Nope, an individual who has built most of these things during their free time. I do spend a lot of my time trading and that helps me evolve strategies from a traders perspective and not a 'quant's' perspective
Thanks, this is quite bang on. Any good stuff is getting banned/archived/trolled and I am really missing on talking to people about the technicalities of some of the trading systems that I am building. When I mentioned an 'advanced community', I meant discussing with devs their experience in working with tick data, data storage, in memory processing. Qs like can they ingest tick data for a few thousand symbols and what kind of latencies exist in converting to candle sticks, what is the the stack that they trade using. Technicalities in risk management, handling of errors, directional, non directional strategies and in-depth conversations on almost all of the above topics and more
In the context of this article, it is only true for people who care as much, have spent years caring about their work and continue to do so. Surviving sufficiently long enough in the world where you get to a point where you are truly awesome at your craft and still get to make these choices and worry about them and think about them and have those choices bother you is the realm of very few fantastic people.
>TL;DR - Zynga's profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile.
That is not the right summary. Aquisitions are not expenses. They are spent from the 'capital/capital reserves'. So the act of acquiring doesn't hurt the company's profitability directly. However if all the acquired companies are making losses, those losses will now become zynga's losses. So right now the cost of running zynga is huge and that is not too good a thing as compared to its revenues
The itunes app has only 117 videos? Or are you mentioning some other method? While the http://metated.petarmaric.com/ link mentions a total of 936 downloads
Does anyone know of a way to keep synching all the TED videos as and when they are uploaded? My goal is to maintain a local copy on my machine so that I can view them whenever I like. Any downloaders that can do the job?
10/10 for your IPv4 stability and readiness, when publishers offer both IPv4 and IPv6
0/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go IPv6 only
Care about your business. Care about your people. Care about your people. Care about your company. I mean really care. Obsess. That is what gives you the best possible chance at building something great.
For me the amount of votes did matter - it gave you a quick idea as to where some of the most important comments were within the thread. Also HN seems to having far lesser activity - this someone with actual data might want to check and get back
In a sales organization you can tie people upto a similar performance incentive structure, because everyone (the majority) sell. The key being, the people you are incentivizing should have the ability to move the story forward. I find it odd about the entire co's bonus being attached to social, when the entire co is not allowed/designed to 'do social'.
What is the point of incentivizing gmail/maps/apps/search to do social? (some social widgets make not a coherent social strategy).
Its a textbook wrong move. May be implementation details differ - but that info is available in the article
A customer of sendgrid as well and we send over a million emails a month using their services. Now we will try to send alerts/non transactional emails through amazon ses to test them out. The price difference is too big to ignore.