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It's got to be too high. As someone who has survived two steep market corrections and have been in and out of the market as life through me difficult pitches, I'd estimate my "returns" have barely averaged around inflation--I basically have what I put in. It's potentially a mistake to just assume you'll average 8% going forward forever.
Thanks for the input. I tend to be good at programming, but very bad at algorithms / math.

At this point, I'm trying to assess what amount of work it's going to take to get into one of the "big 4"-type companies. I also need some way to feel like I'm improving.
Yes. I surveyed blogs written about index fund. Most suggested Vanguard (inventor of Index Fund). Like you probably noticed above, my ideal 3-fund portfolio consists Index Funds/ETF's from Vanguard.
A great post on the whole, but out of curiosity does anyone know how he arrived at $40k off of $1m with present-day examples?
Mostly traditional bank / mortgage through conventional loans.

A few commercial loans.

And my locations are Boise, Idaho and Kansas City, Missouri.

Reason is because of cap rates.
> Sell $1 bills for $0.90. That worked really well for Uber. It can work for you too!

Huh? What's the story there?
A game played by Cameron expecting a coalition government and bugger all chance of needing to call a referendum. Probably going to hasten Scots secession too. A game Cameron wasn't very good at.

He now gets the place in history he deserves. Shame everyone outside Westminster suffers though.
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I had similar biases and wasn't able to make a decision because of it, so eventually went with one of the robo advisors (Vanguard) for those reasons. While I don't like not having more control, letting others make decisions has essentially taken my bad behavior out of the equation.

FWIW Vanguard has about 35% allocated to international for me, so it's surprising to see that Bogle wouldn't recommend international exposure.
You don't need everyone wired up, just a sizeable chunk. All that is really necessary is for the power companies to make spot pricing available via the internet. Appliance companies will find it worthwhile to add this capability because customers will want it because it saves money for customers.

The system will convert over as people normally replace their appliances, just like bluray has pushed out dvd players.
I disagree. Leave voters are already being able to say "I told you so".

We haven't had a war yet, we're not in a recession, and the EU is forging ahead with its army, letting Turkey in, etc etc.

I very much doubt the EU will exist in 10 years. It will fall, and our friends around Europe will be free again.
Why do you want to work at one of the big 4 tech companies? Software engineering is a very big field, you don't need to be really good at solving coding puzzles on a whiteboard to be a good developer. Hell, there are developers who do nothing but set up wordpress sites for their clients, and they're providing a needed, valuable service.

You can work as a web dev at a small company without being part of the mainstream silicon valley rat race. Sysadmin-type skills are pretty hard to hire for, and very useful at small companies. It sounds like you've got that going for you. I'd change your definition of success and focus on finding a job at a company with a culture you'd enjoy, and not worry so much about its perceived prestige.
I wouldn't do that at all. Instead invest in a more steady market.

A good investment is one that has good return, regardless of market conditions.

"Investing" in a boom market is speculation.

You'll pay too much.

Look for good rent vs price situations where you can cashflow.

Midwest markets are good like Kansas City.
It means mañana. Which translates as tomorrow or soon.
Has anybody yet plotted the time when article 50 should be triggered against the time of the announcement? First it was immediately. Then it after a few weeks. Then it was after a new PM was found. Then it was later this year. Now it is early next year.
Maybe I'm missing a reference...? I don't get the joke.
You overestimate programming ability; people will find a way to fuck up.
It's a catch 22 lock-in perpetuated by MS. It should be broken and education system is as good place as any to do it. MS hooked everyone on it, and arguments like "what's the advantage of not being hooked on it, since everyone is" aren't helping.

Luckily some actually get it and use Linux in schools. But in my experience it's not common (in higher education chances are better).
The U.S. absolutely has jurisdiction over crimes committed against computer systems within its territory. Why would you think U.S. law enforcement does not have jurisdiction over a criminal who committed crimes against U.S. property and persons located in U.S. territory?

I see comments like this one in a lot of threads involving prosecutions - off the cuff statements that "well, it FEELS like things should work this way, rather than the way they actually do." If you're not an expert on the legal issues at hand, perhaps consider refraining from making these types of comments.
It's important to note that in most cases, it's not the recruiter rejecting you, but the hiring manager. The recruiter collects some info, and passes you on to the hiring manager with their notes. The manager will decide who - out of everyone who has applied or been actively recruited - to interview. So most likely it's your resume and your competition that will keep you from getting interviewed. Your job is essentially to help the recruiter sell you to the hiring manager by pointing out how relevant your background is, because they really can't tell. And yes, it does vary quite a bit from company to company.

The other thing that will get you an interview? Letting them know about other companies you're interviewing with and offers on the table.
> I haven’t written too much recently, which was largely because I was quite busy with Starfighter. Sadly, that wound down. On a happier note, I will now have a lot more time for writing, both personally and on behalf of Stripe, which I joined earlier this week.

As an aside, I'm sorry to read that Starfighter is closing down. Seemed like an interesting idea, and one that could have been good for both employers & employees. My best to tptacek — I know that he'd high hopes for it.
Non-UK politicians dissatisfied with the current state of EU, giving UK a better deal at the expense of their own country? Sounds rather unlikely...

(Maybe they could sabotage their own negotiation and use that as a talking point against EU, but that's a risky gamble.)
They, for example, could have added an adsAllowed flag to the API. If you deselect it, you get a 15min delayed feed. Want the recent one? Show the ads. Even an affiliate program for popular clients, sharing ad revenue with them, is not something I would consider totally unreasonable.

But the reality is, unless somebody from Twitter shows up, we will not know which options they investigated, and why the alternatives could not beat the solution they went with.
I nearly lost it once when an employer asked me to start deducting vacation time for some appointments. My answer was a shouted, "No, I work late for you and you call me up on the weekends and make me spend half of my day looking at phony database problems. If I have to deduct time for an appointment I will find another job."

The topic was never brought up again.
A nice thought, but I think that, in reality, those counties' leaders' overriding loyalty will be to staying in the EU. Look at David Cameron's stance throughout the run-up to the Brexit--he'd never have undermined the EU project to secure an advantage for Britain post-exit.
But they're not your standard monopoly in the sense that they can charge anything they want. The city retains at least nominal oversight on what they charge. If it's a utility, they're subject to more scrutiny than is probably worth it. And even if we get to a point where such a monopoly exists, Uber isn't really in a position to bring much to the table that Ford/GM/Honda/whoever can't also do easily.
Is this a reference to something? If not then it just isn't funny.
That's my take as well (plus Mark Cuban actually said it takes much longer than you see on air). I don't want to call anyone a liar, which is why I asked the questions I did. For all I know he did work there. But it was certainly a suspect comment.
Especially since 16 and 17 year olds were not allowed to vote, even though they're going to be disprortionatly affected.
Lately I've been ripping out crappy abstractions that were all about creating DRY code but instead made the code incredibly hard to follow. Even though the resultant code has a bit of duplication, its much easier to read, reason about, test and maintain. The redundant parts are typically in areas that are unlikely to change. I might try to come up with a really clean abstraction later in order to re-DRY the code, but lately my experience is that a shitty abstraction created entirely for the purpose of DRY'ing code is vastly worse than just allowing a bit of code duplication. DRY only for the sake of DRY is terrible.
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>Uber is a bad investment. There is no barrier to entry in ride sharing.

Uber's size is only a benefit for drawing in tourists from other cities, each market is a separate battleground and you only need to beat Uber in your local market. And what prevents some city from setting up its own government sanctioned/required ride sharing market & app.
Same. It's probably aimed at Europeans and references something well-known there.
Nothing has changed yet. In what way are Leave voters able to say "I told you so"?

I very much doubt the UK will exist in 10 years. It will fall, and Scotland will be free again :-)
> Nothing you've presented amounts to counter-verification. Condemning other's arguments as 'propaganda' is intellectually lazy. And my post didn't 'paint' you as 'arrogant & ignorant', but I will say that you seem to have a persecution complex.

If you make factually and verifiable untrue statements, what are you expecting?

> There are a lot of people who live in those countries, especially Georgia, who were hoping otherwise.
> Georgia in particular had and has a close relationship with their treaty ally, the US

Georgia is not a NATO member.

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_38988.htm

> Georgia aspires to join the Alliance. The country actively contributes to NATO-led operations and cooperates with the Allies and other partner countries in many other areas. Support for Georgia’s reform efforts and its goal of integration in Euro-Atlantic institutions is a priority for cooperation.

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> Nothing you've presented amounts to counter-verification. Condemning other's arguments as 'propaganda' is intellectually lazy. And my post didn't 'paint' you as 'arrogant & ignorant', but I will say that you seem to have a persecution complex.

You made a blatant and obviously false statement. But K. You tell yourself whatever you'd like.
Uber penetration is very low, a lot of cities don't have their serviços available so others can occupy these spaces without worrying with network effect at all. Uber is doomed.
If I can get the temperature online for my neighborhood (I can), then how can it be hard to get the local spot electricity price online? I don't see anything unnatural or difficult about this. No infrastructure changes are needed.
Except cities don't arrest people for being in the country illegally. Most don't hold them after they serve their time for minor crimes.
Did your M16 have a .22 insert so you did rifle practice with .22 shorts for ammunition? This apparently helped Lackland save money but meant shooting practice was a lot less fun than some of us had hoped. (We had .22s at home to keep the woodchucks down.)

On the other hand the rifle disassembly and cleaning was taught by a woman who knew the weapon inside and out. She was excellent and a lot more soldierly than any of the dweebs in my flight.
I don't think the EU intentionally wants to give Britain a bad deal just to make an example of it. It's absolutely sufficient that the EU has not the least bit of an incentive to give Britain a better deal than remaining in the EU. A lot of the benefits are membership benefits. Britain wants out, so it will loose those benefits - among them passporting, which is probably the worst hit for Britains economy. There's no conceivable reason the EU would want financial products on its market that it doesn't have any regulatory power over.

Couple that with the fact that Britain now needs to negotiate a deal where every member has diverging interests and everybody basically has a veto: France and Germany want the British financial sector, Poland wants free travel and work permits for all the polish expats in the UK, Ireland wants to keep the intra-irish border open. Norther Ireland wants free travel for its citizens to the Republic. Spain probably wants to retain tourism from the UK. All states with a coastal line to the Atlantic and Northern sea will squabble over fishing rights... Couple that with a British vote that runs contrary to open borders, lacking numbers of negotiation staff on the British side and no discernible goal of what should be negotiated. On top a British foreign minster that made a living as journalist bashing the EU. All of that on a timeline of 2 years and a hard deadline that needs an unanimous vote to extend.

Edit: Oh, and upcoming elections in Germany and France. /Edit

I can't see that ending well for the UK. It's likely that the EU will suffer as well as the consequence, but on the other hand the British were always dragging their heels somewhat. I consider it sad from a balance perspective: Britain could have been a good counterweight for Germany and France in the EU if they actually tried to shape it instead of making a half-assed show of being in, but not.
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I know that there's a huge demand for software engineers, and just about everyone can think of the time their company inexplicably hired someone who couldn't do FizzBuzz. But if you've already been hired as an engineer and you've worked there for 1.3 years, at a level comfortable enough where you actually want to keep being an engineer and move on to a "better" company, and you're willing to put in 10-20 hours extra a week studying, then you aren't not cut out to be an engineer. You clearly have the mindset and tolerance of rigor that the job requires.

But it's possible that you aren't cut out for whatever benchmark/ideal you have in mind for software engineering. If a company is looking for the next Jeff Dean, sure, being not confident in algorithms is going to put you at a severe disadvantage. But there are plenty of valuable and important software engineering jobs -- even within the domain of just programming, nevermind design, planning, management, etc -- that aren't limited to those who can show a mastery of algorithms.

One well-known contemporary example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102

My main job is not software engineering right now, though I do a lot of it on my own (to be better at my actual job). I think I'm similar to you in that I was probably mediocre in comparison to the best of the class, though unlike you, I was probably in self-denial of how mediocre I was. But I eventually got into it much more after working in non-software jobs and understanding how the world works, and that there's plenty of uses for programming beyond the narrow scope of what's taught in CS curriculum. It's equivalent to thinking that you're not cut out to be a writer after feeling mediocre in a journalism news writing class, or technical writing, or poetry.
No, tell them that constant overtime is a problem now, and that it needs to be rectified soon.

If the problem isn't rectified, keep informing your employer that you want to work normal and sane work hours. Escalate to your boss's boss, HR, ect.

You're free to look for another job, but do that because you want another job, not because there's a short-term problem in your current job.
To me, it looks like you're just having problems with algorithm interviews. I have a solution for you and it's much more effective than textbooks - go to websites like www.spoj.com, projecteuler.net, topcoder.com and many other similar online sites, I suggest www.spoj.com - start with the easiest ones (on most of these sites, problems are tagged by their difficulty level) and solve them - I mean code solutions to them in a language of your choice (But C, C++ and Java are popular in interviews) - these sites have online judges where you can submit your source code, have your code run against a large suite of test cases for each problem and get results back - all in a matter of seconds.

Solve 100s of these problems(start with easy ones and move into harder ones at your ease, learn new concepts and algos as you go) and try the interviews again in another 6 months. I promise, you'll improve a lot at this kind of problem solving. I've seen a number of people do this and succeed at algo interviewing game.
So even if it was possible in theory to negotiate a decent outcome the UK won't be able to because they have no one to do the negotiation. Leaving everything up to Boris to work out does not sound like a plan.
I'd look at it from a different angle - you spend a lot ton of time and energy on your company and don't want to have to deal with issues that come with home ownership - it's easier to just call the landlord with any problem that pops up.

Plus, if you decided to relocate to a different place there is a significant cost of selling, which would wipe out any modest gains in appreciation.
> keep the current power structures intact

All the more reasons to repeal it.
The UK has a population of about 63m. 46m of those could vote. 30m of those did vote. 17.5m of those voted to leave.

That's 52% of the turnout; 38% of the electorate; 25% of the population.

One quarter of the population is a minority.
Manyana means tomorrow. But often tomorrow never comes, especially in the more laid back Latin American cultures, so it also means probably never. You have to know Spanish and have exposure to the culture to get the 'joke'
There needs to be a shock value. And associated number. Imagine of: "Best 15 cents I've ever spent. So, anyone want to chat?" showed how many views/impressions/clicks. You're following the classic "Chalkboard in a Bar" where you can leave a message for a dollar -> users will do that, since they can see the 50 people that they are paying to reach.
Am I the only one who took a quick look at this and went "How can this DNS be 'secure' if it has to use normal DNS to look up dns.google.com?"
We all have our own preference when it comes to investing. One big factor in investing is diversification. Well, putting all your eggs in one basket is a risky business.
Okay, first, why the downvote? My points are valid, and they add to conversation: Quorum is an important question. 26% of the population voted to leave, a great many of whom won't be alive in the next 10 years. 25% voted to remain, most of whom will be alive in the next 30-40 years.

And by your logic, similarly, a larger proportion of the population voted to \remain\ than in the US Election. Just because

Also, there are a very many important rights afforded to UK citizens by virtue of their treaty rights, which they will lose on actual Exit from the EU. The UK had a good in the EU, and it is shocking that we are chucking it away so frivolously.
You mean suppress its feelings until it explodes or collapses, under the belief that no one it could talk to would care?
I wondered something similar about sqldf, because at one point my brain just seemed to work better "in" SQL.

The biggest issue I found was that sqldf was significantly slower than dplyr and other alternatives.

I started trying to mess about with something I was calling sqldf2. Didn't get very far, but there is some perhaps somewhat useful benchmarking in the R script here:

https://github.com/phillc73/sqldf2/blob/master/R/sqldf2.R
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People are working one this feature for kubernetes:

kubeadm init master
kubeadm join node --token=73R2SIPM739TNZOA <master-ip>

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30360
> Concentrated studying and mass interviewing haven’t led to positive results so far. I can solve most problems correctly given enough time (usually 2x+ longer than interviews).

You are probably here to get some hope. Politically correct it would be to give you that hope because we all know that "Everyone can do and be whoever he want if he work hard". Unfortunately reality is different. Sometimes false hope can make more evil than harsh truth. I am pragmatic that's why i will give you pragmatic answer. You have binary choice. You already know that you struggle with certain things. Give it more time, to the end of the year, so you can determine if the problem was not enough time to learn. If nothing will change then aim lower. If you solve software development problems as you mentioned then you can get into software development.You don't need to work for top 4 tech companies to be happy and solve interesting problems.
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I'm a day late, but just to clarify: moderators usually take anchors out of URLs because most of the time it's better for users to see the whole story for themselves. There are definitely exceptions, though, like this one. Sorry for getting it wrong. When we make that kind of mistake we're eager to hear about it and fix it; when we got cpach's email we fixed it right away.

For everybody's future reference, one way to reduce the odds of this happening is to post a first comment in the thread explaining what's new about the story and/or what's special about the anchored portion that's linked to. You don't have to do that, of course, but it can be helpful for readers too, not just moderators.
More Questions Than Answers :

1.) Why top-tier companies ? Have you considered joining a startup instead ?

2.) Ask the interviewer. Prep'ing for interviews will not prep you for the work at hand. Try working on your interpersonal skills and getting real world experience ( open source or side project demonstrating your skills )

3.) The recruitment process is broken. When you find that elusive efficient way - make sure to give back to the community.