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by thedufer 8y ago
I made it pretty clear that I agree they're overrepresented, but quoting the wrong base rate makes it look like a much bigger deal than it is. I work at a NY-based rather than CA-based company, and while the same is true there, we see
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by thedufer 8y ago
Comparing to the US population is a touch disingenuous. Those are California-based companies, and California has a much larger number of Asian residents than the US as a whole thanks to its proximity to Asia (15% as opposed to the 5% you q
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by thedufer 8y ago
The ppx extension in question is called let-syntax, but also 4.08 is almost here and has built-in support for something similar.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I mean, there are a lot of languages that can be used both on the server and in a browser. JavaScript is the obvious one, but anything that compiles to js works, too.
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Obviously I do not think that is false; you can get sued for literally anything. Do I think you would lose? Depends on whether you've done the research showing that 135 is an important cut-off. To turn this around, can you point at t
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by thedufer 8y ago
It is not illegal to use IQ tests as part of a job screening (in the US). It is illegal to screen in a way that is both discriminatory and not proven to correlate with job performance, but that applies equally to both IQ tests and algorithm
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think you're referring to the US, but we've already banned most unpaid internships. They're only allowed in specific circumstances, including when they're mostly educational and do not displace any potential paid worke
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by thedufer 8y ago
Two Sigma and Jane Street are known to pay their dev interns $10.4k monthly ($125k annualized). You can find this in #talkpay on Twitter and on Quora, and I can corroborate one of them. I don't think those are the highest, either.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I did not get the feeling that the Bloomberg piece was about devs. Did I miss something? They specifically called out Apple Maps, which requires a lot of data cleaning.
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(2011)
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by thedufer 8y ago
If you can reliably generate 20%/year, a skill which is worth billions of dollars, why are you giving away the secret for free? Generally speaking, if someone offers a simple strategy for getting well-above-market returns, they're
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by thedufer 8y ago
I don't think its inconceivable, but comparing it to a hedge fund makes it look pretty crazy. First note that they look more like a prop fund, in which typically returns are labor-constrained rather than cash-constrained. Annual retu
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by thedufer 8y ago
They reportedly don't reinvest returns, which means that the 80%/year is paid out. A ponzi scheme can't return more money than is put in; Medallion does so every 15 months.
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If you get the same answer three times but don't think any of them answer your question, maybe consider that you're the one failing to communicate.
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by thedufer 8y ago
You don't need a server like Apache or Nginx. Your code can just bind to 80/443 directly.
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by thedufer 8y ago
I've never lived in SV, so I'm probably the wrong person to answer that. But your real question seems to be "how can I live exactly the same life as now, but in an expensive city", which - sure, that's probably not
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think the thing here is that cities are a better deal if you can command a top salary, and worse in most other situations. For example, talking about FANG, a senior position at Google (the lowest terminal level) comes with an average sal
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by thedufer 8y ago
6 years is standard, plus the time between the forgiveness event and filing, which gives you another 3-15 months or so. Down to 3 years if your balance is <$10k. And as I mentioned before, if it was too short you could declare bankruptc
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by thedufer 8y ago
The difference in your tax bill between $80k of income and $130k of income is $15k. This is much, much less than $50k. In this case the loan forgiveness has increased your net worth by $35k. That's a lot of free money that you'
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Why would you have to pay it all immediately? The IRS is very helpful with payment plans (this is obviously better for them than demanding full payment and then watching you wipe away the debt in bankruptcy). Here are some details [1] - f
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by thedufer 8y ago
Sure, it might be hard. But my point is that it can't be harder than paying the debt itself. Debt forgiveness does not leave you in a worse position unless your marginal tax rate is more than 100%, which is vanishingly rare.
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by thedufer 8y ago
That can't be right. You're saying that going from $50k in debt to a student loan lender to $12k or so in debt to the IRS is a bad thing? Why do you care so much about who owns your debt that cutting it by 3/4 is a loss? Not
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by thedufer 8y ago
A lot of the closure creation costs can be eliminated by writing the library in a continuation-passing style, which shoves all of the data into proper arguments, bypassing the need for the closure. Of course, the user of the library is stil
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think the trick is to only re-review the areas that had merge conflicts, and to do the re-review aware of both the changes you already reviewed and the changes that caused the conflict. Merge conflicts, even in big code refactors, are fa
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by thedufer 8y ago
Maybe its just that the author's cutoff is at the wrong team size, but the monorepo I work on (with ~150 devs) has almost none of the problems presented. Unreasonable for a single dev to have the entire repo? I'm looking at a re
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A polyrepo setup at Google's scale would pretty obviously require some dev work. For example, their CI/build story would be way more complex.
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by thedufer 8y ago
They auction off a sort of binary future that either converts to Basis in a future event when they're increasing the supply, or expires worthless if no such event occurs in a set amount of time (5 years, I think).
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by thedufer 8y ago
I think this is a UK/US disconnect. In the UK (and much of Europe) the point of many trading laws is to prevent trading on non-public information. In the US we tend to think this is a dumb goal because much of the point of markets is t
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by thedufer 8y ago
> there are three orders of magnitude between $10K and $10M Sure, but you're comparing apples and oranges. Almost 2 of those orders of magnitude disappear when you change $10M of assets into a few hundred thousand dollars of ann
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by thedufer 8y ago
Remote communication simply isn't as good as in-person. There's a surprisingly large bandwidth communication channel in tone/body language that is easily lost, and quite small audio delays can throw off the rhythm of a conver

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