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by fsk 13y ago
Also, cut your expenses, save 20%+ of salary, build up a 6-12 month emergency fund IN CASH or money market. Then, if you lose your job or need to take time off, you aren't totally screwed. Also, after-tax investments lets you fund pers
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by fsk 13y ago
>Also, the mature professional can't tell if your newfangled startup is good or bad. What? I can tell if an early stage startup is good or bad, by talking to the non-technical cofounders for a few minutes, just like a good programm
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by fsk 13y ago
One site has been continually spamming me with ads after I visited their site once. Now I click on their ads whenever I see them, just to cost them $1 (or whatever they're paying per click).
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by fsk 13y ago
The premise of the post is false. If a large limit order is resting on the books, that's an implied option for the HFTs. If you place a large bid at $10.00, the HFTs will buy at $10.01. If the market starts going down, they sell to y
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by fsk 13y ago
It's always misleading when a CEO has a "$1 salary", because of the options. Options are very valuable lottery tickets for the CEO of a public corporation; they can be valuable due to inflation or because the stock market as
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by fsk 13y ago
Set up a database (mysql or MS sql or whatever you use) and import the CSV. From there, use standard SQL queries to look for duplicates, missing, etc.
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by fsk 13y ago
Rule #1 - an emergency fund of 6-12 months living expenses, in checking or money market. (Putting more than this in cash is a bad idea, because the interest you earn doesn't keep pace with inflation.) Long-term savings should be in st
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by fsk 13y ago
Most of my lingering injuries are the result of an attempt to get exercise. I broke my pinky finger playing softball, and it never healed right. I hurt my knee learning to dance.
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by fsk 13y ago
I had problems getting shouted down or censored by trolls in forums. I wanted a place to write and collect my ideas without worrying about getting drowned out by others. Sometimes, you learn just by writing about something.
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by fsk 13y ago
Look for a new job. Your relationship with them can't be salvaged. Also, this is why you keep a 6-12 month emergency fund, in case you have to walk away or get fired.
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by fsk 13y ago
There's no way to know which axiom is "correct", because you can't actually build a physical infinite set.
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by fsk 13y ago
It's insulting for an experienced candidate who graduated with honors. The interview pre-screening test says that I'm not worth 15 minutes of your time on a phone screen to figure out if I'm competent or not. If my experien
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by fsk 13y ago
My domain registrar (namecheap) offers SSL certificates cheap. All you need is for your domain to show up with the little special icon in the browser when you use https. Other than that, it doesn't matter. Get the cheapest one that b
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by fsk 13y ago
The biggest problem with police cameras is they "malfunction" or "forgot to turn it on" whenever the camera shows evidence that the policeman did something wrong.
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by fsk 13y ago
If people give me a programming test or assignment before the interview, I usually pass now. I am currently employed and don't have time to waste on a stupid pre-interview screening test. It's also insulting.
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by fsk 13y ago
He can start hedging in the Sweet 16 (assuming only 1 perfect bracket exists), where he only has to bet $20k-$100k on each game.
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by fsk 13y ago
In an interview, Warren Buffet suggested that if someone was perfect at the Final Four, he'd offer to buy them out for the EV (or even half the EV). If you aren't already rich, you'd be an idiot to not take his offer. It pa
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by fsk 13y ago
Trying to buy each feed indvidually will set you back MORE than $20k. For example, you want stock feeds? Do you want the NASDAQ feed or the NYSE feed? What about the CDNs? And if you want the RAW feed you're also going to hire some
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by fsk 13y ago
First, Bloomberg's code base represents decades of cumulative institutional knowledge. That's both the downside (it looks 30 years old) and the upside (it's been thoroughly tested and users know what to expect). Second, for
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by fsk 13y ago
Even if it is a fake quote, the point it makes is true.
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by fsk 13y ago
The government spend huge amounts of money on the bottom 1% for special education. The same amount of money should be spent on the top 1%.
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by fsk 13y ago
I could never stand to watch her for more than 30 seconds, because she's so awful.
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by fsk 13y ago
Credentials and Education != talent and ability I'm judging Lady Gaga based on brief fragments of recent songs I heard. Of course she may be pulling a "Jay Leno", using talent to produce the mediocre garbage that the mainstr
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by fsk 13y ago
The formula is: 1. Create a new app that's a slight variation of something popular that already exists. 2. Hype it like crazy. 3. Find someone clueless to buy, either a large corporation or have an IPO. 4. Repeat with the next idea. It
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by fsk 13y ago
Microsoft is using node.js now? Maybe that's why Windows 8 was so awful.
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by fsk 13y ago
Why is it considered acceptable to just cut off contact after a phone interview or an onsite interview? If you get an onsite interview or phone interview, they should at least have the decency for a form letter "Thanks for applying, bu
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by fsk 13y ago
Just one data point: I replied to every NYC posting one month. I got zero on-site interviews. (I do get interviews when I send resumes via other methods.) I'm not wasting time responding again.
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by fsk 13y ago
If the business is incorporated (not sure if that applies to C corps or S-corp also), you have to hire a licensed accountant. You can't do it yourself, even if you can fill out the forms correctly. (and you still probably should check
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by fsk 13y ago
At my job, I asked what they were paying in rent. It came to around $500 per employee per month. For $1000 per employee, they could have private offices for everyone. So, if private offices are a 5-10% productivity boost, private offices
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by fsk 13y ago
At many large corporations, the contractor budget is a different line item than the employee budget. So, it's easier to allocate money temporarily for a contractor, than for an employee where it's considered a recurring expense.

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