steven2012

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by steven2012 14y ago
I'm not sure at what point the Valley decided that it was okay to not respond back to applicants once they were no longer interested, but it's terribly unprofessional behavior. I had an interview with a very established dotcom in San Jose,
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by steven2012 14y ago
I work at a YC startup, and we don't work a 24/7 grind. The VP of Engineering believes that it's not sustainable to work like that, and you can't build a successful company by burning out your engineers. Sure, when there are site issues,
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by steven2012 14y ago
As long as people think that bitcoin is going to crash, it will continue going up. In stock parlance, that's called "climbing the Wall of Worry". It's only after the last cynics have been suckered in, most believe that "you just can't lose
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by steven2012 14y ago
I wonder how many bitcoins are lost, ie someone mines them, and then loses the information, hard drive crashes, etc. Once they are lost, aren't they lost forever?
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by steven2012 14y ago
I've been in the Valley for around 15 years, and I'm not someone that revels in job perks. Sure everyone loves perks, but I prefer a great work environment, and interesting work, etc, over things like snacks, X-boxes, etc. That being said,
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by steven2012 14y ago
This looks awesome! Where does the data come from? Is this a screenscraped source, or was the data purchased from a reliable data source? If it was screenscraped, are there possibly licensing issues with the NYSE, CME, etc?
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by steven2012 14y ago
I'd be hard-pressed to call this algo as "working". If you look at the PnL, it makes most of its profit from Sept 15 2012 to Nov 15 2012. The rest of the time, it's either drawn down or chopping back and forth. 2 months of gains over a on
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by steven2012 14y ago
Sorry, but saying that "it is very difficult to come up with a trading strategy that loses money" means you really have no credible experience with running trading algorithms that use real money.
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by steven2012 14y ago
I'm willing to bet that once the dust settles on this a year from now, some sort of huge Wall Street-esque conspiracy or fraud will be exposed that propelled the price up so insanely, and then all crypto-currencies will be at risk. All othe
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Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled(theaustralian.com.au)
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Balanced Raises More Money From Andreessen Horowitz, CollabFund, And Others(techcrunch.com)
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by steven2012 14y ago
I have Kaiser HMO in California. I think it's awesome, and the best health care I've ever had. I'm also from Canada, so I'm comfortable with the idea of socialized medicare. However, when I compare stories between me and my friends in Can
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by steven2012 14y ago
> Coding is failing a ton and understanding why. It's painful and frustrating I get what he is saying but I disagree, in that I think that coding is actually succeeding to get something working by any means necessary, even if you don'
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by steven2012 14y ago
Put me in the camp of someone who has no idea on how to do any sort of handyman jobs, and I'm in my 40s. In fact, 3 months ago I bought a dartboard, and only have a vague idea on how hang it. I'm guessing my wall is drywall (?) and I imag
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by steven2012 14y ago
I definitely think that Richards' actions were completely wrong in this incident. But where was the outrage to Playhaven for actually firing the developer? Any rational person would recognize that Richards wasn't directly responsible for t
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by steven2012 14y ago
I don't really like this article, and I think it draws too many conclusions that are indefensible. However, I do think there was a great deal of misogyny associated with one aspect of this entire debacle: the DDOS on SendGrid. It's one thin
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by steven2012 14y ago
The site is pretty slick, but the backtest I ran when I cloned the algo is pretty slow. It's been running for about 10+ mins now and it's only 40% done. As well, in the logs, when I see stuff like: 2012-05-31handle_data:35INFO -63.520880 s
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'Monsanto Protection Act' Sneaks Through Senate(news.yahoo.com)
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The company I work for was disrupted by SendGrid's downtime, so this very question was something I was actually thinking about. I'm on the fence about this. One of my former bosses told me that you never take advantage of a competitor's ba
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by steven2012 14y ago
This is the most intelligently written and most insightful article on this topic, and I hope we can close the entire thing up and move on.
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by steven2012 14y ago
If I were him, I would quickly delete his post. That post is likely to give pause to many potential employers. For what it's worth, I have 18 years experience, and I'm working very, very happily for a YC 09 company. I'm fairly old school
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by steven2012 14y ago
Somewhat related, but I remember watching MC Hammer on Oprah. Oprah was interviewing him about his bankruptcy, fall from grace, etc, and at one point, he said something to the effect of "Please, I don't want anyone to feel any sympathy towa
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by steven2012 14y ago
I will buy the black t-shirt, but can I humbly request a white t-shirt option too?
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by steven2012 14y ago
He didn't appear to call out anyone. In fact, the only names he mentioned were the ones that he interacted well with. It was the nameless "company" that didn't fulfill their end of their agreement.
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by steven2012 14y ago
I actually laughed out loud at how incredibly clever and awesome that is. This is such a great idea and kudos to the person who designed this!
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Amazon Prime may be undercut by Google’s own shipping service(arstechnica.com)
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I used to work at a company that had an asset management product. The problem with asset management is that the concept makes a lot of sense, and sounds very useful, but it requires a great deal of discipline. It's basically like Quicken f