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by t_mann 4y ago
hmm, I'd debate whether a purchase of something that can be bought in practically continuous increements has to be seen as "all-or-nothing". If you're buying a car, of course, you can only buy a full car or none. but whe
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by t_mann 5y ago
What are HN thoughts on other niches? Julia, OCaml eg?
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by t_mann 5y ago
Haha, memories. In my first internship I left a great impression by picking up a 4GL that was used for some backend stuff and nobody in the team knew (other than how to trigger pre-defined jobs through a UI). Built a few nice things with it
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by t_mann 5y ago
Nice! So is Clojure also used for the AI model and for training?
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by t_mann 5y ago
What exactly do you mean by low offer? I mean, my idea of a niche isn't something that is among the top most popular courses on every MOOC platform. What's a barrier to entry for people already in? You mean for switching employers
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by t_mann 5y ago
He doesn't really say what he's working on - what's Clojure typically used for? LISP-style programming does sound interesting.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Does anyone have confirmation for the old rumour that there is high demand for COBOL engineers because of legacy systems eg in banks? And how does one go about finding these opportunities? I remember once talking to a freelance engineer, he
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by t_mann 5y ago
So do you have issues taking fashion retailers seriously because major players act like "petulant middle schoolers" (your words)? Do you have problems taking pretty much every economic sector seriously because major players act in
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by t_mann 5y ago
Why is it crypto people are so gross? Sorry to shatter your illusions, that's not specific to crypto at all. Disney lawyers are far less child-friendly than the company's content, and so is pretty much every major corporation. J
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by t_mann 5y ago
If you are able to organize your teams around products that have clear revenue streams, even indirect work can be attributed to it That's pretty much what every finance department in every company on earth large enough to have one do
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by t_mann 5y ago
"A refund of the excess purchase will be made" Sounds like he will have made his intended 10k investment, there's no indication the system doesn't work as intended (even though it could work a lot better, obviously - t
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by t_mann 5y ago
Well, we gotta find some way to split it, we could use any metric though, true. We could pay everyone equally, or make it a lottery, or donate it to charity in the employees' names, or whatever you can think of. But we have to make a
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by t_mann 5y ago
Fractional reserve isn't how banking works: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/12/20/Mon...
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by t_mann 5y ago
And how were those perceived by employees? Genuinely just curious.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Yeah, everywhere that's close to sales it's usually possible to attribute revenue shares directly. But even in those organizations a lot of people will be doing work that can't be directly measured (IT, accounting,...), so ei
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by t_mann 5y ago
By 'paying off your mortgage' I obviously meant repaying the principal plus interest in full, not meeting your regular payments. It should go without saying that you shouldn't take out a mortgage where you can't afford t
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by t_mann 5y ago
How is that different? Somehow we have to measure what your individual contribution to the company's profits was, which, unless you work in sales maybe, is going to involve a lot of judgment.
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by t_mann 5y ago
Bonuses were not a symptom of the crisis, if you look at what products were at the heart of things like the Lehman Brothers collapse, who created, traded and sold them, and what incentives they had individually, you'll see that those b
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by t_mann 5y ago
He does mention it at the hiring stage.
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by t_mann 5y ago
You say that now, but once you actually are in such a position and you realize that you could pay off your college debt plus your mortgage in 2-3 years, things might change in your mind.
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by t_mann 5y ago
No matter which measures you choose, as soon as you tie financial incentives to them, people will find ways to pervert what they're supposed to measure. That observation is so general that there's even a name for it: https:/
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by t_mann 5y ago
6-7 figure bonuses for mid-20's, or the story of how we got a global financial crisis in '08. Seems to work wonders in tech too.
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by t_mann 5y ago
This advice is far too generic to be of much use to software engineers or any other specific profession, I'm afraid. The only probably useful hint is to not look old by using means of communication that peaked in popularity long time a
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by t_mann 5y ago
Small correction for the title (I know it's just copied from the source): it's the European Commission, not the entire EU. Saying that the EU joined would be like saying the USA joined after the White House does.
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by t_mann 5y ago
For those looking for more images like the one at the start of the article, the book linked there has a lot [0]. Also interesting to see the full armor. I was sure at first that those were ceremonial, but apparently they were actually being
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by t_mann 5y ago
That's the classical argument pro phages. It's probably not easy to pick a clearly better one, @yyyk seems to have more insight than I do, but I did read an article pointing out that research on bacteriophages in the west only rea
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by t_mann 5y ago
There are significant "snowballing" effects wrt to technology adoption, more widely adopted technologies tend to improve far more quickly. So a little bit of noise in the early days about the true potential of a technology could c
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by t_mann 5y ago
The space pen vs pencil story is a classic example of a story that catches on because it sounds great, except that it isn't really true when you look more closely. Another classic is the historic tulip bubble, which was far more contai
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by t_mann 5y ago
Outside of the Hungarian oil subculture, the practice has been largely ignored I've always wondered whether some technologies have been given less attention in the west because they were considered 'Soviet'. Bacteriophages,
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by t_mann 5y ago
the smart contract space is doing pretty well in terms of standards. the "tokens" and "NFTs" you hear about in the media are implementations of specific standards.

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