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by crdb 11y ago
For our last 2 clients (with both, offering a "data team as a service"): the reporting tools were written in Haskell, using Servant [1] which got started trying to do the same at Zalora to set up a customer service management tool
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Because angel investing is a numbers game, and extending funding beyond those who traditionally have access to it has always been YC's edge (whether or not they saw it as such). You can fund 1,000 companies for 30k and if one becomes U
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by crdb 11y ago
Related anecdote: I had "computer science" classes in middle school in France. They consisted of typing classes. I still remember sheets of "QSDF JKLM" or whatever it was that had to be typed x times before moving on to
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The modern way to get untraceable money (according to [1]) is to set up (legitimate) small companies, then wildly overcharge the government for services. Looks like your standard government incompetence and passing cash to well connected fr
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Yes indeed and too young to live through that amazing era of aeronautics, starting with Kelly Johnson's Shooting Star (I think I read in his bio that he was literally standing in the cockpit, canopy off, during tests), when people usin
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Amazing! How did it compare with what you had been flying until then? Did you fly any other jets since?
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Just on the cost overrun part, this source [1] disagrees: > The TSR-2 project was considered to be a Conservative 'prestige project' by the Labour Party, one of the major causes of the UK's economic difficulties. This was
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Amazing! I might actually get to see a Lightning fly in real life then... I had given up on the idea.
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I would caution against extrapolating from your experience. You must have been living in a good district with a decent school (and if you've been in France for any period of time you'll know that fighting for the right school is a
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I would caution against reading too much in departures of Rocket managers. First, Rocket managers come and go all the time. In my first two years at one of the Asian Rocket companies (I own no Rocket stock today and am not affiliated with a
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Great article, great photos. No mention of airworthy Cold War jets is complete without Thunder City [1] which until a crash in 2009 flew the last English Electric Lightnings [2] in the world. The Lightning is a fascinating aircraft for two
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Don't forget commodity futures limits [1]. I remember in 2011 when cotton was limit up for days in a row, with the market opening the next day and locking up immediately (and options showing a "synthetic" price much higher).
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Yeah, I discussed that incident as well. They are quite quiet about their security efforts for obvious reasons (you don't want to give criminals hints on how to get away with it) but beyond the obvious dissuasive factor of drivers&#x27
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I can't speak specifically about Uber (not sure what is fair to disclose or not) and definitely not about Rocket. However, I can speculate on what I learnt from both. It's not (or not "just") about "communication me
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I wish it was the case (wouldn't that be convenient for my reputation) but it was a more standard culture fit problem, they didn't think we'd work well together. Specifically, the job involved a lot of cross-office coordinati
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> Uber seems like a company run by pricks I recently interviewed with Uber in Asia, spoke to a half dozen people there right up to the head of the region and many Americans who have been with the company for years, and I did not get the
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> Snitching is encouraged as the patriotic duty of every citizen This is true of most countries, differing only by degree. A state has two choices for internal security: a small professional force that reacts quickly to flagged problems
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That's quite an aggressive stance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_instructor#/media/File:D...
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Physical commodities trading is still ripe with issues at least at some of the ags majors (if you don't know who runs this industry, pick up Merchants of Grain - not much has changed). For example, as recently as about 5 years ago (whe
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I read it somewhat differently. From my limited interaction with Chinese citizen as a resident of Singapore, many think more pragmatically. "We do what it takes to get a billion people to first world middle class standard of living. Ye
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> Certainly not rural children Funnily enough, having worked for a while on projects in rural Maharashtra, the children are the path to information for those villages - they're the ones who can read and write and know the prices and
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This is true of ALL arts and endeavours more generally: that it takes years of first hand experience to be able to appreciate the last stretch of 80/20 (i.e. the last 20% that takes 80% of the effort to achieve). On top of this, there
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Quick Google gives me: > Ayn Rand's key point: "man does not live in a lifeboat -- in a world in which he must kill innocent men to survive." > She also observes: "Under a dictatorship -- under force -- there is no
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Thanks for these! Very interesting: "... they offered to set up a payment plan to reimburse the money he had spent on the restaurant." Which goes to show - it's a bad idea to do anything before terms have been put down on p
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I think there are a large number of people who have read both books and who keep quiet about it especially in more left-leaning company, due to the rapid reflex-like negative emotional reactions generated by Ayn Rand. This both for self-pre
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Seems like an expensive lawsuit was an issue: June 2015: "If you add another $18,000 a month in legal fees ... we just can't absorb it on our own." October 2015: "We're still working with the other party to wrap up
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Tip for travellers to Sydney: after I complained about a trip costing $35 from the airport to Botany (could have been more, but I realised he was going the long ways early enough), one of my UberX drivers pointed out that the trick is to or
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My experience hiring and working with Haskell developers - and those trying to get up to speed - is that one cannot just "learn Haskell in 2 months" as you might say, pick up Ruby after you already have significant Python, Java an
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Don't forget that bug count is actually a KPI. More specifically, you end up with JIRA ticket inflation: you get exponentially more tickets generated with time, but the value of each ticket decreases in proportion. The CEO of the busin
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AFAIK it was +20% every time at least. He did quit the first one because it was too corporate and he couldn't get anything done. I also would expect employers to get wary, but they are so desperate he always has multiple standing offer

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