KirkWylie

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by KirkWylie 14y ago
As someone who's worked in and with a lot of Hedge Funds, he's not a Hedge Fund Manager: he's a trader. What that means in general is that while he's going to be very well paid w.r.t. the rest of society, he's not the guy actually doing the
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Partial Application in JavaScript Revisited(opengamma.com)
4 points by KirkWylie 15y ago|0 comments
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Managing a large, mixed, Public/Private project using Git(opengamma.com)
2 points by KirkWylie 15y ago|0 comments
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by KirkWylie 15y ago
I've worked at several financial institutions. This could actually be based on their agreed negotiated rates with preferred airline(s). If they booked less than the negotiated rate of service it would be in violation of their contract with
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Good VCs don't charge their portfolio companies to fly first class(kirkwylie.blogspot.com)
2 points by KirkWylie 15y ago|0 comments
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by KirkWylie 15y ago
I liked this article so much that I wrote a response ( http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-vcs-dont-charge-t... ) about a reasonable policy that I wish all VCs would adopt: charge firms what they'd pay for employee travel.
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RouteMap, a new open source client/server-side JavaScript URL Mapping Library(github.com)
19 points by KirkWylie 15y ago|6 comments
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by KirkWylie 16y ago
1) Go to a doctor, and get diagnosed as to how bad things have gotten. You catch it early, and you just change behavior. A little later? Cortisone injections. Too late? Surgery that may cripple you. 2) Get your doctor to get you to a physic
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by KirkWylie 16y ago
The problem that I've always found with it is that I've seen it so horribly abused that I'm just not sure that there's a reasonable subset that you can nail down that won't just cause more problems than it's worth. In the hands of skilled d
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The quest for the next Journeyman Programming Language(kirkwylie.blogspot.com)
3 points by KirkWylie 16y ago|2 comments
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Don't write the Perpetual Motion Machine Due Diligence Document(kirkwylie.blogspot.com)
11 points by KirkWylie 16y ago|0 comments
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by KirkWylie 16y ago
I'm the CEO of a VC-backed financial technology company that's been in stealth mode for almost a year (coming out of the proverbial closet later on today), and we had a number of reasons for doing it. First, we needed to give ourselves brea
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
gzipping JSON or XML compares relatively favorably against a pure-binary protocol for suitably large messages, but not for pretty small messages. In addition, the speed of the compression stream really becomes an issue if you're sending mes
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing? Link to Avro: http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/ Link to Fudge: http://www.fudgemsg.org/ Couldn
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
I intentionally left Apple out, actually. While Apple definitely has done work in some back-end technologies, a $1Bn acquisition for something so clearly outside their current strategy (which is far more consumer and mobile focused than ser
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
FWIW, this isn't an EU thing, it's a national thing. Immigration from outside the EU is 100% left to the member states, and it's why I can't work in the rest of the EU until I get off my arse and apply for my British citizenship: member sta
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
We all know each other and mostly hang out on twitter to be honest. Try me (@kirkwy), @monkchips, @monadic, @cpswan, @codepope, @leastfixedpoint, ... Seriously, though, I've not really noticed not being back in a local "tech cluster" on a d
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
Seriously? Was that a joke? Hacker News is largely American because it's an outgrowth of YC, which is American Only. I would hardly think having a website portray a particular provincial bias would be a reason to live somewhere. Seriously,
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
You should join her and move back here to blighty. I can say that we've now got a pretty vibrant tech scene here in London and have sources of investment lined up and ready to go.
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
They have one. It involves a $1MM investment and no employment options (you have to "invest" it and can't work for the firm(s) in which you "invest").
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
FWIW, I'd say I dress well, just casually.
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
Really? If you decide to move to London or New York, I have a number of very tech friendly financial institutions I could introduce you to. And anybody attempting to do algo trading without A-list technical talent will soon find that they c
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
If you work in an environment that views programmers purely as a cost of business, and doesn't value their input, you've found a bad environment. The best firms that make massive use of software view their programmers as a key member of the
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
No, I actually think most programmers don't want the old-skool Microsoft approach of not emerging from their private offices more than once a week. I honestly believe that most programmers are social creatures just like any other human bein
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by KirkWylie 17y ago
Actually, you've hit the nail on the head as to why I ended up at Big Bank B wearing "business casual" in the first place: I got caught up in one of the mass casualties of the Credit Crunch, and I needed to support my family, and they were