jleader

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by jleader 3y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon,Google&track... says higher numbers are better (more senior, more highly paid) at Facebook, so maybe the GGP post is talking about working at Meta, leaving, and then comin
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by jleader 5y ago
I have a strong suspicion that doing pure keyword searches of job descriptions (or resumes, on the employers' side) probably has some pretty hard limits on how well it can work, especially in the presence of participants with incentive
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by jleader 5y ago
Exactly. When I read "Amazon Unlimited FTP Server" i heard a modem handshake sound in my head.
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Classifying Job Titles with Noisy Labels Using Reinforce(ziprecruiter.com)
18 points by jleader 5y ago|4 comments
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by jleader 10y ago
They leak uninitialized memory contents into the HTML being served; that memory could (and did) contain data from any other traffic that passed through their hands. So a request sent to Cloudflare customer A's site could return data fr
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by jleader 10y ago
I'm a long ways from being a VC, but I see one reason they might prefer the larger, higher-burn-rate company. I think one of the hard jobs for a VC-funded startup is growing really fast (to become big enough to be worth-while when the
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by jleader 10y ago
Also, there's apparently evidence that prior trauma puts you at greater risk of PTSD from subsequent trauma. Which helps explain why different people in more or less the same situation can have very different responses, because of thei
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by jleader 10y ago
One of the biggest invisible biases is thinking you've managed to free yourself of invisible biases.
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by jleader 10y ago
So you're advocating forgiving the educational loans of doctors who lose their license? Or do you leave them massively in debt, without the (relatively) lucrative profession they had assumed would allow them to pay off that debt?
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by jleader 10y ago
Example where the pilots involved pushed their luck until that 1% chance finally killed them (and their passengers): http://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/how-to-d...
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by jleader 11y ago
I think that's a bit harsh; it's more like "If you know how to issue instructions to a computer, you can derive anything else about the world from first principles."
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by jleader 11y ago
The author keeps talking about going through all possible proofs built from the axioms, as if that's a thing that obviously could be done. However, if your system is complicated enough to allow arbitrarily large combinations of axioms
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by jleader 11y ago
My understanding is that telephone, cable, and power providers share the poles. Don't the power companies usually own the poles? So if they added internet providers to the list of companies authorized to share the poles, AT&T would
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by jleader 11y ago
One obvious reason would be if they don't trust the book value. For example, if the assumptions made in computing the book value are systematically wrong in some way.
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by jleader 11y ago
The fact that the article presents different metrics in response to different inputs (CEO expressions of disgust correlated with 9.3% boost in overall profits over the following quarter, CEO expressions of fear correlated with 0.4% rise in
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by jleader 11y ago
It's not £8 per call, it's £8 per minute. I don't know the protocol for satellite calls, but I'd been taught that for both 911 calls and VHF-Marine distress calls, you're supposed to stay in contact with the dispatc
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by jleader 11y ago
According to https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/02/meet-the-new-lastpass-logo... they had to come up with a new logo due to "an unanticipated trademark lawsuit, filed early last year".
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by jleader 11y ago
The difference is that if NASA screws up, there's a certain percentage chance that the bug will be exposed, and cause a problem. That percentage usually stays constant over the lifetime of the system, regardless of how many times the b
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by jleader 11y ago
There's a slightly longer press release about the Alzheimers findings at http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_... searching for the co-authors' names led to what appears to be the
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by jleader 11y ago
Presumably anyone who invested in etsy 9 months ago was surprised.
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by jleader 11y ago
If you reach the page through a Google search ("tea grown in scotland" gave it as the 8th result), they show you the article after a short marketing-interests questionnaire.
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by jleader 11y ago
I used to work in a 50-story building that had banks of elevators, each of which was hard-coded to only visit the lobby and the appropriate range of floors. For example, the first bank would only visit 2-13, the 2nd bank would visit 14-25,
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by jleader 11y ago
My understanding (from H1B coworkers and HR managers in previous jobs) was that the H1B is transferable to another company IF the other company agrees to sponsor it, and there's a fair amount of paperwork, hassle, and uncertainty to ef
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by jleader 11y ago
Pretty much everyone with a million dollars laying around declined to spend it on acquiring Google back then, it's not like Yahoo was the only company they approached.
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by jleader 11y ago
If torture makes you willing, doesn't that mean that when the torture starts, you're unwilling? And are you really arguing that torture doesn't involve the use of force?
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by jleader 11y ago
It's fairly common for humans to use "our planet" as (rather hyperbolic) shorthand for "our current form of human civilization on our planet".
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by jleader 11y ago
Every place I've ever worked where I had any visibility into hiring, at the start of the search the company makes a decision as to who they want to deal with: hire an inside recruiter, retain a single outside recruiter (or several), or
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by jleader 11y ago
Keep in mind that under our current system, to a large extent giving up your money voluntarily to other people (charitable donations) gets you an exemption from giving up your money involuntarily (taxes). So if they're not giving it to
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by jleader 11y ago
"Demonstrably untrue"? Are you arguing that there's no more gender inequality in software development?
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by jleader 11y ago
My guess would be that you're allowed to copy, but they probably don't want you to publicly share what you've copied. Whether that desire for you not to disclose is legally enforceable should be confirmed with a lawyer, of co

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