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by vibrato 10y ago
Real leverage is financial independence. No matter how badly they need your skillset, there is likely to be someone who can do the job. If an employee's best alternative is to do precisely whatever they want with their time, that is a
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by vibrato 10y ago
It's usually a matter of misaligned incentives. People are working in their own best interests within the structures available.
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by vibrato 10y ago
force ROI reports on all expenditures? sure you will get a lot of BS, but there is a disincentive to recklessly spend
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by vibrato 10y ago
Yes, it seems that life has generally gotten cheaper if you don't require health care, childcare, or education. The one thing that hasn't gone down in price that everyone needs is food. http://theblinker.com/mainpa
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by vibrato 10y ago
If they deny the problem and refuse treatment, what else can you do? The rock bottom part is usually the catalyst to change their view (for a moment).
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by vibrato 10y ago
Scrum really is shame driven development in my experience
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by vibrato 10y ago
It seems to me that at least law school has been a poor investment for nearly a generation, and medical school is trending that way. http://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib
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by vibrato 10y ago
"There is more potential downside than upside, that's for sure." This may be true over very short time horizons. But if Tesla survives 50-100 years, is it not realistic to think it could be valued at 5x - 10x current? That wo
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by vibrato 10y ago
The point is that to pursue happiness (MAX squirts), at some point you will have to try to make the world better. This article reminded me of this quote from the Dalai Lama: "I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. Fro
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by vibrato 10y ago
Yes, it appears that women are penalized for assertiveness (more than men). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/men-see-powerful-women-a... https://hbr.org/2013/04/for-women-leaders-likability
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by vibrato 10y ago
If we're advocating for comfort, why stop at collared shirts and jeans? As somebody whose commute includes a mile of walking each way, I appreciate being able to wear shorts and a t shirt when I like.
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by vibrato 10y ago
what correlation between GPA and performance? Has one ever been found? Google has not found one. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013-...
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by vibrato 10y ago
I understood the conclusion to be that perceived difficulty (stress) while writing code is linked to poor quality. "code elements that are perceived more difficult by developers also end up having more quality concerns found in peer co
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by vibrato 10y ago
Why does it matter if it's surprising? Science isn't meant to reveal surprising things. The purpose is substantiating or refuting hypotheses. The only relevance your expectation has to a scientific conclusion is in determining sou
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by vibrato 10y ago
uh, Geezer Butler? come on! Bill Ward was there for nearly everything as well.
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by vibrato 10y ago
I see the error in my thinking here. My suggestion of rebalancing loses the high end component of variance while avoiding the 0 value case. I guess im just too cynical to believe a company can operate indefinitely with indefinite growth!
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by vibrato 10y ago
if you rebalance / repick, yes. If it's just buy and hold, I don't agree. The benefit of index funds is the failing companies are dropped before they hit $0.
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by vibrato 10y ago
I disagree that you have +EV with stock picking in general. Most companies go out of business, most stocks go to $0. Index funds, however, do have +EV.
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by vibrato 10y ago
having an expected value over 200k/year playing poker would probably place someone in the top 50 players, worldwide, in my estimation. I would say it's a lot easier job to be a software engineer than keep up with the discipline re
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by vibrato 10y ago
I will never again work in an office with music if I can help it. First was the elevator music in a cube farm job, then the dubstep and rap in a small, young office. The author writes, " because (in my opinion) there’s nothing worse t
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by vibrato 11y ago
Let's hope the universities don't shut down, then. That certainly wouldn't bode well for the surging homicide rate.
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by vibrato 11y ago
I agree with you about the documentation not being very useful, but Xamarin isn't what's usually referred to as "hybrid". It's fully native code, no webviews needed.