kchoudhu

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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   No cell phones on trading floors at Goldman, if I recall. Nothing stopping people from chatting on Whatsapp after hours though; plenty of stuff stays sensitive after the close of business.
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   There's a difference between "let's give women a leg up in an area they are underrepresented" and "let's stop treating women as chattel".
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   Men are first in line for the very generous government teat, and thus naturally less likely to work than women. To get anything done, women therefore have to work harder and are therefore, in aggregate, more productive than their male count
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   I think a recursive n-gate situation would be delightful. Someone should make this happen.
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   If you could n-gate every article as it's posted, that would be awesome.
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   Yeah, there is definitely a motivation gap between the genders brought on by relative government subsidies.
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   My wife teaches in a coed university in the region. Her female students are without fail more industrious than their male counterparts (who are generally guaranteed government sinecures). The women, many of who have children at home, are mo
8. 368.▲
   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   Incognito mode, and then google the article.
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   by kchoudhu 10y ago

   You must be fun at parties.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    If I recall, quite a few astronauts were killed on the way to the moon.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    Yes, but the house won't be just so if I rent it for a day or two. We ended up buying a house so that we can use it for eight weeks every year when we're back in the US so that we can feel like we're in a home for the durat
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I'm sure US citizens who have been trapped in Yemen for years without any assistance from their government will beg to differ. The USG's propensity to help its own citizens abroad is a function of local power politics and the abil
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I don't understand how you can run a financial exchange and not have break analysis running periodically (if not every transaction). How else are you going to catch mininteractions between complex systems on an on going basis? Apparent
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    It may be the year of taking "fit" interviews seriously.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    Life is way too short to spend time working for the abusive and the incompetent. I prefer to mark the organization as broken and move on to greener pastures.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I appreciate the appeal of Starship Troopers style leadership: "everybody drops, everybody fights" is wonderful for morale, but everyone needs to go read the book to see what needs to happen before it is organizationally feasible.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I'm not asking for Borg-style assimilation: I'm asking for basic management standards followed by all managers. Upper management's pervasive refusal to pay anything more than token lip service to this standardization makes 99
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    Acculturation takes time, which HR and upper management is pyschopathically unwilling to provide. They're too busy moving fast and breaking shit.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    You've got a chicken and egg problem here. The only way to train an engineer in this scheme is to have him manage people without having a clue, which necessarily implies breakage for the people working under him: definitionally a new p
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    That means investing in your employees, which is, if possible, even worse than MBA culture.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    But that results in MBA culture! ::nerd shudders:: It's a source of constant amazement to me that people who will drill incessantly on red-black trees won't put in a modicum of effort to learn even a little bit about the inherentl
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I think accessible technology journalism in non-traditional venues is worthy of note, if only to see how our products are perceived in the wider world.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I now have more respect for Teen Vogue than I do for The Guardian. What upside down world am I living in?
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    Snap employees got screwed. http://www.businessinsider.com/antonio-garcia-martinez-chaos...
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    We send our kids to college to expose them to a safe unstructured environment for the first time in their lives. That means this is where they learn to be adults and make mistakes. They will make occasional misjudgments in this context, and
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    Because Bridgewater is one of the most technologically advanced hedge funds in the world?
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    The issue has never been the backend systems at banks -- I've worked with that stuff starting from origination through securitization and on to secondary market trading. The problem is the customer abuse ("needs list") that i
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    What low rent CEO of a $70B company goes home in a taxi?
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    I saw that LPT on reddit a few months ago. Lifechanging.
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    by kchoudhu 10y ago

    No. Kids will be kids.