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by starkfist 16y ago
I dunno, that is how a lot of scientists I know interact with people. :/
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by starkfist 16y ago
Wars and defense contractor money comes out of a mysterious black pool of federal tax dollars. One can actually kinda measure how unionized county sheriffs making $600,000 a year in California are bankrupting the state.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Just a comment about where to live... If you work until midnight every night and you've got the dough, it's probably worth paying extra to live near work. Commuting from Queens to Wall Street would totally suck, especially if you're putting
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by starkfist 16y ago
I felt the same way and I moved (back) to NYC after 10 years in SF. The city has changed a bit. There are a lot of things to do outside the tech sector. However, I'm not sure I would say "art and literature and culture matter" as much as th
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by starkfist 16y ago
No idea. Personally, I hate DUMBO and find it very inconvenient (from elsewhere in Brooklyn), but I know maybe a dozen hacker types who live over there.
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by starkfist 16y ago
It makes NYC sound like a scene from Gossip Girl meets American Psycho. Wow, that comment really nailed it.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Considering they were born between 1901 and 1924, the Greatest Generation is mostly dead.
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by starkfist 16y ago
The greater "tech scene" (if you can call it that) in Brooklyn is in and around Dumbo and Downtown.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I also live over there and pay $1500 for a big place (by NYC standards) two people could easily split.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Interesting, I guess I wasn't aware that was question anyone cared about. Keeping in character with the 2nd greatest generation (X), I certainly don't.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Everyone in NYC besides bankers have been getting their apartments from craigslist since 1998. And, you can get a 500sq foot 1bdrm in battery park city for $1800.
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by starkfist 16y ago
He's right about a lot of things. The cafe scene in NYC isn't as good as the west coast. Apartments are very expensive. Debutantes from Bryn Mawr want to date successful traders. And the startup scene in SF/SV is slowly but surely turning i
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by starkfist 16y ago
"The Greatest Generation" refers to the parents of the baby boomers.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I looked into teaching math at a California community college and the pay was just under $2000 per course. A course was either 3 or 4 credits. $8K for 15 credit-hours worth of teaching in Indiana sounds about right. When my sister was an ad
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by starkfist 16y ago
I can't figure out his math, either. In his second example, if you put $4M in a bank account that gets 2%, and can still save $10K a year you'll have $7.6 mil in 30 years. If you can get 8% (which I think you can, all arguments to the contr
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by starkfist 16y ago
What are the key attributes that come across on video?
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by starkfist 16y ago
it's actually, for me, the most important part of the application while reviewing it. why?
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by starkfist 16y ago
Along with the "young" startuppy atmosphere and skillset is the commensurate payscale. It's cheaper than other cities and provinces to hire people, especially programmers. From everything I've read so far about the city, I think starting o
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by starkfist 16y ago
Can you name a single startup that failed because of their inability to scale? yeah - friendster.
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by starkfist 16y ago
It's a great marketing strategy for the second-opinion consultant, though. I actually have been in this exact position. I entered into an ill-concieved "startup" project with someone who I considered a friend. It was a specialized e-commer
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by starkfist 16y ago
I am in the same position. I lived like a pauper for 5 years, saving all my money. Then most of it got wiped out by a medical emergency. Now I just maximize my income and quality of life. I spend way more money than I used to, yet have also
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by starkfist 16y ago
I have nothing to add to this conversation. However, I have to say that the comments about having tabs open for years, or hundreds of tabs open at once, make me a bit nervous. Like when I use someone else's computer and they have thousands
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't know. People on HN talk about this dichotomy between the value producing Silicon Valley startups, and the valueless of activities like HFT stock trading. In my mind, in most cases, it's not so clear. I worked in Silicon Valley for 1
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by starkfist 16y ago
Thanks for the insight. I have an interview at one of the NYC prop shops, but it's for something more back office-y. Would it be a mistake to take this job, thinking I could move into something closer to the trading later? I've got mixed ad
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by starkfist 16y ago
If you're a good C++ programmer with a mathematics degree, what else do you need to know to get into work like this? Is it worth taking "MFE" style classes, like the ones offered at Baruch and NYU? Are the systems Windows or Unix? How much
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by starkfist 16y ago
If only I could turn back time...
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by starkfist 16y ago
I found this article interesting, and agree with many of his points, but I disagree with the premise, that there is anything wrong with the american university system. There are so many options and so much variety in higher education that y
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by starkfist 16y ago
I'm late to this. But in my experience you should start up your company while you can live with your parents. Don't bother with working for someone else's startup. Also, the 120-150 person mark is a really bad time. You have all the chaos a
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't think it is widely used by anyone in that context. The guy I know who said it was joking around.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I went to one of the small liberal arts schools the authors of the book favor. Many of them have a 3-2 arrangement with an engineering school. You take the more general science and math courses at the liberal arts school, then 2 years of en

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