analogkid

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by analogkid 7y ago
These comments are almost all a dumpster fire of clueless speculation. I normally suggest people read Hacker News comments, but this is embarrassing. The uninformed ramblings about winner v. sucker funds, or assertions of insider tradin
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by analogkid 7y ago
The answer is Yes. People have things going on in their lives, so I prefer to not look at a college transcript until after I do a phone interview and have a sense of who they are now. I have passed on people who did OK in everything but t
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by analogkid 7y ago
It is right and proper to doubt the results as published in that new book. It's the tone though that surprises me on what I expect is a more technically oriented site. I'm now half expecting an accusation that Renaissance uses
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by analogkid 7y ago
I'm sorry for missing the key point of your question. It's been a busy day. Deep java/kotlin experience is far more important. Note that as a developer you might start working with tax accounting, but then shift to risk ma
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by analogkid 7y ago
It's a small world. Denise used to sit outside my office until I moved moved to a new location. ;-) She has forwarded requests that people may occasionally send directly to me in the past and I generally try to respond. I prefer a
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by analogkid 7y ago
I should add that Renaissance Technologies is hiring! https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action My group is looking for very strong Java/Kotlin developers.
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by analogkid 7y ago
The tone of many comments here is disappointing. I'm really surprised at the number of people suggesting illegal activity. Why is it so hard to accept that someone did the math?
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by analogkid 7y ago
So you're going to pick up that shovel and keep digging?
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by analogkid 7y ago
Sure. Our small ~500GB volume (on an OpenSuse system) became essentially read-only with ~50GB of free space on it. The error code was no free space. We clearly didn't have the "toolkit" needed to deal with such an issue.
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by analogkid 7y ago
No, OpenZFS is alive and thriving and we use it in production on many Centos systems. btrfs is a awful. We used it for a brief time on a production system with vanilla mirrored drives. Absolutely horrible. I will never use btrfs for anyt
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by analogkid 8y ago
I wasn't planning on making the submission, but it just happened that the "Who's Hiring" thread was on the top of the page. The truth is that it is difficult to find top talent for any organization. The economy is
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by analogkid 8y ago
Any resume sent to careers@rentec.com will be entered into our system and be seen by one of the tech managers (which includes me). If you don't mind my asking, when did you contact the firm? I will speak with the people who process
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by analogkid 8y ago
Renaissance Technologies | Java and Kotlin full stack developers | NYC | Onsite, Full-time https://www.rentec.com/ The worlds most successful hedge fund. Looking for developers to contribute to back office functionality, f
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by analogkid 8y ago
Nice article, but doesn't actually demonstrate that connections setup and tear down is the bottleneck. If you really have 500 active connections all "shouting" at the database simultaneously, the fact that those connections
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by analogkid 8y ago
Here is the actual property: https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-1190-2... It backs up against I-280