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Interview behavior is certainly a reflection; presence of a whiteboard, on the other hand, tells you absolutely nothing about the quality of the workplace.

> Is yahoo still generating revenue? > Is yahoo still profitable? Revenue is different from profit. It seems like last year their revenue was about 2.5 billion and their profit was…

Are you really offering an easy setup to the senior devops person? I'm sure they can figure things out.

Something to keep in mind - experienced devops and security experts are extremely valuable, at the same time ML beginners are in oversupply. Do you really want to put yourself at a…

Old design + Reddit Enhancement Suite is the only decent way to use reddit right now.

Managing the resources on the planet in a way that every human being has good quality of life and doing this in a way that's sustainable in the long term and without resorting to o…

It's pseudoscience and there are no degrees in it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming

I read the post and still have no idea what point it's trying to convey apart from a general sense of smugness. > At the end of my programming day, I want to look on something that…

As much as I like 3blue1brown, watching those videos is not a good way to learn. It's maybe a good way to get some intuition about a topic and much closer to the "infotainment" cat…

Simply switching devices helps. If it's after 5pm and I don't have any meetings or tasks that I can complete by 6pm, I turn off the work laptop and put it away until the next morni…

People who are moving out of big cities - how long do you expect to stay with the same company and remote?

Your question is almost orthogonal to the way AI is developed. It starts with the task and the AI algorithm is specialised to it. In that sense, we have AI that has not just human …

There's a certain level of stress that comes with not having a degree, having a non-technical degree and working in a technical field, dropping out, bad grades, not getting an adva…

Similar situation - still sharing in London and thinking how for the same amount I can have a whole flat to myself somewhere else in the UK. It's kind of difficult to plan things i…

There's way more to optimization than what's used in deep learning, especially if OP is interested in operations research.

Numerical Optimization - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-40065-5 You'll need multivariable calculus and linear algebra as prerequisites.

Software developer is not a description, it's a title. It's okay if it doesn't perfectly indicate the domain and tech stack that you work with.

> And should they be able to do all or any of this? Personally, I don't think they should which is why I wouldn't work for anyone who tried to enforce this. It would be a massive r…

> 71% chance of victory, which is anomalously low chance given current polling data. Your question is based on 71% being low, which I don't think it's true. It's way way higher tha…

Do you already have a degree in mechanical engineering? If you do, you will likely be able to switch to software without doing another full undergraduate course.

> I don't know anything about instagram's infrastructure but what I can tell you for certain is that every one of these companies has legacy infrastructure So you don't know anythi…

> but I can equally make a case why moving to a city to pay high rent prices seems kind of dumb. No one moves to a city to pay high rent prices. The higher rent is a tradeoff that …

Not moving at all because I'm remote temporarily and I'll likely have to move back to a big city in a few months. Another thing to consider is that if you're young and don't have a…