joncooper

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by joncooper 15y ago
I've had some success by asking a late-stage candidate to take a day off of work, then to come and pair program for a half-day with each of two developers. I paid them the appropriate consulting day rate.
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by joncooper 15y ago
I think there's an inherent tension in frontend web programming, particularly when you're the sole operator in charge of UX, visual design and implementation. The part of you responsible for the UX and visual design wants to design nuanced
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by joncooper 15y ago
Do you have a corporate entity set up and the IP locked down?
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by joncooper 15y ago
I sent you an email. Would love to chat.
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by joncooper 15y ago
I enjoyed reading this source, and will probably use your Buffer/Stream classes in a project I'm working on. Thanks!
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by joncooper 15y ago
I'm actually on my second career since then. At the time of 9/11 I was an enterprise Java programmer. We built software for MBS desks: trade capture, portfolio management and risk analytics. Finance is hugely interesting, but I was not lear
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by joncooper 15y ago
I have about 3/4 of a panic attack if a big plane flies low near me in an urban environment. It has to be low enough for me to feel (or imagine that I feel) the vibration from the engines in my body. Now that I think about it, I also get fr
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by joncooper 15y ago
Thanks for posting that. It brought my awareness to something important. I worked in 1 WTC and was about to get into the elevator when the first plane hit on 9/11. I was outside on the corner when the second plane hit. When my head started
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by joncooper 15y ago
Totally. Two classes of respondent: people who thought, hm, fun, I'll use this as an excuse to dig into a new language, and folks who were looking for a job. I really just wanted a t-shirt but got there too late :) Folks interesting in sill
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Explorations in Go: solving the Instagram engineering challenge (blog.carbonfive.com)
30 points by joncooper 15y ago|6 comments
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by joncooper 15y ago
You're definitely not the only one. I've seen a number of projects in Pivotal Tracker that would have been better off using almost any other form of task / roadmap management. Also, a number of successful projects using anything from "one s
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Generating realistic-looking stories in Pivotal Tracker (blog.carbonfive.com)
20 points by joncooper 15y ago|10 comments
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by joncooper 15y ago
Let me add also: "Analysis and Use of Financial Statements" by White, Sondhi and Fried. It has nothing to do with computational finance but knowing more than nothing about financial statements and how to think about what a company actually
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by joncooper 15y ago
John Hull is canon. Read it, live it, love it, keep it under your pillow. It is truly superb. Nassim Taleb's "Dynamic Hedging" is the finest book I'm aware of on the subject of actually trading/managing vol portfolios. It's REALLY good. And
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by joncooper 15y ago
+1 for First Republic (SF). They are truly superb and I can't recommend them highly enough. You get access to a personal banker that you can contact directly via phone, email or in person, and who can do all sorts of helpful things for you.
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by joncooper 15y ago
I would run as far and fast away from this idea as possible. Implementing this is a horrendous sucking morass of death and the best available evidence (Yodlee) suggests that it's not an especially profitable service to provide.
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by joncooper 15y ago
I'm not sure that the total amount of money you can make by providing such a platform to customers is greater than the amount of money it will cost to build it. The main problem from a cost perspective is that there isn't a whole lot of eng
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by joncooper 15y ago
Do you know it to be the case that Color has paid a kid just out of school $150k + $1M in equity? When I was trying to hire Rails & front-end folks recently I was seeing the market around $100 - $130k for reasonably experienced people,
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by joncooper 15y ago
Neat. Tell us about it?
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by joncooper 15y ago
For context: Many brokers will guarantee an execution at VWAP. It's a competitive business. The last time I put in such an order, I traded a double-digit percentage of the day's volume and paid 10bp commission (0.10%).
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by joncooper 15y ago
VWAP is "volume-weighted average price," not "average price". Therefore, to replicate it, you need to participate in line with volume-at-time, not 1/N per time bucket. This requires you to estimate the volume envelope over the time period o
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by joncooper 15y ago
I've worked both on the buy and sell side of the new issue trade. On the buy side, as a proprietary trader, who had the option to buy the new issue (or not). On the sell side, pricing and structuring deals with the equity capital markets te