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   by crdb 12y ago

   I'm a French citizen living in Singapore after Sydney (in one of the companies you quote). I think you get a lot of things right there, and they apply to other countries as well. Where I disagree: - Australia is a much bigger market th
2. 602.▲
   by crdb 12y ago

   But can you reliably judge the character of people who are incentivized to deceive you? In my experience, most people are happy to keep their options open, and most people discount volatility pretty hard when forced to make their life choic
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   by crdb 12y ago

   This would be a valid reason: http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html I agree with you that whilst familiarity with a rare, powerful language might be a signal of quality, lack of familiarity with rare languages does not imply the
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   by crdb 12y ago

   We hired a team of 10 Haskellers in 3 months with over 100 people doing our application task. It's really not hard to find developers, the market (at least for Haskell work) has plenty of supply and little demand. So, "learning Er
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   by crdb 12y ago

   We switched to Redshift for our data warehouse because it was MUCH cheaper, declarative, allowed us to retain the relational model, and abstracted away most of the admin. Very happy so far. ~5,000 tables, 7-10TB all maintained by one guy in
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   by crdb 12y ago

   The elephant in the room here is immigration. I built a data science team in Singapore for a two year old company, and out of the 6 people here, we have 5 nationalities (FR, UK, US, DE x 2, VN). All the visas were approved in a day or two.
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   by crdb 12y ago

   But how would you have determined what projects were worth funding?
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   by crdb 12y ago

   The main difference with academia is that as a private company, you can choose your source of investment. As an academic...
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   by crdb 12y ago

   Yes! And a point that often gets missed out in this argument is that the value of the job to new and current staff changes as the organisation grows in headcount and complexity. It's easy to hire great programmers with plenty of experi
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    by crdb 12y ago

    Many ad networks and affiliates have their own tracker. You can package them all inside a tag manager, they add up quickly.
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    by crdb 12y ago

    We're hiring for the following positions, in decreasing order of experience. All positions are based in Singapore, remote is usually fine (half the team is remote). Zalora is an online fashion retailer with 1-2m customers operating in