BenoitEssiambre

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   The New App Stores Economy(speedanatomy.blogspot.com)

   2 points by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago|0 comments
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   When I was an early teenager, I took violin playing lessons. Whenever I asked my teacher about violin playing technique, he would always give me a quote which he attributed to famous violin teacher D.C. Dounis: "There is no technique, only
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   "Do you have an argument/explanation for this? Also, why are the quant systems necessarily betting against each other?" The firms with the good models in the system will tend to keep prices near their optimal values by trading amongst each
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   You make some valid points but don't forget that even the non professionals making mistakes will get less losses and a return closer to a long term index when better quant system are betting agains each other and keeping prices close to the
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   There is kind of an odd tone to this article as if the shrinking of the quant economy is a tragedy when in fact it should be the natural course of this sector if it is not too corrupted. The efficient market hypothesis and information theo
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZFHTa6TfA
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   I thought we were supposed to use java instead of c# to avoid getting into the this exact situation :-S
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   I don't think so. Ideas have flowed both ways, but I've been using Gnome since the 90s and OSX has taken more from Gnome in my opinion than Gnome from OSX.
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   by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

   imho, Ubuntu's user experience (when your computer's hardware is supported out of the box) is now superior than both window's and mac's user experience. Mac's UX is not bad to the extent they have adopted a Gnome like desktop. Where they s
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    by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

    Wow plus the tweet itself has a tone of religious extremism with an implied consent from god as a justification for an atrocity. I'm not even sure I'm against the death penalty but doing it in the manner of the Taliban is sick.
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    by BenoitEssiambre 16y ago

    I think the causal link is the other way. Fear doesn't cause failure, impending failure causes fear and It's easy to be confident when it looks like you're going to succeed.
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    by BenoitEssiambre 17y ago

    I met a guy who would register for dozens of free credit cards offers that included air miles on sign up just to get the air miles. He was retired and used this technique to fly around the world. He always canceled the credit cards a few m