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Yeah, I live on planet EU, not US. Almost noone pays 6 figures and the difference between a programmer's salary and say a teacher's or a police officer's is not so huge, they're more or less in the same range. And there are A LOT of jobs, 100,000 just for "C++", it would be impossible to have an...

Interviews are a probability game. My target is to maximize probability of getting hired, which means I follow a few rules: 1) No more than a few 10s of candidates on the job. Assuming all candidates are equal (including me), my probability of getting hired is 1 / N where N is the number of...

>> I mean how do you stand out from thousands of applicants?? Maybe the smartest guy in the country but sshhh, don't tell anyone. Life is hard yes, what can you do? Trying to get along, trying to make a living. :p

>> Please define successful. Guy I know became a billionaire. As far as I know in two steps, one where he first made some $20MM (million dollars), followed by a $300MM one. >> Also, would be interesting to know specifically what you did in your journey as a trader so far which failed. I have...

Ask me in private.

Has a lot in common with trading not withstanding because every business is first and foremost trading. Like I posted in the "Application Development" thread, I never enter a trade where I don't already have the edge. So problem's not having it, it's preserving it. Like a successful trading...

Precisely, it's a failure of estimating the probability of success on my side. As a trader, that's my number #1 edge in this world. I NEVER ENTER A TRADE WHERE I DON'T ALREADY HAVE THE EDGE. Inevitably shit happens but as long you can keep Reward * ProbabilityOfReward > Loss *...

I recently got thrown (unwillingly) into the interviews market since my employer fired everyone. IT recession is a bitch. Anyway, there's a type of interview that I loathe: the take-home interview. You have a vaguely defined problem, noone to talk about it with, no criteria for "pass" or "fail"...

One thing that doesn't get discussed enough is the probability of success of an endeavor. My take is that if you start as a fat, middle-aged, out-of-shape guy, you got higher chances of success of making it into Premier League than starting as an intelligent, well-educated, resourceful college...

It's a long shot but I wanna ask some insight into Nigeria's economy. I have an acquaintance who's thinking on starting a business with some Nigerians and I'm not entirely convinced everything's kosher, I would like an independent evaluation of their backup story. So if anyone genuinely from...

Thanks, Laissez Faire, you get it quite well. If I wouldn't have gotten this other business idea, I might still be pursuing trading. It's not I didn't try to find alternative ideas but nothing so far was compelling enough. Dropshipping site, social media app ... all too low probability of...

They do when they're drunk (especially when "drunk" is an understatement) :D

. Well, I got a new idea, for a business app instead. Won't say much but I'm tapping a huge market. It's obviously got a lot of competition (sellers) but on the plus side there's also a quasi unlimited supply of buyers. The comparison I make is with food / restaurants. No matter how many...

After 15 years of sunken cost, I'm cutting off my losses and moving away from finance. I started like everyone, enthusiastic and optimistic that soon I'll find "something" (i.e. gold) and all the warnings from failed gold prospectors are a reflection of their weakness and will not, can not...

And to slide it silently here, a question for @KCalhoun I look a lot more like Vladimir Putin than James Dean (think a combination of Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger) but this doesn't seem to impact my chances on top girls. If you ever watched Russian porn then moved to top Hungarian and...

So I'll have an interview with a Swedish manager. That's a first for me interacting with that part of Europe. I know very little of them apart from the jokes these Norwegian guys make on them: Do you think it would be wise to bring it in the interview? History I mean. I do read history for...

I was reflecting on what makes the difference between a professional software developer like me and the many wannabees lured by the promise of "lots of money for sitting on your ass all day" (I actually got my job described like this by someone, loved it :) It's not intelligence, although...

I identify myself as a pornosexual. Don't have much an imagination so have to rely on outsourcing. Here's how a friend of mine describes his imaginary interaction with a very real very attractive young girl reading it's laptop. She's wearing glasses (important in what follows next). So this...

The inevitable has happened, the wave of global layoffs in IT has hit the peaceful little corner of the world where I carry my existence. Not a problem since I have a new job yesterday in addition to the generous severance package, more of a time to reflect on the past and steer towards a...

Actually I see a dish there with something that looks a bit like tripe soup: