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Readit Newstrhr commented on Ask HN: How much to charge for an API call? · Posted by u/waskip
If you can't recover wounded game, you shouldn't be hunting.
The first rule is you don't chase it. Just sit still for an hour or two. The deer will bed down in nearby trees and bleed out.
trhr commented on The fun factor of the video game Uplink vertette.github.io/post/f... · Posted by u/syx
If you liked Uplink, you'll like Bitburner.
trhr commented on We need scientific dissidents chronicle.com/article/we-... · Posted by u/Georgelemental
I appreciate your input. I value it and consider it a good starting point. I am not certain it alone provides the level of support necessary for me to consider a different path, but I would consider both additional data and reducing the amount of evidence I require with a good reason.
Edit: oops, wait! I forgot to smile.
Good, keep doing what I do - that's what I want to hear.
trhr commented on We need scientific dissidents chronicle.com/article/we-... · Posted by u/Georgelemental
When someone who refers to their monitor as "the CPU", and can't tell the difference between a programming language and an operating system, starts telling you how you should be doing your job because you've got it all wrong...
How much do you listen to their opinion?
(Unless of course that matches your manager to a T).
You smile and say, "I appreciate your input. I value it and consider it a good starting point. I am not certain it alone provides the level of support necessary for me to consider a different path, but I would consider both additional data and reducing the amount of evidence I require with a good reason."
trhr commented on We need scientific dissidents chronicle.com/article/we-... · Posted by u/Georgelemental
As a scientist, this is such a dumb take. The incentive structures in science encourage novelty, and there's no shortage of scientists who would love to see their career take off.
Unfortunately, reality does not make the greatest dissident.
Like everyone else, scientists are so convinced of what they know that they won't listen to other opinions.
The problem is that scientists think their knowledge is truth because it comes from "the scientific method." They fail to internalize that the whole point of that method is that no knowledge is sacred and everything should be doubted to the degree at which evidence exists to the contrary.
A crackpot conspiracy theory with a single anecdotal source of data is sufficient to create doubt in the soundest of theories. Just not much.
trhr commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan
The volume of applications we are getting for our open roles is huge and the proportion of them applying because they were laid off is higher than I've ever seen.
Given that, as you will expect, hiring teams we need to process a lot of applications and make snap decisions. You need to ensure you rise to the top by
- Keeping your CV brief and relevant
- Making it clear what things you specifically did in previous roles and their benefits
- Make it clear (e.g. in a side panel) your abilities and how they match the role you are applying for.
But yes, it's hard. The days of applicants getting ten job offers at once are over for now. At least outside AI and outside of senior positions.
I've started telling new grads / interns that ask me "how 2 get jerb" to cut their resume to 1/3 of a page. Because we still need interns and juniors, and we already know they don't know a damn thing, and the only thing that would stand out at this point is _not_ making me read half a page about your capstone.
trhr commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan
I think the missing piece is the intermediate / non-qualified title. Junior implies to me someone who requires frequent hand-holding and coaching even on small scale tasks. Senior on the other hand should require cross-functional communication skills as well as technical mentorship. There's a huge swath of developers who fit between those (solid individual contributors who aren't necessarily ready to lead a project or mentor).
We have all the titles we need. We have junior for "that guy who can't do a fuckin' thing unless you tell him exactly what to type." We have senior for "that guy who can take a ticket and implement it." We have lead for "that guy who can take a business idea and implement it."
trhr commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan
> still technical problems
Namely:
- what schemes are still left for us to pull a lot of money into before they get recognized as scams
- how do we get out in time to leave someone else holding the bag
I spent about three months consulting for some crypto company as a distributed systems engineer.
They paid me to design an eventually consistent, self-healing data store with a cache layer / write ahead log, with peers determined by paxos consensus, transfers metered by finops and govered with kademlia, and a storage layer capable of byzantine fault tolerance, which we implemented via signature chains.
See, they had this crazy idea that they'd make a cryptocurrency that they could sell to western digital, who could offer hard drives that "filled themselves up" with other people's data when idle. WD would obv make a buck and maybe sell these drives for much cheaper than the component cost. I'm not exactly sure of the economics. I think the idea was to have half the drives be "receivers" and half be "senders" and actually sell the "senders" for way more than component cost, but provide trivial effort file backup.
I think they're still building it. I dunno if it'll be a scam or not. I had fun though.
trhr commented on Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020) twistedsifter.com/2020/06... · Posted by u/caiobegotti
Given how much OCD I have about naming variables and writing unit tests, I think if this was in front of my house, I'd take a sledgehammer to it. Fences shall be straight, damnit.