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This seems like a great topic for a pre-trospective meeting to discuss the process of how to structure the process to figure out the process.

PM is a super heavily overloaded term that you'll run across in pretty much any company larger than small, definitely not specific to Google (disclaimer: I work at Google and don't…

I 100% disagree. Have had extremely interesting conversations out of essentially this question regardless of my status relative to the person I'm asking (plus or minus 3 levels in …

For a sufficiently advanced definition of "just playing the odds", that's pretty much what any model does.

> If the curvature were slightly less than 1, the topology would be "closed", meaning it would be finite, and traveling in a straight line ends back where you started. Doesn't this…

> You're assuming that it was based on whether or not the candidate was hire. Nobody with an iota of experience in machine learning would do something like that. (For obvious reaso…

I don't think I'm with you. A neural net cannot do this - picking apart male and female tokens requires a signal in the gradients that force the two classes apart. If there's no gr…

If they were using any sort of neural networks approach with stochastic gradient descent, the network would have to spend some "gradient juice" to cut a divot that recognizes and p…

That would be "amended" if we're gonna go all the way with this.

Once your test suite is big enough that it won't run within a minute or two, it's kind of hard to keep a "green on each commit" workflow, though. Especially with UI and visual diff…

Will the other tech companies be remembered for never resisting in the first place? IIRC Microsoft and Yahoo we're both like "censorship and tracking? HELL YEAH, where do we sign?"…

I use several different computers and operating systems regularly, and it's really useful to have my browser history, bookmarks, extensions and other configuration synced up. That'…

Yeah...and that thread says that the change is basically nothing, just a UI indicator: > Q: I don’t get, though — if you’re signed in to the browser but sync is off, then what does…

I'm still not clear about what the actual change in behavior even is - seeing some statements on Twitter from someone on the dev team, it sounded to me like there isn't actually an…

The big difference between leaving a relationship and leaving a job is that even if you're in a good place, a job will never last for life. Some relationships will. Anecdotally, I …

Absolutely, though I'd warn that if you naively use PHP and a default setup (Apache with default settings for PHP or something like that), you're probably not going to serve as muc…

If a company already has a large PHP codebase, then it's probably the right choice to stick with it. And it can scale just fine, easily as well as Python or Ruby if you dig into ho…

"What most people really mean when they say someone is a good fit culturally is that he or she is someone they’d like to have a beer with." This is never how the companies I've bee…

Extremely interesting take, with a lot of good stuff to think about. I'm unclear about the claim that less economic growth would be better, though, and the author seems very commit…

Opiods have been around forever; pardon my ignorance, but what is different now that makes so many more people get hooked on them? Presumably people felt the same levels of pain in…

A decade ago self driving trucks existed only in thoughtspace; today they're actually being built, driven, and refined. That the old estimates we're wrong doesn't mean the tech wil…

There are dedicated reporters at a lot of outlets for each of the tech giants, I don't understand that complaint. I've talked with several of them, they show up at like every tech …

What else can you do in Seattle with absolutely zero skill or qualifications and no willingness to commit that pays that well? Not a joke question. I'd have loved any fraction of $…

Fair, I upvoted you because that's a wrong interpretation of what you said.

"figure something out, or die" The Republican party salutes you, you speak their disgusting and morally bereft "truth" with extreme accuracy.