fsk

7 ms·

1.
by fsk 11y ago
Actually, it was a bad example. Suppose you spend $1M to produce something worth $100k. You lost $900k. But suppose you borrowed at 0% while inflation was (to use round numbers) 10%. After about 50 years of borrowing at 0%, your $100k is
2.
by fsk 11y ago
Finance is complex because: 1. If a transaction is complex, it's easy to sucker people into buying. Why would anyone buy a structured product? 2. If a transaction is complex, both sides can claim an immediate profit based on their ide
3.
by fsk 11y ago
My employer originally had a Wordpress-based blogging product. They spent more than $2M writing their own blogging system, and it still was missing many features that come with Wordpress. They ditched it and switched back to Wordpress.
4.
by fsk 11y ago
It depends on whether you are a recent college grad or not. A recent college grad will probably believe the hype. An experienced candidate is more likely to see it as just another job and another step in a career. (hence the preference for
5.
by fsk 11y ago
Answer: There is some neat stuff happening at Google, but the typical employee is doing the boring maintenance that any large business requires. As a bonus insult, they're ridiculously overqualified for grunt work and they didn't
6.
by fsk 11y ago
My attitude is that, if they're going to close a question as offtopic, then put it in your robots.txt for Google to exclude that page. Why is StackOverflow polluting Google with content its moderators deem "not appropriate for the
7.
by fsk 11y ago
What makes this a HARD puzzle is that the pieces don't completely fill the area. That dramatically increases the solution search space.
8.
by fsk 11y ago
Run your own mailserver - postfix + roundcube. It'll take you some time to set it up, but it will be educational!
9.
by fsk 11y ago
Your main problem would be getting enough paid subscribers to cover the cost. Also, you should do it as a website rather than a print newspaper. There already are several "conspiracy theory" websites.
10.
by fsk 11y ago
They are transferable skills BUT it's very hard to find a job that isn't a keyword match for your previous job. I have a lot of C/C++ experience, but that experience has a market value of $0 when applying to other jobs. Ther
11.
by fsk 11y ago
I thought Facebook is killing it because they have a large lock-in network effect for their users. You have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook.
12.
by fsk 11y ago
1. Math - You probably should know real analysis, abstract algebra, linear algebra, and some logic. 2. Whatever else interests you
13.
by fsk 11y ago
That's what I figured - a lot of people who say "Java is as fast as C" aren't doing proper compiler optimizations on their C. I suspected that was true, but I didn't spend the time on a proper test. -O2 or -O3 does
14.
by fsk 11y ago
If you don't put in ANY optimization flags, it puts in full debugging info, which slows things down a lot. I don't know anything about Java optimization.
15.
by fsk 11y ago
What compiler settings were you using? In my experience, C is faster than Java if you turn on full optimization settings.
16.
by fsk 11y ago
Due to accounting/tax rules, "qualified incentive" options are required to be priced at "fair value". It's better for you to just ask for more equity. However, realize that equity is usually worthless. If they
17.
by fsk 11y ago
Law of Headlines says "no". My experience also says no. The two issues I'm facing are: 1. Due to technology churn, after a couple years of experience, your experience loses its market value faster than you can get new experi
18.
by fsk 11y ago
If you do open database connection do one insert close database connection That adds up fast. At work, I've been very disappointed in the performance of their Amazon RDS. They had unexplained master/slave replication issues. You
19.
by fsk 11y ago
Ask for an exec-level title if you pick #1. In an early stage startup, it's easy to get. It makes it harder for them to hire someone over you later.
20.
by fsk 11y ago
Your index wouldn't be clustered, is it? For a regular index, insert is O(log n). For a clustered index, insert is O(n). You can also bulk insert records, rather than 1 at a time. We have 2k operations per second on our aws rds.
21.
by fsk 11y ago
+1 for sell, before they depreciate Use the money to rent an ordinary VPS (aws, linode, etc.) There's no reason to own your own servers unless you have unicorn-level success, and Netflix still uses aws.
22.
by fsk 11y ago
Get a friend or relative to buy the puts for you.
23.
by fsk 11y ago
For 2D images, fractals can be used for image compression. I don't know if any of the popular image compression algorithms use this method.
24.
by fsk 11y ago
Another flaw: The Y-axis should be log scale. In any stock market chart for 5+ years, the Y axis should be log-scale. The stock market tends to go up exponentially over time. If you don't use a log scale, then old prices look flat wh
25.
by fsk 11y ago
I lost interest in chess when I realized that, in order to be really good, you had to spend a lot of time studying and memorizing openings. That seemed like a boring waste of time.
26.
by fsk 11y ago
Company towns ended in the early 20th century, for a good reason. Imagine losing your job and housing at the same time. It also doesn't get favorable tax treatment. The value of the housing winds up as taxable income for the employee
27.
by fsk 11y ago
1. Find some time every week or every day to work on it. 2. Open an editor and start doing it. 3. Break it up into small chunks so you can feel like you're making progress. Also, pick something better than a job board. (Unless you&#x2
28.
by fsk 11y ago
When government creates a power imbalance, and then government tries to correct that power imbalance, it usually winds up making things even worse.
29.
by fsk 11y ago
Many of those power imbalances were created (directly or indirectly) by the government. There should always be an option to declare bankruptcy and start over (unless you were guilty of a crime, which is a debt you shouldn't be able to
30.
by fsk 11y ago
I had a severe negative reaction to lithium, along with risperdal and abilify. I've liked Seroquel, which surprised me after all the others I tried were awful. Someone else might say the reverse (Seroquel was awful but those other dr

More ›