salomon812

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by salomon812 1mo ago
Oh thank you for sharing! I had tried describing this earlier in my career and had call it "The complexity shell game" as in attempts to hide complexity only serve to move it around and to trick yourself it's gone. I would mu
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by salomon812 5mo ago
A sentence remarking this concept was implemented in a different media. ---- Title of the song Naive expression of love Reluctance to accept that you are gone Request to turn back time and rectify my wrongs Repetition of the title of the so
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by salomon812 6mo ago
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ
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by salomon812 9mo ago
I almost completely disagree with this post. The only thing I can consider that you should probably avoid embarrassing names. A descriptive name is terrible if you're slightly off. Or if the library gets repurposed. Or if the project d
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by salomon812 1y ago
You know, my honest but also meta answer is that I don't know the answer to your question. There's a lot to unpack here and I don't know you well enough to give personalized advice. But this problem kinda requires personalize
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by salomon812 1y ago
I know this puzzle as "Star Battle" where I play it here: https://www.puzzle-star-battle.com where my favorite difficulty for a nice medium difficulty is "Normal 10x10 2 stars" The LinkedIn Queens seems to be
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by salomon812 1y ago
I wish they hadn't used "physics-defying" in their press release because I'm certain this is an important discovery for water condensers, but claiming it doesn't need an external energy source is massively negligent
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by salomon812 2y ago
Since I think I'm the person you're referencing, I really do want to give good feedback, but experience has shown it's really perilous (discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533899 ) And I kn
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by salomon812 2y ago
Oh geez, I see my math mistake. But even at $5k/mo, the point still stands.
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by salomon812 2y ago
This. 100% this. I can't believe any company would look at this story (which I've heard variations on from multiple peers) and go: "we should save money by not flying candidates out for an on-site and use terrible AI tools to
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by salomon812 2y ago
Okay, so the original argument is about whether or not it's worth it to fly people out for an on-site. Hotel and airfare: $2000 absolute max. Salary at $100/hr for one month for me to figure out it's not going to work out, th
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by salomon812 2y ago
> I think it's very scary when even manual review is still yielding you results with horrible technical screenings. It was bad. It was starting to affect my life outside of work. > I wonder at that point if your technical review
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by salomon812 2y ago
There's a difference between layoffs and firing. To fire an individual, the company must have documentation to ensure it's not a wrongful termination. Ironically, it's easier to lay-off 100 people because all you need to do i
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by salomon812 2y ago
It's not the lawsuit, it's about the time wasted as a manager and salary to the person as you work out if it's actually time to fire. Performance Improvement Plans, a bunch of back-and-forths. I'm not going to be the kin
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by salomon812 2y ago
> The kicker? These are 100% remote jobs - the interviews are being performed at shared workspaces. That's the world we live in now. Nah, if I was running a 100% remote job company ten years ago before all of this, I would still abs
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by salomon812 2y ago
> A scary number of candidates did not take rejection well and tried to use my feedback against me. This happened to one of my bosses. As a result, I've never attempted it. Except once, a candidate realized at the end of a technical
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by salomon812 2y ago
I know the on-site is time-consuming and expensive, but so is firing people (at least in United States it is.) I've had a few on-site interviews where having them on-site made us realize we could never work with them. Given how much ti
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by salomon812 2y ago
God, I wish I could respond to denied applicants like a human, but the threat of legal action prevents me from giving good feedback. I know it sucks, but I'm not sure what to do about this, and I'm already so burnt out from the hi
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by salomon812 2y ago
I'm a software manager that has been doing some form of interviewing/hiring for 13 years. I did two rounds of hiring software engineers last year, one in spring that seemed normal, and one in the fall that was was brutal. The fall
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by salomon812 2y ago
> Anyway, drugs authorities have already approved drugs based on software simulations The simulations you have linked aren't on the same scale. The paper uses the phrase "are powerful tools that COMPLEMENT traditional methods f
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by salomon812 2y ago
And not just any worm, but a C. elegan, which always grows the exact same way every time. The whole reason those worms are so well understood was due to ease of analysis. Hell, it always has 302 neurons which always wire up in the same way.
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by salomon812 2y ago
Hi! My professional job is to write emulators, my wife is a molecular biologist, and as a kid I had dreams of writing the exact software you are referencing, so I think I have a decent handle on this question. We are no where close. We are
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by salomon812 2y ago
I was disappointed the article included these phrases without more context, because they seem understanding on the surface level. But this was the same person who pushed to delay her maternity leave, so in practice he doesn't understan
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by salomon812 2y ago
Yes! This game is a lot of fun. My only gripe with it is that the red area is small and the green area is huge, and that's really minor complaint. With the right people this game is amazing.
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by salomon812 2y ago
For those that love this game (as I do) I recommend "I Love Hue" for mobile.
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by salomon812 2y ago
I've been a bit disappointed by the AI. I'll admit going in with low expectations (I know about the whole AI summer/winter cycle) and I was blown away that ChatGPT could play Jeopardy! with just a prompt since I remember bein
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by salomon812 2y ago
I was a undergrad senior at Caltech during that time, and as luck would have it, I was taking an art history course. Caltech humanities courses tended to have visiting professors that would come for a single night a week. I mentioned to my
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The Wrong Abstraction (2016)(sandimetz.com)
2 points by salomon812 3y ago|1 comments
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by salomon812 3y ago
"Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction."
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by salomon812 3y ago
This feels like another wording of the motto from a great blog post by Sandi Metz: "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction" https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction I f

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