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by svx 15y ago
I'm curious why you think there has been a "demise of Boston". Is it really no longer a first-class "startup hub"? NYC gets more hype these days but it seems like both are great places to do a startup.
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by svx 15y ago
This article is out of date. Twitter confirmed the office this week: http://allthingsd.com/20110801/breaking-twitter-might-have-a...
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by svx 15y ago
Interesting, I hadn't seen his article on LMAX. For more details (and the code) check out their google code page: http://code.google.com/p/disruptor . The disruptor pattern itself was new to me but the general principles (particularly the
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TripAdvisor Architecture - 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data(highscalability.com)
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by svx 16y ago
Additional background information from a few days ago: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870415630457600... Pretty amazed that he was able to negotiate a $600-700k job offer up to over a million.
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by svx 16y ago
I work in the equities group in an investment bank. Joel's probably right about a lot of wall street jobs but certainly not all of them. I'm not even involved with the most math/CS intensive stuff but I still work on: - Creating/consuming "
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by svx 16y ago
FWIW I interviewed with these guys and was very impressed. I went through a pretty brutal two-on-one interview that covered unit testing, dynamic programming, algorithmic problem solving, etc. The team seemed extremely bright and they were
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by svx 17y ago
Like the author I didn't have great luck with the Follow Finder... http://whoshouldifollow.com gives better results even though it seems a bit out of date. MrTweet also does a better job here.
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by svx 17y ago
I work at an investment bank in NYC after working for a few startups in the internet and enterprise software space. Maybe I got lucky with the group I ended up with, but I don't wear a suit to work (and actually like dressing "business casu