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by bambataa 4y ago
I know that JPM are trying to compete with the likes of Citadel, so perhaps IBs are increasing their offers for new tech people.
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by bambataa 4y ago
You're right, that's the way to look at it. If you can be transactional, it's ok and maybe you can get away with a 10hr week. But it's still tiring to see code being merged and thinking "that's going to make X,
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by bambataa 4y ago
You can do that, yes, but it’s surprisingly tricky and stressful to manage. Bear in mind that most of the people there won’t actually realise that they’re low skill level. In fact, they probably think they’re high skill level because they’r
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by bambataa 4y ago
That’s a very good VP level UK salary, at least compared to JPM. However, I wouldn’t go back to an IB if I could avoid it. Fundamentally tech is just a cost centre and they have very top-down corporate cultures. Everything is intensely poli
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by bambataa 4y ago
Back when I had Facebook, I had a contact who posted quite a lot. Often quite interesting stuff so I would read it when his stuff appeared in my newsfeed. So Facebook just made his posts my... uh entire newsfeed. Like my newsfeed would just
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by bambataa 4y ago
There may not be as much Icecast stuff but internet radio is doing very well. Someone else has already mentioned nts.live (it has a huge range of stuff, more like a radio station) but other UK-based stations are balamii.com, supremefm.com a
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by bambataa 4y ago
I have a theory that many of these ludicrous spirals are caused by self-proclaimed “allies” taking on the mantle of others’ oppression and calling out behaviour that is actually fine. The original blog post behind this case (where the woman
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by bambataa 4y ago
Interesting that the OP liked Monzo so much. I have heard consistently bad things about their tech culture.
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by bambataa 4y ago
In the UK, recent tax rises to pay off some of the Covid debt were pretty openly designed to avoid asking older people to contribute. (Roughly, national insurance, paid by workers, went up rather than income tax. Only after opposition in Pa
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by bambataa 4y ago
That’s the problem the GP is describing though: it’s easier to get a promotion externally than internally. Their proposed solution wouldn’t really improve things but companies have got themselves into a really weird position when boomerangi
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by bambataa 4y ago
That raises an interesting question: what would be the declarative framework easiest to minimally reimplement? I’m thinking you could have a single file, jQuery-based, hand rolled version of some framework and get many of the benefits while
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by bambataa 4y ago
I was thinking about this the other day. In a React app I had state stored in a component and had to extract it out to a Context so it was accessible globally. Sometimes it’s frustrating to know what you need to do but have so much boring t
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by bambataa 4y ago
There is also the issue that big companies are usually watched more and have regulatory teams making sure they follow rules. I believe in the UK that small businesses are far worse for minimum wage violations.
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by bambataa 5y ago
Is there any example of a technologically superior and higher quality option winning over a cheap and simple one? (In media recording and replay, at least). This seems to happen again and again, with the cheap and simple option always winni
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by bambataa 5y ago
While we’re discussing datepickers, the new iOS one annoys me. When I have to put in my birthday, it defaults to the current date and wraps any value past that back to today. So I put in my day and month of birth, have it wrap back to today
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by bambataa 5y ago
> started prioritising news links It probably helped their short term metrics but it really seems like this decision was terrible in the long term. I and a lot of people I know began to disengage when Facebook mostly became people I didn
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by bambataa 5y ago
Because you can not only inspect the relevant values, but also the whole call stack to see how the erroneous value was generated. You can step through the program to see what path control followed and quickly work out what’s causing yous pr
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by bambataa 5y ago
You can get above £100k fairly easily by working in finance or even just a profitable PLC in London (eg I know of Sainsburys offering that several years ago albeit for an EM role). Even if you don’t like investment banking or hedge funds, h
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by bambataa 5y ago
Is that higher TC on offer from an American firm? I didn’t realise such numbers were accessible from the UK. Even FAANGs in the UK seem to top out around £200k for mid level.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I wonder if a lot of the original Buddhist cosmology was based on the experiences of meditators having what we now call psychotic episodes, which they would have seen as a glimpse of reality.
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by bambataa 5y ago
> I often tell myself I'm smart and that I deserve my very comfortable life, but I also have to wonder if something about my brain chemistry or environment makes me enjoy reading HN and coding all day, while others hate that. There’
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by bambataa 5y ago
This is why I am confused. It just seems so absurdly incompetent that I can’t quite believe it is all true. I realise that stupid things happen during war, but it’s only a few days in and surely this is the kind of thing they train and plan
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by bambataa 5y ago
That tweet has been shared a lot but is there any indication that any of it is true? And even if it is, doesn’t that just mean Russia will move from the quick strike strategy to a more bloody, full assault?
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by bambataa 5y ago
Are any of those listed qualifications valuable? I already know that Prince2 isn’t going to be the bulwark against an invasion.
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by bambataa 5y ago
The “kerb” in the UK is the step between the road surface and the bit the pedestrians walk on. More properly “kerbstone” I guess.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’ve been using Proton VPN with no major issues. Would be interesting to know what others here think of them.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’m a bit put out at paying £50 for Skyward Sword. I did get 50 hours of gameplay out of it, but it felt steep for how little effort they’d put into the port (it would have been great to have no loading as you fly between locations)
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by bambataa 5y ago
I loved Pokémon as a kid, but that was because I had the time to do the levelling up grind. Couldn’t imagine doing it now.
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by bambataa 5y ago
At the risk of sounding like someone who clearly doesn’t have the skills you’re talking about, what do you mean by “reading the room” here? Knowing when to push things, when to drop them, being trusted enough by management that they don’t b
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by bambataa 5y ago
Also keen to know this!

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