purewater

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by purewater 12y ago
Even 2100 CAD ($1670 USD) is about half of San Francisco 1 bedroom rent. His post is still correct in terms of ratios. http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/03/03/mapping_the_median_...
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by purewater 13y ago
That makes no sense. You only have to remember one sandwich at a time to decide on the best sandwich, but you have to remember at least three numbers to recall the mean and standard deviation.
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by purewater 14y ago
FYI, you made typo on "Boltzmann" in the essay. Edit: looks like you already submitted the essay. Oh well. Good luck :)
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by purewater 14y ago
Yes, ask any Facebook/Google new grad. Standard offer is $100k base salary + $15k bonus + $30k stock a year + $XXk signing bonus.
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by purewater 14y ago
Isn't $79k somewhat offensive for a software engineer? At a time when new college grads are making well over $150k their first year?
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by purewater 15y ago
> However, for the most part, the "efficiency" argument is off base. You can COMPILE regular expressions into tight code. Rob Pike has written multiple regular expression engines and at least 4 programming languages. I think he understa
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by purewater 15y ago
I was being nice before, but it's obvious that you don't know what a greedy algorithm is. Please don't make offensive comments like, "I guess the algorithms course is no longer required at MIT?!"
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by purewater 15y ago
Greedy algorithms run the same way every time given the same choices. Why? Because, if options are received in a deterministic order, it'll make the locally optimal choice. With iterate and repair, people are using an internal heuristic to
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by purewater 15y ago
The slowdown is nowhere near what you've estimated. To run a regular expression, you have to search through the entire corpus. Right now, when you type a search in, it searches through its index to look only through the top documents that m
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by purewater 15y ago
$80-100k understates the salaries in Silicon Valley. $100k isn't even a recent college grad salary, it's usually closer to $110k + $40k in other compensation == $150k right out of college. A few years of experience pushes you well over the
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by purewater 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I like to buy into crashes (with some safety margin if I'm wrong). +$4k on the SGXNK so far because of your great timing! :)
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by purewater 16y ago
Usually it's not $200k salary, but compensation package. A typical example is: $165k base salary, $25k annual bonus, $40k stock. Sorry, I won't mention any particular companies, but if you're close to anyone at a major software firm, you s
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by purewater 16y ago
There's a difference between average and high-end: Washington D.C. Avg Software Engineer salary: 102k http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-Washingto... Bay Area Avg Software Engineer salary: 113k http://www.indeed.com/salar