NumberCruncher

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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   Thanks to HN I discovered the homepage of Derek Sivers [1] and the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport [2]. He sais that a great job has to offer you great creativity, impact, and control over what you do and
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   Looks cool. May I ask you what stack did you use to build it?
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   Do you have a #Ialreadysupportedgreekstartupswithmytaxpaimentsgreetingsfromgermany badge as well?
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   I´m just a user and not a contributor (I don´t know the source code), but the project is following good webdev techniques * https://github.com/web2py/web2py/ * https://github.com/web2py/pydal
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   There are always more than two options: https://sivers.org/options
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   You folks are deep in the Group Trap. You should read more Harry Browne and think less about politics... Not because I say so but because it makes your life happier.
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   As an employee, you are paid for your time and not for your work. Your boss and co-workers seems to know that. If you were a contractor, not an employee, you could use your new knowledge in different ways to get paid for the time you invest
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   by NumberCruncher 11y ago

   As Dale Carnegie said: "Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's [financial] success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability t
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   by NumberCruncher 12y ago

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/147670869X/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=...
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    If I were you I would work 1-2 nights a week as a waiter. You can take it easy because you are not doing it for the money, can work together with your buddies which makes it more fun, can pick up some social skills you may lack and it makes
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    Of course you can start your own company. You could try like this: 1. sell your time: Work as an employee for a couple of years and get some real life experience. Yes, even in company politics. One could actually skip this stage, but hey, y
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    Dale Carnegie wrote: ... even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's [...] success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering-to personality and the abi
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    When someone asks you if you have made sexual comments about "forking someone’s repo" you say "No"!
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    Just relax! As one of my former bosses said: "All we do is just BI, we don't change the world and nobody is going to die if we f* it up." If it's really important to keep the deadline, you should be able to find help wit
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    Read the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" from Dale Carnegie.
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    What worked for me is findig someone who is not involved in your analysis but has an analytical background and understanding what you are working on, and asking him to prove that you are wrong. My experience is that the most analyst are hap
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    by NumberCruncher 12y ago

    If you search long enough, especially in times of big data, you will always find some statistically significant correlation. That´s why it is getting even more important to validate your model/hypothesis. In our case over time. A corre