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by nv-vn 1y ago
Then what are they doing at work all day??? If they spend 20% of their week slacking off then they would get paid more if they just worked the whole time and got more done
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by nv-vn 2y ago
Tbf, this is page 13 of the list. If you go to the first page, Saudi Aramco made $230B with 73k employees according to their website. This is still ~3x as much profits/employee as VeriSign. FAANGs are pretty comparable as well. It&#x27
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by nv-vn 2y ago
>Today, Verisign is the single most profitable company in the stock market, a great example of an economic termite This is just blatantly false. VeriSign is in fact the 1215th most profitable company in the stock market [1]. By operating
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by nv-vn 5y ago
Sounds like they're already using Rust where performance matters and are looking to switch
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by nv-vn 5y ago
This is a terribly misinformed take. If you throw enough resources at Python then sure, you can probably get adequate throughput . The problem is that in finance a lot of problems require you to think about latency , which is a total non-
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by nv-vn 5y ago
Well they only publish trades ~30 days later. There's no real chance of front-running a politician and for all you know they could've closed their position before the 30 day period ended. Plus, if people follow them into the trade
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by nv-vn 5y ago
I think maybe the key idea I was missing here is that the type of a variable is not always the same as the type of the scope it was defined in? If I'm understanding correctly, there's an implicit rule that's missing: a
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by nv-vn 5y ago
I find the explanation for the sequencing rule rather unsatisfying. Why shouldn't the following be true? b : lb d : ld ------------------------------- a := b :>> c := d : max lb ld Otherwise, it seems li
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by nv-vn 5y ago
I've interviewed with a reputable company (mentioned on HN frequently) that performs background checks before interviewing you on-site
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by nv-vn 5y ago
Doesn't Tesla pay more than GM?
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by nv-vn 5y ago
I think you may be comparing salary to total comp here, though I'll admit I haven't looked for the source for your $105k figure.
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by nv-vn 6y ago
As an American o had the exact opposite impression -- every European company I've applied to has requested one. Interesting to see that it was just an outlier experience (and I suspect your experience was the same)
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I suspect that removing that functionality would take more work than can be accomplished in 1 day, which is why they temporarily suspended it and why they're adding "limited buys" tomorrow
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Either way, it would be illegal to say that they closed their position for the sake of influencing the market. The SEC really doesn't play around with that type of thing in such a high profile case
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by nv-vn 6y ago
That connection is like 3 degrees of separation at best, though. Robinhood sells order flow to a number of market makers, one of which is Citadel Securities [1]. Citadel Securities is part of the Citadel group, which consists of a hedge fun
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by nv-vn 6y ago
After I stopped using non-stick, I realized it was kind of a cheat method for cooking. Non-stick is super forgiving because you can cook anything too hot/too cold with too much/too little oil and get approximately the same result.
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by nv-vn 6y ago
>For whatever reason, papers ... that ... use data to make arguments about productivity, safety, etc. always seem unconvincing to me. ... maybe it's just because the way most programmers write code doesn't matter to me, because
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by nv-vn 6y ago
>while those of us who worked on crypto without any specific feelings are early retirees I'm sure all the Enron investors said something similar before they went bust
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by nv-vn 6y ago
That mindset pisses me off so much. Every time someone asks me about advice for an interview and I don't mention doing hours of leetcode studying they accuse me of lying and trying to sabotage them because _obviously_ the only way to p
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I think the 2008ish version of the internet was just a much happier place. Part of why HN feels like a breath of fresh air still
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Someone needs to do the same for YouTube ca. 2007
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I'm a little disappointed that there's so little analysis on the free form questions. I can't remember what I answered, so I was looking through some of these free form questions to try and identify my comments. I kept thinki
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by nv-vn 6y ago
> High speed trading has no societal value And investment banking does? >Even just charging a dollar for every "bad faith" bid or offer made that expires without being within, say, 10% of the actual price, would put a big de
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Jane Street is not a hedge fund and they're pretty well-known for having a huge emphasis on high quality/maintainable code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUqvXHEjmus
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Because they would hire the person in hopes of new ideas.
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by nv-vn 6y ago
>Jane Street has spent decades developing their own trading models and machine learning solutions to identify profitable opportunities and quickly decide whether to execute trades. These models help Jane Street trade thousands of financi
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by nv-vn 6y ago
100% agree. For a long time I got by with my resume just covering achievements at a high level without any numbers. Every time I asked for resume advice, people suggested adding more numbers to it. Having worked on building up a lot of infr
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by nv-vn 6y ago
Yes, the real criticism of this article should have focused on the hard-to-fix problem of performance because it seemed absolutely abysmal to me -- multiple seconds before the page showed up as anything but black on both Firefox & Chrom
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by nv-vn 6y ago
People say stuff like this all the time but the truth is that Google as a company has very little direction at the scale of niche software like this. Google as an organization is not pushing Flutter in any meaningful capacity or trying to c
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by nv-vn 6y ago
I think this article is far too cynical. These demos show an early version of Flutter Web rather than a stable, production-ready system. I'm not sure how the author stumbled across Flutter Web and thought otherwise, but I think they la

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