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by sp527 10y ago
Those posters aren't for motivation. They're propaganda. You don't see the Soviet inspiration in bold type on a reddish background? EDIT: Lol this clearly made some people mad.
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by sp527 10y ago
Oh this is super easy. Take time off and work on something on the side too. I did this (still am) and am loving it! I'm also based back home with my parents so not burning through savings. Here's how it's all shaking out: (1)
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by sp527 10y ago
This. In fact, less active money sloshing around in the market should in theory create more opportunities for arbitrage.
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by sp527 10y ago
I've met the people who start as MBB consultants or bulge bracket bankers and then graduate Harvard/Wharton/Stanford MBA and finally land up in a VC job. No rational person would want them within 10 miles of their business. N
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by sp527 10y ago
Your example is a case of discrimination, but the economic rationale is unquestionable. There is a tremendous upfront cost for new employees, who are not valuable contributors for some lengthy ramp up period and furthermore accrue experienc
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by sp527 10y ago
I can totally see how that may be the case and I agree. Unfortunately I can't edit the original, but hopefully my intention was clear enough in the following sentences - that these feelings do arise but are not warranted on the basis o
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by sp527 10y ago
First sort out the emotional issues. Please please please seek help ASAP. If you work as an engineer at a Big 4 company, you have no business feeling even remotely inadequate. But know also that you're far from alone in how you feel. I
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by sp527 10y ago
It's not hard to see why in that moment the risk-reward would look good to a computer. It's not optimizing for individual trades but very much in the aggregate. So Brexit would look to any decent algo like a solid bet: the polls w
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by sp527 10y ago
> [Citation needed] Not if your name is James Altucher. boom headshot
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by sp527 10y ago
Why did the submission title change? It was the article title before and I didn't find that remotely controversial. Did FB PR get in touch or something?
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by sp527 10y ago
Awestruck is one thing, but I think you need to actually read the author's recounting of his own experience (which from sounds of it is furthermore many years in retrospective) to understand why I'm calling him out on it.
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by sp527 10y ago
I end up doing this because I'm either using Eclipse or Vim + YouCompleteMe. Every programmer should get their autocomplete story in order so we can all hop on the long variable name train :)
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by sp527 10y ago
The author's description of first encountering the statue is carelessly grandiose. Do people actually have these kinds of reactions to things that are so static and overt? In order to find nuance in something like that, you either need
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by sp527 10y ago
Reading some of these comments has reminded me just how much I no longer have to really think about in full-stack engineering, because it's been so successfully abstracted away. It's like reading an abridged version of the history
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by sp527 10y ago
I think Zuckerberg's success had more to do with being able to identify valuable contributors and convince them to join the Facebook team. He isn't responsible for generating many of the important features or business decisions, t
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by sp527 10y ago
> Of course you want a butcher to to have empathy for animals. This ensures they treat the animals humanely. What you don't want is for a butcher to be overcome by emotion every time they have to kill an animal. Do you have any idea
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by sp527 10y ago
All his examples of presumably 'good' architecture strike me as hideous and in many instances depressing. I'd take the McMansion over those hands down.
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by sp527 10y ago
"Sustained burst periods of traffic"
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by sp527 10y ago
I have about 3 years of industry experience, but it's been enough to teach me one very valuable lesson: don't transition entirely out of software engineering until you have some reasonable assurance of personal/financial secu
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by sp527 10y ago
> Assuming linear load – which we all know is never the case This is phrased in a confusing way. If we're talking about sustained burst periods of traffic, then you almost definitely expect a fairly smooth distribution of requests o
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by sp527 10y ago
Sorry I didn't offer additional clarity. Parallelism generally implies a task that can be split into smaller chunks, which are then processed more or less simultaneously. Concurrency, by contrast, refers to a situation in which multipl
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by sp527 10y ago
Parallelism and concurrency aren't the same thing. Normally I wouldn't nitpick something like that, but it seemed important to clarify that in the context of talking about very esoteric distributed system considerations.
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by sp527 10y ago
> I'd prefer not to attribute to malice what could as easily be coincidence. Speaking as a former employee of another tech monolith specializing in marketing ploys, I can tell you unequivocally that this is a naive position to take.
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by sp527 10y ago
That quote also begs the question: if that's the case, why didn't your acquisition efforts pan out?
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by sp527 10y ago
I'm a computer scientist and software engineer with experience at some of the largest companies whose businesses are about making people click on ads. I now work as an independent contractor and part time on my own startups. Give me a
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by sp527 10y ago
I'd be very curious to hear more about this. I've flirted on and off with note-taking on books for all the same reasons you mention, but I invariably feel guilty about progressing too slowly. In a weird way, I think this a quintes
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by sp527 10y ago
Where did you read that? Crunchbase is suggesting they've only had the one $77M round that they just raised (at least amongst large/recorded fundings). https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/upthere#/ent
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by sp527 10y ago
That is a tremendous amount of money relative to the market opportunity. Displacing existing providers is necessarily going to be crazy difficult. I would love to hear the VC insight on this one: why do they think Upthere will actually mana
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by sp527 10y ago
Context matters. Small startups will usually benefit a lot more from an engineer who can be flexible and create a lot of immediate value as opposed to an ML expert, at the outset. Large corporations are a different story of course.
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by sp527 10y ago
There is an astounding level of arrogance and developer elitism permeating the whole post. I think lojack with top upvoted answer captured most of my grievances. The only thing I would add is that as high quality (and progressively cheaper

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