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by tibbar 5y ago
It tends to depend on how large and/or elitist the company is and how formalized the interview process as a result. In very rigorous interviews people are, ironically, less likely to dock you for style points unless they significantly
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by tibbar 5y ago
Ha, I read your comment first and thought you were somehow overreacting, but then I read the piece and I agree with you. The author doesn’t seem to realize that the flavor of interview he’s running is deeply trainable, and that one can beco
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by tibbar 5y ago
Most of us read this article from the safe haven of the CS community, which offers the seemingly impossible combination of high pay, brief education, and interesting work. There are drawbacks too, such as the pressure to work 12 hour days,
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by tibbar 5y ago
The terrifying thing about science (and, especially, medical) careers is how long it takes to train. An acquaintance showed me his plan for an MD/PhD with a master’s, which required 20 years of post-secondary education; he was 10 years
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by tibbar 5y ago
Yes that’s fair - and I’m not necessarily saying he’s wrong. But I think his framing reinforces an us vs then perspective, and if we practice seeing another group of people as deeply broken and misguided then we reinforce a divide. And in a
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by tibbar 5y ago
The author claims that unhappy, unsuccessful people fill social media with misplaced anger because they have too much time on their hands. These are the ‘other people’, while we, the knowledge workers are Happy and naturally repulsed by soc
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by tibbar 5y ago
So… 10x engineers exist, but they don’t count because their productivity comes from superior knowledge or other factors? This is sort of silly. Just because you can ‘control for a factor’ doesn’t mean that said developer isn’t 10x more prod
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by tibbar 5y ago
> I went from searching for the hardest problem I can solve to searching for the simplest problem that will have the most impact. This is a fantastic framework to pursue when, for instance, joining a new organization. You can quickly hav
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by tibbar 5y ago
I disagree with this - here's my experience. I started training for competitive programming in college. One semester in particular I spent 20-30 hours a week training, and some of my grades suffered as a result. But I got a lot better
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by tibbar 5y ago
> Gab does not have (and has never had) such records in its care or control In response to a request for all “related communications” to terrorism/Jan. 6 etc. It strains belief that they haven’t even discussed these topics internall
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by tibbar 5y ago
1) the point of the birthday paradox is that even if two elements of a set are unlikely to overlap, in a large set it is much more likely than perhaps intuitive that some pair of elements overlap. 2) I’m assuming he did something like putt
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by tibbar 5y ago
The input image is a parameter, so you could start with some image that would be easier to confuse at the low resolutions the reviewers use. The missing piece in this case is that the database of target hashes is unknown.
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by tibbar 5y ago
The article suggests just allowing engines and scoring players by how far they can deviate from the engine and still win. But this is no longer chess - it’s more like golf - so it doesn’t solve the problem of people cheating at chess.
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by tibbar 5y ago
One (artificial) example is the second one that does a join on a csv file hosted one place and a json file hosted somewhere else. Essentially, a lot of data exploration comes down to “fetch data from these locations, transform the structure
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by tibbar 5y ago
Granted, though, this more of a data munging tool, and I’d be pretty scared to see this used in production.
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by tibbar 5y ago
Ah, but there is no inherent backend: this is a raw format, and you can “execute” it, on a backend if you like, to get a regular json document.
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Show HN: KSON Is JSON with SQL and Networking(gitlab.com)
22 points by tibbar 5y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: A visualization of how humans pick random numbers(humanrandomness.com)
17 points by tibbar 5y ago|5 comments
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Human randomness – what numbers do we pick the most?(humanrandomness.com)
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Whovies.com: A graph-theory based movie recommender service(whovies.com)
1 points by tibbar 6y ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 6y ago
Paradoxically, if you optimize for billable hours on your first job, you might never get to that highly-compensated 100th job. A selection effect of sorts.
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by tibbar 6y ago
Exactly, this is pretty much the definition of flow. It amplifies productivity on the task at hand, which seems to be one of the things the OP claims is impossible. On the other hand, even if the article is taking the banal position that yo
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by tibbar 6y ago
I honestly disagree with every possible interpretation of this article. The amount of work you can do in a unit of time is highly variable: for example, going into a flow state can increase my output by multiples. And your day-to-day cognit
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by tibbar 6y ago
503s from CloudWatch for us.
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by tibbar 6y ago
Hey, OP here - thanks for this wonderful comment. I'd like to hijack this thread to say that I respond to this comment and several other questions here - https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/the-
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The touching responses to “On learning chess”(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
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by tibbar 6y ago
OP here. Yeah, the best advice I know for making anything a daily habit is to make it an emergency. It comes first. So, you get some negotiable time, the first thing you do is (chess) and then you figure out the other things later. The down
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On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
556 points by tibbar 6y ago|333 comments
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by tibbar 6y ago
Great stuff. My team recently had to create visualizations using a very large number of colors (dozens, plus some gradients), because we were representing many distinct values in a number of dimensions. It was very difficult to make it work
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by tibbar 6y ago
Same reaction exactly, yes!

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