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by temphn 14y ago
There aren't too many colleges which offer courses on Rails, Django, Coffeescript, or Nodejs. Smart people manage to get by with the internet, without going hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt.
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In any case, the job posting has already been fixed: www.linkedin.com/jobs/jobs-Investment-Analyst-w-2901306 Quantitative skills in a field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or engineering; no college deg
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The job posting itself has already been fixed: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs/jobs-Investment-Analyst-w-29013... Quantitative skills in a field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, or engineering; no college
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This is pretty cool. If you could figure out some nice CSS3 transition effects for the application of a patch diff it would be even cooler. Like lines sliding and other lines moving down. Maybe with a little bubble up that fades in the Grav
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I really wonder whether Loeb hatched something with Zuckerberg after Thompson launched that patent lawsuit. Nothing on the web about this, but could Loeb be a quiet investor in FB? If so, well played.
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You are a lot wealthier than the cab driver. From his perspective, you made him lose money by taking a route to Westchester, and then lose money again by using a credit card, and then lose money a third time by not tipping him. EDIT: Ok, no
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The other thing is that the login page is http rather than https.
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Don't get it. How can you celebrate someone as the "youngest ever International Math Olympiad gold medalist" while simultaneously denying the importance of genius in math? Terence Tao is a humble, self-effacing guy. Or at least he knows tha
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People do build scale models of construction projects all the time. Might be interesting to see a scale model assemble itself in three-space on a large table. Construction is also a big ticket area, so the capital would be available to fund
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He could have been poorly trained, or working 80 hours per week-- at which point mistakes are inevitable-- or given bad tools. Or he might just be a really poor programmer. Why do people want to be highly paid software enginee
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In this worldview "management" is expected to be superhuman, while the guy who actually makes the mistake is absolved of responsibility.
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When the United States stops spending its tax revenue bombing third world countries, maybe then you'd have a moral argument. Till then it's the duty of all right thinking people to minimize their collaboration with the federal government.
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> Did they promise him a referral bonus? Bam, done, legally binding contract. Nope, not if they actually have a pre-existing contract signed with other employees that states that the bonus is for current employees only . Then the emai
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There are quite a few things in life that are based on you remembering something. Remembering to pay your taxes on time. Remembering to register for the Selective Service upon attaining the age of majority. And remembering to cash in your b
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There sure is leeway: no signed contract. If he had left on good terms they would have paid the bonus, no question. He didn't and his fuckup cost them a lot more than $10k. At this point, dig in their heels. He says an email is a contract?
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Absolutely a huge risk. This is a signal for litigious behavior. Who knows what could set this guy off? This time it's $10k. Maybe next time it's something else. There are a lot of smart people out there, many of whom are more reliable than
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+1 This guy Joshua Z.H. Wu does not come out looking good in this blog post. He doesn't realize it, but he just lost a lot more than $10k in lifetime earnings too. Someone willing to nuke something that their friends/coworkers built in this
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A word in favor of arbitration clauses. The big advantage of an arbitration clause is that the outcome of a contract dispute is much more predictable and financially bounded in magnitude. The rule of law is working when people don't need to
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People complain more about the self-funding social security payroll tax of 6% than they do about the 3% rents charged by credit card companies. Heck some people spend more on their smartphone, cable and internet plans than
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When you really want to quit, set a deterministic goal to hit in say six months. Give it your all with your last reserves. If you hit that goal, your energy will come back. If you don't hit that goal after six months, then you know you gave
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> she doesn't have the best formal education credentials Tiger Moms are sort of snobs about formal education, so they may not want to hire her.
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"unlimited for life with a fixed initial cost" products Interestingly, this is the same problem that bedevils Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Consider the change in perspective that AA underwent when it realized how much th
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This is where someone usually says, “Look, this may work for some people, and that’s great. But that’s not the kind of life I want to lead.” To which I reply… “Okay—then I guess you don’t want it that bad.” And then they
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There is something called "career status" in the federal government that is worth taking into account: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mrpbs/hr/job_opportunities/fed_emp... Permanent – Career status as a federal employee is achieved by f
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Exactly. And this extends down to the personal level. Elizabeth Warren, a millionaire Senatorial candidate who supports the Buffet Rule, nevertheless did not voluntary pay a higher tax rate: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/0
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Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130 This was a big mistake on our part, and I'm sorry for it. But apologizing isn't enough. I wanted to make sure we did s
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Maybe they're an orphan. Maybe they don't have a significant other. Maybe they don't care about anything in life other than the success of their project. Maybe the non-501 developers are genuinely self-sacrificing, in every sense of that wo
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But why are those jobs necessarily "shit jobs"? Isn't that an even more condescending attitude? The jobs you mentioned (mines, truck driving, fast food, janitorial) involve moving things around in the physical world. When the work is done,
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They’ve now since used that donation and through smart investing, our involvement had a hand in pushing forward a proposition that would increase funding for “at risk” schools in Colorado by $5m forever This is presented a
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> They want all the increased business Don't think it has yet been shown that their business actually increased due to these kids. The quotes from the article indicate otherwise: high income residents and middle lass kids were driven a

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