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If you also add the line count for the additional tests needed to check the behavior of passing not what you expected, then I'm not sure it will be more.

This is so sad.

So there is hope for you :) You care, you will learn it. There is nothing wrong in not knowing something.

My main point is that too many people in data science don't care at all. They don't care about the repeatable results, about the code quality, even about units (they can even use `mb`, `Mb` and `MB` for megabytes in the same document).

I hope companies will learn that it's really important that if you have code it should be a good quality code, not a randomly gathered set of lines.

The code written by a couple of "data scientists" I was working with is the worst code I have ever seen. They don't care, they just want to have an experimental results. The problem starts when their experimental "code" needs to be used on production or they are asked to describe how it works. Why cannot we just get good programmers and train them as data scientists?

A friend of mine told me that in his company people write ETLs, send them to an external service for processing, and get that back - this is what they call "doing data science" :)

I'm looking for remote work only (family issues). I'd love to work in European hours. However, US companies pay 30-50% more. This way I don't even send any applications to the European ones.

I'm not sure if you would consider me above medium (however during the last 16 years I learned a lot). The people I know who are much above medium have jobs. They don't look too much for them and are old enough to forget about traveling for work (house, dogs, kids, school).

I noticed that you only post about on-site positions. I'm too old for ad-hoc moving to another country. I don't speak German enough to do shopping. I could work for you but only remotely.

If you would consider remote employees, I'm sure you would get much more interesting applications. But then there is the problem from the first paragraph: if someone is looking for a remote position and some companies pay more, it's rather obvious that they will get most of the most interesting applications. The rest will go to those paying less.

So to get all the privacy changes I will need to buy a new phone, as my current Samsung has 3 years now, so it won't get any updates. What a funny world.

Opera was great years ago. Now it's just another chrome clone.

Well, that's possible that you're right.

I think they just don't understand almost anything.

I have a real problem with the economists. Take four professors of economics into a room and ask a simple question. A question like "is this a good thing for X to implement Y", like "is this good for the Great Britain to exit the EU" or "is this a good thing to increase taxes for the rich".

Just ask - you will get at least 5 different answers to every question. Those answers will usually exclude each other.

So now me: I listen to those professors and who's right? I'm sure some of them are not. Some of them are simply saying the truth, some are lying.

And now take just one professor - ask him/her something - you will get answers. How should I know that they are right? I simply cannot. I simply don't believe them.

It makes sense. If your car is covered with rust, you should be almost sure that no one will even try to steal it. :)

There is missing just one point: prepare that in 2019 most of the things will be different, the rest will be obsolete.

It seems like you read something else then.

I'm just saying that the situation is sad. So there were people who built a playground. And then there were people who found bugs in the design or the implementation. The sad situation is that people will make heroes only from those who found bugs. They even want to pay for that. And for the work of those who built that? Seems like they will be forgotten, or blamed for the bugs.

I'd rather see both groups treated the same way.

> Finding exploits, and paying for exploits isn't a bad thing.

I agree. What is bad is paying only for the exploits, totally forgetting about all the people who worked on building the code.

Just imagine that you are paying for building a house. But you will pay only for the problems that will be found. I think that in a couple of months you will get buildings full of problems, and then the builders will find them, and get payed. This will be quite terrible.

I understood. That was just my thought about the whole situation where you can earn on finding bugs, not on writing reliable software.

This makes me sad. People working on open source projects get nothing. Sometimes they get some money. Sometimes they get some fame. People who don't build anything, but find a hole, they are heroes, they get prizes, they are worshiped.

If there is a commonly used open source library without hackable bugs, you won't even hear about the author who committed his/her own time to build reliable software.

If someone finds a bug, then she will get some prize, and will be invited to a conference. And the library author will be publicly bashed as an idiot.

Sometimes open source people don't even get mentions.

I was working on a patch for a huge open source project once. I spent hours on that. Two other people helped me, they also spent some significant time on that. And we managed to implement this. Who was mentioned in the release changelog? The person who committed that. Then I stopped spending my precious time on such things like giving someone the credits for my work. I love programming, I work on my own projects instead.

And all that makes me sad.

And the next thing would be... let's think... block all gmail accounts for people who use adblock?

thanks

> "Most of your friends aren't".

Yea, I think that's what I wanted to write. And drinking is the best way to get a promotion, knowledge and skills don't matter if you drink with the boss.

Thanks.

Just don't care about the career. Be happy. Rethink if you can be with this woman you cannot trust anymore. Life is much more than just a nice job.

Life is short, so work on things that matter.

People you love can be gone tomorrow.

You too - so prepare for that.

You don't make friends at job, you will be fired as soon as they notice you have some family problems influencing your work. There will be no talking, no asking anything... and then your "friends" will silently agree with everything the manager does.

Read more - it really helps with anything you will do.

Write more - get a pen and a notebook, not a computer.

People will disagree with the brightest and most true thing you will write - just don't care as soon as what you wrote is true.

Yea... what was the Bloch's explanation for not having operator overloading in Java? I think it was something like "it's not allowed because I've seen too many programmers who did that in a wrong way" :)

On the other hand this explanation is stupid, as a programmer can implement `add()` in a wrong way.

In my case I didn't want to manage people. I was looking for some technical roles like architect. I like talking about programming. What I don't like is just hanging out after work, and spending hours on boring chat, and that's how you get promotions in the companies I worked for. Including the technical positions. So as a result the architects and all technical stuff was made of extroverts who new quite little about the technical work. After some time it turned out that they knew quite little about any work. This is not the biggest problem. The biggest one was that they didn't seem to want to learn anything. Normal programmers were getting more and more unhappy, but the higher management was extremely happy watching how the managers can sell themselves.

And now an anecdote: a super-high-boss asked once "how much time would you need for that"... we, normal programmers, answered that about 12 to 14 months. Two days later he came back and said happily "I have sold it to the HQ, they agreed to give us the project, I told them that in 6 months it will be ready". We felt betrayed, powerless and sad... the management was extremely happy. Just guess who was told to spend weekends at work to save the managers' bonuses. The project was not delivered in that time, but I think it's quite obvious.

It looked liked this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mokllJ_Sz_g.

So my conclusion, based on my experience, is: introverts are seldom promoted, the biggest chance of promotion has a stupid mediocre person who walks after the boss replying how super he is.

This is of course just my observation. I hope I was just unlucky.

As for now, I just don't care about my promotion, I want to make interesting things, and get paid enough on time.

I'm an introvert. I've been working on it, now I can talk with people... however I find it terribly boring, and exhausting. I like to work on my own, talk about technical things, and get back to working on alone. It's a huge problem for my management promotion.

Over the last 16 years of my work I've noticed that the people who are being promoted are mostly (not all of course) the mediocre ones, who like to talk and make good impression (however hardly making any good work - they are just selling this as good). But they make good impression of how great they are (unfortunately they use lies to proof that, but seems like nobody cares).

A couple of jobs ago the whole management was made by the guys who were petting the boss, and were going out to pub with him. I wasn't. I hate crowded places, and insincere people. When the boss was lying about my work in my half year review, no one from the management said anything. When I was fired because of that - they were afraid of saying anything. They were talking with me that it's not fair, not with the boss. And frankly, I'm really grateful for firing me.

Now I'm still an introvert, however I have wife and kids, and I have to be more open. However only to them.

I'm working remotely as a consultant, so I have no real chances of any leadership promotion. Working remotely is great for people like me. No promotion it not. However the job pays my bills, which is also quite important.

So overall: it's harder, seems like people care more about the impression, not the employee real work.

No, these are not full results. There are just 10 example games published. Where is the rest?

> The chess version beat a leading conventional chess program 28 wins, 0 losses, and 72 draws.

In a not equal fight, and the results are still not published. I'm not claiming that AlphaZero wouldn't win, but that test was pure garbage.

Could you start making websites which are readable? Jumping icons, moving background, flickering colors, gray letters on colorful backgrounds - all that makes me hard to read... so I'm sorry, I'm not going to read that.

Or rather: block all EU users because you want to sell the users' data without informing them about it?

I'm sure they are, so asking this question is useless... I won't believe the answer.

Remote possibility, salary range, the future manager/team_leader name (or better: a link to online identity), recruiter contact information, responsibilities, expected work time per week.