Ologn

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by Ologn 11y ago
> If your first interview is with HR then it's a crap job with 95% certainty That holds for non-quant jobs as well, of course.
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by Ologn 11y ago
I worked for a company that used Request Tracker for this stuff. It worked for our purposes. I also used it in another context after that. For the free software projects on the web I'm familiar with, many use Bugzilla to deal with is
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by Ologn 11y ago
Do you know what second normal form is? Do you know what the three basic functions that form all mu-recursive functions are? Can you write an A* search from memory? Do you know what is stored during a context switch? Are you worth your
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by Ologn 11y ago
I alternate between 2 and 3 depending on the system, but I am like you as well - me using 2 has nothing to do with philosophical differences and all of that, it has to do with my Linux distribution having more python2 packages than python3
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by Ologn 11y ago
In 1996 I began working at a very bootstrapped Internet Service Provider (ISP). Some of you younger people might not even know what an ISP is - there used to be companies other than Verizon and AT&T that you could get Internet access f
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by Ologn 11y ago
In the late 1980s, Microsoft's version of Unix, Xenix, was installed on more machines than any other version of Unix. Radio Shack sold Tandy HD machines running Xenix to business customers. In fact, Radio Shack stores themselves used
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Using p/e to value growth companies doesn't work too well. The "E" in the ratio changes too fast. In 1934, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd published "Security Analysis" which laid out the basis of modern th
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by Ologn 11y ago
> There were so many things that I didn't know that I didn't know. I think that puts it very well. It's not just what people know they don't know, it's what they don't know they don't know. That'
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by Ologn 11y ago
> rely on your personal opinions and experiences Here's an employment rate and weekly earnings chart from the US Department of Labor correlated by education level: http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Seriously, fuck you for acting like the only way to become a respectable or successful developer is the path you picked. Can you name me the respectable, successful, known developers that did not get a college degree? I mean, I can th
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by Ologn 11y ago
> I knew nothing about data structures or algorithms but I could write a Ruby program.Now, three years later, I am taking online classes to learn about those issues. The more advanced I got, the more I needed those "basics." Da
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Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed - Created the Tech Bubble(thenation.com)
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by Ologn 11y ago
I agree. Also, MariaDB is being actively developed. A lot of Linux distributions are defaulting to MariaDB. The recent release of Debian stable (jessie) has MariaDB. So far I've only been using it on new machines, but I may even mi
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by Ologn 11y ago
Yes. The type of person RenTec hires are people like Peter Weinberger or Leonard E. Baum, names I'm sure people here know. Mercer has a doctorate in computer science and is an expert in speech recognition and machine translation. As
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by Ologn 11y ago
I worked as a Unix systems administrator 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago. 20 years ago, in 1995, a tech startup would usually have the programmers do the systems administration, until about four programmers or so had b
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by Ologn 11y ago
For college classes, we were told to study three hours outside the classroom for every hour inside the classroom. Rearranged over a four year period, that means I spent three years in the library or at home studying algorithms, data struct
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Also, I fail to grasp this idea that potential candidates must prove their worth through numerous hoops to compensate for the interviewers lack of skill in judging character and competence They say: >> It’s very easy for someone
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by Ologn 11y ago
Less than a year ago, Quirky announced a "hackathon" where people could come to their office and hack on their products. We had to sign an NDA before attending. I went, as did several dozen others - most of the attendees being p
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by Ologn 11y ago
> Of course, I'm probably just an idiot who doesn't "get" bitcoin Two more "idiots" who don't get Bitcoin are Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Munger says Bitcoins are "rat poison". It&#x2
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by Ologn 11y ago
> The industrial value of gold is far below its trade value Huh? Don't supply and demand meet at price? Isn't that mainstream economic theory? If the price of gold went over its industrial value, or electrical coating value,
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by Ologn 11y ago
> I suspect you're being deliberately ignorant to why Bitcoin, a fixed quantity commodity that is immune to counterfeiting, has value A word in your sentence contains the answer to your statement. Commodity. I do not think Bitcoi
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by Ologn 11y ago
> The intrinsic value of bitcoin (if this matters) is immutable storage. You see this utilized with projects such as counterparty. I have heard people talk about the storage aspect of Bitcoin as having value before, and it's probabl
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by Ologn 11y ago
> And that's where something like Bitcoin could enter the picture. It establish value in the other direction. It has value to the apple eater because it can be used to buy an apple Right...but this can be said about any commodity.
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by Ologn 11y ago
Of course gold has value due to its usefulness. Plenty of electrical equipment is gold-plated. Dentists fill teeth with gold. It has other industrial uses as well. The value of precious metals are solely due to their usefulness, extendin
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by Ologn 11y ago
That's a tautological answer. When a Bitcoin was worth over 4 times its present value a number of months ago, the same answer could be given - "it's worth that because people will pay for that". I can give a rational an
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by Ologn 11y ago
For all the bubble talk...if there is any sign of a bubble, it is Bitcoin. Bitcoins are completely worthless, they have no value. The price action shows it - they are currently bouncing between $230 and $235, six months ago that was $260,
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by Ologn 11y ago
One method of speciation is reproductive isolation. One model for this is the Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model, where if a species is, say, separated by distance, and then subgroup A has a change at one loci, and subgroup B has a change at
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by Ologn 11y ago
I have used Namecheap for two years. I have had no problems either.
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Also, when Andreessen left UIUC to form a company, he was almost immediately sued by UIUC. Oppose this to say, Stanford, out of which have come many companies, where Stanford is usually legally hands off with regards to them.
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by Ologn 11y ago
Manhattan is dense, but plenty of people commute every day from suburbs with yards and spacious homes. The Economist doesn't really go into transportation except for a brief mention at the end. New York has a better transportation hub

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