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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   It's weird, according to the FT they only want the capital to finance share buybacks. So, basically, they want to prop up their share price.
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   Absolutely no chance Revolut lists in London. They're super globally-focused and the founder wouldn't take the loss. Starling bank on the other hand, is a great prospect. It's still founder-controlled, UK-focused, and would b
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   If you're gunning for a job why would you want to represent your comp as lower?
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   I think Amazon already tried this and it had surprisingly racist results
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   At the risk of sounding relentlessly skeptical - surely by training the code on GitHub data you're not actually creating an AI to solve problems, but creating an extremely obfuscated database of coding puzzle solutions?
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   But it's like marketing though. You're productive for 50% of the time, but you can't know which 50%. Scheduling one's self 4-day work weeks seems great in theory but you can't force the flow state to happen
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   I feel this. I am automatically suspicious of anyone who has to drop the number of hours they worked a certain day, or frequently flexes that they are still working at a late hour. Why do you need us to know?
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   Agreed. I'm not a big fan but the Coffescript docs do this beautifully. https://coffeescript.org/#overview
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   by jakey_bakey 5y ago

   The hard part is knowing what things you need to remember
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    Feels like a lament on Steam sales, the most extreme example of only paying the first price.
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    I wish I had the stones to call my company Waifu Labs
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    This is part of the game. Embrace it; the vast majority of jobs produce no real-world value but few pay as well as SWE. At least you aren't part of a democracy-destroying behemoth.
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    But it doesn't need to be a bot - lots of companies have conversational interfaces that aren't robots. Edit: Or maybe they're just really good chatbots!
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    I've not got through the majority, but I consider the up-to-date list on Teach Yourself Computer Science as the best one that currently exists: https://teachyourselfcs.com/ The top 2 recommendations - based on return t
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    Even Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor says you're fine to YOLO 10% of your net worth in speculative high-risk assets.
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    Playing devils advocate here, Magic Leap has managed to burn through $3.5 billion and has made no achievements of note - instead of solving the two primary optics challenges of AR, they allocated their capital to make blacks look slightly b
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    by jakey_bakey 5y ago

    Reminds me of the Silicon Valley episode where the stunt driver miscalculated and Dinesh and Gilfoyle had to decide whether to tell him: "Let Jeff die" Strengths - One less billionaire in the world Weaknesses - Possibility of bein