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by crdb 11y ago
Always slightly embarrassing to comment on these things as a civilian (what do I know)... nevertheless... It was worse than that - the failure of Eagle Claw was due precisely to Delta Force's operating with the help of standard branche
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by crdb 11y ago
Whilst Marcinko is no doubt a legend, reading Rogue Warrior should be mitigated by following it up by Gormly's "Combat Swimmer". Gormly inherited the unit after Marcinko had some issues with his chain of command (whether just
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by crdb 11y ago
I thought this was a better analysis, even if I disagree with parts of it: http://www.quora.com/Why-would-anyone-buy-a-Rolex-watch/answ... (I can't remember how to edit the Quora link to make it non-walled). &quot
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by crdb 11y ago
Skype is, in terms of performance, one of the worst apps (actually, currently, the worst) I have to deal with on a daily basis. I actually upgraded my slow, old but otherwise fine android to a Nexus 5 specifically so that Skype would open i
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by crdb 11y ago
I don't think it's particularly productive to nitpick on the origins of freedom; you can go back a long way, even to Hammurabi, but virtually all free first world countries today (except, perhaps, Switzerland?) derive their indivi
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by crdb 11y ago
Freedoms are not "inherent". If you put humans in a desert, the strongest will eventually rule the weakest, and people will be unequal before the law. You certainly won't get "freedom" under any definition I know of
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by crdb 11y ago
The way I read it from 6,000 miles away and little caring (after all I'm unlikely to ever go "back"), DSK had cleared the field of any decent competition and was going to take the election in a landslide. With enormous intern
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by crdb 11y ago
Well put it this way: you're 65, you've led a few companies but now sit on 10-15 corporate boards of multi-billion dollar companies in your spare time, flying around the world for the meetings, there's another 10 people like
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by crdb 11y ago
Almost none of the trading heads had an MBA. Even within the traditional management, few of the ex-consultants had one. And yet the business is one of the oldest ones in the world. The key is that the main requirement for moving up was the
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by crdb 11y ago
To be fair unskilled new grads - in any subject, from any university - aren't worth much. Even the banks basically take a bet on which 20 of the 200 of the intake will survive and absorb enough knowledge to produce value (basically a b
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by crdb 11y ago
I had 6 months experience (in tech, anyway) when I arrived and still made 7.5k. In fact, that offer was made 4 months earlier, so with 2 months "experience". I was saving about 50-60% of that. I think what salary you get can span
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by crdb 11y ago
I try to go to Hackerspace and the JFDI friday beers, I think that's where you find the mass. But yeah, not much participation, nowhere near US levels. The Big Data group has more people. These days I don't really get out of the h
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by crdb 11y ago
Get a castle! They're really cheap at the moment. They'll cost you about the same as a decent villa in a big city, involve a bit more driving and maintenance, but then you have a castle which can become your family home, with grou
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by crdb 11y ago
I don't know if it's the same for you Oxonians but my colleagues who headed for consulting/banking straight after graduation are often retraining to go into engineering, and many of the engineers are now heading towards consu
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by crdb 11y ago
It was a huge waste of the shareholders' money. It saved management's careers and allowed them to transition nicely. Gave board members the confidence to pretend they did their job. So, it depends for whom.
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by crdb 11y ago
Well, if you care about money, you find something you're both good at and that you enjoy doing, and you try and teach yourself delayed gratification. Real, freedom-giving amounts take years, probably a decade or thereabouts. So, optimi
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by crdb 11y ago
It's actually all pretty random. The relevant steps: - my European mother moved the family to London so we'd learn English, she looked up the best schools in the country and arranged an interview in each. I was good at music so th
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by crdb 11y ago
It's sleight of hand. Imagine presenting all the data in one go, in every slice possible, and answering every question the Board might actually have. And if they doubt your numbers, you give them a 500 page booklet in size 8 font and s
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by crdb 11y ago
Anecdotal evidence of course: It's mindless work, mostly. There's little creative work. And you're pumped up on adrenalin. I spent 2 months in consulting. Here's a sample. We slept on average 2-4 hours a night. We traded
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by crdb 11y ago
Upon further thought, this is the issue I have with similar posts as the OP's comment: Imagine you're an entrepreneur in Austin, TX. Every time you write a press release, post on HN or otherwise mention Austin, someone immediately
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by crdb 11y ago
At a previous company, we had no issue finding talent. 150 qualified applicants (i.e. passed the test, which was to design an inventory management system in Haskell) for ~10 positions, all foreign; the majority came from the US, Germany and
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by crdb 11y ago
Technically, you can't, in Little India, during certain times, because of the riots recently. Cold Storage also says they can't sell booze between 10.30pm and 7am for the same reason. I suspect this will eventually go away again.
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by crdb 11y ago
Yeah, it can go two ways. Either it goes the way of the Venetian Republic, where the wealthy in power start regulating away the possibility of moving up and begin the process of corrupting the state; or LKY has succeeded in changing the fun
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by crdb 11y ago
I take issue to his stereotypes, which are trotted out regularly upon the merest mention of the word Singapore. I mean, "hung for smoking a spliff", really? The chewing gum ban was an attempt at restricting the supply after kids g
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by crdb 11y ago
Seriously, you guys are getting tiring. If it's so important, Thailand's a 1 hour flight away, Malaysia a short bus ride, Indonesia a short ferry. By the way, when's the last time someone was hung for smoking a spliff? It&#x2
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by crdb 11y ago
Source: been here three years and counting... You forget that the EntrePass (the entrepreneur visa you speak of) requires investors/VCs from an approved list, all of which are Singaporean; and that even SEEDS funding requires a local i
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by crdb 11y ago
Giving extreme examples, wouldn't you agree that: 1. "Andrew Ng forming brand new GPU machine learning team in Bay Area for Baidu, apply at []" would rank way higher than 2. "I am a newly graduated MBA, I have a fantasti
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by crdb 11y ago
To be the devil's advocate: that the community recognizes you as high quality (even in an unrelated field) IS in itself a signal that the job might be higher quality than a random new user's. A kind of reference from a trusted sou
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by crdb 11y ago
Make stuff relevant to the places you want to work. It's both a signal of competence and of drive and caring about that place. For example, assuming a data science team in an e-commerce retailer is hiring a Python dev: crawl their site
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by crdb 11y ago
https://www.wfh.io/

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