My blog led to 3 major book publishers reaching out. I signed a deal with one earlier this year!
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I thought this was a direct response to my post.
We’d sift through maybe 200 applications, quickly reject most (i.e., do they have any top pubs in the area we are hiring for?). Most of them were wildly out of scope.
Pick 10 from the remaining 30 applicants that we think (a) are the best and (b) would potentially accept the offer.
We had several failed searches after many, many interviews.
Type inference has usability problems. https://austinhenley.com/blog/typeinference.html
Still going after 4 years.
I write about software engineering, academia, product design, and usability. About 3/4 of them generate notable discussion on HN.
https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Vaithilingam2023ICSE_IntelliCo...
Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-authors.
> The author is also engaging in manipulative data presentation techniques (such as presenting the cost of a graduate student for five years
I shared the yearly/monthly breakdown the sentence before that: "It includes their salary ($2200 a month), tuition ($15,000 a year), and benefits ($200 a month)."
I didn't post anything misleading or inaccurate. I included screenshots of my cumulative budget pages and included specific numbers to make examples more concrete. Not making any claim as to whether F&A is evil or not (it’s not).
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville (my former employer), 53%
- University of Michigan, 56%
- University of California, Berkeley, 57%
- University of Texas at Austin, 58.5%
- Harvard University, 69%
I once inspected a small subset of the software for a real-time system that regulated industrial machinery in a large factory. That stuff was intimidating. I can only imagine the complexity of seemingly simple gadgets that human lives depend on (e.g., power plants, avionics, medical equipment).