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by lrm242 14y ago
A few notes: (a) Orders for stocks priced below $1.00 are permitted to display in sub-penny increments. Not that this is really relevant to HFT, but it is often a point of confusion. (b) Orders may rest on the book and display at a price bu
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by lrm242 15y ago
The way he was able to add his key was via a web-based exploit, which effectively gave him administrative web access. So yes, the list is correct.
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by lrm242 15y ago
His comments are always quite informative wrt this particular topic. Everyone has a coat rack. If I recall you're always close at hand at any discussion of cryptography. Why is that? I certainly don't have a problem with that, especially si
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by lrm242 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with giving the engine a little jump start. That jump start might be enough to get something truly amazing going. However, if the product sucks no harm done--no amount of jump starting will help.
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by lrm242 15y ago
Inferring from very little information you've provided this sounds as if the Corporation did a licensing deal with the LLC to acquire the technology. This would be one way for your former partner to cut out out of any equity up-side for the
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by lrm242 15y ago
What would you say if this person's technology contribution was fundamental to the success of the company and, once complete, the other partner then did away with the technical mind behind the product so as to maximize benefit for himself?
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by lrm242 15y ago
What type of documentation?
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by lrm242 15y ago
Siri has been in development for quite some time. Prior to spinning out, it was a DARPA funded research project at SRI. Give the guys credit. They didn't just slap down a bunch of glue to tie together Google and voice recognition.
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by lrm242 15y ago
Dirk's answer on that page is what I believe to be the prevailing viewpoint. Why switch? R is very productive and more than suitable for data exploration. If you need to you can always write pieces of your research tool chain in C++ and int
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by lrm242 15y ago
In other words, it pays to be the pretty girl in the room. The fact that the underlying product, business, and people did not change highlights how most venture deal flow is filtered by relying on relativistic gauges of peer interest. It's
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by lrm242 15y ago
This is a hoax. Put down your pitchforks. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042717/Alessio-Rast...
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by lrm242 15y ago
Just use Yahoo Finance like the rest of the punters out there. Why on earth would you scrape data this way when Yahoo gives you a simple, clean, dummy proof API. You can get end of day prices, dividend information, volume, all sorts of info
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by lrm242 15y ago
These are probably attempts to create aged accounts with karma to be used for spamming later. IMO, it represents an escalation of the spamming that HN has seen in the past.
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by lrm242 15y ago
How are you asking the questions? Good interviewers try to adapt to the person they are interviewing. Depending on how you're asking the programming question, you might want to think about changing it. If, for example, you sit back in your
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by lrm242 15y ago
From the looks of it, no they didn't.
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by lrm242 15y ago
Some more info: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/303/is-f-used-in-tr... Also, if you want to consider Scala: http://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/298/is-scala-used-i...
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by lrm242 15y ago
Exercising options in a company with no market to sell those shares is a recipe for bankruptcy. Exercising an option is a taxable event, regardless of whether you sell the result shares to receive cash. If you try to anticipate an exit by e
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by lrm242 15y ago
Yes.
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by lrm242 15y ago
Gracias!
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by lrm242 15y ago
I caught: DJ Anna Kiss, http://www.facebook.com/missannakiss She DJs a bunch of different internet radio programs. Gotta go find which one it is. :)
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by lrm242 15y ago
It's hugely fascinating to watch & listen to him brainstorm on the type of game he wants to build. This is awesome.
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by lrm242 15y ago
anyone know what music he's listening to on the live feed?
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by lrm242 15y ago
How about: ISPs would be compelled and empowered by the government and KISSMetrics hasn't been.
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by lrm242 15y ago
Billy Beane was the central character in Michael Lewis' book Moneyball whose central theme was using detailed statistics and out of the box thinking to determine a player's true value, rather than gut feel or standard criteria. I post this
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Game's shifting strategies leaves Beane, sage of Moneyball, behind(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
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by lrm242 15y ago
Cisco is known to provider 6+ months of severance along with health benefits and other perks to employees that it lays off. If you ever have to pick a company to get canned from, Cisco is a good choice. Anecdote: I know quite a few engineer
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by lrm242 15y ago
Not really sure what this means, but Cisco is losing because they lost sight of what they were really good at: core networking and applications that fundamentally rely at on really good core networking (for example, IP telelphony: go ask No
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by lrm242 15y ago
A VP at a financial services firm is not a VP at Cisco or really any "non financial services firm". Firms like Goldman hand out Assistant VP and VP to, essentially, 3-5 year tenured employees. Directory and Managing Director are where the r
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by lrm242 15y ago
I am a recovering Cisco engineering Director. It is excessive and it isn't typically done at Cisco. I'll speak to the engineering organization since that's what I know (reminder: Cisco is not organized by product at the top level, they are
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by lrm242 15y ago
From reading the mailing list thread, he didn't lose committed work. He lost uncommitted work. He told fossil to revert everything. I have no dog in this hunt, but I think its important to read the mailing list thread. There you can see peo

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