rafkin98's comments

On: How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47B Company...

[rafkin98]

I do - furniture/equipment fire sales in 2001 and RE/cars in 2009. Next one will be a combination of everything ;-)

On: FizzBuzz in ten languages

[rafkin98]

I like Ruby one liner from https://commandercoriander.net/blog/2013/02/03/fizzbuzz-in-o...

puts (1..100).map { |i| (fb = [["Fizz"][i % 3], ["Buzz"][i % 5]].compact.join).empty? ? i : fb }

On: The U.S. Yield Curve Has Inverted

[rafkin98]

The classic recession signal that most follow is a 2-10 inversion.

On: How I made $500k with machine learning and high fr...

[rafkin98]

And that's the beauty of it - take it or leave it.

On: Amazon.com criticising new iPad on homepage

[rafkin98]

First of all, the whole "attack" starts with a Gizmodo quote. Nuff said.

"They are very effectively competing in the market for tablets." Yep, it doesn't take a genius to sell anything at loss.

[Evbn → rafkin98]

Amazon is a big company. Net loss overall doesn't mean the tablet is at a net loss.

[jmelloy → Evbn]

Except for the part where they announced their margins on the tablet were at best razor thin.

[res0nat0r → jmelloy]

This is already a known fact. Their hardware margins are razor thin because they are using the hardware to drive movie, music, book and shopping sales.

On: Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries

[rafkin98]

Exactly. These kind of bonuses are not uncommon...

On: Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries

[rafkin98]

And I forgot to mention that 128K is really a low end for finance software guys. It's not uncommon to see salaries about 200K for experienced guys even outside of Manhattan ;-)

On: Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries

[rafkin98]

Nope, software engineers and quantitative analyst are two different positions. The first one is building an infrastructure (market data feeds listeners, caches,...) for second one (which builds model based on that infrastructure). Been there, seen that...

[ImprovedSilence → rafkin98]

Good point. And now that I think of it that way, It wouldn't surprise me that the software engineers in finance are not making google money. I guess I thought the parent was surprised because he was thinking quants.

On: Google releases standalone Youtube iOS app

[rafkin98]

It seems that AirPlay is not built-in...

On: Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB c...

[rafkin98]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47537683