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by vostok 7y ago
Wifi definitely prevents my sleep through the Hacker News mechanism.
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by vostok 7y ago
There is nothing left wing about this...
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by vostok 7y ago
I took this to mean that they're interested in a more rigorous treatment. > [I] am now in a graduate CS program, I feel like I’m missing the deeper understanding of many of the formulas that are presented > My plan is to get thro
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by vostok 7y ago
Spivak has a pretty decent calculus textbook that you might find interesting. I used a different textbook, but I believe that Spivak is more popular.
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by vostok 7y ago
Worse yet are styrofoam padded pears
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by vostok 7y ago
A lot of the monopolistic/oligopolostic cartel-like behavior in my industry seems to be the result of free markets. Of course certain instances of government intervention have also encouraged cartel-like behavior. I think you have to t
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by vostok 7y ago
I mean they're not almost certain to lose if they are the smarter analyst. If they're not the smarter analyst then yeah they're going to lose i.e. not outperform the market. Of course that doesn't mean that they'll
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by vostok 7y ago
This is exactly right. If you're upset about this then you should be upset that hedge funds can afford to hire smarter analysts than you, which is just silly.
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by vostok 7y ago
It's a middling role that pays circa £300k in London. It seems pretty sensible to call someone a VP if they make that much. https://news.efinancialcareers.com/ru-en/311356/salaries-and...
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by vostok 7y ago
I've found that I can improve things simply by eating healthier for my boring meals. Then for my fun meals I eat whatever I want. You can also reduce how much you eat for your fun meals, but changing the boring meals makes a difference
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by vostok 7y ago
Do you have a link to any quantitative data? I'd love to see how this has changed over time.
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by vostok 7y ago
> If you're in HR at a bank on Wall Street, doing 'recruiting' - odds are you work for the company, not a contractor. Quite a few of the people I've interacted with were contractors. You can sometimes tell from their
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by vostok 7y ago
You can always vote with your feet if you feel like opportunities in the US don't justify the level of taxation.
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by vostok 7y ago
> It was never intended as a retirement program - instead it an insurance for those those that lived beyond the average life expectancy. Just for context, do you happen to know the change in life expectancy at age 30 over the relevant ti
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by vostok 7y ago
The Republicans also had control of the House and Senate for the last two years. That's not the thing that's different this time.
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by vostok 7y ago
Clearly few enough that basecamp can still hire people. I'm not saying it's typical. I'm just explaining where the parent comment is coming from.
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by vostok 7y ago
I think they're saying that it's not a very appealing place to work if you can get $500k or higher offer from the Googles and Facebooks of the world.
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by vostok 7y ago
At UMD, a good but normal state school, that figure is a little above $85k. I would be surprised if the $57k figure was accurate for people living in major cities. I would also be surprised if the average CS graduate is competitive enough f
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by vostok 7y ago
I think that a more charitable interpretation of my comment would be that it's referring to the US considering the currency, the reference to MSAs, and the demographics of HN. I've edited my comment to clarify.
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by vostok 7y ago
> There are plenty of people with CS degrees who can't find a job, and plenty more who have jobs that barely pay enough to cover their expenses. If anything, this comment is out of touch with reality as it stands for most software d
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by vostok 7y ago
Make that $100k+. It sounds like a lot, but it's a maximum of 2 years savings for someone on a low risk, high pay track. It's not the end of the world to be 2 years "behind".
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by vostok 7y ago
Did they sell grapefruit juice?
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by vostok 7y ago
Some times it blows my mind that my grandmother was a software developer. Humans have been doing this stuff for a long time.
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by vostok 8y ago
People get around that by splitting pay into salary and bonus. Then they just pay salary during the non-compete. Other fun things are enforcing the noncompete at the employer's discretion. You never know if you're out for a month
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by vostok 8y ago
Do you happen to have a source for this? One can find articles that seem to imply the opposite. > A few of Mr. Myhrvold’s microwave recipes — an eggplant Parmesan, which purports to turn the vegetable creamy instead of rubbery, and a ste
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by vostok 8y ago
I think that a good way to estimate the benefit would be to compare how much less money HFT sucks out of the system than its predecessors.
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by vostok 8y ago
> It's only neutral (at best) if you don't consider opportunity cost. I might be missing something, but isn't opportunity cost a good argument for HFT? HFT employs far fewer people than pre-HFT trading that came before it.
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by vostok 8y ago
> In the past year, I have seen less than 5 job posting for a staff engineer. Isn't this "just" a matter of getting leveled at L6/65/etc as opposed to applying to an advertisement that's only looking for sta
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by vostok 8y ago
Are they unexpectedly high or low?
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by vostok 8y ago
I have very little difficulty with English, but this word is hard to pronounce in English for me. The funny thing is that it's very easy for me to pronounce in other languages, including my native language.

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