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I can't speak for every company out there, but for us, we've discovered that resumes and whiteboard challenges are bad predictors of great engineers. So, we simply come up with a s…

The release of the news might move the market a bit, but typically for these large volume trades, they don't go through the typical exchanges like NYSE. Instead, traders will often…

It's interesting that you bring this up. Every time I take an uber or lyft (which is very often), I ask the driver which one they prefer. Around early 2019, I've noticed a lot of d…

But it's 2019 about to be 2020. Surely people can easily automate this aspect of recruiting?

Yeah, very true. But it's kind of sad that people like me, who still dress according to comfort get grouped in with the status and conformity faction.

This is a pretty interesting point of view. I had always thought that it's just something that was passed down as tradition since it seemed that back in the days, men always wore s…

Does anyone else find it out that the people (recruiters) in charge of finding good tech talent often have no experience in programming themselves? So, my question is how do they k…

I never understood the bias on work attire from both sides. It's silly to judge people's abilities based on what they like to wear period. The whole point of casual dressing in Tec…

If you're still interested, you can email me directly, and I'd be happy to send you some of the stuff I was able to dig up.

Yep! That's exactly right. We keep that in reserve in a 3rd party account :) Also, you have a great point on the perception problem, which is what we are trying to tackle right now…

You're absolutely right about the correlation changes. However, gold's correlation to the general market was developed organically by human behavior over time. That does often chan…

You're getting warmer ;) We also don't just hedge with options on 1 index, so a blend of hedging instruments can get us pretty close to 100% granularity. Any percentage points that…

Yeah data is always a big headache haha, so I feel your pain. We use MLS data to obtain housing prices historically. We don't use government data for median income, instead, we est…

Thanks for the comment, but at the moment we do not cover closing costs or agent fees. In the event that there is appreciation, but is minimal. We recommend that our client buys us…

Your point is very valid. Closing costs and other fees related to real estate transactions are something we do not cover at the moment. Our belief is that there shouldn't even be a…

That's interesting, we'll take a look. Thanks for the suggestion!

Wow! I knew it wasn't as high as 90% death rate, but 50% survival rate is actually quite high!

Thanks for the kind words Doreen, your father sounds like a wise man :) We have tried to engineer the agreement to the point where only during times of nuclear war or some crazy na…

You're correct in that many financial instruments with traditionally inverse correlation started moving differently. However, this is mainly from the natural correlation between tw…

Sorry that the post wasn't as clear. My intention with that line was to walk people through the process step by step. Of course, we engineer the product so that we can pay people b…

Love this suggestion! We have been toying with the best way to personalize the properties shown to each individual user. Right now it's just by city, max price and property type. W…

Thanks for the feedback, you bring up some really interesting points. 1. I think what you're saying (and please correct me if i'm wrong) is that we could go after people who aren't…