darrellsilver

18 ms·

91.
Is working at a startup risky? No.(blog.thinkful.com)
8 points by darrellsilver 14y ago|3 comments
92.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
This looks like a great way to learn, too! The REPL is a fantastic place to play around. Awesome.
93.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Good call
94.
JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz(about.jstor.org)
263 points by darrellsilver 14y ago|65 comments
95.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Can't say I've ever really found a personal use, but in my StatArb days it was invaluable. Want to calculate the 180 day rolling VWAP only between noon and 2pm for every NYSE stock? Yeah, there's a function for that. Also, it's a hilariousl
96.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Here's the link to this CNN story: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/12/29/google-finance-apple-...
97.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
That. is. hilarious. Google should obviously sue for the lost revenue from those fake 800m views.
98.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Fair question. We don't think you can learn from scratch any of these topics in three weeks, let alone all of them, to be employable at any of them. What we're talking about are people who are proficient in a given language or topic already
99.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Excellent question. Simply put: We follow where growing companies are looking for talent. That's our indicator. Banks, hedge funds and other parts of the financial sector use a hell of a lot of fancy tech (they're the first "big data" after
100.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Awesome. Were you recently laid off?
101.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Agreed. Finance trains you extremely well for many challenges. Sometimes it's bureaucracy and that has to be untrained :).
102.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Thank you! We're offering this course as a way for talent to level up. As to the potential in the talent pool, you're judging people on the wrong factors: Big banks may not have the slick interfaces of a Square or Simple, but they also have
103.
11k Citi employees fired. Help get them hired in tech.(retrain-citi.thinkful.com)
65 points by darrellsilver 14y ago|40 comments
104.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
It wasn't his personal address -- it was his easily google-able, systematically defined (firstname.lastname@nbcuni.com) corporate email address.
105.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
What would have happened if we had sold .com .net and .org to Tandy, DEC and Iomega?
106.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
The author's follow up to this article a couple weeks later is pretty excellent. By some fluke of timing, the Thiel article was published shortly before a fantastic profile on Occupy Wall St. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2
107.
by darrellsilver 14y ago
Another lesson from this article: If your engineers refer to those who make decisions as "the execs" instead of "we": Quit.
108.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
To me, the best counterpoint to Arrington's remarks is to understand where he's coming from. He's a blogger/journalist & VC. The biggest dreamers and swing-for-the-fencers make the best stories / investments. Of course, the journalist h
109.
All Republican candidates come out against SOPA & PIPA as written(politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
3 points by darrellsilver 15y ago|0 comments
110.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Is this "passivity" a critique or praise of Obama? Not to go too far off-topic, but... Despite the economy and foreign policy being by far the most important issue throughout his presidency, his administration has been quite active and succ
111.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
When I asked friends to donate for Amit, I had a hard time asking them to lie when donating. This is the limit of "lying for a good cause", especially when the person doesn't know Amit.
112.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
This is a huge problems -- been to a couple NYC amit events (thanks, New Work City!) -- and did my best to inform people. Same with donating blood.
113.
Great Scott Dunder Mifflin Morphs Into Real-Life Brand of Copy Paper(online.wsj.com)
2 points by darrellsilver 15y ago|0 comments
114.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Careful not to put an ec2 host IP address directly in your DNS provider. Given the caching in DNS, if/when you change EC2 instances you'll be given a new IP, and your site will be down (or looking at the old server) while DNS updates. Bette
115.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Add multiple tabs and I'd never use Safari again. Think Safari on iOS 5 got worse... the top nav bar takes up more room now.
116.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Personally, what grinds is not the repetition, but the realization that 1) What's the point, really? Most all finance is really just ... not useful to anything. As an aside, Margin Call gets this point exactly right. 2) In most parts of fin
117.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Don't necessarily agree -- How many airlines are there in Kayak? I've never asked them, but I suspect the Yipit team, in a few years, won't want their revenue dominated by this research business. But it's a hell of a business right now!
118.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Agreed. There's a lot of skill in picking a job, much of which isn't indicative of your skills once in the job. IMO this often leads to people getting pigeonholed into specific positions if they don't happen upon the right opportunity or
119.
by darrellsilver 15y ago
Perfectly-timed way to help people move out of Finance. A choice quote: “If you ever read an article about an investment banker named Jim Moran cutting mega-deals for some finance firm somewhere, please come find me,” he told the man, “and
120.
On the Move, in a Thriving Tech Sector(nytimes.com)
39 points by darrellsilver 15y ago|13 comments

More ›