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by haakonhr 4y ago
Not going to do the math here, but the magnitudes are quite important.. It seems like the worst years are around 20% worse than the S&P, but there are several years where their outperformance is more than 100%.
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by haakonhr 4y ago
I know how you feel. Today I had an unexpected day off and the default thinking mode is how to use this day efficiently. I decided against doing anything productive, but even then I try to make sure I read the "best" book (ideally
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Innocent until proven guilty, presumption of innocence and so on. The system is insane, but not for the reasons you seem to think. It is unfair to the poor.
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by haakonhr 4y ago
I've actually met a couple of people randomly on flights that worked as software developers until the dotcom bubble burst. They both said they couldn't find anything the following years so they changed careers: one became a carpen
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Strongly agree here. It is the only podcast where I more or less listen to every episode even if I don't find the topic or guest particularly intriguing at first glance.
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by haakonhr 4y ago
He actually links to the recent Maersk/IBM supply chain blockchain shutdown in the introduction, even though he mentions supply chains again later on
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How do you stay focused when you have to check online resources?
1 points by haakonhr 4y ago|0 comments
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Do they though? It depends on your definition of often I guess and it has definitely been happening more in recent years. I'm unable to find data, but in my experience I can only remember seeing this in sexy companies like Tesla where
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by haakonhr 4y ago
The writer isn't disputing that Tesla didn't exist before, but just pointing out the fact that issuing shares actually lead to increased valuations. The argument that it has to do with the fact that Tesla turned into something mor
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Today I Learned: The Rule of 72(haakonhr.gitlab.io)
2 points by haakonhr 4y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Abolishing Elections(bostonreview.net)
78 points by haakonhr 4y ago|223 comments
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Doesn't it exactly apply? They published profiles on their site and associated themselves closely with SBF until this week, when everything unraveled.
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by haakonhr 4y ago
How would one come up with such a rule in 1494 before logarithms were a thing?
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The Rule of 72(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by haakonhr 4y ago|1 comments
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Some Thoughts on the Economics of Programming(blog.ploeh.dk)
2 points by haakonhr 4y ago|0 comments
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Mostly dreading the next workday and postponing hard decisions I need to take. Mañana mañana.
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by haakonhr 4y ago
It would probably be a language with Python's ecosystem, a development experience like SLY provides for Common Lisp with the syntactic simplicity and elegance of Scheme/Racket that makes it so easy to create your own DSLs.
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Confronting Indifference Toward Truth: Dealing with Workplace Bullshit(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by haakonhr 4y ago|0 comments
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by haakonhr 4y ago
I don't think it is fair to compare with Europe. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as an example, got around 1b USD over the national budget. Stipends and loans to students are provided by another governmental body (L
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by haakonhr 4y ago
Jet Man by Duncan Campbell-Smith about Frank Whittle who invented the jet engine (in parallel with Hans von Ohain)
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How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change(newyorker.com)
21 points by haakonhr 4y ago|6 comments
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by haakonhr 5y ago
A good chance reflect. There are several: - A Conferedancy of Dunces, Peter O'Toole: tragic, hilarious and absurd - Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Taleb: this was my first exposure to a lot of biases and other interesting phenomena - The
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by haakonhr 5y ago
This is a very good reason. After a few years using emacs and at some point reading the introduction to elisp book (included in emacs), slowly building up my config I now write small snippets here. The fact that you can evaluate everything
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by haakonhr 5y ago
Hunter S. Thompson's letter is great: "But a man who procrastinates in his CHOOSING will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."
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by haakonhr 5y ago
Wow! More or less the three books I would've suggested in the same order. I would happily get some more suggestions until I encounter a book I haven't read (e-mail in bio)
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by haakonhr 5y ago
Shouldn't it be: πορταμπλε (since β actually is a "v" sound so μπ is used for our "b")
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Best Selling Vehicles in the US by State(visualcapitalist.com)
5 points by haakonhr 5y ago|0 comments
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by haakonhr 5y ago
I think this is key. I often struggle to communicate that estimating certain tasks essentially means starting them and that giving a proper estimate might require a day of work (or more), e.g. when getting familiar with a new API or working
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by haakonhr 5y ago
We do this sometimes and it is interesting to see how big the range can be. The motivated, new developer gives a 3 for reasons while the senior who's been burned by the big ball of mud too many times gives a 13 and the PO somehow think
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Jackson structured programming(en.wikipedia.org)
106 points by haakonhr 5y ago|69 comments

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