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by sytelus 7y ago
Rankings are irrelevant for top 20 but for the rest it matters a lot. Vast majority of population ends up somewhere outside of top 20. They have to chose between A, B and C and rankings plays its part. Reliable ranking is important because
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by sytelus 7y ago
Exactly. A very little of it is basic and vast majority of it simply usual development projects that you have to do anyway. This is similer to big tech who oftne claims massive expenditure in "R&D" but R part typically gets 1%
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by sytelus 7y ago
When you are faced with tons of badly named products page without any good comparison tool, its sign of internal disorganization and specifically that CEO is memely a fiannce/account guy. In such companies, you will have marketting dep
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by sytelus 7y ago
Surprising because I have seen few 6 years olds can do multiplications and divisions. If I'm not mistaken, standard US 1st grade curriculum expects kids to be familier with only addition below 100 and subtraction in low teens.
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by sytelus 7y ago
Our biggest problem is that research is expected to be in Academia. Not withstanding few exceptions such as DeepMind and FAIR, vast majority of industrial research is by definition short term. For example, the founding document of Microso
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'd love better cross-platform distributed support. It's ok to be non-performant or not support fency backends on Windows but at least your interfaces should be available cross-platform.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I want to love PyTorch lightning but like many other wrapper frameworks it also has severe problem: You can't use your dataloaders and nn.Module model as-is. FastAI also invents its own data bunch, dynamically specified models etc. All
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by sytelus 7y ago
Does anyone else feel this is extreme amount of pushing/hand-holding to kids to have them learn programming? My own experience is this: (1) kids meticulously observe what their parents do in their "natural" state and get inte
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is the best application of deep fakes I have seen! If someone was selling deep fakes for StarTrek/StarWar, it would be hot cake among crowd here, except for too many Kirk and Picards might be seen in meetings.
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by sytelus 7y ago
The main problem is affordances. In old days, users were expected to be new bees and needed to be get productive fast. So menus explicitly featured keyboard shortcuts, apps had status bar telling you what was happening, there were even main
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by sytelus 7y ago
May be you should consider posting some data-driven citation. AFAIK, jobs have stopped going to India for sometime now. Indian IT companies which relied heavily on offshoring had significant contraction as a result. A lot of modern IT jobs
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by sytelus 7y ago
If I was running travel business, I would be selling 20-50% off coupons set to expire in December, 2022. This does reduce future revenue but will at least normalize the hole today a little bit. I know many people would jump on deals like th
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by sytelus 7y ago
Actually it doesn't. Everyone is working from home. We have little idea when this may end and if there would be next waves. Fully functioning without need to be in-person is absolutely essential for every tech company. If your stack i
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by sytelus 7y ago
Before everyone starts painting bleak picture, reminder: Facebook's Sandberg announced last week or so that they are going to do accelerated hiring spree this year, opening massive 10,000 more positions! Google as well as Facebook both
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by sytelus 7y ago
But most of these companies/teams already employ massive numbers of contractors. They typically sign NDAs and often work on same code. I've been on development teams which had contractors as 20% or more members. We had just couple
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by sytelus 7y ago
A bad hires are expensive mistake if you can't get rid of them until some artificial annual event. While I understand onboarding complexities, my experience is that the teams/companies which hasn't create good automated proce
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by sytelus 7y ago
One thought is that, say, in semi-utopian world robots do infrastructure, farms, mining and even building houses. In that world, basic necessities will become much more cheaper and it might be even possible to institute universal basic inco
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by sytelus 7y ago
One has to think why the concept of employment is still considered like marriage that require such an extensive ultra-deep multi-level deliberations. Let's say you were local, why it shouldn't be possible to give someone on-the sp
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by sytelus 7y ago
You making the argument that to make some religious customers/investors happy, it's ok to mistreat LGBTs. After all, they are such minority segment and, you know, we are all here just for shareholder wealth maximization.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'm actually not happy with this news. They are the only one interested on some of the long term researchy projects especially in robotics area. In my opinion, this would be one of the highest impact area in next 10 years given all the
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by sytelus 7y ago
No, it’s not fair. Banning a repo should be taken as seriously as banning a book. Living in a country that is US where github HQ is hosted, freedom of speech should be prized and cared for dearly. For a commercial company, there should be o
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by sytelus 7y ago
Game of life, ended by COVID-19. Wow.
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by sytelus 7y ago
This view that market knows the best is actually quite misguided. Market does prices assets correctly after long enough period of time but it oscillates and bounces a lot before that happens. It's wrong to say that any point in time
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by sytelus 7y ago
Also, gold is expensive like hell right now. As COVID winds down, I would expect markets react vigorously and gold in free fall. It's also important to know that long term holding of gold has fairly lower relative returns compared to S
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by sytelus 7y ago
World GDP is $80T. An important fact: USD is world reserve currency. So no, I don't think that injecting, $6T is going to be super big deal. Just like in 2008, this additional money gets dispersed in to world economy or in other words
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by sytelus 7y ago
Again, you are assuming all software engineering jobs are like yours. I’d been on projects where I’d to deeply think about graphs and literally invent variations of algorithms that worked for my scenario. I’d to written code for tree search
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by sytelus 7y ago
Nitpick: There is a circular argument here. US has largest consumer because dollar is strong.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'd add that US political system is much more stable and trustworthy unlike countries without democracies and/or corruption perceptions. Presidential powers are far more limited, well scrutinized and things can easily be challeng
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by sytelus 7y ago
Wait, explain me to this: Why isn't Saudi Arabia pricing oil in Saudi Riyal? This is their gateway to dominate large portions of global economy. Who ever holds this golden key can print whatever sums they need at whims and offload it t
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by sytelus 7y ago
CS whiteboarding makes sense when tech stack isn't going to be constant and the tasks you might be doing requires more than making calls to backend from MVC. On the other hand, take-home stack specific question makes sense otherwise. T

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