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how dare you emit an utterance that amounts to anything other than deification of our future self-driving overlords and the peter-theil-worshipping engineers who unleash them upon …

there will be (many) times when, for your own emotional/mental sanity, you have to let go of attempting to comprehend someone else's behavior, and just get on with your life.

unfortunately, not as feasible when it's an online assessment, but i appreciate where you're coming from.

From Karat, an company that does nothing but conduct technical interviews for other companies: "Karat owns all rights, title, and interest in the Interview and any works derived th…

yes, praise lord bezos and the rest of the monied elites for the scraps of sustenance which they deign to toss at the hoi polloi.

"A business is just a business and will get rid of you as soon as it can, so you do the same." I agree wholeheartedly. even nonprofits, etc., tend to be helmed by folks that think …

good call, thanks for clarifying the librarian was suspended, not fired. But you create a false dichotomy between books no one checks ou' and books with useful and relevant informa…

> "why not just dual boot" it is the employer's responsibility to provide you with basic things like a computer, a chair, a desk, etc.

spitfire's advice is right on. also, this 'startup' is not in good shape if they can't provide you with the tools you need to do your work. it sounds like a sinking ship, and you s…

wow, the librarian was fired over trying to keep books in the library. sounds like a deleted scene from Idiocracy.

another example of corporate ideology and management-theory snake oil wreaking havoc on a research institution.

agreed. think in terms of game theory -- if you can hustle your way out of there, you could be saving yourself a lot of emotional wear/toll.

i'd like to think i could tolerate a sizable amount of opaque politics and purposelessness if it came with a 300,000k/year comp package.

moving beyond entry-level is about learning to do your job without any handholding. this usually doesn't take that long. but any title progression beyond that depends on getting go…

no, don't. i think it would look pretty strange on a resume. if you have a compsci degree, you should already know how to write software, which is what a bootcamp would teach you. …

What do you think employers generally want to see in a github profile? Is it better to have lots of activity, random repos, work in progress, etc? or is a small set of completed, m…

the people interviewing you are human beings. it sounds like you're treating it a bit too much like an SAT test. consider that a technical interview is also a behavioral interview,…

> "The biggest problem in spreading lisp nowadays is the fragmentation of the documentation." Is it though? I think the biggest problem is employment prospects -- it's just not use…

just dive in. the water's fine. :) whether you're 24 or 94. and besides, you shouldn't make life decisions based on the likelihood of whether or not you will win a nobel prize... e…

without a DOI there's nothing to discuss. these news briefs are not useful; we need the actual paper.

i would love to dive into this further (both the science itself, and how we cross the bridge from science to policy), can you recommend any resources or papers (DOI if possible)?

i don't quite understand the details of your situation, but, in general, a few thoughts: - the best way to get a serious raise is to jump companies. generally, you will build up ea…

"I can't finish any technical article" ... no offense, but i don't know how you made it through grad school. nonetheless, here you are. :p you need to kill your video game habit. s…

for those interested, here are the links to the books that were removed: https://leanpub.com/firefoxosinaction https://leanpub.com/quickguidefirefoxosdevelopment https://leanpub.co…

even if that's true, that's hardly a reason to suppress books on the subject.