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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Given the current high stock price of FANGs (or should I say MANGs?), is appreciation really that likely? I'm hearing of offers for mid-career engineers with just 500-700K in equity. And that is over 4 years.
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Wow ... I want to pull my eyes out now. Is this really some uber critical path in the code or did the author(s) have too much time on their hands/optimizing some other metric (e.g. promotion, proving how smart they are, attempting to g
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Hey random Internet stranger. Don't feel terrible. I have a CS PhD, work in AI, have a fancy job title and decent resume ..yet, I am not making anywhere close to these crazy numbers. I painted myself into a bad corner and am somehow st
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Azure is not bad compared to the options. Also, MSFT is throwing a lot of brain power at it (notable systems researchers from MSR). Curious what you consider is better?
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
I suggest you understand the material with as much depth as you can. If you gloss over details early on, it will bite you later on. Are you focusing on DL?
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
What is a SAFE? Any newbie reads? I got the 7% equity part, but some examples could be useful for the code monks amongst us.
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
I'm a new manager. Thanks so much for posting this .. it might be obvious but hits on issues I have faced with my team. I do have a question about the "writing down part". In my org, we do perf evals every 6 months. I do week
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Ask HN: Tool for doing embarrassingly parallel processing on cluster
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Hacker Dojo used to be pretty cool when I lived in the Bay area(but in MV/Santa Clara). Met some interesting characters there.
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
I pay for a bunch of google services (Google One, YouTube premium) and for the life of me, have not been able to get my country changed. After some time with tech support (was shocked I was able to get someone), the conclusion was to use th
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
I was an early user of coinbase. I only bought a fraction of a coin because of Paul Graham and YC's reputation. Well .. I was wrong. I was not an active trader. It seems they have closed by account and liquidated the btc within (if the
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
Interesting observation about Moscow having a lot of research labs. I never thought to wonder why Moscow had so many but this is an interesting point. What do you mean by join study program? Can you explain? Also, is there anything that sto
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by throwawaybbqed 5y ago
I'd like to point out that as a manager, my stress and anxiety level have gone through the roof during this WFH period. As I was an IC for many years, I completely see your point but I'd like to point out the other side. I've
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Thx for your thoughts. You mentioned R&D flavor tickets. Really curious about the mechanics of this. Does the responsible engineer update once a sprint, weekly? I've seen junior staff spend months on dead ends .. curious how to man
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Can you please describe how you had a Jira/ticket system that you felt gave you autonomy? Very curious how it could be implemented in a research setting.
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Not disagreeing with you but some additional points: I don't think CT's housing issues are anywhere remotely as bad as the Bay area. Stamford is the tier 1 city in CT IMHO, which seemed kind of lame. i.e. we would have friends in
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
What you are describing seems exactly like the text for first year math in school. Check out Spivak. I remember loling that it starts out explaining what is a number and why addition works the way it does. Heh .. I still lol a bit at that b
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Hi Peter .. thx for taking time to answer questions on the weekend. Curious what happens when someone with an H1B (say greater than 3 years used but less than 6 post-extension) leaves the US to go back to their home country? If that person
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
These are very good points. I'm curious what the process is from the perspective of the manager. I'm new at the management side of things and was always a top performer as an IC (so didn't get a chance to learn how its down o
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
I stood up a vanilla baremetal cluster (on the latest Ubuntu) a few days back using Kubeadm ... it was fairly trivial to do. I used the NGINX Ingress and it was also generally straightforward (maybe took an hour or two to understand what wa
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
CodePath used to be an amazing resource. They had some of the best guides out there. It went beyond books and delved into practical libraries used in the real-world. I wish those guides were up to date :(
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Can you explain what you mean by fingerprint? I'm a bit alarmed.
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
I've looked at WebRTC a few times, and every time I've been overwhelmed by the complexity of the protocol. I understand video streaming is hampered by codec patents, etc. but in 2020, the situation seems to be getting better with
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by throwawaybbqed 6y ago
Your comment raised the hair on back. I was a naive student in those days. Kamen's build up to the announcement and some of the posts of people who had tried "it" - they broke my heart and took away some of my innocence. You
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by throwawaybbqed 7y ago
For mobile, the situation seems worse than a year ago. TF Mobile mostly worked. The current situation with TF lite is a joke .. tried a real-world Pytorch -> ONYX -> TF/TF lite and it has been weeks of misery.
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by throwawaybbqed 7y ago
What about Android?
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by throwawaybbqed 7y ago
Meh .. staff with PhDs are good for different things than those with Masters. If you are applying established methodology, you don't need PhDs on your team. For new things or things for which there is no established methods, PhDs are e
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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
That world doesn't exist anymore. Computers in the 80s was far smaller a field and had less societal impact. Today, pretty much every human in the developed one has access to a computer (a cell phone). The ecosystems are lot more close
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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
Thanks. I missed one such opportunity in my life .. encountered guys at a YC event and thought they were brilliant. Managed to get an interview but it didn't work out (partially my fault, and partially because they had no idea how to d
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by throwawaybbqed 8y ago
Regarding the question of education/college costs rising drastically, I thought a key answer was that govt started to fund education a whole ton less. In Canada (where this has not happened as badly), an undergrad in CS used to cost 3K

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