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by regs 3y ago
I’ve personally been in a room where you were very much not keeping quiet about it!
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by regs 5y ago
That's how they get you! (I used to run recruiting marketing there as a side job and good pizza was part of the playbook).
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by regs 5y ago
I don't think he missed the point. You should probably read all of this (which the Hole Hawg bit is an excerpt from) to a whole picture of this school of thought: http://people.cs.georgetown.edu/~clay/classes&#x2F
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by regs 5y ago
Unlike a human, you can usually just reboot the computer and try again.
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by regs 6y ago
Could you cite some actual sources here?
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by regs 6y ago
Care to cite an example?
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by regs 12y ago
(I'm the author of that post)
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by regs 12y ago
Agreed on where the devil resides. I'm working on a follow up post that delves into that detail - it should be published in the next few weeks.
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by regs 12y ago
For the record, I'm not a recruiter (and was sad to see myself labeled as such). I've worked on the recruiting problem pretty extensively for Palantir, but I'm actually a software engineer. These days, my work tends towards
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by regs 13y ago
... and, honestly? Not much has changed. The cultural zeitgeist of both SJ and SF are very much the same.
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by regs 13y ago
And to add to the point above, Yelp ratings are not well-normalized across markets. The things that people care about in the 'burbs is different than in the city and places get voted up or down for odd reasons. For example, Joya in Pa
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by regs 13y ago
Some of this list is just plain incorrect. For example, Rangoon Ruby in Palo Alto is a pale imitation of Burma Superstar in San Francisco, a restaurant is openly models itself after. Claiming that the best independent coffeeshop is in MV is
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Palantir Hack Week 2012(palantir.com)
15 points by regs 14y ago|4 comments
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by regs 14y ago
If you're working on a problem that you can solve alone, you need a bigger problem.
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Give interns real product work and you'll be delighted(blog.palantir.com)
3 points by regs 15y ago|0 comments
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by regs 15y ago
Have you considered that stable currency is a service performed by the government? Feel free to accumulate wealth, just don't use government backed currency.
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Introducing Palantir's first open source releases(blog.palantir.com)
105 points by regs 15y ago|37 comments
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The UI Design Interview: A Primer(blog.palantir.com)
25 points by regs 15y ago|1 comments
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How to Rock a Systems Design Interview(blog.palantir.com)
75 points by regs 15y ago|18 comments
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by regs 15y ago
A good complement to our other post last week, How to Rock an Algorithms Interview - http://blog.palantir.com/2011/09/26/how-to-rock-an-algorithm...
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The Coding Interview(blog.palantir.com)
16 points by regs 15y ago|1 comments
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by regs 15y ago
It was much cooler to be jaded about the interview process last year. But in all seriousness, I'm sure there are companies like the one you described and there are many that aren't that way. I'm certain that your blanket characterization o
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by regs 15y ago
You'd be surprised at what people will do to game an interview. I've had people give me the correct answer to a question I didn't ask (but from our list of questions) - clearly having gotten from someone else who had interviewed earlier. N
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by regs 15y ago
I think you're correct that for certain types of apps, this sort of knowledge is pretty useless. However, once the number of things you're dealing with gets up to, say, the millions, algorithmic complexity can really bite you in the ass and
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by regs 15y ago
Whoops - yeah, we're working on that problem right now - at the moment it's back up.
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by regs 16y ago
Fixed!
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by regs 16y ago
Dear Soupy, You've certainly got quite a quandary on your hands. Having an offer from either place is a great opportunity, but I'd be happy to highlight some of the more unique aspects of a Palantir internship: We do most of our product ma
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by regs 16y ago
My name is Ari and I'm a senior software engineer at Palantir. I was the second member of the Palantir Government backend team so I've been with the company almost five years. I've seen this place grow up around me. To describe me a bullis
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by regs 16y ago
Palantir is hiring: https://www.palantir.com/careers/positions I'll be the first to vouch for the fact that this is the most amazing place to work. Interesting technical work, huge impact on real problems in the world, great culture, tal
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A rigorous friction model for human-computer symbiosis(blog.palantirtech.com)
1 points by regs 16y ago|0 comments

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