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by xen0 6y ago
This is too simplistic and requires an objective sense of morality. I have to accept that some of my work may be used for things I do not agree with. I do not believe this is a stain upon my honour.
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by xen0 6y ago
Glassdoor gives the following salary numbers for Google: London: £65000 (=$83.7k) Mountain View (CA): $145000 Both seem a little low; I'd expect a mid-level in London to be >£75k (~$100k). Less sure on the US salary; maybe >$155k
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by xen0 6y ago
And note that this has been going on for a lot longer than that.
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by xen0 6y ago
First things first; if you want a job at Google then you should apply and nothing anybody says is going to change that. It's not a huge opportunity cost and there is no shame in rejection; you're always allowed to try again later.
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by xen0 6y ago
Maybe I'd buy call options instead? ;)
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by xen0 6y ago
I think it can only be fair to ask for feedback from a rejected candidate if you (the potential employer) are willing to give feedback yourself, which is rarely the case, especially from larger companies.
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by xen0 6y ago
CPython keeps an array for "small value" integers (I think in the range [-5, 256]). So when Python wants 256, it'll give you a reference to the existing object. Larger numbers require a brand new object.
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by xen0 7y ago
"Common sense" and "intuition" is what let people look at the early stages of an exponential curve and say "this won't be a big deal". These things are no substitute for expertise. And I don't recall
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by xen0 7y ago
Or chemists, or biologists, or engineers... Or children for that matter. ;)
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by xen0 7y ago
I think a nice, less charged example of this was given by Tom Scott's video on being called regarding STI results - an automated system couldn't give him his results and so transferred him to a human with the delays and brief pani
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by xen0 7y ago
Python is far more promiscuous with Exceptions than languages like C#; they're not just used for "truly exceptional" conditions (see things like StopIteration or GeneratorExit). Different languages have different attitudes to
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by xen0 7y ago
I'm completely comfortable in extrapolating from a sample of size of one to say "No; Googlers do not have food in their fridges".
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by xen0 7y ago
This is coming from 3.4% mortality rate from reported cases, but how many are not reported? How many people just suffer a mild cold, or are completely asymptomatic and never get reported? As an overall mortality rate, it is almost certainly
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by xen0 7y ago
I don't think this is a useful view. We, as a society, clearly want YouTube to exist. The fact that Youtube/Google's efforts and our current legal frameworks cause problems in edge cases doesn't mean we should just give
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by xen0 7y ago
The main turnoff for me was the possibility of data corruption bricking the entire dataset. A glib high level overview of my last job for 6 years was "write out HDF5 files". In that time, I don't recall seeing a true data c
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by xen0 7y ago
But the HDF5 library does not really support multi-threading at all. Compiling the library with the "threading" option just locks around every API call, so you're back to a single thread whenever you enter (compiling without
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by xen0 7y ago
There are two things I hate when dealing with maths heavy code. 1. Lack of operator overloads. 2. Long variable names. The first I find uncontroversial, the second is where I have met with disagreement.
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by xen0 7y ago
I am pretty sure that my Github profile had absolutely no effect on any of the hire/no-hire decisions I was subject to, or even on whether I was entered into a company's interview pipeline. A couple of work projects from my previo
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by xen0 7y ago
"Responsive" is not a word that comes to mind when thinking about reddit's new interface.