sahhhm

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by sahhhm 9y ago
a lawyers public reputation is built through the day-to-day work. Not a programmers can put their body of work on public display
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by sahhhm 11y ago
Have worked with COBOL on a mainframe for a large bank in NYC for the past four years. A very stable and critical application, it's nice to work with a group of established and proven people who value a work life balance. A bit bummed
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by sahhhm 11y ago
It seems fairly common to the point that 401k vesting horizons are something that can be expected. Filtering on "Vesting" against the Bloomberg data, 2 of the top 10 have similar conditions (with MasterCard requiring 4 years inste
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by sahhhm 11y ago
NYC, living single, making a bit less than the "West Coast" salary specified. All percentages approximate, but pretty close. Breaking down the original amount provided by the company: 28.5% - Tax 3.5% - Pre-tax contributions for h
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ACM Awards 2014 Knuth Prize to Richard J. Lipton(acm.org)
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A selection of HBO programming coming to Prime Instant Video May 21st(amazon.com)
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by sahhhm 12y ago
Fair enough. My intention was to avoid attacking the original quotation while still maintaining the actual translation.
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by sahhhm 12y ago
Not to be pedantic, but the Rabassa translation reads: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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by sahhhm 14y ago
Instead of skipping coffee, buy a nice travel mug (that keeps your coffee hot) and brew from home before heading out. My travel mug keeps coffee made at 7.45 warm until around 9 before becoming undrinkable. In addition, you'll be able to ex
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by sahhhm 14y ago
The true talent problem I see is maybe 20% solved by offshore talent. I say that because with most of these monster systems, it seems the talent comes in understanding the system yes, but more importantly the business that the system is des
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by sahhhm 14y ago
So this is a problem I've been dealing with. Been working out of school for almost two years at a big financial firm, working on Mainframes. I would say I'm relatively lucky in terms of mainframe horror stories you hear, in terms of new sof