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What is it with the anti-MBA attitudes around here? The OP is at a point in his life that is extremely common to people who go to b school. Right age. Right motivation. Right skills. It would be a great option.
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Not sure if this is cool, or creepy. Nice that you can opt-out right there though.
Neither are involved in the intraday production critical path. Maybe I should have explicitly used that phrase.

FYI: "Answer: For various reasons, (2) is the natural entry point ( historical data can be used in lieu of real data, strategy requires data, and building an order book simulator can initially obviate the need for true exchange order entry), so let’s start here."
The only time I was ever fired from a job, it was for doing this. I rewrote an entire web crawler stack using parallel event driven programming, yielding a crawler that could crawl the same number of sites they currently needed 10+ EC2 instances for on my laptop without breaking a sweat. I did it in a one-week + weekend maniac code binge.

I was a little peeved, but looking back not so much. I was receiving pressure and what I felt were conflicting orders from the CTO and CEO, and any company that lets someone go for showing initiative is not a place I want to work. I found a more fitting job doing high-speed creative product prototyping (where they want that kind of thing) afterwords, and for more money.

(It was a startup, and I now see it as having had some funny politics going on. I also think that one of the co-founders wanted me gone since I didn't graduate from one of the "right schools." He was a huge school-snob.)
I use this at work to go through blocked websites. Better than nothing.
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Max Dama wrote this regarding using IB to do low latency trading while a student but had interned at a HFT shop

http://www.maxdama.com/?p=334

The short of it is no :

Indicating there are 255 – 112 = 143 (!!!) hops and 124 milliseconds of latency. Obviously retail traders have no chance with HFT strategies.

But places like Lime are accessible to sophisticated traders and offer colo services

http://limebrokerage.com/
Bradley Griffith, creator of Undetweetable:

"Just got a cease and desist from twitter for undetweetable.com #legit"

https://twitter.com/bradleygriffith/status/98639491778088960
Thanks, I searched it in the news first but we did not use the same words! Sorry
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If it was true, then IE could be the most user friendly browser because even users with lower IQ could use that.
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I'm assuming you mean IE, not Windows
They didn't fix sh*t. It's still doing the same thing for me.
Firefox has an emulator too: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/ (the "Developer Tools" download is just a Fennec.app. It's rather spartan, but does the job)

This is huge contrast with testing in Android Browser:

• requires Android SDK

• launched from commandline (README file explaining that is longer than Info.plist needed to make it runnable with a click).

• needs extra package downloads started manually from withing the SDK

• needs creation of virtual device (with dozen of irrelevant options to fill in that are confusing to newcommers)

• slow as hell

RIM with Windows-only SDK scattered over several packages requiring registration is even worse.
Maybe those Perl one-liners weren't so useless after all...
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It seems like Windows does unspeakable things to the font we use, so I changed it to Georgia.

Windows font rendering makes me sad :(
I think that a throttled balancing act between total-invention and mild-integration is probably the best outlook to take at 90% of issues right from the start. There are exceptions to all rules, and the interviewer will have a better grasp on where in this spectrum they need the candidate to fall, but this "describe something you've built/hacked" seems to be a fairly common question that shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone interviewing.
I guess we all have different definitions of "many" in the statement of "many tabs." I didn't think 100 open tabs is realistic, but enough people here seem to do it.
There is also introduced css3 bugs on chrome 12 lion (corrected in v13), backface-visibility stopped working, and this was working on snow leopard (v12)
Why is it faster to read two columns instead of just one? I can think of a reason: getting your head lower and eventually turning the page makes it slow to be only one column but on a screen you just scroll and scroll...

(I cannot read the articles right now, if the answer is there just ignore me.)
Well, I thought the "study" to be ridiculous from the start...
I was wondering this morning why I had a facebook ad about a music band that I started listening a few weeks ago ONLY at work and ONLY on grooveshark. The band is not that famous to appear randomly in my facebook account so I wonder if this can be linked!

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Sounds like the kind of scaling tools like CLOC can display.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net/
I think the biggest understanding of what this blog post is saying comes when the developer finally says "fuck it, IE will just have square corners."
I usually run around 50 (44 right now) and have them grouped with opera's tab grouping so it does not normally feel like a lot.

Most of these come from sites like this one. I will go down the home page and open every article I want to read as well as its comments page (middle clicking). Thats easily 20ish tabs. These tabs will then stay open most of the day as I slowly read them.

Then I have some that are used sort of as a todo list. These can be a page where I need to fill out a form, read an article, etc.

I also have a bunch of tabs based on a group. For instance since I do a lot of web programming I may be working on 1 site and have 1-8 tabs associated with it, but then I need to switch to another site and open another set for it, but I don't close the previous until I am done with the site.

Then I have the normal "apps", pinned tabs or whatever they are called. Usually just 2 though, gmail and grooveshark. However sometimes it grows a bit more to add calendar, docs and whatever is is needed.

Add it all up and its quite a lot of tabs, and they just add up quickly. But with the ability to place tabs on the left of the screen and group them its easily manageable. I couldn't work with this many tabs without those 2 features.
This really made me want to put aside some time to read the David Lee Roth autobiography. I love learning little bits like this about people who are generally recognized as idiots in the public eye. Fantastic.
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Exceptional bandwidth is available in offices in NYC for reasonable prices. Cogent offers 100 Mbps service on their city-wide fiber backbone for 700 - 1000 / month. There are a number of other fiber / ethernet providers with similar service around 2X that price. Cogent is lit in many buildings in Manhattan and the list is available on their site. If you are in a lit building they can have you up and running within 3 weeks:

http://www.cogentco.com/index.php?continent=North+America...
This guy has been checked out by the NYFD

Well, OK then. Important safety tip: Don't cross the streams.
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Slightly more important (which isn't saying much) is the difference between the vaccination drive being a CIA plot and the CIA exploiting its existence.
Journalism lives and dies by SEO. And if they take their time to carefully check their sources on every story before posting it, then they'll find themselves on the 6th page of Google b/c everybody has already beaten them to the punch. Speed and verification of sources are in total conflict with each other - it's a tough business.
a startup fired you for showing initiative and doing more with less? messed up.
The only problems I've had with Chrome 12 were random pages crashing (especially on, coincidentally, google.com).

This was on Chrome 12 on OSX 10.7 I'll have to see how 13 behaves.
It seems to primarily be an ego issue. This person must of thought that since he/she is so smart any system that isn't understood obviously shouldn't exist.
The title of the HN post is clearly wrong and inflammatory. China hasn't done anything -- a Chinese company has changed their rating. Likely done as a publicity stunt to differentiate themselves from the big three and gain business. It's good marketing; I won't comment on if it accurate as I don't know.
I previously worked remotely as a freelancer and loved it. Now being in a position to build a team for Pen.io, I'm certainly looking at having some remote devs.
I do this too. I work in the semiconductor industry where I'm told this is the norm.

It really sucks.
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Yeah, that's pretty much it. I've confronted my manager about this and his first answer was an attempt to bullshit me by saying we're working remotely (as opposed to locally) for security reasons; the obvious reply to that monumental pile of crap was to employ my 1337 haX0r skills to copy a whole folder from the remote machine right onto my local desktop (ctrl+C/ctrl+V, actually) - there's your security right there.

Working at that place made me a witness to a constant stream of fail.
Not impressed by the tech but now Notch has called them scammers and liars. When does he get sued for libel?
I agree with the final conclusion, but this is a terrible way to measure system latency!

For starters, most exchanges block icmp packets, precluding a ping-based measurement.

Latency should be measured by actually going through their systems. For example, after sending a FIX message to IB, it's not known how well their FIX processor performs (at the very least, they have to do risk checks, so its not just cut-through).
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Personally, I often keep 40 to 80 tabs open - I just keep what I'm reading open. Right now, I'm reading about semantic data, then there's the RDF tools for Python. Now I'm taking a break, so I have GReader, HN and a couple dozen articles/comments pages from that.

It's just a way of keeping the 'flow' of a browsing session in the browser itself, so you don't have to keep all that in (mental) memory.

I do use Firefox, which works fine even in my 2GB laptop and with a bunch of extensions installed.
I think it's less the fact that the development process is undisciplined, and more the fact that it is just a bore to recode something beautiful for people who couldn't care less about it.
One of my new favorite interview questions is: When researching how to integrate a feature, you come across a chunk of code that is atrocious, but unrelated to your feature - what do you do? The answer can be very telling.
I was curious, too. From the OP, "I asked LawyerCT about this one and she said that any serious employer would use a real site such as social intelligence to run a background check. The sites listed above are mostly around to make a profit off of selling your information. There are sites like Social Intelligence which are only available for use by organizations/corporations." Seems like a pretty safe move.
Be ready to throw away your first version. I wish I had the right quote on hands. The K in K&R said that.
Another question is how badly that leaks memory?
HostGator is also one of the largest consumer-facing web hosts for small sites. They don't require these checks from everyone, just orders flagged as high risk.

I'd imagine they're flagging these orders using a third party risk verification/fraud detection service. Sofa Moolah is registered in Australia, and International orders are a high indication of risk - especially as Australia's region of the world includes Malaysia (huge hotbed of credit card fraud).

Given the very large amount of fraud in web hosting (people ordering using fraudulent credit cards, that can result in $20-50 chargeback fees for that $8 account), it's not unreasonable to ask for verification. Annoying, but not unreasonable.
Ah yes and then when one tab crashes you lose all 100 tabs. Brilliant!
This is pretty cool, but it thinks I've quite a bit older than I am. :)

I don't think there's anything wrong with targeted ads - I for one am not opting out!
It is a big leap for a company...

Does anyone know where I could find resources (case studies, testimonials, etc) to promote remote work? 'Hard' data would certainly help convince the boss. Stories like this are great, but they'll need more concrete evidence to back it up.
That is pretty awesome, even if you can't trust it 100% I get a good idea of what you're relatively good at. Linkedin should do something like this.
"He had just sold 400 Bitcoins, he told Betabeat, which he planned to buy back in the morning."

"You can’t do more sophisticated strategies."

Which just shows that the entire finance sector is a side game of the market. Literally a casino with slightly better predictability. They produce nothing. They just move money around to make money. Not surprisingly, they're moving into another side game, less functional and strategic, but less regulated.
150+ line of CSS means you are doing something very wrong. That could easily be done in a lot less.
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I'd say more often than not that's the case I see. Is it ethical, though?
Same here; right now I have FF open with 30 tabs and Chromium with 10 (including Angry Birds, installed version) in a 2GB laptop and it's fine.
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Oh, I know full well that narrow columns are easier to read. I'm just not convinced that jumping from the bottom of one column to the top of the next is easier than scrolling and thus reducing vertical and lateral movement of the eyes. To me it seems optimal to reduce eye movement, but in fairness I am just assuming that is the case and drawing my conclusions from that assumption.
But I bet chrome is smoother - firefox goes crazy if I have one tab doing something heavy duty, all the others are sluggish. Still sticking with firefox though because of some plugins.
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For components not in the critical path, third party implementations are acceptable.

However, it is not surprising to see every piece in the critical path to be written in-house (feed handlers, for which there are many companies selling solutions) or rebuilt with heavy modifications (kernel).

I had intended to say hash function, but it was very late by the time I posted.
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"Plans to create new exceptions to copyright laws, including a "limited" right to copy legitimately purchased copyrighted material for private use were announced in the Government report. "

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So if I read this right, they are planning on legalising the act of ripping music off your Cds and listening to them on an iPod.

This isn't radical. It isn't even up-to-date.
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Lots and lots of talk about 'good', very, very little talk about elegant. Not to mention the ridiculous remarks about XOR. I find more often than not that those who have never at lest dabbled their hands in assembler tend to miss a number of things that they might otherwise appreciate. Elegance is one of them. Until you code without, it is hard to see how well something is at a higher level. But that is just the rant of someone who has been at this since the 70's :)
They appear to have nothing on me... Only feature on the page is the Opt Out button. Have I missed something?

No idea why they'd have nothing, I am signed in on Google services all the time.
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He doesn't seem concerned about salary - just a chance to prove himself. If he's really good the salary will take care of itself.
If they can't do anything special, and they are telling investors they are producing something revolutionary, that's a scam.

You can produce a search engine that uses LSA. Do a demo, and you can get impressive results (in some cases). But don't obscure the fact that you are using a relatively well-known technique, and ask for millions in funding on the basis that your not-so-secret sauce will make you the next Google.
The only way I'd hire this guy is if it was a parody. As a parody, it's pretty good, but as an actual reverse resume it just seems really weird. I'm sure he'll get a bunch of offers from other companies besides Google. I just don't see this type of stuff fitting in with Google's personality.
Dale and I worked together (more or less remotely) for a number of years. There is another side to this story that he doesn't bring out.

There are managerial challenges when you are responsible for for is working remotely. For the first 3 years or so of Hypernumbers we were rotating between 7- and 6- day working, going down to 5-day working in the summer.

The real concern when you are working with young developers (I was mid-40s, Dale was early 20s) is about burnout. Particularly with software developers. Young men working long and engaging hours with addictive work practices, with the usual poor dietary habits - this is a bad accident waiting to happen. At if.com we had a particular developer who physically turned green during a big push. Easy to spot in the work place, remotely not so much...

Dale has a quite common tendency for diurnal drift - a 25 hour cycle. Nothing wrong with it, slightly alarming when you sign off in chat at midnight, go to bed, start up at 7am when you get up and he's still there. Diurnal drift can rapidly turn into social isolation though (and a one way ticket to the bin).

Our industry has a lot of people at one end of the autistic spectrum - and remote working is not an policy for everyone.

Domestic circumstances also count a lot - support at home, friends, community stuff.

I heartily agree with what Dale says about communication, practices and procedures. I have long thought that the main lesson of open source projects is that they can only succeed if all the modalities are tip-top. We adopted 'open source processes' at hypernumbers to drive quality - and remotish working helped drive them in.

The circumstances of hypernumbers were a bit different though. Normally you would look to colocate the person specifying the system and the people who are writing it. With hypernumbers we spent the first couple of years essentially cloning Microsoft Excel so the business processes were optimised for remote working. (This is also one reason why open source programmes are dominated by clones.)

So it is a bit more nuanced I think than in his write up.

Would I hire remote workers again? Yes I would. Contrary to received wisdom I try and hire people from the 'other' end of the autistic spectrum (the end I would put Dale on).

On conventional measures of productivity (production SLOC per person per day) I would regard the experience at hypernumbers very highly - although the total difference in working procedures versus if.com where I have 'before' measurements from make it hard to allocate outcomes to a particular aspect of how we worked.
My analysis wasn't meant to be correct in the "this is how things are" sense. I was trying to demonstrate that, given the data "IE users have lower IQs on average" you cannot actually conclude anything about IE, as there are multiple factors that could drive that result. I was just providing one example, showing that a situation where IE is the best browser but still has lower IQ users on average could potentially exist.
The problem is that most people will slack off. To work remotely, you almost have to have the same discipline that you do when you work for yourself. Most people don't have this type of discipline.
I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but here goes...

I think there may be some truth to this rumor. I do a lot of advertising on TrafficVance which is basically pop-up advertising on computers with adware. One thing I noticed regarding the traffic I received to my landing pages was that a disproportionately high number of my visitors were using Internet Explorer. The percentages were so disproportionate that some of the advertisers I was working with flagged it as "suspicious." (This was thankfully cleared up when I explained to them how I get my traffic.)

For whatever reason, it seems like more Internet Explorer users have adware on their computer than users of other browsers. To me this shows that users of other browsers are more technologically literate than IE users, as you wouldn't expect a technologically literate person to have adware on his/her computer.

Does technological literacy correlate with intelligence? I don't know, that's not really for me to say, but I don't think we should be so hasty to dispel this notion simply because a study was faked.
I live in DC and that's what every summer intern says, it avoids the "Oh did you just finish sophomore to become a junior in 3 months, or just finish freshman to become a sophomore?" follow-up question.

It's a useful expression when you deal with college students over the summer.
Well if you check Facebook at work and go to Grooveshark, they can track you. I think they might even be able to gather some info if you logged out of Facebook but I'm only partially sure of that.