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Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game
- chollida1 3y agoGiven that the linked article is devoid of content, maybe we should just link to the website? https://figgie.com/ https://figgie.com/
- sebg 3y agoHi Friend - I tried that yesterday and it didn't get any upvotes so sent it out as a newsletter. I don't know what dang thinks of replacing the link once it's on the front page. Happy to do it (or have him replace it). (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133955)
- vulcan01 3y agoFiggie was discussed very recently, which is probably why it didn't get any upvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38679078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38679078
- sebg 3y agoOh - didn't see that! Thanks. Forgot to check https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=figgie.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=figgie.com before I submitted it. Good catch (and has gone on my notes to double check before submitting)
- MOARDONGZPLZ 3y agoYou are absolutely owed upvotes on your special post. It says a lot about the state of the world and society in general that your first time posting didn’t get the upvotes you think it should have. I applaud, starting with a slow clap and transitioning to uproarious applause, your smart trick of hacking the system by sending out a newsletter devoid of content to ensure people saw your content got the upvotes it deserved, and salute your magnanimity in this follow up post.
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- nativeit 3y agoBe honest. You’re just upset there weren’t more dongz in their posts.
- Tycho 3y agoIf you are unfamiliar with Jane Street, it is a quantitative trading firm and global liquidity provider focusing on using sophisticated quantitative analysis and a deep understanding of market mechanics to help keep prices consistent and reliable. Gosh, it's practically a charity. I didn't realize.
- 7thaccount 3y agoBahaha! Your comment is great. They're there to make money. Plain and simple.
- NotSammyHagar 3y agoThe place where Sam Bankman-Fried got many or most? of his coworkers from.
- carnitine 3y agoThey provide a service to the market and that’s just a pretty basic description of it. Obviously they hope to make money from doing so, but so does every company. No different to saying McDonald’s focuses on delivering quick and easy food to customers.
- asdfgnionio 3y ago[dead]
- eachro 3y agoSuper fun game. I really wish there were a larger online community that plays it. Jane Street made a great website for playing it online: https://figgie.com/ https://figgie.com/. But alas, there's pretty much never anyone online to play against.
- mijoharas 3y agoWell, given that it's on the front page of HN, now is probably the right time to play! Have fun.
- peterhadlaw 3y agoAnytime I see something about Jane Street, I would like to remind folks that they discriminate based on what school you go to. Be forewarned. If you aren't in their angel pick list, you're autorejected.
- throaway678 3y agoI went to a shit tier university for CS degree, but I wasn't auto rejected. Maybe do some reflection on why they may have rejected you?
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- doctorpangloss 3y agoThis is a nice submission, but I don't think post grads are allowed to comp the Lampoon tech board.
- queuebert 3y agoI wonder if they really use OCaml for the reasons they state, or because it used to top the computer language benchmark game back when the firm was founded and now it's too expensive to rewrite everything.
- asdfgnionio 3y ago[dead]
- tlavoie 3y agoTheir Signals and Threads podcast is very interesting, and talks quite a bit about OCaml. https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/ https://signals-threads.simplecast.com/
- TheJoeMan 3y agoIs there any tips for creating the game setup irl? You have to make the 10,10,8,12 decks without anyone knowing which is which.
- godelski 3y agoHow do you do the card setup if you were to play at home? Seems hard to, in practice, randomly shuffle the 4 suits, then pull cards, then shuffle together without exposing information about the target suit. Interestingly I couldn't find a video of people playing.
- greenrider83 3y agoI was thinking about the same thing as I read the game description. The best option I could think of: - Create 4 piles of 12 cards for each suit - Turn the piles face down and shuffle the piles so that the piles stay together but you no longer know which pile is which suit - Remove 2 cards from 2 piles and 4 cards from one pile - You now have suit piles of 12, 10, 10, and 8 cards - Shuffle them all together and deal - You’ll know what the target suit was by looking at the cards at the end of the round Slow, but I think it would work.
- godelski 3y ago> - Turn the piles face down and shuffle the piles so that the piles stay together but you no longer know which pile is which suit This is the specific part I'm actually concerned with. It is difficult to shuffle piles without accidentally exposing information. Cards can slide and there's so few "bins" that your brain can easily track, even by accident. The rest is easy and standard.
- greenrider83 3y agoOne simple solution: just put 12 cards from each suit into 4 piles and then hand the piles to somebody else who didn't see which pile is which suit for them to do the card removal and then the final shuffle that merges the piles. So basically a two-person deal where each dealer does a different step lets both people play without knowledge of which suit is the target suit.