vismwasm

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by vismwasm 2y ago
>>> cases where the people overseeing the expenditure of funds were completely unfit to estimate the value of work being produced [...] It's also that a lot of bureaucracy is lies on paper. It does not actually produce any val
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by vismwasm 2y ago
I can't give specific feedback, but the company I work at evaluated HackerRank for our hiring process (analytics, data science, data engineering). We ended up using Coderpad though and mostly us it to evaluate Python skills (I guess so
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by vismwasm 2y ago
"2. We provide a voice for the technical working teams." This doesn't correspond to my experience. In my experience McKinsey consultants prefer not to talk to lower-level minions - on the contrary a major incentive for going
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by vismwasm 3y ago
I'm fine with GitHub in general, but I find browsing repositories extremely slow. And I don't remember it always being like that. See my comment here for what I mean: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403789
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by vismwasm 3y ago
Thanks for your insightful reply! > they're not trying to win over users; they're trying to extract money from them. Fair enough. But was there ever an attempt to extract money and/or data from the users through third-part
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by vismwasm 3y ago
> - Devs are not working in isolation Bugs (e.g. the YouTube Shorts one) or performance (GitHub) are the dev's responsibility, aren't they? (correct me if I'm wrong, I have no idea how big tech companies organise internall
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by vismwasm 3y ago
> For Github, are you sure it's even a frontend thing? Well where do we draw the line here? I'm not even talking about diffs etc.: Just browsing through a repo and looking at single files is noticeable slow. As an end user I do
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Ask HN: Why do some the best devs create some of the worst UX/UI?
38 points by vismwasm 3y ago|44 comments
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by vismwasm 3y ago
I thought I was the only one bothered by that! I'd love to use my private iPad with my work Macbook. And at least in my case preventing that definitely won't increase iPad sales: My company won't provide me a work iPad and ev
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by vismwasm 3y ago
That's true. With dbt (=SQL+Jinja-Templating in an opionated framework) a large SQL codebase actually becomes maintainable. If in any way possible I'll usually load my raw data in an OLAP table (Snowflake, BigQuery) and do all the
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by vismwasm 3y ago
I always try getting into frontend frameworks but it's just overwhelming. For WebDev there are a trillion frameworks which you need to append with another framework as the each framework doesn't really solve the problem by itself.
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by vismwasm 3y ago
I never really got Bayesian statistics to be honest. - When sample size grows, frequentist and bayesian (if the prior is not too restrictive) point estimates seem to converge to each other anyway - The distribution of your point estimate (f
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by vismwasm 3y ago
The author measures the Dunning Kruger effect on his random data exactly because he assumes it when generating his random data. By modelling skill and perceived skill as uniform draws between 0 and 100, the unskilled (e.g. skill=0) will ove
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by vismwasm 3y ago
I generally like GCP, however their sales and customer support just aren't any good. And some services like Vertex AI are extremely buggy while it's hard to actually report these bugs. I think Google Cloud needs someone like Jeff