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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Ideally no and traditionally it wasn't. VC was originally intended for big, high-risk, high-reward technical ideas like semiconductors (Intel, Nvidia), widespread software e.g. Google, medical devices, biotech, etc. In general, taking
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
The VC model requires continuous unicorns with clean exits in a sea of misses to be able to hit the typical 30% IRR they promise to pension funds, endowments, Bill Gates and Co, etc. Lifestyle businesses are actively avoided for this reason
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Part of what makes cryptocurrency so alluring is its (current) Wild West, little to no rules, nature. Those very things will scare aware the masses until things stabilize at which point we return to the current state of things perhaps with
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
I consider it a fair trade. I hand over my contacts and you tell me with high-confidence who the other person on the other end is.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
It's for this reason I consider being an investor a much stronger position than a founder and orders of magnitude better than an early employee. As an investor, you have information that only you are founders are privy to. You can cont
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
The B2 is based out of Whiteman AFB near Warrensburg, MO so roughly 25 miles or 40 km south of where the plane is so it is probably on its final approach to land or just took off.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
When I worked for a finance adjacent firm, not even a firm that handled money, my compliance policy was super strict even by industry standards and I was a lowly Sr. SWE. The reasoning I was given was to not never even provide a hint of im
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
us-east-1 is a cursed region. It's old, full of one-off patches to work and tends to be the first big region released to.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
The status page is as much a political tool as a technical one. Giving your service a non-green state makes your entire management chain responsible. You don't want to be one that upsets some VPs advancement plans.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
There is no such thing as "no-blame" analysis. Even in the best organizations with the best effort to avoid it, there is always a subconscious "this person did it". It doesn't help that these incidents serve as conv
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Former AWSser. I can totally believe that happened and continues to happen in some teams. Officially, it's not supposed to be done that way. Some AWS managers and engineers bring their corporate cultural baggage with them when they joi
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Late 90s Camrys, Corollas, Accords and similar. The most advanced electronics are the entertainment system, anti-lock brakes and ignition system. Not a CAN bus in sight.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Case-in-point, there are more than a few non-software engineering firms where the entire business is a series of mind-boggling amalgamations of Excel and VBA with a healthy dose of Matlab on the side. I'm talking full applications writ
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Is there a reason h264 wasn't used? It has been widely available since at least 2006 and supports all kinds of resolutions, etc.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Cheating is like crime. A criminal needs to be right every time to not be caught but enforcement only needs to be right once. Even if you let once instance fall through the cracks, it's very unlikely it's an isolated instance.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
The proctors are random, poorly trained, people being paid near minimum wage in the American South that probably turnover every few weeks. I can't expect a high degree of judgment.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
That's what I said. A younger, more aggressive me would have just filed a small-claims case and let their legal department figure it out. I worked with her to try to get it escalated and at least get the test fees refunded or compensat
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Yeah. I had to remove everything from the test taking room including furniture and a desk lamp.
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Of course it can be used to catch cheaters. The bar is just so low that ANY suspicion is cause for sounding the alarm. In my SO's case, they told her wearing a sleeveless shirt was "inappropriate" during an online exam and
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
ProctorU is a mandatory trojan that ETS (among others) require. It's also poorly built to the point where it changes random Windows settings, takes over all kinds of management features, requires full admin access on a personal compute
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
Most of the advantages cryptocurrency fall into one two categories. 1. Speed improvements over the legacy infrastructure e.g. instant transfers without a middleman. Itself, mostly a problem just in the USA. 2. Bypassing various internationa
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by mountainofdeath 5y ago
What you describe is mostly a political decision that effectively subsidizes the mutual fund, broker and financial planning markets and the broader equities (and to a lesser extent, fixed income market) to the benefit of...you guessed...peo
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by mountainofdeath 6y ago
Exactly. There is a small dev outfit in my second-tier US city that caters to precisely this market and is doing quite well considering many restaurants added this to their website or replaced their website outright. They assume their custo
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
Related question: How can I assess my level of knowledge? I am also a Senior SWE at a large, famous company with an Electrical and Computer Engineering background, so I had a substantial amount of overlap with the typical CS curriculum with
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
There was a point in time (roughly 2015-2016 timeframe when dynamic programming interview questions were really in vogue. Every interview loop from smallish startup to leviathan corporation felt like it had at least one.
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
Indeed they are doing exactly that. I get a notification when the driver is a few stops away from me along with a map. They also take a picture of the package where they left it and it is all visible from the Amazon app.
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
Not profits but debt. With the ultra-low interest rates of the last ten years, companies could finance bonds at rates just above inflation. However, instead of using those funds to grow the business (e.g. R&D), they simple bought back s
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
Basically. It's a filter that proves someone who worked there is smart and hardworking. It also explains their virtually universal requirement for an Ivy league (or similar) background.
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
I can confirm this as well and my experience was circa 2009. The two cases where a) parent(s) or other close family were researchers or b) Non-researcher parent leveraged network to get some menial job (washing dishes) and in exchange they
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by mountainofdeath 7y ago
Not only that, I remember reading that something like 1/3 of the US federal government's receivables are student loans. A mass default or forgiveness program would dramatically lower the governments ability to pay other obligation

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