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by wayne-li2 4y ago
61A is not a weeder course at all. It’s theoretically the CS 102 equivalent at Berkeley, with CS 10 being the CS 101 of Berkeley. The problem is that because CS 10 is not a required course, most freshmen that come into Berkeley, many who we
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
I really don’t think that’s how people interpreted this post. I left one of those relatable comments but I skipped over the 10x comment. In general, if you are consistently above average (which I would argue a large crowd in HN could be) yo
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
I felt this way somewhat recently. Switching companies to a place that had top tier engineering talent put me in my place pretty quickly. Now I sweat like the rest of them — and trust me this is a good thing. You want your peers to challeng
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
The market as of last year couldn’t be divided by bulls and bears. It was more like “mega bears, bears, bulls, mega bulls”. You’re talking about mega bears and they’re gloating because the mega bulls talked so much shit in the last 3 years.
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
Thanks for the well wishes. These are questions I’m constantly wrestling with, and I’m a liar if I said I had life figured out.
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
I didn’t try to assume anything about the blog post author. But it’s irrelevant — I was commenting on the comment calling people in general soulless for maximizing compensation. I agree there’s a point which that moral inflection point occu
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by wayne-li2 4y ago
Reading judgmental comments like this also upsets me. It’s not selling your soul. It’s called being disillusioned with your impact on the world, a feeling that more and more people are feeling. Long gone are the days where you believed an i
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
Wait, you can’t see it either?
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
This is our bias seeping in. On HN, I’m willing to bet a substantial proportion of people are willing to pay for an anti-ad/tracking browser for privacy reasons. But there will be no value for the outside world. I think us “nerds” dram
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
I only have 3 years of experience but with three job hunts, the last one I just completed recently. My new grad job hunt, I received minimal responses cold applying online. My second job hunt was a one and done poach. The most recent one, I
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
I don’t doubt that sexism and anti-LGBT sentiment was much more prevalent back then. But can someone fill me in on the landscape nowadays? I’ve hopped around a few notable companies and have seen nothing but acceptance at minimum. Many of t
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
That's the problem though -- it will skew the data towards friendly and helpful people like yourself. But it doesn't capture reality. To be honest, I don't know how you get this sort of analysis done without poisoning the int
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
Oh wow -- I knew Ross as one of my TAs during my undergraduate time at Berkeley. Regardless of the issues here, I recall him as a friendly and bright person.
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
I really don’t think this is a rich or poor issue. It is possible to have public transportation that can transport rich or poor equally, while maintaining safety and cleanliness. For example, public transportation that has locked “cabins” f
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
I struggle to label it as character flaws because it implies that it is an immutable property of the person. In reality, a lot of the no-stakes cheaters are compensating for something else. People often use video games as a means of escapis
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
If devs aren’t unionized, there’s no such thing as scabs right? Blizzard can just terminate all the disgruntled employees and hire other devs, perhaps more desperate or entry level or morally ambiguous, whatever. Of course the institutional
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
DNAnexus | Backend Software Engineer | Full Time | Mountain View, CA / Remote Friendly Technology: Node.js, Typescript, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, Docker DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science commun
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
DNAnexus | Backend Software Engineer | Full Time | Mountain View, CA / Remote Friendly Technology: Node.js, Typescript, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, Docker DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science commun
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
I actually agree with you here, our incentive structures are flawed for sure. The problem is, hiring is expensive, hiring mistakes are expensive, and new grads are a combination of “lack of signals” and “need lots of time to pan out”. The r
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by wayne-li2 5y ago
The cynic in me believes without any disincentive to cheating, “few cheaters” become “almost all participants”. I was a TA in a prominent CS university. We used software that would compare everyone’s submissions to see if things were copied