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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Ready to have your mind blown? SV is not the only place where businesses exist. WeWork has 14 locations in the SF area and 44 locations in NYC. I work in one in NYC, and I bet only a handful of the businesses in the building are VC funded
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Half my business comes from other companies in the wework network. I also regularly contract out work to people in the network.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Insurance covers it most of the time. That's not typically the issue. Doctors themselves (not any of their employees) need to call the insurance company and get it approved. You know when you call your ISP and get put on hold for 30 mi
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Finance is a huge industry. I can't really speak to the average, but I was a buy side equities trader. Technical: All of us are well versed in excel and have working knowledge of SQL. Going from VBA to ruby/javascript was pretty t
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
That's me. I switched 3 years ago because I saw exactly this. I originally did it to gain more tech skills with the plan on going back into it, but I left and didn't go back. I took a bootcamp, and about 1/3 of my class were
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Sorry, I completely misinterpreted that as "taking coursework" is the opposite of "independent learning"
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
You're saying people who actively sought out continuing education and were willing to do a career transition are people who aren't willing to learn on their own? That's just silly.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
That's absolutely insane. I overloaded half my semesters and had a double major-double minor and didn't work anywhere near those hours. Maybe college has changed in the last 10 years, but I went to a very good school and had a dra
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Which plays directly into my comment about work vs school.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
> CS majors are also doing 2-4 internships which are by and large more formational experiences than a bootcamp This seems like a left turn from my comment. Nowhere did I say bootcamps are a replacement for formal education. I was compari
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
I would hope you answer if asked about it, but I don't see it as something to bring up unless directly asked about it. Maybe my experience is unique, but on the interviewee side of the table it has only come up once after being in the
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Some numbers: College: 30 weeks 40 hours per week 4 years = 4800 hours Work: 49 weeks 50 hours per week 2 years = 4900 hours And that's being generous at only a 50 hour work week, as well as be
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
There is also market saturation. My brother took the GA bootcamp in 2013, I took it in 2014. The outcomes were drastically different because their hiring partners/relationships couldn't keep up with their output. When he took it,
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
A bit of a rant since I worked in the industry: > CS graduates going into other fields [like finance] Finance is just like every other high-professional industry, they train you for what you need to know because they are invested in your
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
From my experience, boot camps are more frequently a supplement rather than a replacement to college education.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
My brother and I both took one. He's at Goldman Sachs, and I work for a company that builds medical software. I finished my course 3.5 years ago and 75% of my class are still working as developers. Major employers include Google, Conde
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
The article you link addresses 'couples'. This post addresses the specific subset of 'marriage'.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Yes, I'm in NYC. I was typically at work for the european and US market hours during earnings season. > I guess you were not in Europe EU labor laws don't actually prevent those hours, if that's what you're implying.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
I worked in finance for 6 years before switching to software. I worked almost 80 hours a week as a discretionary equities trader. I realized that it was starting to be eaten by the tech/data-driven styles, So I took up software so that
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
I've worked in finance in a finance capacity and tech in a technical capacity. There isn't much of a difference (at least in the sub-areas I've worked). Getting a job is different than holding it. My impression is that useles
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
I've always called my degree a $200k permission slip.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
I hate to be the bearer of reality, but... This kind of sentiment is exactly why more [conservatives] need to read more articles like [some other expose about being poor, but in the city instead]. If you've never lived that life, it&#x
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
150 years after the US civil war, the confederate flag is still flying around. I wouldn't be to hasty to call it eventual.
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
> There is nothing new under the sun. Go back to the tulips and many booms and busts after. Predicting bubbles is nothing new under the sun. I remember 10 years ago when craft beer was a bubble. I also remember 5 years ago when a buddy o
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
You're both in the business of making money. If buy and hold is more effective than trading, the trader is losing. Fairly relevant: https://www.aei.org/publication/warren-buffett-wins-1m-bet-m...
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
> I think you're putting the cart before the horse here. I'd argue that you are the one doing this. You're labeling something as what you'd like it to be and what it's intended to be, not what it is . > I
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
This is only true if the people buying it actually think of it and use it as a currency. I own some bitcoin and ether and have never used them as a currency. If its usage is not primarily as a currency, it isn't a currency. I struggle
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
> But this is not what happened. The plaintiffs were awarded different pay grades for measurably comparable ability. The article doesn't say that. It says they were awarded different pay grades given an equal time spent in the worfo
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
Resistance levels do exist in reality, but things don't bounce off whole numbers because "magic". They bounce becomes humans are human and place their bids and offers at those whole numbers. That being said, I'd be looki
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by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
It definitely propped up by illegal activity, but to say it's only for that is silly: http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a10... That's one of rich private pre-schools in NYC. Last I

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