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by mathattack 13y ago
It's not the $165K/year that motivates folks, it's the managing directors who make multiple millions and don't work nearly so many hours.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Speaking of what many consider classic investment banking, or Mergers & Acquisitions: - Senior People (Managing Directors and Senior VPs) meet with clients during the day, figure out what to pitch, and what deals need to be done. - Mid-
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by mathattack 13y ago
In an internship it's all about the face time of proving you can work hard enough to survive an associate position or 2 year analyst stint. The competition is amplified because firms don't want to hire someone who got rejected fr
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by mathattack 13y ago
Marketing self help by knocking the industry?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Impressive. Sometimes you have to keep your eyes open so that you don't miss success when you are busy doing other things. There are many online stories, so I'll give one old school urban legend - P&G soap started to float ba
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by mathattack 13y ago
I had a client in the telecom industry some years ago who had a project that was re-writing built in scroll bar technology because a few of the execs didn't like the scroll bars available in Windows. Needless to say the project was yea
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by mathattack 13y ago
As you had alluded references (and professional reputation) is the single biggest predictor of success. This is why resumes tossed over the transom to companies is such an inefficient process. 2nd to references is looking at real work prod
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Single BlackBerry World Developer Accounts For A Third Of Entire App Lib(techcrunch.com)
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Tumblr Says Data Corruption, Not A Hack, Responsible For Strange Posts(techcrunch.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
Very good point. It's not the language, it's how you market what you're doing with it. What would be interesting in this survey is slicing it by industry and years of experience. Do Python programmers in Financial Services
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by mathattack 13y ago
He lost weight, but his body fat % went up. D'oh! Seems like a lot of water loss. And losing 3% of your dry (muscle) mass seems worrying, especially since he got enough protein. Perhaps these measurements aren't very specific?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Couldn't you argue that Scheme is on the safer side of the spectrum? (Or maybe it's just how I was taught Scheme)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I wonder if they bought it with instant delivery in mind. I assume someone in HN should have insight into how integrated their back ends are.
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by mathattack 13y ago
The issue isn't about planning. It's, "Holy Sh*t, the baby just pooped 3 times in an hour, and I have 1 diaper to hold me until tomorrow" When that last diaper goes, instant service is at a premium.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Seems like there are an awful lot of programming tools, restaurants, and delivery. The programming tools I get - these are hackers developing for hackers. Is delivery a wave because of Amazon and others trying to provide convenience, or i
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by mathattack 13y ago
When you really need something, there is a premium for shipping within hours. Whether it's diapers or a six pack of beer, speed matters. This is a huge pivot from Amazon, which was previously won on price and size of catalogue. Note
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by mathattack 13y ago
Interesting in that I was thinking in terms of Python versus C++, but it's also true in real world languages. One could argue that the precision of Latin helped preserve the message of Christianity through the ages, though I am not an
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by mathattack 13y ago
"I would like to be able to enable even more restrictive subsets of languages and restrict programmers even more because we make mistakes constantly." I like this very much. For all the talk of power in languages, we make
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by mathattack 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate... I admit there are diminishing returns, but would they really be negative? Let's say the first hour is 100% productive, the 2nd is 60%. Perhaps the third is 30% and the 4th 20%? But would they rea
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by mathattack 13y ago
True. It's not all large companies. Maybe it's more accurate to say Google does because it can. It would be interesting to see if any of their recent VIP hires had similar headaches, or if this is just junior employees. As I sai
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by mathattack 13y ago
The irony of all this conversation is that the people I know at Google are some of the sharpest, most well adjusted people that I know. It's almost like they got in and thrived despite the recruiting process. None of them are the typ
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by mathattack 13y ago
They're much too busy to do that. In fact they've recently shrunk the amount of interviews per candidate to free up time. The issue you're describing sounds like a recruiter that doesn't understand the subject that the
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Young children trust kindness over expertise(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
Two thoughts: 1) Larger companies get away with inefficient recruiting because they can. If the same company abuses you twice, and you go back a third time, what's that say about you? It certainly goes a long way to explain why they
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5 myths about Big Data(washingtonpost.com)
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by mathattack 13y ago
"1) Communication breakdown. Multiple offices in multiple locations and no one knows what other people are working on, how much progress they have made and how what they are doing fits into the overall scheme of company goals. 2) Produ
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by mathattack 13y ago
This is a topic I've been getting very interested in lately. The correlation between music and math/technology success is high. I used to think it was that "disciplined people who like to be inside do both". Now I thin
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by mathattack 13y ago
Some of us nerds thought staying inside was more fun. Why waste all that time playing basketball when you could get ahead in the chemistry lab?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Well let's not get too out of hand here... :-)
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by mathattack 13y ago
There is a US equivalent for this, right? I've read stories of a small subset of American teachers earning more selling their teaching materials than they do from the classrooms themselves. Seems like a good way to leverage "roc

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