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by praulv 9y ago
Exactly as my sentiment below. I would try targeting this to non-tech freelancers e.g. healthcare professionals, writers, environmental/civil engineers.
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Ask HN: Tech support/test career re-training for my 60 year old parent
2 points by praulv 9y ago|0 comments
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by praulv 9y ago
If you're into exercise and working out, try going OUT (shopping, cafe, people mingling, malls) in the 2-3 hours right after a workout. Your energy levels are raised, you're a lot more vocal, relaxed and "open" along wit
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by praulv 9y ago
Most serious freelancers will have accountants who provide (very crude) software portals which handle the company revenue stream tied to the business bank account. This allows each transaction to be reckoned against ongoing projects, raise
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by praulv 9y ago
Finally, some common sense and a realistic response.
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by praulv 9y ago
Complete nonsense. Plus note the intersection between FPGA dev and ML is likely to be practically zero and equally useless at quant firms unless you're in an AI firm building ML on chip. Far easier to go from FPGA to ML than the other
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by praulv 9y ago
I think you're slightly confused at the distinctions between prop shops, hedge funds, asset managers, and model driven quant desks at investment banks. Having worked at at least 3 of these, I can tell you again: On the sell side, it&#x
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by praulv 9y ago
Counter view: I only work in the field because it's the only way in tech to pay rent where I live. I actually hate it, it's of zero value to society and frankly the trading/business side are real assholes under pressure
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by praulv 9y ago
Yes, one of the most painful aspects of Python 2 to 3 migration.
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by praulv 9y ago
I love this, it's brilliant and solves most of the inventory concerns. If anyone knows of the business development team I'd be interested in the challenges they faced trying to scale this out.
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by praulv 9y ago
We're ignoring this for now because once we can prove a realtime synchronised searchable inventory MVP, you can solve the shipping problem separately. It's also a separate problem on the logistics front as you don't have a ce
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by praulv 9y ago
The best Youtube playlists I've found for quickly absorbing fundamental concepts in C++ are: https://www.youtube.com/user/BoQianTheProgrammer/playlists I can't recommend these highly enough. Before divin
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Ask HN: Why has no one created an “Amazon” driven by local businesses?
21 points by praulv 9y ago|25 comments
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by praulv 9y ago
For someone having never ordered from alibaba or aliexpres - other than briefly fleeting with drone spare parts - what exactly of use and purpose would you buy from there? I can see large scale uses for industrial machinery / commoditi
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by praulv 9y ago
>>It's not unheard of for top quant programmers to pull down 8-figures annually. This is complete nonsense. What is your source? In the current environment, max low 7 figures will be heads of quant research or senior directors.
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by praulv 9y ago
Except they're not the same products are they... often cheap imitations.
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by praulv 9y ago
I've always wondered why it's not possible to get insider info from purchasing depts on factory details so we're not simply paying for over inflated brands to line corporate pockets.
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by praulv 9y ago
On the flip side, taxation for a married couple is negligible.
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by praulv 9y ago
I used to be of the opinion that a company should have full right to drop dead weight as and when it chooses fit. The thing we forget is we, citizens, pay extortionate taxes to run a government which provides favourable incentives for compa
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Junk News and Bots During the German Parliamentary Election(comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk)
1 points by praulv 9y ago|0 comments
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by praulv 9y ago
Genuinely curious as to what the questions are like... "what is the default constructor for X library object" type?
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by praulv 9y ago
Let me guess, codility/hackerrank nonsense. No wonder you can't hire.
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by praulv 9y ago
I know, we even have a new pound coin down here that might trickle its way up through some petty change.
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by praulv 9y ago
To be clear, I meant UBS in London - I assume you're referring to UBS Zurich. It's quite common for Zurich offices to have a +20% cost of living adjustment vs London, so that figure equates about 80k GBP adjusted which is about in
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by praulv 9y ago
Out of interest, what makes you think UBS is above average? I interviewed there recently and the emphasis was "our benefits are remote working and life work balance" - which is HR speak for low salary (though I do appreciate both)
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by praulv 9y ago
That sounds simple enough but I don't think you've factored in the long term state this transition would converge to in terms of effect on the local population. Talent pull drives up prices, predictably displacing the local popula
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by praulv 9y ago
Sadly I fell for the various tricks described here and hastily booked a room on holiday recently. Having said that, my family of 4 adults with different credit cards made excellent use of their generous £15 referral reward kicking back both
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by praulv 9y ago
>> Tell people at interviews you left your last job because the environment was toxic. There's no shame in that. I would strongly advise against this, especially hinting any grievance "toxic, abusive" etc. Employers are
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by praulv 9y ago
Had a Dell 7537 (non XPS) and it is honestly the worst machine I have ever used, from physical reliability (broken hinges and parts) through to flat out non-functional components including numerous issues with Wifi. After falling for the lo
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Shopify CEO attempts to defend hosting of Breitbart store(Feb 2017)(techcrunch.com)
3 points by praulv 9y ago|1 comments

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