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Have you considered strategic/management consulting in the medical field. I know the big 4 will have specialists focusing on this - possibly related to the healthcare setup in your country - along with niche boutiques. I can't vouch for how much this would just involve powerpoint and Excel modelling bullshit in suits versus R analysis but I imagine data science skills would be extremely valuable. Also health policy if you are interested in the political side of things.

Tangential but it does irk me when these online streaming summary statistics algorithms come up in interviews. Most recently I had Welford's for online estimation of variance/std optimised for numerical stability. Great, fascinating stuff, there's FP representation issues but really is this necessary to quiz... mostly just the interviewer trying to show off how clever they are.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/standard_deviation/

So... in English... for us mere mortals with limited Linux kernel exposure... does this accelerate (or decelerates) the system clock or is it a mock patching for system time function calls?

I was about to fly off the handle until I realised your sarcasm.

TLDR: took out a loan to amass a large put position then tried to plummet the underlying stock price which gives him the right to sell once it's below the strike.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/04/21/alleged-borus...

So how is this different from Airflow, other than Windows compatibility and a lack of dashboard?

>>I started out learning programming using Python and gradually came to prefer strongly typed languages.

Python IS strongly typed. It is also dynamically typed.

Is it just me that is jaw-droppingly astounded at why this is getting any love at all as a concept? Really great execution and design, but I simply cannot get on board with the concept. It is literally specialised calendar alerts and has no USP whatsoever. I'm amazed people are actually suggesting they would pay for this service.

I honestly thought this was a parody app as a social experiment performance art to highlight social media behaviour. Sorry, love the design and execution, but product has zero intrinsic value.

Yes, certainly has a great reference of circuitry but absolutely not pedagogical. That dull grey hardbound cover shudders.

Not possible as zero mutual friends, unless second degrees are considered which based on all other suggestions is not the case and would naively scale factorially (?).

Thanks for reading my post and noting this. I'm not sure the reverse relation applies either as it would require the doctor to have my personal contact on her mobile which is absolutely not the case as this is a shared practice and I haven't been to her in years.

Thanks for your reply but I have no idea why this is the top voted reply as it does not consider my factors . As noted by others:

1) The doctor/practice does not have my latest mobile phone number as I have not been to them in years. Having said that, it may be an old number on which I used to use Facebook. This friend suggestion is only in the past few months, which suggests that they are mining friend circles in historic usage data - everyone you know, and ever knew. All that being said, this would require my doctor to have my personal mobile number on her personal mobile phone on which she would have used Facebook at some point in time, which is absolutely impossible in a professional setting.

2) I have not installed Facebook on my current phone.

I'm still not convinced by any argument here, beyond the doctor actively looking me up on Facebook personally outside work.

I've no doubt that tech is discriminatory - as a minority myself I've definitely experienced odd feedback at interviews "the team were impressed by your abilities but we've decided to proceed with someone else" etc. I just mean to compare rejecting degree-less candidates is not equivalent to discrimination against "non-fit" groups (gender, ethnic, sexuality minorities) as a degree is a technical qualification and not a protected characteristic.

Really, I've had an example of deriving (I didn't know what it was called at the time) Manacher's Palindromic substrings: http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/manachers-algorithm-linear-time...

So your ability in a pressured limited-time environment come up with an O(N) dynamic programming algorithm for a fictitious scenario is a testament to your ability as a software engineer versus a competitive programmer who can pattern match scenarios?

>>degree-less candidates, companies that filter out depressed candidates, companies that filter out transgender candidates, etc.

Sorry, these are completely different things and frankly sounds like nonsense.

Sadly the proliferation of sites like HackerRank (YC funded shamefully) means competitive programming is the first "filter" stage for interviews these days.

What is this? Just because it has Google in it you expect me to provide my credentials to sign-in without any description of what you are offering? Assuming this is a Google product, the product management genius behind this needs to be squarely told this is an extremely shoddy, ill-thought and frankly assuming landing page.

Probably a brilliant move for humanity. Most extreme right, KKK, nazi, Breitbart, Stormfront ilk trolls would boycott Twitter in protest, finally allowing some semblance of rational discussion on the platform.

Can I ask - why is it you always spell it as "AfriKan" in all your submissions? Is there a cultural awareness I am lacking?

I always appreciate a healthy dose of sarcasm, but I think you're missing the wider point about the great community we have in Python - not only in terms of the ecosystem, but also continuous guidance on best practice for common problems.

I think the question everyone is failing to ask is: what's the interview process like? Do they put you through 4 rounds of whiteboard coding bullshit followed by a coding assessment followed by a pair programming session? If anything, I'd argue the interview process for such a nice role should be the most rigorous because you can't rely on auto-complete-by-stackoverflow.

The cynical side of me interprets this as: you can leave if you don't like it.

As an aside, the greatest thing about Python is StackOverflow one-liner solutions to common problems. How do you find your developer productivity fares in Go? To take a simple example, I was experimenting with C++ and had the simple task of "reading in a CSV". This simple C++ task does not have a nicely formatted, pre-approved, community rubber-stamped, best practice 500 green ticks StackOverflow top accepted answer (sometimes by Core Python / prominent PyCon developers) that I can just copy and paste.

True, and on the flip side many employees don't factor this in when asking for salary raises and negotiations. A $20K bump is viewed as a fraction of your "fully loaded cost" as opposed to your base salary which you will be benchmarking against.

Relevant: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/snowflake-te...

Can you actually rationalise your argument a little further? Why on earth should your salary for a new role be benchmarked to your previous compensation? Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds? Ultimately, the market sets some value for a role - largely based on competitor analysis - and that is a fair value. Your previous pay is irrelevant.

Thanks for your insight... as an aside, I heard in Brazil it is possible to invest at a rate of government risk free rate of 15%... is this true?

Equally to blame is the industry hiring process. ACM HackerRank and Codility challenges are often the first stage before you're put through a whiteboard. As a result, a competent programmer has no incentive to actually continue training in best practice, rather optimise for the interview process. I flat out refuse to do any interviews with this silly competitive programming hoop jumping. As a manager, what is your hiring process?

Don't you feel the drive and thrust to create and innovate and contribute to society? You're on here so you can probably code. You probably are lucky enough to have a very deep understanding of your family business (supply chain dynamics etc). Let's say it's a restaurant. I'd be killing to learn every detail inside out, spending hours on the internet trying to figure out how others approach the problem, improve efficiency and possibly create a product specific to the industry.