As someone on the other side of this - applications sink to the bottom and often never receive a response when sent to places like jobs@, so LinkedIn is a way to at least get the attention of a real person.
I’d suggest calling out on your job posting that LinkedIn messages may be missed and the email is the correct place to reach out.
Merely anecdotal but my worst experiences over the last year have been with startupschool companies - not saying they’re all bad (maybe I’ve been meeting the statistical minority that aren’t great) but as a part of the community I really expected better
Depends on the use case but all physical resources are finite in some limit so you may want to distribute that load so the different domain processes can scale appropriately. When/where/how is dependent on the application you’re building.
We possibly have encountered graduate students with differing lifestyles, but a lot of the grad students I know in the natural sciences have grueling schedules between taking classes, TAing, and conducting research. The way these activities are structured may not correspond to a typical 9-5 but they’re still intense in their own right. To add onto this - attending conferences isn’t always on the universities dime, often it comes out of grants and other associated project costs that are allotted for your research. Maybe the university does foot the bill in other cases, but these are marginal costs when compared to the realizable value brought by graduate students in the form of monetizable knowledge and subsidized teaching costs. The latter point is at the crux of most tension between graduate students and university administrations, and there’s a large imbalance between the tangible value that grad students (and most academic researchers) bring to universities and the way that they’re compensated.
Would you happen to have any resources on how to treat floating point values?
I noticed some odd behaviour recently when using ruby to save to Postgres where the handoff between the two systems introduced imprecision in the saved value. Didn’t get to dig into it because it wasn’t a priority but it’s definitely an annoying unanswered question.