toomuchcoffee

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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Yeah, that's my take, basically. Business, as well as casual social rejections are (important) data points to be processed. But in most cases, just not worth taking personally.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
And visa-versa.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
What a pity. While I tend to sympathize with his case, for a grievance letter that was just way too long and rambling. So it puts the addressee -- who already faces considerabilities legal liabilities, as well as pressures from above if th
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
How many statistician do you know who has heard of Dependency Injection? Yet another incredibly poor litmus test for assessing one's suitability as a data scientist, engineer, or anything else.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
But even if they felt they could, they wouldn't really have much to say about your shortcomings, because... they're not you . They don't know anything about what makes you tick, or the path you took to get to where you are now. And they
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Yeah. It's really just a kind of a protocol. A game with quirky rules, but which we kind of have to play anyway.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Whatever "it" is, it's way more about them than it is about you. It hurts, but the best thing really is to just take your lumps, and try to detach yourself from the the idea that the rushed, off-the-cuff judgements that utter strangers
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Selling admissions officers of their achievements, selling teachers and counselors of their desires and passions... Wow. I guess I'm just so glad that I got to grow up in a completely different universe. Where no one cared about "selling
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Most recruiters don't their ... from their ... (fill in the blanks). Most hiring managers at bigcorps aren't nearly so clueless, but a lot of them take a, how to put this, long-term view of things... and don't always know about from GitHu
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Instead say "hi, I can code, interested?" Groovy for startups -- as are things like having a cool Twitter handle, making pithy remarks in SO, etc. If you're exclusively interested in startups, that is. But for the vast majority of employ
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Sorry to say this, but really the best, and to some extent only viable way to keep yourself always "hirable" is to always be employed. This is because about 80%-90% of the time, employers (and even more, recruiters) aren't looking at all at
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...due to it simply being "math, stupid". Care to elaborate?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Nice toy. Anyone know anything about its greenhouse emissions and/or full-lifecycle carbon footprint? A few stabs at keyword searches don't seem to bring up much on the topic.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Why should anyone be surprised by this?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
No. SCO circa 1986-89, back when they had the hot tub, and the engineering room was officially clothing optional after business hours... that's when they were a real Unix company.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
TOO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
repost
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Most people have never heard of Instagram, Square, Dropbox, AirBnB. Most people don't follow the stock performance of Zynga/Facebook and pepper their daily conversations with who has raised what, or how much startup X was acquired for.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
For example, say, "I'm tired of filling out TPS reports and I felt underpaid." That's a good angle to take. And the choice of words and tone here is key -- it's not a rant, and it doesn't finger-point. It puts the emphasis on you, not t
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Some bridges need to be burned. So true. So very, very true.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...and even PHP and Perl, God forbid. "so if you've invested yourself heavily in either of these languages, you'll be perpetually looked at as a 'B' player on our team... so really, you shouldn't bother applying."
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
...and assigning to a variable is only a primitive because we were brought up that way. Then again, we could say the same thing about nouns.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Well there does seem to be a sort of a "tragedy of the commons" effect at play here. CL is sitting on a natural monopoly, and not only doesn't seem to quite know what do with it, but let's face it, has also become something of a slumlord (
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Unfortunately this just isn't true. Consumers are drawn to inferior products (just like they are to junk food and lousy music; and in the personal sphere, to bad lovers / toxic bosses) for a whole lot of bizarre and perverse psychological r
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Why would that be such a great interview question? Because it's impossible to determine a correct answer?
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
Would love to read this, but: Web Site Blocked by NETGEAR Firewall
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
That's not a rant. It's a perfectly normal, human reaction to what Windows does to the human brain.
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
This is awesome. The Atlantic just made up for its reddit spamming (sort of).
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
All perfectly understandable. It's called "the path less taken." A lot of people just don't click with formalized education at all in their early years. They just couldn't throw themselves behind all those authors and facts they're "suppo
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by toomuchcoffee 14y ago
I think kids should be required to learn X before they're allowed to do Y, Clearly you were never a kid.

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