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Define work? My day is 10 hours, door to door. I spend (realistically) -- 3 hours commuting on the bus, doing emails, sheets, bugs, easy stuff -- 2-3 hours in meetings -- 2-3 hours…

I did a nanodegree, it was a complete waste of time for me. It was impossible for me to get a job with those (basic) skills. A lot more is needed. I have been on the other side als…

Over the last 12 years I have interviewed dozens of candidates for jobs. Not a single wore a suit. The suit is really dead in the workplace (in Silicon Valley)

Wow - impressive!

Guy should have called Click and Clack

1. Where there is a will, there is a way. 2. To get something done, give it to someone who is busy.

This can be a nice calculation based on the contour lines. I'm sure there are several local optimal solutions (Bay Area, San Diego) but I'd be interested in working on an elegant "…

Easy: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing A Random Walk Down Wall Street You will know 99.9% of what you need to know.

You are wrong. Start here - https://www.bogleheads.org/

They must be talking to Japanese or German companies. I suspect German.

What has that got to do with the stock price?

In the active v/s passive debate it has now become widely clear that passive wins ALL the time when controlled for risk. I wonder what the market for such a product is compared to …

Heavy list, I've read a few, but skimmed through most of these. I'm certain only a handful of people have read all these books completely.

Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, R and other machine learning tools. Résumé/CV: Please send me email Email: kirp…

OK 100k principal, add 1k every month for 30 years. Compound at 7% --> 2M 50k principal, add 1k every month for 30 years. Compound at 7% --> 1.6M Withdrawing 50k today costs you 40…

Not true http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc424.html Distributions received before age 59½ are subject to an early distribution penalty of 10% additional tax unless an exception applie…

2013: $134M revenues and $25M loss.

Absolutely not. You will have to pay taxes on withdrawals and a 10% early withdrawal penalty. Depending on the size of the withdrawal, this will immediately set you back 6-7 years …

This has been happening for the last 20 years. The quintessential "commute" town is Tracy. Grew out of nowhere to fill this exact need.

Interesting snippet: "... a startup's fundraising trajectory is almost always established, one way or another, by 3 weeks after Demo Day..." I never knew fund raising worked so qui…

>> We've all known that the correction was coming for a long time. Sorry, but NOBODY (much less we all) can predict short term stock movements. If I KNEW a correction was coming, I…

On a day-to-day basis, the stock market is a random walk. There is no way to know WHY Facebook is dropping and Twitter is rising. If somebody knew, he or she would have been billio…

E*trade allows shorting stocks and writing covered puts at Level 2. The default (Level-1) allows only covered calls. They have an online application process. Usually chances are hi…

I wonder what the monthly rent is there. It might just be a better idea to skip abnb and rent out the place over a 12 month lease.