alienfluid

Wut. The SEC doesn't dictate how a company is valued - it's up to the markets and the participants. There is no "right way" to value a company.

Not sure what the author is talking about.

Axial (http://www.axial.net/about/current-openings/) - fulltime, New York, VISA-transfers OK

We are hiring backend, frontend and QA engineers. Our stack consists of Python micro-services (Pyramid web framework) talking to each other over a Kafka message bus. For the frontend, we are in the process of transitioning to AngularJS.

The office is located in the Flatiron district and is right in the middle of great food, public parks and entertainment. Perks include 24/7 access to great coffee -- Blue Bottle, Stumptown, Intelligentsia to name a few, healthy snacks, weekly catered lunch and a gym membership (right around the block) (among others!).

We are trying to make the private capital markets more efficient by bringing together entrepreneurs, advisors and capital providers. Backed by First Round, Comcast Ventures and Redpoint Ventures among others, this year is going to be a big one!

Send me an email at farhan.ahmed@axial.net if you have any other questions. Also, check out our engineering blog - http://axialcorps.com/

These are equations that changed the world, for better or for worse.

Black-Scholes opened up a whole world of asset pricing that much of the financial system today is based on. It can be argued that it did indeed have a deep effect on the state of the world through developments in modern finance.

FWIW we are a Go shop (well, mostly) and are hiring. Check out cbinsights.com/jobs if you're interested.

I haven't looked into it yet, but it shouldn't be too hard. If nothing more, it could be a simple wrapper over the existing email protocol.

You're spot on about why coding is fun!

Edit: thanks, btw!

This was a weekend hack but I'll take the compliment!

Oh cool! Did not know about this.

OP here -- happy to answer anything that's not clear in the post!

Is there a strong correlation between being active on Twitter and being a successful CEO?

That's fair. I was just wondering why the MBA was specifically mentioned in the comments.

Would it have been better to hire someone from the outside with no experience in software/technology AND no MBA?

Just trying to see if you (parent and g-parent) consider an MBA an overall negative signal, regardless of someone's background.

I wrote up a post [1] about running my own mail server a few months ago. I ran into issues with my emails being rejected by certain ISPs (AOL for instance) even though I (supposedly) had set up SPF and DKIM. Ended up moving to Outlook.com using my domain. Hope you have better luck!

[1] http://farhan.org/running-my-own-mail-server.html

Hey folks - author here. I wrote this as a way to introduce some of my colleagues to R and (hopefully) have them be more productive in their jobs. I welcome your feedback on how I can improve the content. My email is on my profile. Thanks!

Personal opinion, based on:

- Lack of traction as evidenced by dismal ratings on the App Store compared to competitors - Supposed focus on international markets without clear commitment to establishing a presence there - HR troubles (as commenter linked to below) - Indication that money is being spent on paid installs by virtue of placing in the top 100 in Chad and Niger

What an utter waste of capital.

CB Insights (http://www.cbinsights.com) - Front End Developer (Full Time), New York City, NY

Want to build beautiful, intuitive UIs and data visualizations that will enable world class venture capital firms and Fortune 500 corporations to predict the future?

You have:

Extensive experience with Javascript, CSS and HTML, as that will be your primary focus. We work with d3.js, knockout.js, and jQuery to name a few tools.

You don't need to know them all but you're excited at the prospect of learning about them.

Strong programming skills, you laugh off your peers who dismiss Javascript as a second rate language.

Familiarity with the full stack, as you will be called upon to do things such as pull data from an API.

An eye for design.

You enjoy:

Building data visualizations like the ones we use for our Investor Mosaic models.

Working with a talented team, but are self-motivated and have the ability to work alone too.

Developing and maintaining great software with an emphasis on speed and scalability.

You want to help us:

Discover ways of presenting data to our customers that will make them better at what they do.

Continually improve our product by developing new features and enhancing current ones.

Ultimately disrupt an information services industry whose software applications still look like they were built in 1983.

Send an email to career@cbinsights.com if you're interested. More jobs here: http://cbinsights.com/jobs

Original email with headers: http://alienfluid.com/email.txt

The email is quite predatory and I suspect quite a few vulnerable people are going to fall for it. Just goes to show how sophisticated and targeted spam mail is getting (no longer do you just get emails for V1AGRA!).

Um ... thanks!?

I haven't had an interview in over 6 years, but I have been approached by multiple recruiters in the same time span.

I actually dread the day I choose to switch jobs and have to face another technical interview - considering that my knowledge of college-level CS has declined over time. It's not because I am less skilled now than I was before, it's because you don't have to constantly create fantastically fast algorithms on a daily basis (at least in my job!).

The skills that I have developed over the past 6 years - designing complex components that interact with other complex components in a hugely complex product, making improvements in the design of a 20 year old codebase, deciding between fixing a bug and compatibility etc., intuition about design choices and how they fit in the product, and yes, debugging (!) - none of these are covered in technical interviews these days.

Sure, I could explain how a b-tree works - but that's not going to help me resolve my next bug.

Thinking about this from a technical point of view, would it make sense for Netflix (or even ISPs) to put in content-aware routers than can cache frequently requested bits?

Won't this help, to a certain extent, alleviate the congestion? Of course, the assumption here is that for a large enough population, you will have more than one person requesting the same content in a given time period.

I believe what people are protesting is that austerity measures, more often than not, are enforced upon services that benefit the middle to low income working class, rather than on the corporations that were complicit in creating the problem in the first place.

They are protesting for a more balanced approach.

I guess you're not familiar with the joke then :-$

Lol .. I haven't tried traveling with Alien Fluid yet, but will let you know how that goes ;). It's Ahmed that gets me caught up every time.

I already have an OS :D

If your name is even remotely "exotic" (and mine seems to be), good luck checking in online - apparently one way tickets trigger some alarm in the depths of DHS.

The upgrade's going - another 40 minutes or so.

Pro-tip for people with laptops that have switchable graphics - Go into your BIOS and set the default to "Discrete graphics" and not "Switchable". Otherwise Ubuntu will default to integrated and you'll miss out on all the fancy animations.

Interesting read, though as always, a little extreme. Eating lunch with co-workers 2-3 times a week is sufficient - sometimes you have a life outside of work too!

Also, I can vouch for the fact that cafeterias at Microsoft are NOT cheap - quite the opposite actually. You can get a better deal almost anywhere outside campus.

LOL @ "Excuse me, I’d love to introduce myself to you, but it’s very important that I update my cabbage."

Exactly what I thought. This is what real engineering looks like.

How is this compared to SkyDrive?