khurram

When I worked in markets I would often get asked questions in the form of: should I short X? Should I trade X currency now or later?

More specifically many questioned whether they should buy GBP/USD the day before brexit or the day after. The only good advice is to buy 50% the day before and 50% the day after, that way you are wrong both times.

(worked at Goldman)

Despite having this, all the traders just end up using Bloomberg chat. GS tooling often gets in your way more than it helps.

By being one of the first to stand up you are able to get your luggage faster (if any), skip a few rows down the aisle, get out the plane faster, and ultimately get to the immigration line before everyone else. When flying to the US from the UK I would notice that this could sometimes save 1 hour+.

The end goal is to get out of the airport as fast as possible, not just the plane. So the advantage is pretty significant.

> People literally spend all their time doing this, if there was free money to be made someone would be making it:)

I used to think this, then I worked on a trading system in an investment bank. Don't underestimate how quickly and easily you can learn and exceed people who should know what they're doing, given sufficient motivation.

Wow! I wish I was in SF. Hopefully someone as friendly as you will be doing this in London (UK) next year.

Brilliant idea. I think this is pretty awesome.

However, from my (brief) usage of the landing page, I don't quite understand who will be doing the delegated work. Will it be some intern, or will it be your team? Who is your team? More specifically, what are there skills and what guarantees do I have?

Also - I can see potential problems with undergrad students submitting assignments to be done. Any idea how to regulate that kind of stuff and ensure you aren't just helping someone do something that they aren't allowed to delegate (or is this not your problem?).

I'm sure the details will be clearer with time, and for simple tasks this could work quite well.

Thanks for this.

I feel I can now go back and cover all the math i've forgotten since the first couple CS years (only a couple years ago!). I'm not really sure if it is worth the time from a practical standpoint, however I always feel slightly slower than other students when it comes to algorithm-related classes.

Hopefully this should get me up to speed again!

This sounds awesome. Unfortunately I don't want to login with my Facebook account.

I'm not sure what to think of this.

I can appreciate why you think this is a problem that needs to be solved. But I can't help feel a bit wrong about it.

From a technical standpoint also, I feel it is heavily flawed: So I write some sentimental notes, forget to check in one day or change my email address or some other very trivial reason not to get the notifications and boom, it thinks I'm dead and sends out messages that should not yet surface.

I think it's one of these things that is a 'good idea', but should never actually be followed through.

This looks super interesting and useful, really quick too. Most of the bugs I've spotted have already been mentioned.

I noticed you've open sourced a bunch of your modules in Javascript and Python. Out of interest what does your technology stack look like? (framework choice etc)