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Instavest (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Python)
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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Instavest (YC W15) Seeking Senior Software Engineer
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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by zallarak 11y ago
We don't allow stocks below a certain liquidity threshold, so this would be pretty tough to achieve.
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by zallarak 11y ago
You aren't choosing an unknown expert. You can examine their track record and investment rationale, and copy them on a trade-by-trade basis. Think of this as an idea surfacing website, not a place to just blindly copy people (although
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by zallarak 11y ago
We're releasing a short preview of investment ideas this week (so you can see the type of ideas you can replicate on Instavest). The reason we're not 100% open is that our lead investors put lots of time and effort into the resear
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by zallarak 11y ago
Thanks, we fixed it!
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by zallarak 11y ago
Can you please post the specific line (or just email z@instavest.com)? I can't see what you're talking about. Thanks for reporting it, once you let us know we will fix it ASAP.
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by zallarak 11y ago
Agreed. I write a lot slower than I type, especially when writing a programming language. This messes me up. I also tend to write a general structure then insert code. Doing this on a whiteboard is hard because you can't move text arou
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by zallarak 11y ago
The Warren Buffet next door is just an amusing title - obviously he is not literally an investor on Warren Buffet's level! He's done quite well in the market and made lots of our customers money. He has a 100% win ratio too.
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by zallarak 11y ago
"Heroku took off for doing things with Salesforce" - This is not my impression at all.
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by zallarak 11y ago
This is great because it builds confidence; you have to do something hard, and are encouraged nonchalantly, as if putting in enough effort without getting intimidated will solve the problem. Which it almost always does. The MIT students I h
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by zallarak 11y ago
This is a phenomenal read and a great reminder to be nice.
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Instavest (YC W15) is hiring its first engineer
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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by zallarak 11y ago
I could take this way more seriously without the intense marketing style.
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by zallarak 12y ago
8,000 programmers for selling cars online? That sounds ridiculous. I also thought that dealers affiliated with GM lobbied to ban direct sales of cars.
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by zallarak 12y ago
The conceptual model matches the implementation - this is what Don Norman's "Design of Everyday Things" says is good design. When this is the case, a user can interact with the object's interface using logic and intuitio
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by zallarak 12y ago
Agreed. The interesting thing about DNA is not its raw storage capabilities, but with how it interacts with itself and its environment to expose and withdraw certain portions of itself for protein synthesis.
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by zallarak 12y ago
> If a language makes it easy to conflate nil and absence, to write code that does not reliably distinguish between success and failure, then bugs are sure to follow. This is why after working on large apps in Ruby and Python, I strongly
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by zallarak 12y ago
A lot of people will inevitably comment on the flimsiness of this bill - that it can be easily circumvented. This might be true, but its a step forward because it acknowledges that government backdoors are a bad thing. I wish I could rememb
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by zallarak 12y ago
This is a tragedy and something to learn from. Being able to test this thoroughly without the presence of any human almost seems like a no-brainer to me.
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by zallarak 12y ago
This is such a good idea. Thanks for the write-up / sharing.
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by zallarak 12y ago
I can somewhat empathize with the author of this article because in the end, transparency and willingness to share knowledge are historically good things to do. However, I also respect Quora's commitment to user privacy and requests to
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by zallarak 12y ago
Wow! Your open source work is great. Congratulations. A great example of how maintaining good habits changes the game.
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by zallarak 12y ago
Wow - people have so much positivity in sharing their experience with RethinkDB. Congrats to the team for building something great, that others find utility in and enjoy working with.
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by zallarak 12y ago
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or
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by zallarak 12y ago
This title is a bit sensationalist, but the points this article makes are valid. The mind is too complex to diagnose psychiatric illnesses with labels, and if we associate rewards with having one of these labels, people will game the system
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by zallarak 12y ago
This makes sense - a line-by-line analysis has limited utility for certain texts. I think the entertainment factor will keep the non-musical annotations burgeoning, and perhaps over time due to increased exposure, quality analysis will surf
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by zallarak 12y ago
After hours trading can be subject to the whims of less-seasoned investors. Consequently, veterans on Wall Street sometimes deride after hours trading as "amateur hour."
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Instant search hacker news(hn.algolia.com)
3 points by zallarak 12y ago|3 comments
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by zallarak 13y ago
This is madness. Tesla's model of selling is simply better; it is cheaper to the customer and cuts out unnecessary middlemen.

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