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by spinlock 11y ago
Goldman did _not_ rate the CDOs they sold.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'll admit that I'm out of the loop when it comes to slack but I've heard they don't support IRC. Seems too bad to me as IRC would make a great platform for all bots rather than just for on
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by spinlock 11y ago
Question: did Goldman have a fiduciary responsibility to it's clients to _not_ sell them securities that they wanted to buy? It's easy to blame the banks but don't forget that the people who were buying this crap were being p
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by spinlock 11y ago
GS cracks down hard on leaks. There's a fake Twitter account called GSElevator which pretends to be tweets of things over-heard in the elevator at Goldman Sachs. Goldman has since banned talking in elevators. They don't play.
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by spinlock 11y ago
That sucks. Oh well, looks like you'll need to go outside of the company. Just remember: don't badmouth your current company when you apply for jobs; just say that your ready for a new challenge. No matter how unbearable your posi
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by spinlock 11y ago
What's the performance of Elixir been like for you? We're looking into it because of the actor concuttrncy model which we think will be much more performant than our current ruby or clojure solutions.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Wow. Is there anyone ay the company you can talk to about changing teams? Someone who's your boss's peer that you like and trust? Tell them it isn't working out and ask if you can use them as a reference. You might be able to
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by spinlock 11y ago
They _said_ it would be 20 hours? That's crazy.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I don't really consider technical debt to be about things that make the code base harder to reason about (unreasonable?). That is an important architectural point but I think of it as orthogonal to technical debt. To me, technical debt
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by spinlock 11y ago
I'm with you except for wanting type errors. I like ducktyping and in coffeescript -- I know, I'm not cool -- you get the existential operator `?` which makes ducktyping really nice. I really think the problem with javascript real
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by spinlock 11y ago
I wrote a Space Invaders applet in Java back in 1997. It was multi-threaded.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Do you have pull cords on all of your lights or switches on the wall? Controlling lights, etc... via IP is a natural progression. Yeah, early adopters are weird but you're crazy if you think this is just a fad for control freaks.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I do think that's a different issue but I'm with you that the assumption that poor people will spend money on drugs or alcohol is pretty far off base. After all, aren't most people in the US forced into debt because of health
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by spinlock 11y ago
businesses would look at total operating costs. Taxes are increased but payroll is decreased. It's a win if you can structure it such that the savings in payroll are greater than the increase in tax.
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by spinlock 11y ago
This is a very good back of the envelope calculation. But, I think you need to take a similar look at the cost of social security, etc...
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by spinlock 11y ago
Do you pay the people you interview their hourly rate?
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by spinlock 11y ago
Not really. The lottery is split up among the winners. When there is a big pot, you get proportionally more people playing the lotto. So, the expected payout to one individual actually drops as the payout rises.
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by spinlock 11y ago
I was going to make a similar comment (i.e. lotteries are a tax on people who are bad at math) but I don't think that's entirely the case. My feeling is that it's more about desperation than calculation.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Sum had to change the name of its yellow pages application to nis because yellow pages is copy righted. You don't seem to be very well informed.
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by spinlock 11y ago
facebook may be a bad example. they named themselves after a generic directory that many colleges have been giving out for decades.
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by spinlock 11y ago
You can use github and get namespacing under the author. IMO, this could end npmjs of they don't fix the issue.
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by spinlock 11y ago
> So, founders, hire beyond your social circle. Look for engineers who have stayed at companies long enough to experience the long term impact of their decisions. This kind of crazy, out-side-of-the-box thinking is exactly why we need mo
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by spinlock 11y ago
That's why I think its weak. It's driven by fomo rather than going for what you want. Throwing out the first number let's you anchor the negotiation. It puts you in control.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Our brains are plastic. You took yours in one direction. Good on you.
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by spinlock 11y ago
It's a fair point. Never lie. Say I need $x to move.
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by spinlock 11y ago
That is none of their business and you should not feel bad about saying no.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Never "decline". I say I consider the entire compensation package because I realize they are a startup and need to sweeten their offer with stock because they don't have the revenue to pay a market rate. It's important t
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by spinlock 11y ago
How do you get business. Im thinking of consulting but I don't know where to start in selling myself.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Id love to see the people behind healthcare.gov tell Apple employees that they were moving too slow.
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by spinlock 11y ago
Of your tests break when refactoring, something is wrong. Probably, you're testing the implementation not the behavior.

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