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by omarkatzen 13y ago
People still generally want to help people succeed. Doubt it. Rents and house prices are at a record high due to horrible NIMBY regulations and no one's doing a damn thing about it. Startup equity slices are tiny, and the old Silicon
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
This is why it's unreasonable to have any faith in the contemporary Silicon Valley. Cold-calling used to work out there, because it was full of people who just wanted to do a good job and help each other succeed. Now, you need an intro
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
The purpose of the college degree is to provide insurance against economic change. Learn a trade, and you're good as long as that trade is valued (and not outsourced). College is supposed to provide general-purpose skills that guarante
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
Most corporate managers would observe B's rate and demand it of all bricklayers, without bothering to figure out why B built such a good wall. They'd hire cheaply (cost-cutting, HR says this is as much budget as we get) and end up
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
Any engineer working on a sufficiently complex project will spend 100% of their time in meetings without a PM. Well, that's just dysfunctional. If "stakeholders" are that demanding of peoples' time, then they are the
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
With put options, you're betting on a timeframe. You make a profit if the price drops below a certain level by expiration. With naked shorting, you're betting on it not getting above a certain level (the level at which you face ma
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
Miss. First of all, citing Google as an example in product management is a mistake. Google has, overall, pretty bad product management. Its strength is hard engineering. Being a PM at Google is like having Risk Management at LTCM or Amarant
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
Shorting Bitcoins would be a terrible idea. I hate Bitcoin, and expect it to eventually crash, but if you nakedly short something and it goes up in the meantime (which BTC could) you can get whacked with margin calls and lose money even if
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
I was shocked to learn that this was legal (in other states) in the first place. Disgusting.
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
I'd like to try an IDE, since I usually end up using vim due to the fact that my projects often mix languages (Python, C, Clojure, occasionally Scala). How do Intellij, LightTable, SublimeText, etc. perform on those sorts of polyglot p
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by omarkatzen 13y ago
College is like white horses or expensive sports or boats. It's a positional good into which the wealthy will sink endless resources. The essential cost of a college education is not very high. However, increasing the price of the de