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wheelinsupial
4y ago
In my anecdata, it depends on what your goal is. I think doing some reps spread throughout the day is a good way to increase the max number of reps you can do in bodyweight exercises. Some communities call this method "greasing the gro
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"PEO considers non-licensed use of “Software Engineer” to be a violation of our Act." https://www.peo.on.ca/public-protection/complaints-and-illeg...
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4y ago
You're right it is a big part of advanced math, but you can cover calculus, linear algebra, and proofs in parallel! If you have enough time.
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4y ago
You can take four terms of calculus using the Stewart book and not need to do any proofs. You do need to review algebra and have a good grounding in that, though. You can also cover linear algebra without proofs. There are, of course, books
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Are you looking for a book to learn proofs from? Are you looking to learn any math topics in particular? I think you can go through any of the books you listed and get an understanding of proofs. The proofs books usually use basic number th
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4y ago
This isn't a uniquely Francophone issue in Canada. I'm in Metro Vancouver and every immigrant ethnic group does this same thing. My manager had to pull someone off of our hiring panel because he literally said "I need to supp
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4y ago
I think the book Blitzscaling is by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn. Reed Hastings wrote No Rules Rules https://www.norulesrules.com/
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4y ago
I would add understanding the reasons for definitions, how they fit together with theorems, lemmas, corollaries, proofs, and some basics of the format of proofs. You can find good explanations through Google. For more applied or computation
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4y ago
Have you replaced the mechanical pencil over the years or is that still your original one?
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4y ago
If manual entries are critical to a system, you can have one person enter the info and someone else to confirm the entry is correct. Not sure how common this is in other industries, but this was the method used at an extrusion manufacturing
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Possibly Andrew Carnegie.
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This sort of already exists in Vancouver, BC, Canada. There is more to it than just salary, but there is a huge gap at the neighborhood level. “ But zoom in to the neighbourhood level — what Statistics Canada calls “census tracts” — and you
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"A single-threaded leader is a leader who is 100% dedicated and accountable to a specific product, such as your mobile application, customer account, or the search capability in your e-commerce store. The single-threaded leader is resp
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4y ago
There is a B.C. roll that is also claimed to be invented by Tojo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C._roll
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4y ago
Did you happen to be a product manager? I've heard / read 60 hours quoted in a couple of places.
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Software engineering is a branch of engineering in many countries. Engineering follows the engineering design process [1] and uses applied science. So, to me, people doing software engineering (regardless of laws / licenses) are follow
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I think I'm missing something, but why is an opinion piece needed on this issue? Software engineering is a licensed engineering profession in many places. It used to be possible to be licensed as a software engineering in the United St
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> - Discord. A little over half said they use it routinely. I should have asked more about this. People have been using Discord to host chats for student societies, classes, to complete group work, and other school related messaging thre
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> I'm not an expert either in statistics or in polling Fortunately for us, the author is :) The author has an outline available for a course on survey sampling for those interested in references and topics to learn more. http:/
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4y ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The acronym is MBB (McKinsey, Bain, and BCG) that I'm familiar with when referring to the top consulting companies. MBBD (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and Deloitte) is a reddit joke that I've seen a b
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In my experience, Accenture is the big body shop. I've worked at companies that outsource tech strategy, new system requirements / scoping, delivery and development, and post deployment support and maintenance 100% to Accenture. T
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Accenture is a new one to me. I've seen MBBD(eloitte) used a fair bit, but figured it was just a reddit meme.
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No Work Email? Sign up with a personal email address and get read-only access to limited content. https://us.teamblind.com/logic
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> how many of us paid even the minimum of 12 USD for 48-hour access to the complete study and know what they even mean by the title? I know not everyone on HN has a degree or access to college / university, but for those that do, do
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4y ago
What do they say about Mechanical Turk? Is it that it's more representative of non-American point of view?
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> many college-level books are free on the internet in PDF form As are many of the college-level lecture notes, assignments, and answer keys.
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They mentioned engineering programs in their comment. 40 hours isn't normal even for engineering programs. Every engineering program I've looked at has higher course hour and credits required. Obviously I haven't looked at ev
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> the higher up I climbed the more I realized the job had marginal business impact Do you have any observations why? I'm a pretty lowly business analyst, but my observation is if you don't own the decision making (usually by ha
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If you're reading a math or other computational or textbook, I'd also suggest to read through the exercises in the back of the chapter before diving in. It primes you with keywords from the questions and helps you to think of how
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4y ago
Unfortunately this one seems polarizing. I loved it from the first scene, but there seem to be more than a few people who find it slow and boring to start, and don't come around to it.
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