kchoudhu

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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The difference being, of course, that the Falcon 9 Full Thrust hasn't actually left Earth orbit yet. Mark to market applies as much to space technology as it does to credit default swaps.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Just because they aren't running it for profit doesn't mean they don't have a bottom line. The additional effort to run a pledge drive is probably not worth the administrative overhead.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
After school field trip is where it's at. You'd be the most popular parent ever!
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Thanks for the reply! Finance (S&T) is what you want to be in, by the sounds of it.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how does one re-enter "polite society" after working for a porn company? (I'm not saying that working for a porn company is bad! Far from it. It just seems like it would be really difficult t
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
At banks I worked at, they did it once a year, HARD. Lots of loss of morale for two weeks after that...after which things stabilized again. During crises, it hit in waves. That was another kind of drawn out hell: people wondering "am I
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
This is actually fine by me: if you want to pay me to do nothing, that's fine -- I'll just look at it as conditional severance. As an employer, you should know that I'll be using the time to look for other jobs on my phone th
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The networking giants at least aren't planning on selling hardware for much longer: they want to become purveyors of SDN technology that runs on commodity OCP-style hardware. I am guessing they are part of these initiatives so that the
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I have extreme views about the existence of middle and back office personnel at banks as well. But that's another discussion for another day.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
120-140K base with a 60-70K bonus was about where the average was for tech programmers. This is barely competitive in NY during the good years -- it sure as heck doesn't fly in bad years. Quant technologists are a different beast.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The House is close and there's a large bloc of non-suicidal Republican congressmen who will vote against impeachment. Even if the motion makes it past the House, the Senate will be Democratic: there is no way it will allow the 2/3
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
And by the time they get their act together, Clinton will be in the White House. I can't see the House taking up impeachment proceedings any time soon, regardless of the outcome of the FBI investigation.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Bizarrely, I'd rate the one I worked at as best in class as far as tech management goes. To back this up, I can draw on the experiences of my friends and former colleagues across the Street, and a large number of hair-raising interview
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Or it could be experience speaking: I worked at one of these banks for a decade, and was distinctly unimpressed by the caliber of technology management.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Do it to the traders then, not the programmers. [edit] Saving 10K on a programmer, even multiplied over 1000 programmers isn't going to amount to a hill of beans in a crisis where the bank is at risk. My suspicion is that tech manageme
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Next phase of the SAS stretches north up to 125th street. Funding is in place, and tunneling is already happening, and the project should be done by 2019. Is that good enough for you?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I do LAX-DOH every couple of months. It's 16 hours each way, and regardless of class flown it is hell. Cut it down to five hours, and I'll gladly pay $5000 for a round trip ticket.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The name is something I don't necessarily want to associate with an airplane.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
My department's annual budget was in the 100MM+ region -- and this doesn't count surge resourcing used to deal with capricious requests from the feds. I have been asked about my dev and qa environments (and how they are firewalled
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
This place is an excellent example of an institution that thrives because of its patrons: people hung out here for no reason other than to shoot the shit and drink tea. The food was definitely nothing to write home about.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
If it's a computer in a bank and it touches risk, trading or treasury, it's fair game for the Fed auditor. So you tell me: what computer system of any import in a bank doesn't touch one of these three things?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Oh, what I said was coloured explicitly by my experiences working on regulatory development at Goldman. Everything was filtered through the lens of "What would the regulators say? And how do we tell the regulators what we're doi
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
>what really limits most financial institutions from embracing a lot more modern tech is their core systems of record AND the acceptance of said systems by their governing agencies. Let me put this even more bluntly: if your bank's
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I have an ansible script that ships all my zone files around. Functionally equivalent, I suppose.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Isn't this what CISPA was trying to provide a legal framework for?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Ran my VPN ansible script on a London-based VPS. I'm back to not working!
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Reddit is out -- my productivity is up, and I'm not happy about it.
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Nevada goes all passive for its pension fund(wsj.com)
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
For a good trader on a desk having a good year, yeah that's about average.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm from Bangladesh -- arranged marriages are still an option! (not really)

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