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chanmad29 | 4 years ago | on: How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?

Only Netflix content is worse than their algorithms. I've completely stopped surfing the platform and stick to my own watchlist or search for specific movies based on the recommendation lists out there.

chanmad29 | 4 years ago | on: Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away

sounds a lot like how HR works- both as a front and on the inside.

chanmad29 | 4 years ago | on: Work Hard and Don't Burn Bridges

I want to do this but somehow it feels that leaving is never amicable unless you bend over backwards to please the employer (ex: delay last date).

chanmad29 | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft is moving on from Calibri as the default Office font

In what way do you mean, is Calibri better? I am no designer, just curious.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Prince Philip has died

You're right. Meghan appears to have been treated worse than PC. My understanding is that there is an overall negative image of PC, but he does not constant coverage, so that helps his case I guess.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Food waste responsible for 10% of global emissions?

Don't want to be trolling but if there is anything naive about your stance, it is the diet switch.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Prince Philip has died

Deserved or not, the coverage he gets has been a balancing act to all the generally sympathetic coverage that Diana gets.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: I hope work from home continues

unsolicited advice- please pertain work to a desk/ one place of the house, and not spread it to the entire house. This can help restrict resentment to that one spot and not your entire place.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Robinhood and other 'low cost' brokers still quietly screwing over their users

I think while Robinhood has benefited more users by giving them a cheaper way to access stock markets, users still feel betrayed, everytime such news gets out, especially after GME. This perhaps could have been averted easily if Robinhood clarified their mechanism. But in reality, their modus operandi has been to work with the big hedge funds and brokers.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Yelp is planning a comeback with reservations and pickup tools

As a consumer, it has served me well to explore every new city by checking out top rated eateries on yelp. I hope they sort their business out with restaurants. Their relationship should be pretty symbiotic.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: As a CEO, my executive assistant saves 60% of my time

That sure is not going into any job description for EA. This CEO either lucked out or this poor EA is overworking 10x.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best data science bootcamps?

I have not attended any bootcamps myself but r/datascience and other similar forums seem to indicate that bootcamps are useless. Especially with your PhD, I think an overview course like the one offered by Andrew Ng will get you upto speed. You can add others like AWS certification, Tableau etc.. based on your needs/jobs you're applying to.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?

spouse faced the same with facebook- reached out earlier but had another offer then. Reached out later but ghosted.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?

finally someone said it out loud. It is so hard to even get a call if you do not go through a referral. Hard to say it is a google problem as the pool they can access is one of the biggest in the world.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google still a cool place to work?

interesting counterpoint, but from what I see on forums, candidates who want to get into Google are very deep into leetcode prep, so I am expecting there is a good chance for them to get in.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: You probably don’t need A/B testing

Very interesting analogy but not a good equivalence IMO. Soil and rotation are pretty standard in that the best permutations are already known, unless you want to experiment something new. Websites do not have such known standards- a crappy looking amazon website works better than most UI experts would suggest.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Chuck Schumer wants to replace every gas car in America with an electric vehicle

did I miss a NY reference in the article?

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Study links adaptive cruise control to increased crash risk

It makes sense when you put it that way. Still beats me how there isn't a regulation on this. Manually over-speeding vs being able to let my car drive itself at 100mph does not make sense.

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Study links adaptive cruise control to increased crash risk

Isn't speed limit set into the "adaptive" part of cruising?

chanmad29 | 5 years ago | on: Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (2019)

To me, Google seems like a company completely run by engineers, and perhaps these techies in their silos compete so much, that they do want to "integrate" their stuff with broader teams. Like say, Waze team does not want it's features integrated into GMaps. How else is there so little order? A complete opposite of Apple it seems.