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As someone who's worked in and with a lot of Hedge Funds, he's not a Hedge Fund Manager: he's a trader. What that means in general is that while he's going to be very well paid w.r…

I've worked at several financial institutions. This could actually be based on their agreed negotiated rates with preferred airline(s). If they booked less than the negotiated rate…

I liked this article so much that I wrote a response ( http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-vcs-dont-charge-t... ) about a reasonable policy that I wish all VCs would adopt: …

1) Go to a doctor, and get diagnosed as to how bad things have gotten. You catch it early, and you just change behavior. A little later? Cortisone injections. Too late? Surgery tha…

The problem that I've always found with it is that I've seen it so horribly abused that I'm just not sure that there's a reasonable subset that you can nail down that won't just ca…

I'm the CEO of a VC-backed financial technology company that's been in stealth mode for almost a year (coming out of the proverbial closet later on today), and we had a number of r…

gzipping JSON or XML compares relatively favorably against a pure-binary protocol for suitably large messages, but not for pretty small messages. In addition, the speed of the comp…

Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing? Link to Avro: http://hadoop.apache.…

I intentionally left Apple out, actually. While Apple definitely has done work in some back-end technologies, a $1Bn acquisition for something so clearly outside their current stra…

FWIW, this isn't an EU thing, it's a national thing. Immigration from outside the EU is 100% left to the member states, and it's why I can't work in the rest of the EU until I get …

We all know each other and mostly hang out on twitter to be honest. Try me (@kirkwy), @monkchips, @monadic, @cpswan, @codepope, @leastfixedpoint, ... Seriously, though, I've not re…

Seriously? Was that a joke? Hacker News is largely American because it's an outgrowth of YC, which is American Only. I would hardly think having a website portray a particular prov…

You should join her and move back here to blighty. I can say that we've now got a pretty vibrant tech scene here in London and have sources of investment lined up and ready to go.

They have one. It involves a $1MM investment and no employment options (you have to "invest" it and can't work for the firm(s) in which you "invest").

FWIW, I'd say I dress well, just casually.

Really? If you decide to move to London or New York, I have a number of very tech friendly financial institutions I could introduce you to. And anybody attempting to do algo tradin…

If you work in an environment that views programmers purely as a cost of business, and doesn't value their input, you've found a bad environment. The best firms that make massive u…

No, I actually think most programmers don't want the old-skool Microsoft approach of not emerging from their private offices more than once a week. I honestly believe that most pro…