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by thedufer 10y ago
> Current 30 year bond rates and the performance of stocks in the 21st century are significantly less lucrative than in previous decades. I'm just eyeballing this, but after adjusting for inflation neither recent stock nor bond yiel
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by thedufer 10y ago
That's a very pessimistic view of the economy. Why do you expect the future to be so much worse than the past? The S&P 500 has averaged 7%/year (after inflation) over the past 80+ years.
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by thedufer 10y ago
If the something else is physical but outside of our current understanding, then it doesn't prevent us from creating AI by simply simulating a biological brain. Thus, that is the same as the physicalist view in the context of the argum
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by thedufer 10y ago
I didn't get very far, but their first section has a huge disconnect between data and the text. Text: > So assuming you’re looking throughout the Bay Area for a good deal and you’re comfortable renting rather than buying a home, as
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by thedufer 10y ago
Sorry, couldn't look it up very well from my phone. I'm fairly certain you're referring to Simon Marlow's "Fighting Spam with Haskell" from ICFP 2015. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOE
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by thedufer 10y ago
Simon Marlow gave a talk at icfp in 2014 or 2015 that might be what you're referring to
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by thedufer 10y ago
"it" in the article is Netflix (generally, video streaming). It sounds like you're talking about internet service. It seems perfectly reasonable to call one of those a utility and one not.
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by thedufer 10y ago
In most other electronic industries, sure. But in finance it is legally very difficult to avoid - traders have to be supervised, for example.
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by thedufer 10y ago
This isn't very scientific, but I feel pretty confident about not hiring the people I described. Frankly, I have no interest in working with someone who can't come up with the syntax to define a function in the language of their
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by thedufer 10y ago
I mean, I wasn't _really_ looking for a suggestion. I interview them and tell them we're not interested. Which seems like the right thing to do in this situation. This idea of hiring everyone with experience and hoping you have
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by thedufer 10y ago
And yet, there are devs with that much experience that can't program their way out of a cardboard box. What do you prefer to do with them?
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by thedufer 10y ago
I think this varies. There are places in Wall Street that don't treat their devs that way. There are also places that pay in a range that Silicon Valley doesn't really compete with. Sure, JP Morgan probably isn't in either
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by thedufer 10y ago
> And it's far more likely that they'll specifically and intentionally defraud you by faking the performance metric, and reward themselves the bonus they "saved" by not paying you. Surely this would result in extremel
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by thedufer 10y ago
That seems a little extreme. The reason they do bonuses is because in a bad year they can pay you 0.5x and in a good year 1.5x. You still get an average of x per year, but in such a way that they don't go out of business. Finance co
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by thedufer 10y ago
> the price of a premium something is still going to be greater than $X Yes, but how much greater than $X is the question. If median salary goes up, high performers have to come down a lot in order to not run out of money.
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by thedufer 10y ago
Are titles really that meaningful? I've never worked at a place that cared much about them. Also, on a practical note, that would require 17 different titles for the same type of job if you have a 5x variation in compensation. That s
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by thedufer 10y ago
It isn't terribly clear from the abstract and I'm not going to pay for the paper, but it sounds like this is really a comparison of tests vs no tests. That has nothing to say about the practice of TDD. This is why this newer study
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by thedufer 10y ago
You're talking past one another, I think. You are correct for most blue collar jobs; GP's description is accurate for most white collar workers. Your downvotes are probably for your unnecessarily inflammatory final sentence.
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by thedufer 10y ago
If only one of the biggest tech companies in the world had multiple offices. I don't know about mountain view, but on Google's software dev salary you should be able to live within 10 minutes of pretty much all of their US offices
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by thedufer 10y ago
Apologies for confusing you with brightball; I didn't notice that you jumped in after the back-and-forth. The entire argument put forth was that the government can't annul a contract agreed upon by both parties (even if it is ille
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by thedufer 10y ago
I didn't intend to imply that IQ tests are okay (although the test I suggested is in fact what you have to prove). I'm actually concerned by the suggestion that IQ proxy tests are any different. They are bound by exactly the sam
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by thedufer 10y ago
This argument hinges on counting the time value of money for insurers but not their customers. The investment money made on float would instead have been made by the customers if they didn't buy insurance. I think you're correct
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by thedufer 10y ago
> These regulations would substantially more than destroy that margin. Why is that bad, though? The customers (or at least some of them) would go back to taxis, and then either taxi drivers/companies or customers would capture the
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by thedufer 10y ago
Your argument for why Uber's workers should be able to sign themselves up as independent contractors can be used to show that children should be able to work in mines, fast food workers should be able to work for minimum wage, and gene
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by thedufer 10y ago
> Using IQ is effectively illegal[2] in the US, so you'll have to find a test that acts as a good proxy. You've posted this before and been called out on it. Please stop spreading misinformation. There is nothing special about
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by thedufer 10y ago
> how is one supposed to make a career decision By finishing the process? I had other offers, and they waited the <one week it took to finish team matching with Google. When would that take a long time? It was a quick chat with a fe
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by thedufer 10y ago
My experience was that they refused to even talk money before doing team matching. This was less than a year ago; maybe things have changed?
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by thedufer 10y ago
> If an excellent candidate doesn't get an offer, it's probable that something went wrong in the interview process Google sees about half of their employees come from at least a second interview attempt, implying that qualified
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by thedufer 10y ago
> hiring candidates as temporary contractors for a real world test doing actual work While this is very effective at filtering out poor applicants, it is also very effective at preventing good applicants from applying in the first place.
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by thedufer 10y ago
Perfect correlation between good interviews and getting an offer does not inspire confidence in how accurate the descriptions are. Times like these you want to hear the other side of the story.

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