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racketracer | 1 year ago | on: Please stop the coding challenges

Pretty common artifact that take-home challenges are being more widespread now that the labor pool is oversupplied with tech talent looking for jobs. Companies need new ways to filter for candidates that are willing to do whatever it takes and work the hardest. The easiest way to do so is give them a "three hour" take-home assignment and see if they are willing to do it.

racketracer | 6 years ago | on: Working for someone vs. doing your own thing

Mine is 275/mo for Kaiser at a high deductible but still gives me the amount of coverage I basically used when I was employed (Physical + maybe one additional visit per year). Single person, 26, no kids.

racketracer | 6 years ago | on: Startup Growth and Venture Returns

Raising money in the bubble doesn’t do anything if you can’t liquidate from the company with good terms and you’re paid a startup founders salary right?

racketracer | 6 years ago | on: Startup Growth and Venture Returns

What exactly happens when there is a bubble in the private markets? And what happens when it crashes? Does it affect the public markets in anyway?

In other words, if I believe there's a huge bubble in the private valuations of unicorns likewise proven by companies like Wag or WeWork, will it A: Affect my 401K and mutual funds I have in Vanguard and B: Is there anything I can do to short it?

racketracer | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Quitting Big Tech, what is it like?

I quit my job at a growing unicorn startup this month. It was my third tech job in an IC role and after working for four years out of college I felt just like you did. Completely bored going into work each day but making so much money for my hourly work output it felt too trapped to quit.

But I did eventually because the decision to trade time for money felt worth it. I felt that if you don't give yourself a break to try something besides big tech work it's hard to do so again at a later point in your life with a mortgage, kids, etc...

Now I'm surfing every morning, running a lifestyle business (https://www.interviewquery.com), and hanging out with friends.

racketracer | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Practice data science interview questions in a newsletter

Interesting. Pretty standard concept and bloated market for software engineering that’s not too common in data science right now. There’s also not really a standardized data scientist curriculum at this point so it’d be interesting if the market is big enough for it to take off.

racketracer | 10 years ago | on: A Job Search Tool for Data Scientists in NYC

This is cool! I'm wondering how did you pull the data from glassdoor btw such as company rating and reviews? I don't think they have an API and they have some pretty rough anti scraping protections.

racketracer | 11 years ago | on: Predicting and Plotting Crime in Seattle

I think that a really cool feature, that I am not sure if it has been implemented or not, is a date package that can do a lot of splicing. If I wanted to know the exact day of the week, sunset time or dusk time, or isolate specific hours without tons of tedious work in Pandas. It would probably help out with normalizing population density such as downtown when not in the working hours but maybe on weekends.
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