throw_away_777

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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Is this true, or is it true that there are devs with a lot of experience who can't program during an interview? An interview is an artificial environment.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
It is valuable to you sure, but as a candidate it takes a lot of time. At least with interviews the company is investing an equal amount of time, and I get to learn something about the company. The coding exercise doesn't tell me anyth
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I always thought it was a weird thing to say, though it does grab your attention which might be what it is going for. But as a man I always assume this means that I wouldn't have a good chance of being hired by the company. I don'
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Indeed I also didn't know about this. In general I don't think it is easy to find information about how to use hacker news, everything is hidden in weird places.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Running machine learning on medium sized datasets I often run into memory issues.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
There is a difference between anti-intellectual and anti-academic.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
That is how it should work in theory, but not how it works in practice. In practice companies can use their better understanding of the true value/cost of non-competes to exploit workers. If there exists a large pool of workers who are
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The problem is that there is an asymmetric bargaining power between companies and potential employees. I had a family friend who is a lawyer I could talk to, most people don't have that luxury and don't have the time to educate th
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Non-competes are usually enforced indirectly. Most companies will ask if you have a non-compete, and a lot of them will just refuse to hire you if you do.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The issue is, as you mentioned, the employer does have an unfair negotiating advantage. Most employees don't have the luxury of paying lawyers (or the knowledge that this is something they should do) to look at every non-compete offer
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The non-compete keeps someone from signing a position with a competitor. But in order for a non-compete to be legal, the company should have to pay the employees salary (or a significant fraction of the salary) for the duration of the non-c
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
If the company wants to stop you from working, they should pay your salary for the duration they want to keep you from working, not indefinitely. Already most states won't enforce non-competes lasting more than a year. Obviously compan
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The post you were replying to was sarcastic. The point is that if non-competes really were essential to companies, you would expect to see that reflected in CA. Instead the most notable thing is CA has higher salaries.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Companies aren't paying you for the duration of the non-compete, they only pay you when you are working there. If a company really wants non-competes to prevent you from working for a competitor, they could afford to pay for that. Inst
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
No, the point is the non-compete keeps the employee from working for a competitor, so the employer pays the salary to prevent the employee from working for a competitor. The employer chooses to either pay the salary of the employee or free
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
If a company is preventing me from working, and doing so is actually important to the company above and beyond a tool to keep me working for them, they can afford to pay a salary for the duration of the non-compete. The fact that companies
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Why can't congress do something about this? Non-competes are clearly terrible for workers, and should at the least be illegal without a severance agreement. If a company wants to keep me from working they should pay for the privilege.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
You definitely are filtering people, unless you accept everyone who goes through the usual (tedious) interview process. This interview process is quite noisy, so being able to skip it gives a clear advantage. Whether or not this is a good t
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
At every moment in your life, you are older than you have ever been before. If you compare your life when you are 19 to 25, that is a much greater difference than your life from 50 to 56.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The sources you linked are rather weak evidence for your claims. This type of observational research is difficult, and in the social sciences, especially about political topics, you should be very skeptical. The majority of published papers
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Can you cite your source? I haven't seen this anywhere.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
How do you know the people failing your interview process have "second grade coding skills"? The fundamental challenge with evaluating interviews is that companies don't hire people who flunk interviews - so there is no easy
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
You bring up an interesting example in special relativity. I am a physicist, and there isn't really a "proof" in the mathematical sense of special relativity. Googling it provides this quora answer: https://www.quo
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I agree that knowing and understanding the fundamental math is important, but I think proof based texts are not a good way to learn math. A lot of people get turned off from math because of how it is taught. Personally I learn best by doing
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
The problem is that industry has coopted the term data analyst to mean something more like data reporter or data descriptor. There often isn't a difference between business intelligence and data analyst. Many data analysts are using to
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
You are being condescending and over simplifying the issues, try to not rush to judgment. I have spent a lot of work and time learning how to apply machine learning, so your comment was offensive and wrong. Applying mathematical theory is n
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Agreed. But still companies should strive to make products that either people will use, or that people will buy. The "it's not your product, it's theirs" comment was not a very useful thing to say.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Introduction to statistical learning http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ is a great text for beginners interested in machine learning. It is designed to be accessible (there is a more advanced book covering the sa
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I agree with your sentiment that math is important, but it is also true that math is not taught well. Just briefly glancing at chapter 2 the first part, the author presents the law of large numbers out of the blue, then just goes on to pres
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Most math textbooks focus too much on proofs, as does this book. Data science is a broad field, but for most use cases formal proofs are not really needed. I would prefer a text that focuses on examples and how/when to apply the theore

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