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by ig1 14y ago
Well you need to ask why don't pension funds hire more talented people ? It's because those people are expensive and that means having to charge a higher management fee. And what do consumers tend to base investment choices on ? - managemen
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by ig1 14y ago
It's vastly testable, there are thousands of different markets with different sets of regulations. But your talking about two different issues, the liquidity issue mainly applies to exchange traded assets while more complex instruments tend
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by ig1 14y ago
Because people are different, if you're 20 year-old healthy female you'll have a completely different risk profile from a 64 year-old male with health problems. If you work in the government you might want to avoid your pension being in you
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by ig1 14y ago
Sure some people buy Oracle for risk reduction after having done a sophisticated analysis, but plenty of people buy it because that's what the nice sales person tells them they need and the sales person obviously understand this techy stuff
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by ig1 14y ago
This. "Caveat emptor" applies heavily in b2b transactions be they financial or otherwise. If you're buying a product then you need to spend money to hire sophisticated buyers, because if your buyers are dumber than the sales-people you're b
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by ig1 14y ago
It's important to note that both the US and EU you cannot legally make a paid-for recommendation look like a real endorsement. For the FTC guidelines on this see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20635261/FTC-Guides-Concerning-the...
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by ig1 14y ago
If you're working with historical time-series data you could easily be doing millions of time comparisons. so it's almost inevitable that people are going to hit edge cases like this.
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by ig1 14y ago
There's a slight irony that this news story is being posted on a site which is partially owned by Elsevier.
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Microsoft (and others) file anti-trust complaint against Android(out-law.com)
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by ig1 14y ago
Flagged. This article contains zero new information and just speculation. Unless you were involved in the transaction you have no idea what was involved. Maybe they overpaid and maybe they didn't. If you believe Yahoo are stupid you're free
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by ig1 14y ago
H1B and O1 are the common visa options, there may also be some canadian specific ones.
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by ig1 14y ago
No worries. You might find the vcdelta page interesting as well, it tracks changes to VC portfolio pages so captures rounds that may not be in Crunchbase: http://neuvc.com/labs/vcdelta/
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by ig1 14y ago
My comment wasn't in anyway intended to be negative on the list, more just a broader comment on the Series A crunch. I think your list is certainly a valuable resource for people looking to raise venture money!
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by ig1 14y ago
The Series A crunch isn't caused by a decrease of Series A rounds, from various studies (from cbinsights and others) Series A investment is actually relatively stable. What's changed is that you're getting far more companies who have raised
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by ig1 14y ago
Resumes are still the norm (but you should have github, linkedin, etc. as well), but don't think that your resume can only contain formal work experience. Your resume is essentially a piece of marketing material advertising yourself, you ca
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by ig1 14y ago
Ah must have missed that on initial reading (also judging by the number of upvotes I wasn't the only one).
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by ig1 14y ago
http://berlinstartupjobs.com/
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by ig1 14y ago
As far as I can tell they only offered to refund the $99 subscription fee, and not the excess delivery charges that the subscribers have been being charged for <$35 deliveries without their consent. They should make good their customers
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by ig1 14y ago
As it happens I also used to run a developer recruitment startup (CoderStack) in London, so I'm intimately familiar with the market. While there are certainly companies trying to hire iOS developers at 40k, there are also companies trying t
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by ig1 14y ago
It's a relatively well studied area of programming pedagogy, numerous studies have shown students struggle with those concepts: https://student.brighton.ac.uk/mod_docs/cmis/past%20papers/c...
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by ig1 14y ago
I also interviewed many Maths and Engineering graduates and didn't find their abilities to be substantially higher. Also from my experience talking to students at careers fairs most Engineering graduates (other than Elec. Engineers) aren't
952.
by ig1 14y ago
I'm not familiar with that stat but it's perfectly believable. Many people are clearly getting by with a mixture of memorization and trial-and-error rather than understanding. I think of those who understand algorithmic reasoning (i.e. unde
953.
by ig1 14y ago
As someone who's recruited heavily at the entry level, you're mistaken. Even substantial number of computer science graduates lack the capability of basic coding (i.e. "here's the detailed specification of this function; go implement it").
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by ig1 14y ago
This is true for most software vendors. In particular companies which make IDS software, control large number of deployments or are in highly-targeted sectors (defence, finance, etc.) will tend to have arrangements with software vendors to
955.
by ig1 14y ago
I actually own the reverse of that domain (socialoptimal.com) which I registered a few years back for a startup that never launched. If you guys would be interested in that domain feel free to ping me.
956.
by ig1 14y ago
I don't know if it's the case here, but some agencies do defence work and so only hire people who they can get security clearance for.
957.
by ig1 14y ago
This feels like a tacky advertisement for Bitnami, doesn't belong on HN.
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by ig1 14y ago
Use APIs in ways that add value to the provider (i.e. you're paying them or adding value for their users). If it's in their interest to keep you alive then then they're most likely to keep the API going.
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by ig1 14y ago
The difference is that YouTube are pure middlemen: users themselves are the content creators, consumers, and reviewers. As reviewers they are unpaid, and as creators they often pay to publish their work. The difference is that Facebook are
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by ig1 14y ago
There's a certain irony to a post criticising 30% profit margin being popular here, when many of us are in the tech industry where profit margins of 70%+ are the norm.

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