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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Ah, but then you can't have a job that lets you live near nature. Even most remote jobs (which have lots of other downsides, like stalling out career progress) require decent proximity to a major city or airport, and high-speed interne
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Well the failure rate of the machines is super low, so experiencing nearly zero broken card machines would be about expected. The outcome of never experiencing a broken one certainly is rare, as you say, but it's nowhere near the ast
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Just as a total aside, sometimes the 'reply' link doesn't appear beneath a comment, especially if it is new. If you click on the permalink for that comment (the time next to the commenter's username), it will take you to
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
You cited the opinions of connections to backup your general feeling that taxi service is bad. Is it your opinion, or the consensus opinion of your connections, that 80% of the time the card reader is broken, or that the percentage of taxis
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I did not claim that you said it, not at all, and that's a definite misrepresentation of what I'm talking about. The comment in which it was said is here: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12191938 >.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I'm really at a loss as to seeing any reply to you that I've made that is insulting, silly, or ad hominem. In re-reading them all, I don't see that. The claims made in the thread were that something like 80% of taxis in Bosto
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The experience of 80% of credit card readers being defective is so statistically anomalous that the only reasonable thing to do if someone claims it is to disbelieve them. Unless they have hard evidence, you are perfectly justified to say,
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
The main thing I am looking for is privacy. I find that if I have access to private property big enough to take a short walk in nature, maybe a 10-20 minute walk, then my physical and cognitive health improves by huge amounts. When I lived
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
When living in Boston/Cambridge between 2008 and 2015, every apartment I lived in had serious noise issues, and it wasn't just being able to hear too much from neighboring apartments ... it was also hearing people blast music out
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
No, we won't call it a wash because it's only people like those in this thread, who gravitate towards contrarian arguments every single time something about Uber comes up, who are saying such egregious and hyperbolic false critici
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Boston taxis have always done a good job in getting my friends, family, coworkers, and myself where we needed to go, on time, and without issue or hassle. > But we're the "social engineering commenters" because we're
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
No, I wasn't kidding. My cab experiences in Boston, going back to 2008, well before any Uber competition can apply, have always been good -- perfectly normal with no serious complaints. I'm not saying the cab drivers poured me a g
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
My comments were only meant to apply to Boston. I fully agree that there can be some locations with consistently bad taxi service. Boston isn't such a place (nor are most cities in the US), but others could be.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
No, the taxi services (in Boston, anyway, which qualifies all of my comments) have an average-to-good reputation. Uber tries to steer opinion against it, but since people have perfectly fine experiences with taxis most of the time, that doe
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
No that's what knee-jerk Uber defenders are writing who refuse to grant taxis any credit for being good, useful services. These responses aren't reporting average case experiences with level headed analysis. They are just one-si
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It's not just me though. Dozens of friends, family members, classmates, and coworkers all described the same experiences I've had whenever the topic came up. The average-case taxi ride in Boston is quite good.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
If these are your experiences, then your experiences seem to be very different than the average case, especially the 50% non-functioning card reader experience. While I'm sorry that you have had such bad experiences, since your experie
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Given that I easily rode in a hundred taxis all over Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, and Chestnut Hill, it would be extremely statistically unlikely that I just happened to get only the far above average good experiences each time
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
More than one taxi is clean. Fewer than 80% of taxi card readers are broken. No one will believe your claim of being blacklisted unless you give proof, and taxi services have hardly been "smashed into the ground" by Uber. I contin
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Except they really don't and are a great service in tons of places.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I lived in Cambridge for eight years (moved last summer) and never experienced anything remotely like this. I lived on Prospect Street right near Central Sq, and frequently took taxis around the area. I called ahead to have taxis pick me up
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Or perhaps the study says that common sense is flawed in some way? If the study holds up to scrutiny (not saying it will) then updating to have new common sense is the whole point.
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
When I worked at a large quant asset manager as a quant analyst in Boston, I did not have a PhD and neither did any of the other analysts except maybe 1 or 2. It did seem you needed a PhD for portfolio management or higher, but not for quan
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
Haskell as a language is excellent for these tasks and when you are familiar with it, you can be even more rapidly productive than with Python, and much, much more than with R. The problem for me has not so much been any technical aspect of
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I don't think I would be a good match for bank culture or HFT, but if the work you describe is in a small-to-medium sized asset manager or hedge fund, then I would not mind, and would find it enjoyable. I worked at such a place a numbe
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I don't know why that throwaway account's comment below was removed ... it's ubiquitously well-known that the code quality inside of the Quartz/Athena/other spinoffs at other banks silo is utterly terrible, like don
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I worked remotely for Continuum before. As I mentioned in another comment, I think Continuum is a great place with amazing engineers, but my particular working style was not well-suited for the mixture of start-up environment and ad hoc con
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I actually worked at Continuum already. It's a great place with some of the best Python engineers you can possibly find. I found that the particular combination of start-up environment and consulting was not a good fit for me, and I su
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
I've tried applying at SIG in Philly in the past; I have all the things you mention on my resume (I worked previously at Continuum and also at a quant asset manager), but have not ever heard any kind of reply to my resume (not even a r
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by p4wnc6 10y ago
It is an ethical conviction for me, based on animal rights. I do not consider it a "choice" any more than a religion is a choice. In a sense they both are, but when making the choice you absolutely do have a reasonable expectation

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