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Bit of a difference between patenting something and it actually turning up in iOS as a "feature"

    with 3000+ employees (which is, frankly insane)

Keep in mind that's not 3000 developers, I believe it's mostly people calling out to set up deals, so basically a massive call centre.

JavaDoc can be good, there's nothing to stop you including short usage examples for a class. Not that it's that common...

Direct link: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/sp11/cs525/sched.htm

Isn't that just the default dock? i.e. in the screenshot the guy has just created a new account for himself, and is deleting the original owner's account?

     you should NEVER rely on ANY API

Well that's a bit extreme, a better approach would be to acknowledge that your reliance on an external API is a risk that you're taking in order to save the development costs of DIY. If it's critical to your system, you need to have as part of your risk management a plan B that you can either switch to, or develop in the background. But overall trading development time for some risk makes sense a lot of the time.

Unless the API is something with no alternative, and not easy to replicate, then you have an issue.

Had a year off traveling. First lot of interviews after that, everyone was very suspicious - e.g. wondering if the plan was to work for a few months then take off again. Fast forward two years when interviewing again everyone thought it was a "fantastic life experience". Basically employers saw it as a risk first time around, second time around it was proven that my intentions were good. YMMV.

I think Google could handle spending a bit of extra time on a single diff, in order to save 25% of their update bandwidth. Maybe they should just implement the thesis.

You're assuming that there are enough buyers at $80 to take 100% of the offered stock.

    I assume any kind of OS or HLL is out of the question.

Not really, computers are fast! Per message costs of a few microseconds are pretty standard even in Java/C# stuff.

Which explains how McLaren's strategy calls can vary between brilliance - when the models get it right - and stupefyingly bizarre when the simulation diverges from reality.

    Google's main problems are not in hiring more people

There's also some incentive for them to get good people before the competition does. It's not like they can't afford the salaries.

Dividends are basically saying "we're returning earnings because you can probably invest them better than we can". It's up to the investor balance their portfolio and decide how much money they have invested in the company, dividends are supposed to be that mechanism.

Step 0 - have enough traction that you need to worry about sharding.

can't wait to break this out next time it comes up in an interview!

if things are slow, check EXPLAIN first.

A big name company with a good reputation at the start of your career is a good social proof, since you would have beaten a lot of people to the role, and have been exposed to a successful way of doing things. Other things are important too but it means far from zero.

You're confusing retail and investment banking.

Seeing as the word "latency" doesn't make an appearance anywhere on the page, I'm assuming anyone doing audio work will still benefit from a decent card. (Why? Because when you hit a key on your midi keyboard/drums, and want it to be like playing a piano/drumkit, you want the minimum latency before you hear the note so it feels more like the real thing)

it was 300k over 3 years... so your offer probably wasn't that far off!

If your product integrates with existing systems in any way, or even is still just a fairly minimal product, this doesn't really apply. You can have clients who are willing to pay for example for reports your product generates, but it's useless to them unless your product accepts data from one of their systems. You still need to prioritize requests, but to say they're not real buyers is extreme. If you don't believe they'll really become clients, that's what contracts (and maybe letters of intent) are for.

If you know that's on the cards when hiring, then I'm sure it's a filter you might not use otherwise, i.e. can I handle having this person at the lunch table every day.

  Joel dictating my lunch choices

I'm pretty sure Joel isn't going to freak if you go out for lunch to meet some other friends, go somewhere different, or just to go for a walk, or to an appointment.

The median can also be an actual salary, which may or may not give it away.

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ is an excellent resource for the UK for this.

For a non-pro setup you're going to be accepting significant scope limitations in production - you're not going to be scanning the full real time feed across the whole market. Without colocation HFT isn't really an option either. So you can restrict your strategies to medium frequency against a small universe of assets which makes the technical side easier. Also the data side you won't need a full set of data, e.g. tickdata.com has data at $20/symbol/year (https://store.tickdata.com/prices?productMarketId=PRODUCT_MA...)

Anyone can participate in open source. That's not correct - plenty of employment contracts lay claim to any contributions, which means the projects can't accept them.

$8/trade is high, Interactive Brokers for example are $0.005/share, $1 minimum.

So the purchase price is 50k, but presumably the fuel and maintenance costs are significant? If you actually want to fly the thing I'm guessing your outlay is going to be more than $10?

It's not all bad, Square just got in the news again as a result.