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Yes, heaven forbid some beefy blue collar workers make an honest living extracting useful resources from the ground. No, let's all become Warby Parker wearing hipster app-developers in Brooklyn and SF.

Awesome thanks! It is useful

Yeah was thinking of giving a quick overview with a not-so-deep dive into the easier stuff like Naive Bayes classification. But your suggestion makes sense as well. I like the supermarket example. Do you maybe have a list of these that I could demo? A link to a specific demo problem?

Thanks a lot

I love this thread and concur with the others that it should be made a regular occurrence.

So it fits what ESR says about Lisp?

"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."

Is that right? As Haskell seems to be far less intimidating to approach than Lisp, I may actually end up doing some. I fondly remember my junior level programming languages class and doing assignments in Standard ML. Haskell looks similar.

Sure, if any job will do. But if you are far more selective, the above steps will help.

Haha. This is the worst possible way to 'motivate' a high-value employee in a decent job market.

1) Find out a few companies hiring in your area through deep research.

2) Contact a few people in these companies to get a lay of the land on the positions and the environment. In short, informational interviews over coffee. DO NOT ASK FOR THE JOB IN THIS STEP. JUST DON'T.

3) Your objective should be to see which jobs you'd like to do, and which jobs you can do. The intersection will go on your final list.

4) Keep contact with the coffee interviewees by sending them interesting links, or other 'gifts' and by that I don't mean basket of chocolates, I mean any valuable information/links/thoughts that could help them with whatever - business or personal. Reach out once right after meeting, once one week later, and once every month from here on.

5) Craft your Resume and cover letter focused on THE NEEDS OF THE HIRING MANAGER. Think of your resume as a story you're telling the hiring manager that resonates with him based on his needs.

6) Nail the interview .

If any step from 1 to 6 goes wrong, go back to the previous step and carry on.

Good luck. Oh and show your boss the finger when you walk out with a new offer for 10-20% more pay.

Yes, at least the H-1B does prohibit earning income from any other 'projects' other than your sponsored job, with the exception of capital gains/interest from holding assets.

This is certainly intriguing. .NET has moved steadily in the opposite direction with Linq-to-Sql classes, followed by the Entity Framework which is now the default. I wasn't even aware that this school of thought advocating the opposite direction existed.

At first glance the UI seems 'inspired' by Sublime

Considering that SEC officials sat on their ass likely watching porn on the job while receiving multiple substantial complaints about Madoff indicates your naive asymmetric idealization involved in hypothetical market failure scenarios while excusing very real actual regulatory failures. There is no utopia. Deal with it.

+1 gold.

Restriction of freedom is too easy to these people. This is why there's a general angst among libertarians. Any and every problem is to be solved by legislation, filled in by a regulatory agency. Sorry if you're more offended by the rhetoric of those whose freedom is restricted than by dastardly statist actions by those who couldn't even explain what it is they are trying to solve (Do you think Manchin can explain what Bitcoin is?)

'Made with Notepad' signs intimidated this FrontPage warrior with copapasta-javascript-animation skillz.

This reminds me of William Hertling's 'AI Apocalypse' trilogy, specifically the last book 'The Last Firewall' where brain implants enabled depth-specific metadata info on everyone in vicinity.

Not sure if trolling. I use NJTransit on a daily 2 hour commute. The main problem with NJTransit is that the ride home is almost never on time. 90% of the time, it's 5-10 mins late. But I can count on one hand how many times the morning ride has been delayed over the past 2 years, most of which had to do with atrocious winter weather affecting all the trains. If Caltrain had to deal with Northeast winter weather it would be 10x worse than NJT.

Sure but calling this 'shutout' is pretty abusive of language to me. Is Chrome shut out of modern macs? Safari does come bundled after all. And I don't consider the DoJ case to have any merit so there's no authority in it.

Personal Cloud, perhaps, will be the answer. No real vendors for that yet though. Urbit maybe but that has a year or so to go before it becomes usable.

How was Netscape shut out of Windows?

False dichotomy. Both are astroturf.

Bravo. The absurdity of some of the highest paid people in the world calling for a revolution is really comical to an immigrant like me. Not to say that the collusion was not despicable.

Er yeah. The 'people' i.e. astroturfed left-wing activists are protesting the employees, not the CEOs.

This is why, as bad as this scandal is, I'm thoroughly opposed to 'professionalization,' and unions in software. Keeping the barriers to entry low is our best bet across the industry. As someone mentioned, a few major SV companies is not the whole tech industry. There are software engineers in every sector of the economy, and if it's payscales we are talking about, the Big Banks can match it.

Sorry dude I was replying to the parent comment, not yours.

Well that's just crazy right-wing hate radio talk, man! /sarc

^^ left-wing degeneracy for all to see. popcorn

Infact his goal is to alienate readers like the commenter above by writing in the old literary style. We are so accustomed to modern non-fiction following Malcolm Gladwell like structure for 10 year olds that we've lost the art of appreciating the meandering, scattershot expression of ideas in a literary style. In short, his filtering works.

This is what I get too. I've read all his books except the technical one (Dynamic Hedging) and this conclusion of 'nonsense' about a pretty clearly written paragraph is baffling. I too read the paragraph and came to the conclusion you did. Maybe the above commenter has a hard-on for bullet points and power point presentations but Taleb has repeatedly said that he writes essays for pleasurable consumption and not business books (regardless of how the publisher markets them).

Exactly. I'm astounded that this basic fact - that financial modelers have been using the wrong distribution for decades IS NOT BEING DENOUNCED. For example, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) which assumes that returns fall on a normal distribution.

Why this attitude? Simply because it's 'insulting'? Is it true? Should you not be far more concerned if it's true? That lots of scientists are misusing statistical tools? What does it say about you that you are posting angry vitriolic comments online because someone called out scientists misusing statistical tools but that you are not as alarmed that such a thing could be happening?