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Hire cheap H1-bs, then your product doesn't work.

I interviewed at the NYSE a few years ago. Everyone was Indian.

Actually, it was a bad example. Suppose you spend $1M to produce something worth $100k. You lost $900k. But suppose you borrowed at 0% while inflation was (to use round numbers) 10…

Finance is complex because: 1. If a transaction is complex, it's easy to sucker people into buying. Why would anyone buy a structured product? 2. If a transaction is complex, both …

My employer originally had a Wordpress-based blogging product. They spent more than $2M writing their own blogging system, and it still was missing many features that come with Wor…

It depends on whether you are a recent college grad or not. A recent college grad will probably believe the hype. An experienced candidate is more likely to see it as just another …

Answer: There is some neat stuff happening at Google, but the typical employee is doing the boring maintenance that any large business requires. As a bonus insult, they're ridiculo…

My attitude is that, if they're going to close a question as offtopic, then put it in your robots.txt for Google to exclude that page. Why is StackOverflow polluting Google with co…

What makes this a HARD puzzle is that the pieces don't completely fill the area. That dramatically increases the solution search space.

Run your own mailserver - postfix + roundcube. It'll take you some time to set it up, but it will be educational!

Your main problem would be getting enough paid subscribers to cover the cost. Also, you should do it as a website rather than a print newspaper. There already are several "conspira…

They are transferable skills BUT it's very hard to find a job that isn't a keyword match for your previous job. I have a lot of C/C++ experience, but that experience has a market v…

I thought Facebook is killing it because they have a large lock-in network effect for their users. You have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook.

1. Math - You probably should know real analysis, abstract algebra, linear algebra, and some logic. 2. Whatever else interests you

That's what I figured - a lot of people who say "Java is as fast as C" aren't doing proper compiler optimizations on their C. I suspected that was true, but I didn't spend the time…

If you don't put in ANY optimization flags, it puts in full debugging info, which slows things down a lot. I don't know anything about Java optimization.

What compiler settings were you using? In my experience, C is faster than Java if you turn on full optimization settings.

Due to accounting/tax rules, "qualified incentive" options are required to be priced at "fair value". It's better for you to just ask for more equity. However, realize that equity …

Law of Headlines says "no". My experience also says no. The two issues I'm facing are: 1. Due to technology churn, after a couple years of experience, your experience loses its mar…

If you do open database connection do one insert close database connection That adds up fast. At work, I've been very disappointed in the performance of their Amazon RDS. They had …

Ask for an exec-level title if you pick #1. In an early stage startup, it's easy to get. It makes it harder for them to hire someone over you later.

Your index wouldn't be clustered, is it? For a regular index, insert is O(log n). For a clustered index, insert is O(n). You can also bulk insert records, rather than 1 at a time. …

+1 for sell, before they depreciate Use the money to rent an ordinary VPS (aws, linode, etc.) There's no reason to own your own servers unless you have unicorn-level success, and N…

Get a friend or relative to buy the puts for you.

For 2D images, fractals can be used for image compression. I don't know if any of the popular image compression algorithms use this method.