drelihan

beautifully done. I particularly like the reports on single stocks --- e.g. Overview screen and income/cf/balance sheets

Easy, construct your daily todos based on your long-term goals list. That is, a task does not even get to sit on your daily todo list unless it supports a long term goal.

Intex | Programmer | Needham, MA

Intex Solutions, Inc. is the world's leading provider of structured fixed-income cashflow models and related analytical software.

We are a small, established company about 20 minutes outside of downtown Boston. Really smart, motivated people to work with and significant responsibilities from the start. We are a very flat organization, so must be self-motivated and willing to take ownership of projects with minimal guidance.

The official description is here: http://www.intex.com/main/company_careers.php

Reach out to me at dan@intex.com if you are interested ( I have worked here for almost 12 years as a programmer and will try my best not to give you the hard sell this place deserves ).

It's unlikely that 500m or 800m investment is 1.) all in cash or 2.) given out on day 1. If there are proper investor controls in place, cash is likely staged in and noncash vests over time as milestones are hit. At least, I hope that is the way it is setup...

seems like mix of both home and office work could work well --- work at home at the tasks that are most productive in a home environment and come into the office to collaborate on problems together and do things that can't be done as well at home.

mostly C here

Here are some of my favorites from the year ( ranked in how much they changed my thinking ):

- The Art of Being Unreasonable ( Eli Broad ) - Alibaba ( Clark ) - The Box ( Levinson ) - King Icahn ( Stevens ) - Expert C Programming ( Linden ) - A Passion to Win ( Redstone ) - Chaos Monkeys ( Martinez ) - A Truck Full of Money ( Kidder ) - The Hidden Wealth of Nations ( Zucman ) - Dead Wake ( Larson )

How does yahoo have a billion accounts???

That's very similar to saying why haven't Perl 5 folks switched to Ruby or Python or whatever. For all intents and purposes, Perl 6 is a different language with a very similar sounding name. Those folks who have used Perl 5 and built up systems around it, they are only going to switch if there is a compelling reason to.

I'd help her get connected with a mentor / tutor she likes. Having a resource to bounce ideas of and help guide her through tough spots can be very helpful.

"Losers always whine about trying to hire the best...." - J.P. Mason

"The best" is a relative measure. An absolute measure must be set first and gatekeepers put in place to guard it. Then, do all you can to find candidates exceeding that measure and then pick the best FIT you can from there.

blisterpeanuts is right on...

Call up your friends and tell them you are looking for a new gig. Your peers will likely make better matches and more meaningful intros to companies you'd actually want to work for than recruiters.

I am shocked that A SaaS survey would ever need 100 people never mind having 100 it was able to let go.

ok, so some of the best minds on Earth can build a machine to detect gravitational waves from an event 1.3B light years away. This is an incredible motivation for those of us on what is possible with technology in simple terrestrial projects.

you're right, web scraping is dull ( it was a big, but important part of my job for a number of years ). The interesting, and non-trivial, part comes on how to use the data you have scraped.

Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Java are all (mostly) built in C ( not to mention most databases ). Why not learn to program in C?

Perl and C here mostly. C89, that is. Both are widely used languages, just not in the startup space. a lot of our stuff is built on those languages so it wouldn't make sense to rewrite a lot of the stuff at this point unless there was a business case for it.

I was asked this question in an interview 10+ years ago. I thought it was a really good question to promote logical discussions. Lots of branches and extensions you can add to see how people think. Really fun.

Car nearly hits cyclist .... Wait no, the car actually hits cyclist dozens of times per day...

Entered my info. Got a call within five minutes and was then asked the exact same info. Company said I don't use enough electricity to make it worth it. Wonder how much they had to pay Google for that lead

how to help people --- you learn to do that and a lot of other stuff will fall in place.

The board approved the merger, but a majority of the shareholders need to approve. Once 50% of shares have been tendered to Hot Topic presented, then the acquisition can go through.

Ministry of Supply sells The Armstrong, a space suit for the modern man - http://ministryofsupply.com/pages/the-armstrong

Contact info sent

Proposal: I have the cash and reasonable business/tech experience, but not the bandwidth to run a "full-time side project" ( does that term make sense to anyone other than me? ). Would consider putting up capital to fund purchase and an initial operating budget if a willing and capable partner presents himself or herself to operate the site. I would take a "board of directors" - type role ( periodic advice and oversight, but not involved day to day ). You would be the CEO. If you'd be interested in something like this, shoot me a message and we'll talk.

Did you have a list of extremely successful companies you were looking at specifically when you wrote this? If so, I'd be interested in seeing that list to compare

"When you disable this setting, your friends will be less likely to benefit from your recommendations." - I'm surprised that even my computer could render these bytes with a straight face.

Plastiq opens up a lot more borrowers and lending opportunities for the processing networks ( e.g. people use their Visa on items they previously could not --- tuition, rent, etc. ), so Plastiq is able to negotiate some of the lowest rates in the business.

The chart showing the trading volume is priceless

I cannot imagine a worse way to spend 3 months.