The toolchain isn't the point. That's the difference between someone with business judgment and a plain ol' geek.

Agreed. This kind of thing would definitely get an interview from me as well. Stands out very well against a sea of indistinguishable resumes from big-name schools. There's simply no substitute for actually showing that you can do quality work!

If this interests you, definitely consider taking https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive

The term "hedge fund" covers a tremendous range of firms. That said I would look out for the same things you'd look out for in any funding arrangement: price, control, dilution, liquidation preference, unusual rights, etc. If you're just looking for money, it all spends the same as long as it doesn't come with onerous terms. However, you won't get any of the putative benefits of working with a "real" VC: access, guidance, services, follow-on funding, etc. You definitely do not want to end up with a cap table comprised of one line item for founders and one line item for the "hedge fund"'s investment on some weird-ass terms; that will make it nigh-on impossible to secure follow-on funding. I would feel best about taking this kind of money if I had a "real" VC as the lead investor and the hedge fund folks were minority, pari passu, and personally known to me. Also, DO NOT sign any document without legal support. Make the legal relationship, spend the money, understand what you're being asked to agree to, and PUSH BACK if you don't like the terms being offered. A broken structure is not the foundation you want.

Sound advice! Thanks.

Would love to buy you a beer and hear more of your story, should you visit SF.

I might take you up on that offer. Thinking about visiting SF soon to see if its time for me to move down there.

Please email if you do.

Love it. I hope they can deliver meaningful throughput.

Colchis Capital Management / San Francisco, CA

Contract, FTE, remote, intern, relocation, visa sponsorship all possible for the right fit.

Competitive compensation.

Three opportunities:

1. Help us build our next-generation automated trading system. We are building in Go, and Python would be useful. There are interesting challenges in profiling/optimization (across layers of the stack), distributed testing strategy, distributed tracing and monitoring, interpreter/compiler design and implementation.

2. Help us build our internal user facing "single pane of glass", which will provide visibility into and control of our systems. Deep front-end juju required: know JavaScript for real, plus a solid grasp of HTML/CSS. Have an opinion on JS tooling (including frameworks such as React or AngularJS) because I don't. :)

3. Own our on-premise infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 / Active Directory experience, plus networking and storage system experience, required. Bonus points for SAS, Tableau Server, or SQL Server administration experience. We're looking for someone that geeks out hard on infrastructure IT.

In each case, interest in or experience with modern *nix DevOps tooling would be a bonus.

Please get in touch if you're interested: my first name @colchiscapital.com

-Jon

What's the collective noun for a party of lawyers?

I believe that's called a 'firm'.

Cesspool

I propose: A quibble

first-parters

I did this class. It is quite challenging (and rewarding). If you plan to do it make sure to allocate a significant amount of time per week. My recommendation would be to do the Java version of the assignments over the C++ version, even if you know C++. The codebase provided is pretty crufty.

If you're interested in this, check out MAPS: http://www.maps.org/

They are doing a great deal to push this research forward and have been for decades.

John Gilmore, founder of the EFF, is on the board of directors, as is David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps and grandson of Dr. Bronner himself. Dilute! Dilute! Dilute!