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clevernapkins

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    I take the opposite approach and almost always finish the full interview. They took the time out of their day to do this and it at least gives them practice. It also leaves the com…

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    Comment #28566130

    Take a job with a lesser title / pay but in exchange get exposure to the new tech you want. Do that for a year or two and the next position you'll be back on par.

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    Comment #25944205

    Front running is illegal indeed. But it would be possible to use Robinhood's order flow data to detect momentum and decide to hold a position from that. Small difference but the ef…

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    Comment #17366345

    that seems like a really low amount of money for the things you're giving up. particularly given your already good salary in a presumably low COL area

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    Comment #16926741

    I get my data from quandl.com If you do equities Quantopian gives you a free backtesting platform with tick data going back to 2003. Pretty useful to just start hacking some ideas …

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    Comment #16926567

    I have an equities strategy that I run on IB. I think it is possible to generate alpha with a small account if you do it right e.g. don't compete with big funds in HFT. There's a c…

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    Comment #13901186

    I'm confused. Seems like they have been trying to sell shares directly to parties in order to use their preferred agreements in regards to financial disclosures and annual reports?…

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    Comment #12107433

    Hi everybody, I made this while playing around with node and react. It's free, open source, allows anonymous registration and has an open api.

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    Comment #5295434

    I don't believe it's available yet as they recently closed the beta testing period.

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    Comment #5294536

    I agree, for a while I was a beta tester for another spreadsheet app on the Ipad : http://www.binarythumb.com/ It's pretty awesome even if you don't do Excel-like things with it. J…

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    Comment #5266893

    There was a relevant article recently about monetizing tasks to see if it made people more efficient. The idea was to give someone $X every time they completed a task. The end resu…

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    Comment #5253181

    It seems they are charging ~.5% on top of whatever Vanguard charges, whose own expenses are typically around .3%. For the general case it probably makes more sense to just invest i…