOptimizer[0] and iOS[1] and Android[2] apps for it. I'
150.
by suresk 10y ago
I think the blind copy/pasting of "disagree and commit" into every decision-related thread we're probably going to endure for some time will be annoying, and I don't think it is appropriate in this case, but I don&#

More ›