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mrowland

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About mrowland

Engineering @ Plaid, formerly at Google

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    Comment #42114598

    > no matter the project goal, your leadership team (the people in your reporting chain who care about the project) will always have basically zero technical context about the proje…

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    Comment #21466745

    "Weeks of coding can save hours of design"

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    Comment #17325451

    On a personal level, children are optional; on a societal level they really aren't.

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    Comment #9556323

    There's evidence[1] that there's no difference in intelligence between races at a very young age, and that tested differences only emerge later. This suggests that the IQ differenc…

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    Comment #9283881

    Here's my math: 15 weeks / semester * 2 semesters = 30 weeks. $5000 / 30 weeks = $166 / week. At $8 an hour, that's 20 hours a week; at $10 an hour it's 16 hours. (Ignoring taxes, …

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    Comment #9283530

    I've had on-campus jobs throughout college, and making $5000 from those jobs alone would require working somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-20 hours a week. Certainly possible (an…

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    Comment #9283466

    Agreed. Student earnings requirements aren't much of a problem for CS/engineering students (who can get paid summer jobs related to their field), but they are difficult for student…

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    Comment #8921545

    For what it's worth, the solution to that question was an open question in computer science for over ten years, so I would guess that people who get it quickly in an interview are …

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