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You can check the analysis courses offered where you took calc and linear algebra to see if you have sufficient prereqs. Depending on the level of comfort or exposure you've previously had to proofs, it could be good to have a book cov
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“Nearly all residents converted to regular employees, according to the presentation. Many alumni years later have continued to feel the “negative effect” of their starting pay on their current salary, it said.” Quoted from the article. Are
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Georgia Tech's OMSCS degree requires an undergrad degree (CS, math, comp eng, or EE preferred) for admissions. It even states "work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree."[1] Coursera offers one online
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> maybe a university isn't the most unbiased resource but.. I'm not sure if anything similar in the US exists, but Stats Canada puts out data on employment by majors in Canada. [1] shows that graduates of the humanities and soc
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Are you referring to the comparison between Robert Oppenheimer and Christopher Langan in Outliers? From Christopher Langan’s Wikipedia entry [1], “In comparing the lack of academic and life success of Langan to the successes of Robert Oppen
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> get a few people from Search, Ads, YouTube or Research/DeepMind to say it increased revenue or decreased costs by 10%. How does that work? Can they genuinely tell that this is the case or do they just give an anecdote or rubber st
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"an essential ingredient of learning is feedback, often received in the form of grades" "Recommend resources for learning" The best thing someone can do to help another learner is to teach them how to evaluate their own
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My hunch is it comes from companies that use PMI project managers. Maybe that maps to older non-tech companies, but I have no proof to back any of that up.
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Map it somehow? What do you mean? There is a Wikipedia entry on it [1] that is a start. To your point, maybe there needs to be an HN glossary of terms or something like that. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-
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This is commonly used in the Hr, accounting, finance, and logistics teams in retail companies I’ve worked at that aren’t Amazon. In my experience it’s not uniquely an engineering term.
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I'm consolidating feedback from other comments into this one, so it's in a single place. First, "Have you added any crossfit routines to routinedb?" There are at least two on there as of the time of me writing this. The
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At the UBC libraries, at least when I was studying there, it was common to see students yelling and running around in a hurry after returning from the washroom. Laptops, iPads, and cell phones left out in the open were common targets for th
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Where I work, for larger projects, we have business analysts or product managers who are supposed to help with converting the user request into some sort of specification. If the project is a smaller one, then the developer is supposed to b
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It might be referring to neocolonialism[1], which is accomplished through economic might instead of military might. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism
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Do you mind elaborating on why all of these test cases doesn’t make you a better overall programmer? I think this would be a great thing to help in coming up with requirements and writing code that doesn’t crash because of edge cases or mal
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> Consider a lot of the camera-related fiascos in the tech industry recently. Serious question. How much of this is due to “move fast and break things” and incompetence as opposed to discrimination and biases caused by white people? I ke
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Where I work scrum masters are supposed to “help teams improve”. That’s measured, in one way, by looking at the current rate of performance of a team and projecting it out. Then a scrum master needs to improve the team’s performance by some
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What do you currently use for data analysis? I’ve taken courses on statistical computing in R and statistical computing in SAS in my statistics degree. We were always told that SAS is the standard for anything health care, pharmaceutical, o
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> we have a dearth of tools that can help us learn how to do the more qualitative sides of coding better Does dearth mean something different than “lack” here? I come from a manufacturing and mechanical design background. We learned a de
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The linked articles you provide say that not everyone developing software is doing software engineering. Canada does offer the PEng license for software engineers, and the US used to offer the PE license in software engineering. At least in
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If you’re referring to this part of the comment: > First we show them, then we explain to them what we did, then they try it with supervision (this is where most of my learning occurs), then we let them do it without supervision. It stri
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What’s not hackable? From the schools I’m familiar with, there is a minimum number of credits you need to fulfill at that uni. That’s unavoidable. Sometimes you can test out of courses; other times you can skip pre-reqs by getting the instr
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Worked in automotive, not at Toyota. > storying inventory based on the impact to assembly continuity? It's always been about that. JIT can be looked at as, "right part in the right quantity at the right time." That can mea
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It’s possible that some institutions are dictating blanket use of software, but where I am studying that’s not the case. It’s basically up to the instructor on how to run the class. Some require proctorio, some are on Zoom with lots of TAs