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by organicfigs 6y ago
I don't have a tiktok nor a twitter, but somehow I sincerely enjoyed consuming this, nice work!
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by organicfigs 6y ago
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Marathon Petroleum to close its Martinez refinery(mercurynews.com)
2 points by organicfigs 6y ago|0 comments
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by organicfigs 6y ago
As someone with a STEM degree who enjoyed taking online classes at a CC during their 20s in Art History, I wouldn't call it a waste of time; it's brought me more joy, balance, and a feeling of well-roundedness than I had contribut
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by organicfigs 6y ago
IXL Learning https://www.ixl.com/
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by organicfigs 6y ago
fwiw my best friends are SE Asian (not Chinese), white, black, and Mexican. I didn't feel this photo is as equally representative of that diversity. I'm not making a case it has any obligation to do so, just noting that it impacte
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by organicfigs 6y ago
To an extent I agree that most startups are made up of Caucasians/Chinese males, I think one of the reasons I left tech professionally is because I didn't feel comfortable/enjoy the lack of diversity.
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by organicfigs 6y ago
On a side note, has anyone noticed a lack of diversity on the group photo on their careers page: https://openai.com/content/images/2020/04/openai-offsite-jul... I remember coming across it not too long a
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Having gone through my twenties and seen many bright cs grads fail at starting a business, I think the best option is to find a role where upward movement is attainable every couple of years and attrition is relatively low. I cannot tell yo
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I wanted to add a response here for every aspirational algotrader: you can lose a lot of money very quickly. I hobbied in algotrading through my twenties, learned a lot more than I expected too, worked out the math, and made $600 in a matte
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I wouldn't know since I haven't really prodded them on the details. I wouldn't want to give any advice on something I don't know too much about, I'm sorry!
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I'm not sure if they have a session prior to competing but I know they use it to train and get through 8+ hours of practice.
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I'll try to maintain my cousins' anonymity while stating this: both of them are literally the best in the world at their passion (think Olympic athlete, math Olympiad, Rhodes Scholar, etc.) What's their secret? Their mom&#x
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Ask HN: Have these sales engagement+AI products been a game changer?
1 points by organicfigs 6y ago|0 comments
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by organicfigs 6y ago
At least Jesse is quite accomplished. Some of Qualcomm's lesser-known acquisitions are c-suite's bailing out family.
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by organicfigs 6y ago
For the last 3.5 years I've worked 100% remotely- an answer which I'm surprised isn't showing up more is: wherever my parents are. I got to spend my mid to late twenties seeing them daily and I'm fortunate for it every d
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I can't say I agree with this decision. I graduated from Cal probably a bit higher than 70th percentile by GPA in EECS 10 years ago. To this day, I was motivated by everyone smarter than me who was admitted based on merit based on thei
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by organicfigs 6y ago
There is definitely an anomalous uptick with reddit harassment these days. I posted a positive article to /r/Coronavirus and I was immediately harassed in the dumbest way possible (someone trying to counter an article I posted but
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Uber reportedly to cut 3k more jobs(cnbc.com)
3 points by organicfigs 6y ago|0 comments
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Probably the least interesting, esoteric, and useless topic but it's a rabbit hole none the less: the taxonomy of ancestors of modern-day elephants such as the Deinotherium ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinotheri
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I passed the interviews at one of the top stat arb hft firms and it sounds like there are a couple of responses from similar shops here. One thing people haven't mentioned: pedigree. I passed 3 rounds of interviews and my final intervi
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I've wanted to work with Elixir for 5 years now. I attempted to go through The Pragmatic Programmer's Elixir textbook and couldn't make it through. This comment applies solely to me, I feel I didn't have the aptitude to
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A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra(ocw.mit.edu)
835 points by organicfigs 6y ago|200 comments
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by organicfigs 6y ago
There's a guy on the /r/bayarea subreddit that's been doing god's work and providing transparency on all new cases and deaths in our 9 counties.
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by organicfigs 6y ago
You definitely don't need an "open source coding resume" at mid-career since you don't need it in an early career job hunt. You just need to LeetCode sigh
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by organicfigs 6y ago
I posted about this the other day in the Finnish thread - of course they are, there's probably a 300% salary difference between a banker with 6 yoe and a social welfare worker with 12+ yoe. You don't have fields attracting people
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Moikka, I'm happy you've found a stable life. The thing is that subtle/implicit racism is quite difficult to pick up on. It involves not being: * given the benefit of the doubt in difficult situations * realizing how easy it
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by organicfigs 6y ago
As someone who used to live in Finland, their "success" is mostly driven by an excellent student:teacher ratio and a phenomenal social services system. Any adult who is struggling through a crisis will be helped by a system that 1
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by organicfigs 6y ago
After seeing so many posts on Finland recently, I feel an obligation to emphasize something (as someone who used to live in Finland): While it's safe, affordable, and definitely one of the best places to raise a family, it's nothi
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by organicfigs 6y ago
Same, those clowns are Sky Rocket Ventures wouldn't stop calling me. I told them to match 65% of my then-salary, they realized they weren't talking with a broke 20 year old kid and stopped calling me.

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