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by tubby12345 5y ago
easiest way to shortcircuit the process is to reach out to someone through linked in and ask for a referral. if you're really who you claim to be in your profile here then you shouldn't have any trouble getting an interview.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
of course they need credentials but undergrad at decent state school is much more widely available credential than ivy+. hell FB hires high school grads into their FBU program (for the gap summer between high school and uni). like you don&#
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by tubby12345 5y ago
i have no clue what you're saying >In real life, the ones who will do so are mostly just the ones who it hurts. you think people grinding LC that make it through are hurt by the process? >the insanity that's making them mise
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>I just hope I'm not the one that has to maintain it down the road... i'm good at what i do - my implementations are clean. they got that way (surprise surprise) as a side-effect of me implementing many times.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>least-arbitrary and most accessible ways to jump from one group to the more highly paid one. exactly . i mean like try to apply to IB at a BB and see if anyone even skims your resume without an ivy+ on it. they can't fathom how go
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>I can assure you, 100% without a doubt, that this is where the vast majority of developers are. cool? then that majority doesn't generate the same value as those that do and so they shouldn't get paid as such? i already assert
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by tubby12345 5y ago
what was your point? that it's silly to reinvent the wheel over and over. so i gave you an example of a wheel (two) that often needs to be reinvented.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
if i need a toposort in my proprietary task scheduling system, or fisher–yates shuffle in my proprietary ranking system, what do you recommend? this isn't hypothetical - i've had these things come up in the last half at work.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
I have said this before: it's group therapy for entitled devs that feel they're entitled to oversized salaries just because they have tenure. Young grads accept the process as is. People that are either happy with their comp or
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by tubby12345 5y ago
That's funny with your use of L I figured you'd be at Google and that that tracks with my experience at FB but no one calls it meta except people at meta so I guess I'm just saying that tracks lol
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by tubby12345 5y ago
and i'm responding to >Imagine a place without law enforcement i don't see the words "cop", "police officer", or "value" anywhere to be found in this red herring (i've taken my pick).
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by tubby12345 5y ago
false dichotomy or red herring (take your pick).
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>Do you see the contradiction here? I don't think bibliometrics are useful for measuring utility. that's not a contradiction that's like just your opinion man. it's also the no true scotsman fallacy on your part. >
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>I don't understand what your point is No it's I that don't understand your implicit point that we should let academics fiddle. Is it just because there's some grand narrative around science being objectively and abso
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>Sometimes a particular area of inquiry doesn't appear promising until a subsequent invention many years later. this could be the tagline of every single application to NSF. i'm not sure if you're in academia but there are
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>you REALLY CAN do what you want! Real freedom; just be useful. exactly. high-level ICs at FAANG set their own schedules/roadmaps and salaries as long as they pushing expanding the forefront of an area that brings value. the truth
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by tubby12345 5y ago
it depends on what your skillset really is and what areas you're interested in for your phd. pure theory (finite automata, complexity, computational geometry, optimization)? yea you're probably locked out by virtue of competing ag
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by tubby12345 5y ago
Man some hn posts bring the cringiest comments; please do tell us which school has functional analysis as a "typical" topic for juniors taking real analysis. Even if you're getting a second helping of real analysis by then, y
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by tubby12345 5y ago
This is so charitable thank you. But please tell me are you this charitable when some derivative node package gets published? Or python library? Or when the 100th data science startup is announced?
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>Quite impressive results nevertheless! How does it remain impressive? Is this just deference to the institutions of the authors? Or the general aura around AI/ML/DL? A couple of years ago when FB trained some kind of architect
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by tubby12345 5y ago
qq: is the author's style more or less obnoxious than announcing your opinion on someone's writing style when it wasn't solicited?
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by tubby12345 5y ago
I know how Viagra works. Do you know what the word blunted means?
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by tubby12345 5y ago
couch it however you want but you're deluded if you think your projects stack up against even a BS grad at FAANG if you're discounting their abilities just because they got in through grinding LC.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
this is like some kind of reverse occam's razor argument but i feel like your point is blunted by the fact that there are lots of companies making tons of money off of viagra derivatives.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
I'm bookmarking this and showing it to everyone that claims Julia is the next big thing. Kudos for really exercising the language despite all of these painful shortcomings (you must be a very patient person).
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>Gainesville, FL never a more laughable thing has there been uttered. UF has an "incubator" that consists of wet labs repurposed for house software startups (we were literally in a room with test tube holders and sinks and no p
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by tubby12345 5y ago
i mean do you speak from experience or is this just more conjecture? what people on the outside fail to realize is that while individual projects might not seem complex (maybe frontend engineering on FB is less complex than pytorch) it&#x27
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by tubby12345 5y ago
exactly - the proof is in the eating of the pudding.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>second-raters to grind their stats so sayeth the people on the outside of companies building the most complex software in the world.
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by tubby12345 5y ago
>The department, which says it takes more illegal weapons off the street than any other local police force in the United States, said that it took a record 12,088 guns off the street in 2021. I don't know who knows this and who does

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