MaxScheiber

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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Yes, they do. I did not dispute that. But as I said (perhaps not sufficiently clearly--my mistake), and as other posters have pointed out, this neutralizes out over the 30-year time horizon of an index fund investment. One dollar invested i
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
> Buy and hold forever is generally great advice, until it isn't. That's a truism. I could say the same thing about algorithmic trading. The fact of the matter is that the median hedge fund manager has negative alpha. It is ext
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
To me, the tag box has incorrect UX. I would personally expect that hitting the spacebar would end one tag and let me enter a second tag, especially since it is clear that you do not permit spaces in tags. I would also expect the "ente
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by MaxScheiber 11y ago
Is there a solutions manual available for this book? I couldn't find any mention of one on the MIT Press website, and a quick Google search wasn't helpful.
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis552/lectures/RedBlackGADT1.htm... Red-black trees via GADTs, courtesy of Penn's CIS 552 course.
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187014 With that being said, I've always loved this essay. As of recently, I've viewed it as relevant to the recent argument that programming should be a requirement in Americ
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
Graph traversal is quite relevant to DOM manipulation. More generally, these sorts of "classical" problems come up more than one would assume at first glance. I believe that understanding the theoretical backing is very important
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
I don't follow your argument. Candidates for a lot of software engineering roles are expected to know a certain selection of fundamental algorithms, including things like DFS and Dijkstra's. The companies I have interviewed at hav
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Balanced binary search tree visualizer(bst.jtcho.me)
2 points by MaxScheiber 12y ago|0 comments
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Awesome-lua: A curated list of Lua packages and resources(github.com)
86 points by MaxScheiber 12y ago|38 comments
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
Does this have any relation to the PennApps fall 2012 hack of the same name?
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
I wouldn't exactly call that trivial if it needs to be "synchronized over a sufficiently long time series."
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
It's still challenging to predict the outcome of a baseball game. Sabermetrics can project the outcome of a 162-game season, but a playoff series is too small of a sample size. Lewis stresses this in Moneyball.
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
"The solution to this dilemma, of course, is simple. Private equity firms have become large and rich enough that they should do their own damn recruiting at colleges to hire junior personnel." This is already the case, at least at
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
One reason that you see this sort of behavior in the first place is that very few people are able to successfully become lifetime bankers. The skillset required to be an excellent investment banking analyst is extremely different than the s
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by MaxScheiber 12y ago
If a professor is lecturing off of bullet-point-style slide decks, I suspect that the benefits of taking notes by hand are reduced. I always handwrite my notes, and I've found that I learn better from trying to understand diagram-based
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
The short answer is because they're supposed to figure it out themselves. I've been on the teaching staff of CIS 120 and CIS 121 at Penn for five semesters now (the second and third classes in the intro computer science series). B
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
While bored in middle school algebra, I figured out on my TI-30 which number, raised to itself as a power, would equal 9.9999999E99 (not sure on the precise number of nines after the decimal point, but basically it flooded the screen with a
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
In my opinion, one of the most egregious examples of phone zombie-ism is the amount of people taking pictures on their phones / tablets when at some sort of famous monument or location. To quote (of all people) Maddox: > I kept star
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
Parts of WPB are very nice, particularly along the intracoastal. Going to high school in downtown WPB was a phenonenal decision.
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
To anyone looking for a summer internship in software engineering or design, I highly recommend applying to KPCB Fellows. The benefits are much more than what you would get at a standard internship.
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
That's the beauty of a fresh summer, right? I'm meeting new people all the time, making new friends, etc. Even if I socialize with people I already know, there is always an adventure to be had. I'm about to start my thirteent
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I certainly wouldn't call owning a chair being owned by your belongings. :P I think the bigger picture to look at here is that we, as humans, are creative. When we move into an empty apartment, we see a blank slate, prime for decoratio
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
"The things you own end up owning you." Tyler Durden I'm enjoying the life of frugality as a college student right now. My summer apartment has little besides my laptop, a couple of books, clothes / toiletries, my saxoph
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I saw an early screening of the movie. Here were my general thoughts: 1. Kutcher did a fantastic job as Steve Jobs. I was extremely pleasantly surprised by how well he portrayed the role and adopted Steve's mannerisms. You can even see
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
> No profession stays on top forever… just ask your recently graduated lawyer friends. This is really a poor comparison. The issue with the legal industry is that there are too many bad law schools. Students from top 13 law schools simpl
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
This is why I prefer telling people about the programming paradigms I know, not the languages I know. I'm not impressed by someone who knows Java, C#, and PHP compared to someone who knows object-oriented program, functional programmin
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
The author and teacher of this course, Brent Yorgey, is one of those rare guys who is both a fantastic lecturer and a fantastic researcher. For Penn's fuller version of this course, check out CIS 552[1]. Dr. Stephanie Weirich is also a
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I see strong parallels between this and the Linus Torvalds discussion on being polite as an engineer. I get a fair amount of email (maybe one every week or two) from people with technical co-founder offers or engineering interview offers. I
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by MaxScheiber 13y ago
I much prefer to hang out with my very kind-hearted and pleasant (yet slightly less intelligent[1]) fraternity brothers over some of my extremely bright computer science classmates who don't have as much social tact. That's becaus

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