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by lmartel 13y ago
I believe Kickstarter requires more upfront for hardware projects (prototype, etc)
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by lmartel 13y ago
You're completely right, but while I'm not going to look these numbers up I'm very confident that the average investment banker works longer hours than the average software engineer; or even, yes, the average startup founder.
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by lmartel 13y ago
They aren't destitute, sure, but they really aren't paid that well either--judging from the other comments in this thread, a junior banker gets $150k for 100 hrs/wk of work. That's equivalent to making 60k at a 40 hrs&#x
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by lmartel 13y ago
You give them too much credit; check out twitter.com/GSElevator for typical banker humor. Bankers pride themselves on borderline-sociopathic cynicism mixed with arrogance and workaholism. It's not pretty.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing, it's really hard to get this much detail out of the analysts I know personally. (Because I never see them anymore, har har) Your last paragraphs made me wonder: where are you now? Did you leave finance entirel
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by lmartel 13y ago
It's hazing. They don't need to accomplish things, they just need to work hard. A banking intern acquaintance of mine recently bragged to me that he was up until 5am printing and binding things.
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by lmartel 13y ago
"It's fine that an intern spent so long at work that he died because he should have known what he was getting himself into"
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by lmartel 13y ago
At least in tech it's a choice, though; I know lots of techies who work 40 hours a week (and, you're right, lots who don't), but I don't know a single banker who doesn't pull this sort of crap. And I know a lot of b
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by lmartel 13y ago
There's a big difference in expectation though. Sure, you CAN put in 100 hour weeks at lots of companies, but at IBanks you're admired for it [and mocked/disrespected/sabotaged if you don't]. I have a lot of friends
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by lmartel 13y ago
Not bad. A few suggestions: 1. Explain in the posting why you need someone "atypical." Is that just an attention-grabber? If so, remove it and figure out a way to actually differentiate. 2. This sentence is off: > Working for a
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Stock Options 101(barrettsheridan.com)
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by lmartel 13y ago
TL;DR: trading Africa's third world problems for first world problems is a bad thing because targeted advertising.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Interview skill really has nothing to do with job performance (and I'm pretty good at interviews). It's a lot like standardized testing: "this metric is completely irrelevant but at least it's testable!"
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by lmartel 13y ago
I hit one of the buttons in the demo and sat waiting for a doc page to load. After 5 seconds or so I realized that I'm an idiot. I suppose that says good things about the bars, though; they really do signal "loading"...
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by lmartel 13y ago
I'll second this; Microsoft, for all the flak they get re: corporate culture, their products etc, have a great, smooth interview process.
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by lmartel 13y ago
Well the thing about art, music, and writing is that, at least until you make it big (which most people never do) you're doing it only on your own time, since no one's paying you. Software's in this weird spot where it has
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by lmartel 13y ago
Keep in mind that the OP is probably in a very different industry than you are; if you have enough expertise that your interests are things you can't work on independently (like quant or security?), you will likely be applying to a non
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by lmartel 13y ago
I agree, you're dead on with the point the author is actually making (there are other ways to learn / build a portfolio in one's free time than side projects) vs the point many commenters seem to want the author to be makin
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by lmartel 13y ago
A definite +1 for writing down the question. Regardless of your confidence in yourself, it just takes one inarticulate interviewer sending you off in the wrong direction and then marking you down as "couldn't solve the problem and
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by lmartel 13y ago
I feel like this is a cop-out. Indian culture is objectively worse than American culture, and this article is pretty solid evidence of this. "Traditional values" are no excuse for misogyny and barbarism. Tradition is close to th
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by lmartel 13y ago
In my opinion basic income is one of very few potentially workable fixes for the socioeconomic mess we've created, and in a few hundred years people will refuse to believe anyone ever argued against it.
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by lmartel 13y ago
This is definitely one of the coolest "Show HN"-style projects I've seen in a while. Great work!
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by lmartel 13y ago
You're probably right, but I at least appreciate that he didn't try to play it off as a joke or make excuses. That's pretty rare in internet apologies nowadays.
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by lmartel 13y ago
All I'm saying is that you should think about what's more likely--that people would rather get AIDS than work, or that work isn't always easy/possible to find.
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by lmartel 13y ago
The significance is (or should be) that he chose to use twitter instead of the newspaper or the Bloomberg terminals.
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by lmartel 13y ago
I think you meant prove the causation. I can prove they're correlated: they both happened! You're right that it's always good to be skeptical about extreme claims, but I think in this case it's pretty reasonable to assum
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by lmartel 13y ago
Your argument is that >[the people in the article] would quite literally rather die a slow painful death than work and support themselves And that argument is stupid. I don't care if you call yourself a conservative, people will cal
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by lmartel 13y ago
I responded with sarcasm because I'm sick of comments like the parent. Whenever anyone brings up the possibility of creating a proper safety net in the US, or if anyone just mentions that, hey, there are some people in our country livi
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by lmartel 13y ago
It's pretty hard to get VC funding if you're homeless. But I agree, why do they contract AIDS for food stamps when they could just found bootstrapped SaaS lifestyle businesses? The poor are so fucking lazy.
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by lmartel 13y ago
But exactly 0% of Minerva students will come from those quintiles if the tuition is 20k with no aid. Unless they take out loans, of course, but that puts them in a much worse position than if they attended a mainstream elite school, which a

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