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by pwnstigator 17y ago
It's not such a terrible question if the answer is run through a translator. "I work too hard" => ass-kisser. "I'm a perfectionist" => not aware of what "perfectionist" means. It's a crippling trait. "Chocolate cake" => self-in
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Most people in the working world have a negative opinion of "academia". On the other hand, this anti-intellectualism is more pronounced in crappy jobs, so it might be a good filtering mechanism. If your goal is to get any job, though, it's
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I was talking about B&M publishers, not bookstores. Bookstores will find a way to adapt, especially because the major publishing houses aren't going to die; they're going to be like IBM and Microsoft-- too big and important to disappear
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Digital publication is going to kill the B&M industry, at least as it exists now, anyway. The purpose served by the publishers, for the author, was to invest in a young, talented author's career. Publishing houses knew that they were lo
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Do you only have one potential buyer? Are you tied to one role-playing system? If so, that would be a problem. Support more role-playing systems and campaign types. If you have more than one potential buyer, and you want to get bought, then
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
If you're "always angry", you need to get out now. If you're occasionally angry or stressed (e.g. 5 to 10% of the time) that's normal. Every job has annoyances, but if you're constantly pissed off, you need to do something. My advice would
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Were you programming before that job, though? What I meant to say is that few people start programming in C. It's usually Java, Python, or Ruby these days. Scheme occasionally.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
No one starts out anymore in C, but it's still widely useful in a lot of domains. So most C programmers: * are multilingual, * have a fair amount of programming experience, and * have ostensible experience with a difficult language. Out of
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Also true, and more correct than my claim from a philosophy-of-science perspective. I am taking the science-as-process perspective.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
A third reason Garner didn’t mention is the increasing commercialization of science and medicine, which has spawned an army of researchers on the take from health product companies. Science is a method of discovering truth about the natur
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Of course, but bonus is based on P&L, and no one's going to give a 24-year-old enough trading freedom to run up the kind of profit that would justify an 8-figure bonus. Starting a hedge fund is different-- if you start a hedge fund, you
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think the latter's assumed to be better: you get lots of sex, and although you don't get many repeats, you get a lot of access. It'd suck once you fell in love, though. On the other hand, the former could be spun into a good situation. If
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Legacy code isn't always bad. All code becomes legacy code. Poor legacy code is a liability, and legacy code that leads to suboptimal technical situations (e.g. using C++ in 2009) is a pain.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Why would a developer be traveling frequently? Also, business travel sucks, especially if you're entry-level.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
It's a strong warning sign. Anything to the effect of "we want rockstar developers" suggests something unsaid-- that they consider most of the applicants that they get to be of low-quality, which says more about them and the mismatch betwee
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Accurate synopsis. Also, the work isn't very interesting from a technical perspective, although being surrounded by really smart people is nice. Most quant jobs, unfortunately, require C++, due to legacy code. Haskell seems to be making in-
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Nearly impossible. No financial firm is going to pay a 24-year-old that kind of salary, so it's only possible if he got it through bonus. Traders get bonuses based on P&L, usually around 10% if they're senior. Let's say 10%. Then he mad
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Other? What was the first one?
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Also, algorithmic traders are, by far, the least scummy people on Wall Street. They're in it for the money, they work hard, and generally don't care in the least about power. The real assholes are the ones who are robbing people of their co
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The average investor is always paying a (minuscule) spread to trade. If the bid is 57.63 and the ask is 57.64, the "fair value" of the stock is held to be approximately 57.635, so you're losing 0.5 cents every time you trade. If the spread
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
You make a great point, and I think Lisp has enough fundamental value to deserve its place as the "100-year language". In 2060, people will still be using some descendant of Lisp. On the other hand, I think some aspects of CL are outmoded.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I could be wrong, but isn't this what 83b is for-- so you don't have to take the tax hit until you can actually sell your stake?
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The trader self-justification spiel is that traders provide liquidity; they tighten the spread, so you get a better price if you trade on the market. However, the actual effect of arbitrage is to make things that are already reasonably liqu
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I don't think there's more risk of "algos gone wild" than there is of manipulation and malevolence, as there has been forever. Software bugs combined with human error are a source of danger though, such as in the infamous Japanese trading d
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Common Lisp is very, very old. Tagbody and progv, anyone? It's an influential language, for sure, but I prefer Clojure for a number of reasons.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
How is this measured? I'm sure I have a tab open for that long, but I don't spend more than 5-10 minutes per week actually using it. 1/500 of humanity's time spent with an open browser tab of Facebook doesn't seem nearly as impressive.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
What about Clojure, circa now? Do you not consider it "production ready"? I've used both CL and Clojure. I'd prefer either over Blub, but Clojure wins in my opinion.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
What I'm curious about is if there will be any fake-out attempts. How hard is it to take a convincing picture of such a balloon in a cornfield (or even put one there) and claim phony coordinates?
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Do the inner functions get cleaned up after you exit the function body? I'm used to Lisps, where def/defun/define/defn imply internment. For example, in Clojure: (defn foo [list] (defn n-to-nth [n] (Math/pow n n)) (map n-to-nth
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The first employee is getting this percentage before most of the dilution, whereas the CEO is getting his grant after some dilution has happened. So you can't compare E#1's 1-2% to the second CEO's 5%, because these numbers are at different

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