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Ask HN: Visiting NYC --- Meeting you?

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A lot of Hacker News readers seem to concentrate in New York. Next week I will fly over from the UK to New York for a job interview with a high frequency trading company. (They do functional programming.) Perhaps we can use the occasion for some geeking?

I do not want to burden the company with additional nights at a hotel, and I am too poor a student to afford them on my own. So if somebody can volunteer a couch or the floor or or another place to sleep for a few days, that would be extra nice. I can cook [1], do your laundry or debug your Haskell programs in return.

Please feel free to drop me a line at matthias.goergens@googlemail.com

Thanks!

[1] I am not originally from the UK, so I can cook. :o) Or bake some delicious German cakes.

I haven't gotten an invite yet, so I'm not sure if it's 100% on, but generally the fourth thursday of every month is the Hacker News meet in NYC. Are you coming after thursday? If not, check out the website http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc

Invites usually go out a day or two before (they really should go out sooner). But the last Thu of every month is the hackers and founders meetup and it will be on for this month. I will have the organizers get the invite link out...

http://anyvite.com/events/home/cmyqg0gwxx

Just got it. Prayers answered!

I wanted to come next week. The company has just send me the invitation to the interview and asked me to pick like three dates that suit me, so that they can pick one of the three that suits them. They haven't replied with the date, yet.

I'll send another mail and ask, if flying me over tomorrow is OK, so that I can attend the Hacker News meeting. The interview does not have to be on the next day.

I say ask for extra nights. If they are flying you from the UK, and they are a finance firm, they can afford it. And you deserve the opportunity to look around the city a bit, if you are perhaps relocating here.

I told them that I want to stay longer, but that I am also prepared to organize/pay for the extra nights on my own. If they offer to pay for it, that's good. But I do not want to come of as exploiting the interview by asking for them to pay.

Jane Street? (Or can you not answer that?)

Yes. (I don't think it's a secret.)

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