Viewing profile — steev

But isn't the real issue how these small changes add up over time? Seems kind of like saying "a single car will not put out enough CO2 to impact the atmosphere" but here we are wit…

Work harder. Never give up. Nothing to it but to do it (Ronnie Coleman) The journey is the reward (I think this is Steve Jobs) What can I do to move myself towards my goals right n…

You really want all their staff to lose their jobs just so your image search results experience is better? Seems a bit selfish don't you think? What about all the users that enjoy …

At least for beginners, they absolutely are. I have found undergrads generally get the idea behind something like HashMap but getting them to reason about OCaml modules takes quite…

> I can't understand why OCaml doesn't have mass adoption. Probably for the exact same reason each year you think about learning OCaml you decide not to (I mean this sincerely, not…

I am not sure I follow. It seems plausible that the sky-high taxes are a major motivator for people wanting to leave CA but a recent change in SF made it possible for people to mov…

This [1] is a a much more detailed course that gives a great introduction to OCaml. [1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2019sp/textbook/in...

The Girl Scouts are a non-profit yet they don't give their cookies away for free.

I don't see how this is a nuanced perspective - it seems to restate the same complaints/arguments just about every comment makes in these discussions. A nuanced perspective would l…

How on earth is any of the advertising antagonizing? I had to read through the course page twice to look for anything remotely resembling a criticism and came up blank. If it is th…

I am completely baffled by this response. At a minimum, that is not what narcissistic means in any sense of the word. I cannot understand how trying to improve yourself, whether as…

God forbid anyone pursues higher education because they want to become a better researcher. I would suggest you spend some time thinking about your EQ rather than spending time on …

I work from home as a software engineer at a major tech company. Infrastructure: my company provides money to setup your workspace. Buying a desk is the most expensive part here bu…

A degree from a reputable university doesn't count in _any_ profession (ok, that's hyperbolic - it certainly counts for something in run-of-the-mill office jobs). Even doctors, law…

That's not the case at Google. The call schedule for SREs is pretty nice.

They are working on things that interest them. What is wrong with that? That is also a little insulting to the researchers that are actually studying how to cure cancer.

Probably to try and prevent this from turning into a flamewar. A lot of people just read the title and don't read the article and then comment based on what they think the article …

I'm guessing they are referring to a work phone.

This doesn't seem any more ridiculous than companies setting a higher price and then always having the item on sale. I think JCPenny famously tried simply lowering their prices and…

It seems pretty reasonable to me, as an interviewer, to look up the question I am thinking about asking to see what is available online. Is there a reason you wouldn't do this?

My main objection is it dramatically decreases your productivity. If building and testing takes 5-10mins (which is the case in our codebase) trying to fix a bug can take forever wh…

That was my hunch. > People always say "use numpy", but that is only possible if your algorithm can be described in terms of vectorized operations. For many kinds of processing, th…

I tried really hard to like Julia and just couldn't get behind it. We used it for a research paper in the area of optimization and by the end of the project I really regretted it. …

> Typically straightforward Numpy gets me from 40x slower than straightforward C to 5x slower. I find this hard to believe. What kind of numerical work are you doing? Even somethin…

This sounds like an architecture problem, not a language problem. Can you elaborate?