rampage101

Why?

Saw this GaryV video where he was saying how he told a caller to 'eat shit' for the next 3 years, and he was proud of his advice to the caller.

A woman called in saying she was working three jobs where one was her main income, and she had 2 side opportunities. Her basic question was which one to pick. He told her 'eat shit' for the next couple years and take no vacations, just completely grind out her existence and nothing else.

The guy is seriously a maniac recommending this approach. He doesn't consider at all the risk of burnout, and how a real burnout can set you back so far. There's zero balance to his approach. I've also found it amusing there is no talk of what you should do when you retire or get the money you are aiming for.

That sounds accurate that most money making strategies are based off simple logic and observations. Seems people are blindly impressed by ML and convolutional neural networks, even if they do not yield any impressive results.

I built system to determine which fundamental or technical factors have the most influence over a stock price. It required a fair amount of manual tinkering and sample runs to eliminate variance. The system itself is not that complex but it works. When I have demo'd it in a interview usually the interviewers are not that impressed... they are expecting that the system must be very complicated to have any results.

Great article. The one that hit home for me "One lone engineer on a big project silo’ed away".

Was on a project where we had multiple applications. The team had a new employee code an entire system as a prototype but then it was decided to put it into production. Nobody ever reviewed this code, and that engineer told me himself that the code was crap. He left the project to get away from this code and I inherited a mess, with nobody to ask questions from.

To make matters worse, the entire company relied on this system and there were about 20 regular users of this system. I was responsible for handling all of their feature requests and support which was often. Many bugs I fixed were extremely challenging edge cases, and there was zero appreciation for the complexity of many of these.

My manager was telling others at the company the code was solid, and it's "just python code" which can be figured out.

I notified the company I was leaving and they begged me to stay. Even offered to "release" me and hire me at a higher salary under another manager. The only issue was I would be required to support this same project.

My manager refused to give me a release date so I had to call HR and tell them I needed to leave at any cost. Pretty sure it's a disaster there since I left.

Hi Eric, the idea sounds fascinating.

When will it be open for individual investors to make a deposit? Is there a list of companies which will be chosen for initial listing?

There are no simple hacks to get to the top. You need people to be searching for your name, find your link, and then spend time on the page. It helps a lot if you have posts that show up on Reddit, or other social networks.

Since there is no content at all on your site there's no way anybody will stay on your page.

Sad but true. I spent some time building a personal site mostly for fun, but also to get back into industry. Many companies view a blog as a liability... better off studying for a few months to get some extra certifications.

The problem is that SSN's are treated like a private key. If somebody has that private key, and some basic information about you, they can basically impersonate you electronically.

Meanwhile countries like Estonia use an electronic card reader with a PIN to verify digital identity, making it nearly impossible for somebody to impersonate you. Using this Estonian system, you can tell anybody your personal code ID.

The reason it's gone up so much recently is that they just scaled it to handle more transactions. As other pointed out you can send an arbitrary amount whether it's 40 cents or 40 million dollars and it transfers quickly.

There's no holidays for the blockchain like banks have so you can send 24 hours a day, every day.

It shows up as unconfirmed usually in a few seconds, meaning it's in the mempool and ready to be added to the blockchain. If you trust the sender it's enough... but on average you are right that it's about 10 minutes to get the transaction included in the block. With Ethereum they are mining blocks about every 10 or 20 seconds.

People have been saying since it was valued at $1 that it was overvalued, or nobody should pay $1 for a virtual coin. Same people are still arguing the same thing 5 years later...

The cover letter should have more direct language and be mostly about your skill-set.

You can also reach out to recruiters at those companies you like rather than going through the official website application.

Ethereum definitely looks like it is in bubble territory to me. There's been a 3000% runup in the past few months. Most of the applications as you mentioned are based off the promise of something amazing rather than delivering something useful today.

I think the biggest hurdle is size of the blockchain. I tried downloading the entire blockchain and it got stuck... like downloading one block every 10 seconds, when the blockchain is roughly growing by this size. Found out I had to run geth --fast which donwloads only the headers for the blocks.

I'm just wondering how the average user or investor who is not a programmer is going to get the blockchain and backup their coins properly. Likely most people will keep their ethers on an exchange which is not secure.