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CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" on that page. Apparently someone got into the Gmail account of one of the emails used for that ad and found various references to http://deshaw.com , as well as the various other people mentioning D.E Shaw in the comments. I guess that's the end of the mystery? Or am I missing something?
-The second part of the blog post ('Coming Across This Line [...] no better than its woods." Indeed... ') appears to have nothing to do with the first part (the quoted classified ad) and can be ignored.
-The blog post's comments section chronicles various sightings of this ad over the years. Unfortunately, the site only shows the time the comment was posted, not the date. The first comment is from around 10 years ago.
CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" on that page. Apparently someone got into the Gmail account of one of the emails used for that ad and found various references to http://deshaw.com , as well as the various other people mentioning D.E Shaw in the comments. I guess that's the end of the mystery? Or am I missing something?
These assholes churn through assistants like you wouldn't believe. Most quit, in spite of the high pay, out of basic self-respect. The others are fired during a tantrum.
Most of these jagoffs have a few pending wrongful termination lawsuits at any given time. Just ask them, they'll probably brag about it.
The answer is obvious and simple to anyone who has worked for "one of Wall Street's most successful entrepreneurs." These assholes churn through assistants like you wouldn't believe. Most quit, in spite of the high pay, out of basic self-respect. The others are fired during a tantrum. Most of these jagoffs have a few pending wrongful termination lawsuits at any given time. Just ask them, they'll probably brag about i…
The answer is obvious and simple to anyone who has worked for "one of Wall Street's most successful entrepreneurs." These assholes churn through assistants like you wouldn't believe. Most quit, in spite of the high pay, out of basic self-respect. The others are fired during a tantrum. Most of these jagoffs have a few pending wrongful termination lawsuits at any given time. Just ask them, they'll probably brag about i…
CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" on that page. Apparently someone got into the Gmail account of one of the emails used for that ad and found various references to http://deshaw.com , as well as the various other people mentioning D.E Shaw in the comments. I guess that's the end of the mystery? Or am I missing something?
Off topic, but is there a linking service where the reader can be directed to an arbitrary location within the page? In this case we could just click on the link and it'll directly take us to that particular comment?
I'm just surprised that there's still no way for me to link someone to a particular paragraph within a Wikipedia article in the year 2014.
The answer is obvious and simple to anyone who has worked for "one of Wall Street's most successful entrepreneurs." These assholes churn through assistants like you wouldn't believe. Most quit, in spite of the high pay, out of basic self-respect. The others are fired during a tantrum. Most of these jagoffs have a few pending wrongful termination lawsuits at any given time. Just ask them, they'll probably brag about i…
As someone who has no idea what the working environment is like, I'd love to hear some stories. What's day-to-day life like in that sort of job? I guess I'm just curious what the owners do to make it so unbearable to work there. And why they don't care.
> First example: David hires a Ph.D. in English literature (he has a thing for “geniuses”, even in the mail room) to test mattresses for him. So that person’s job is to sleep on 15 different mattresses, for 8 nights each, and draw up a report to tell him the pros and cons of each mattress. This is to avoid him having an uncomfy night’s sleep. That’s what the risk was that we were avoiding with that.
> Second example: David wants to be sure his trip to California goes smoothly, so he hires a Ph.D. in Something to take the exact same trip – same car service to the NY airport, same flight (same seat on plane!), same car service upon arrival, same hotel, exactly a week before his trip (due to understood seasonality issues of air travel) – to make sure there are no snags, and to draw up the report that presumable explains how much leg room there was in his plane.
As an aside, their research group encouraged me to apply for a position shortly before I graduated college. The application asked for things like SAT/ACT scores and (number of) lines of code written in various languages. I thought my application looked pretty good, but I guess my ACT score was too low for them to consider me (even potentially!) brilliant. I still feel kind of bitter about that.
CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" on that page. Apparently someone got into the Gmail account of one of the emails used for that ad and found various references to http://deshaw.com , as well as the various other people mentioning D.E Shaw in the comments. I guess that's the end of the mystery? Or am I missing something?
>CTRL + F "Tue. Nov. 24th 2009" Off topic, but is there a linking service where the reader can be directed to an arbitrary location within the page? In this case we could just click on the link and it'll directly take us to that particular comment? I'm just surprised that there's still no way for me to link someone to a particular paragraph within a Wikipedia article in the year 2014.
Wikipedia articles have the same functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor