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by lrm242 16y ago
Delaware franchise tax is done two different ways. You pick the method you want to use. The first method is based on the par value of outstanding stock and the second is based on net assets of your company. Delaware will send you a bill usi
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by lrm242 16y ago
Seeing as you worked at Ning and likely participated in these types of interviews it's not surprising you don't get it. Surely Ning was a great place to work and I'm sure you found really top-notch employees through your well known tough hi
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by lrm242 16y ago
How often do you decide exactly what you're going to do to solve a problem for your job in the span of one hour? Oh yeah, and make sure you provide an estimate and a good explanation, within that hour, as to why you've made that decision.
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by lrm242 16y ago
These types of questions are terrible interviewing techniques. An interviewer who, even jokingly, goes into the room with an interrogative mindset is fundamentally failing at the core purpose of interviewing: finding good talent, preferably
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by lrm242 16y ago
In the early days of my first company my co-founder ran into visa issues. He was a British national and post-September 11 his H1B was coming due. At the time the company couldn't sponsor him due to prevailing wage issues so he had to leave
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by lrm242 16y ago
Is this surprising? Do you think Steve Jobs or his family use Microsoft products in their house? Who cares.
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by lrm242 16y ago
Whose life isn't?
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by lrm242 16y ago
Yes, indeed. Next time you should be very hesitant. Hesitate so much that the out of control car plows into a busy intersection. So many things could go right. It could just barely miss that SUV with 4 kids in the back, and I'm sure it woul
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by lrm242 16y ago
Amazon will undoubtedly settle. Texas is trying to close a budget short fall for the next cycle that begins in 2011. Amazon has a distribution center in Texas and Texas believes that means they have a nexus of operations. Amazon disagrees.
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Because the state audited Amazon. FTFA: "Amazon.com was audited for sales tax covering the time period of December 2005 to December 2009. They were assessed a liability and billed in August 2010. The company has requested a re-determination
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by lrm242 16y ago
That's because profit isn't part of their bet. This is a get acquired bet, plain and simple. Surely they will spin a yarn about charging for premium features, etc -- but that's just because they have to.
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by lrm242 16y ago
Go read the website I linked to. NASDAQ publishes their methodology. I'll quote it for you here: OUCH Measurements of Order Latency * The time it takes to accept, process, and acknowledge or fill an order. * Measur
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The latencies are typically quoted as round trip through the matching engine. This does not include transit latency to the matching engine but will include any internal transit latency once the matching engine has the order. So you can assu
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by lrm242 16y ago
World record? Not quite. Let's see full details on the numbers. NASDAQ publishes their latency numbers weekly, including average, 99th percentile, and 99.9th percentile: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=inet . Their average laten
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by lrm242 16y ago
He's just linking to twitter and Taleb. Whether or not its true is beyond me, what's sort of irresponsible is everyone pointing to everyone else for confirmation w/o any sort of definitive source.
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by lrm242 16y ago
I don't get it. Is he dead? I can find no credible evidence that he is. Wikipedia proclaims he is alive, there is no news indicating otherwise, nor any web reports. We only have this odd link to Taleb's homepage indicating that Mandelbrot h
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by lrm242 16y ago
Even though the C program might generate optimal assembly, it doesn't generate optimal assembly for calculating a CRC32 checksum -- that's the whole point of the article: new Intel processors have a single instruction to do this.
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Some thoughts: If you're going to the show, go with a goal. Just being there is only valuable if you're lucky and happen to meet and chat with the right person. These types of events are typically heavy on the alcohol and networking and don
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by lrm242 16y ago
Why the down votes here? It is pretty damn amazing that not only has Zuckerberg maintained control but he has also been smart enough to bring in talent to help him, personally, scale. It would have been easy for Mark to simply say, "Eh, I n
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by lrm242 16y ago
The differences are huge. The motiviations behind each are entirely separate. They are used by different people for different things. A day trader, slogging it out in front of their computer every day is very different from a floor broker t
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by lrm242 16y ago
In the industry algorithmic trading does not equal trading with algorithms. Algorithmic trading is typically used by sell-side firms to place large orders into the market. The algorithmic part comes from how the computer places the orders.
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FB seems to have a two tiered developer program. There are the peons, the guys forced to toil away trying to figure out how to make the stuff work by doing exactly what is described in the blog. And then there are the anointed: the big comp
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by lrm242 16y ago
The poop leaves my bottom and goes into the toilet. I never touch it. Do you?
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He was.
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Of course, we have an rms here, and the intelligent folk of HN know it's not the king of open source. I understand why it might be a prudent factor in making ones decision when registering, but I don't see why we should be tossing around ad
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by lrm242 16y ago
Why? Perhaps his name is Steve Jobs and he was born before the "famous" Steve Jobs. I'm only slightly kidding here.
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by lrm242 16y ago
> If I'm not mistaken (and I might be, it's been awhile since I looked), Interactive Brokers were flashing their clients orders up until recently as well; they didn't call it flashing, they called it "smart routing" -- but if you opted
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by lrm242 16y ago
> Having built systems that traded quadrillions in notional value (and in the process made a small percentage of that in profit), I think I have an idea what I'm talking about and how to play this game. You continue to confuse a flash o
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by lrm242 16y ago
> The system right now significantly favours whoever can invest >$50000/month in infrastructure (regardless of trading volume). You're drastically overstating the costs. I can put a server at the Nasdaq data center using Lightspeed
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by lrm242 16y ago
They do set up off-exchange venues. Any of the block trade matching services, for example. There are also sources of liquidity that require non-trivial amounts of capital to access like dark pools. Regardless, each of these venues provide a

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