kefeizhou

SEEKING WORK | NYC | Remote

I’m a NYC-based fractional CTO/VPE. Previously bootstrapped CloserIQ (tech-enabled recruiting) and WISE (ERG for sales teams) to a team of 60+ and reached profitability. My experience most aligns with tech startups going from 0 > 10. I love to help companies build great products and teams in a capital-efficient way.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kefeizhou

Email: kefei.zhou [at] gmail [dot] com

Marketir - NYC / New York - Full-time and Intern

Marketir is a early stage startup building career network and tools for sales professionals. We're a small team of engineers looking for another full-stack python developer to take on a lot of responsibilities. We use python, flask, angular, D3, mysql, mongodb, vagrant, ansible and more.

email jobs@marketir.com and tell us about yourself!

SEEKING FREELANCER - New York City (preferred) or Remote Looking for part-time experienced web dev (Python, AngularJS) to help us build technology for sales teams. Prefer someone with strong frontend skills who might be open to joining full-time in the future. If interested, send an email to dan at marketir.com with a brief intro, sample projects and hourly rates.

Do you have any interests/hobbies outside of CS? There's probably clubs for every interest you can think of at your college. Even if you don't have any strong interests, just be open to try different things. Some people here suggested reddit, secondlife, and online gaming - you have the rest of your life for that but your college years will go by before you know it so really take advantage of what your school has to offer first. I was extremely introverted in college as well so i can definitely relate, happy to talk more, contact info is in my profile.

Simply deleting the article doesn't erase it from the internet. If the content is really that important people who want it badly enough can still find it in archives and old database dumps.

You can't give 10x or 1/10 labels without context. If you ask a smart developer to code in a brand new language, he'll look like a 1/10 developer for a while; and an average developer can look like a 10x developer if he's working with technology that he's been using for the past 10 years.

I've worked at a global investment bank in the past and have a somewhat different view. We had control over what language/tools to use per project (as much freedom as any startup) and it was definitely not subject to fed regulation. During my time there I was frequently contacted by recruiters from great tech firms such as google. Any company that knows how to recruit will look at what you've learned and what you've accomplished and not prejudice you simply for having worked at a financial firm.

If you feel you're not progressing as much skill-wise (which can happen at any job/industry), you can try to move to a different team within the company as many people do. The important thing is to keep learning so you can find things you are interested in.

This article reminded me of this TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_don_t_regret_regret....). The takeaway was we all make mistakes and we should feel regret when things go wrong, but we should learn from those mistakes instead of hating ourselves for having regrets.

These "bubble" comments may become self-fulfilling. Even if there's no substance behind the claims, enough talk of a possible bubble can shift investor and consumer mentality and end up causing a bubble down the line.

If you're looking for an overarching guide to the finance industry - The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals By Kuznetsov is a good book to start. This book explains the major financial markets, players and products, and what a technical/quantitative person could do there.

Top companies, especially in competitive industries like technology, need to constantly innovate and solve problems better and more efficiently than their competitors. And to do this they need those top 1% because problem solving skills and IQs are not completely stackable - the top 1% can solve problems that no teams of average developers can solve. Most companies need those top 1% if they want to keep up with the lead and not fall behind in the long run.

1. MongoDB - I see several people also listed mongodb but I particularly want to mention the simplicity of setting up the database and using the API.

2. AndroidOS - It came out few years back but it really took off in 2010. I can’t wait to see the new features for 2011 and how it’ll fare against iOS.

3. Python - even though I’ve been using python for several years I’m still constantly surprised by it’s core features (recently coroutines) and it's plethora of awesome third-party libraries.

I follow about a dozen news sources. HN is my favorite, mostly because I've been able to discover other interesting new sources/blogs (many of which I now follow on my RSS reader).