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Re:Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL on Sunday November 04, 2018 @06:24PM (#18378617)
This article matches my experience exactly. Some companies will hire a “data scientist” on pedigree. They will be low on skills and high on charisma. The engineers are burdened with implementing the ideas as well as shoulder the failure of the algorithms. “You spent the last few months implementing algorithms and none worked?”. Very little blame will go to the data scientist. In tons of cases data scientists are more like product managers.
Re:Heredity Beyond the Gene on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:24PM (#16548267)
Dogs are to breeds as humans are to race.
Re:Ask HN: What would you do if your income was taken care of? on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:39AM (#15849983)
Yes! Protein folding could unlock huge areas of human progress
Re:The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:54AM (#15738279)
I think this might come off as negative to some, but I feel the exact same way. Very successful for my age, and I can easily date women. I am constantly let down by how low quality they are. They might be physically attractive, but beyond that I feel like I am jumping from poor relationship prospect to poor relationship for eternity.
Re:America's Growing Gap in Digital Job Skills on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:45AM (#15738255)
This isn't even close to being true. All the top innovation happens here. The top 25% in American schools blow away the rest of the world, we just have a lagging bottom 25%.
Re:Silicon Valley has turned into the place it hates the most on Thursday November 16, 2017 @10:35AM (#15713451)
You think software developers are commoditized? In what way? Just curious
Re:This Is How Amazon Could Invade the Pharmacy Business on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:15AM (#15651309)
But then it would turn into a slow government entity, all the talent will leave, and our economy would lose a great innovator.
Re:Zimbabwean Bitcoin Price Soars to $12,400 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:02PM (#15627987)
The price is skyrocketing...
Re:Zimbabwean Bitcoin Price Soars to $12,400 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @11:01PM (#15627984)
But this isn't true at all, bitcoin is skyrocketing
Weird part is, if you get into a hedge fund it's not that hard to make that much, even for engineers.
Hey, I'm a very good mid level engineer looking for part time contract work. If you're interested let me know. I have a dual bachelors in math/cs and extensive backend/big data experience. I can code in other domains though