SeanDav

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by SeanDav 13y ago
Excel is used extensively in the financial and trading fields because for many situations (predominantly RAD and prototyping) it IS the best tool for the job. We are talking about companies with serious amounts of cash to throw around at an
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Excel is a seriously powerful tool, it is quite frankly amazing what can be done in Excel. I have worked with Excel-based trading systems with tens of thousands of lines of VBA code, controlling systems that trade hundreds of millions of US
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Who do you think is funding those scientists? Maybe Alternative Energy Companies and Governments that can make extra tax from people by pleading they just doing it for the climate. Make sense now?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Nothing (or very little) about "climate change" is good science. It is the theory of economics, but applied to climate. Take a bunch of measurements and formulas and curve fit it into a computer model. Ignore any inputs that cause
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Throughout the entire history of our planet the climate has been changing. It was changing before Man and will be changing long afterwards. To call it "Climate Change" is utterly useless and serves only to put up a convenient labe
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by SeanDav 13y ago
It used to be "Global Warming", but when that label didn't fit very well with the observed results, the label somehow became "Climate Change". This is a clever bit of public manipulation because who can argue agains
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by SeanDav 13y ago
> fridge raider. That was good I can hear the whoooosh as that article went straight over your head. I think you need to take a step back and do a little introspection. Also that type of comment does not belong here on HN News.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Although the author is trying to make some good points, he succeeds only in attempting to tear down. He does not appear to offer any reasonable alternatives. I came away from this article feeling slightly unclean, as if wanting to improve m
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I don't understand why possession of the wallet file means the FBI have seized his bitcoins (even if they can't access them yet)? Surely you can make copies of your wallet and keep them in various secure locations?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
The whole point is that the Banks were bailed out by Government, yet the struggling homeowners were not. Who looks after them, if not the Government?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Except if you don't own it you may be told you can't watch the film with more than 2 friends or on Friday evenings or Christmas Eve. You may be told you cannot listen to your music if travelling to another country, or copy it to y
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by SeanDav 13y ago
You admit that your experience is an outlier ( "and I'm definitely the only one like this from my family, a clear outlier "), yet you appear to be trying to use your experience to disprove the effect of environment on intelli
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by SeanDav 13y ago
That is very kind of you, but my comment was slightly tongue in cheek. I usually buy books that I read and learn from, even if I can get them for free from some pirate site. Your book is excellent and I wouldn't dream of asking for my
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by SeanDav 13y ago
It's called Human Nature. You buy a TV for $1000 and show it off to your neighbour who says he bought exactly the same TV for $400, you don't think that will effect you at all? If you just say "oh well, I thought $1000 dollar
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by SeanDav 13y ago
As someone who paid real money for this book, I am not sure how I feel about this...
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by SeanDav 13y ago
The operative word is "some". The OP was not implying that "All" problems resolve themselves, surely you must have experienced something that you thought was a problem only to discover a bit later that it was not?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
That's great! I do not have search history turned on but will definitely find you some nice examples of what I mean going forward.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Quotes can help but they are often ignored.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Google is increasingly becoming an "Ask Jeeves" clone. I have very little control of my searches and Google just returns what it thinks I meant, rather than what I actually typed. I would love an advanced search mode with some sim
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by SeanDav 13y ago
>> Is all science required to be "provable" now, then? This is the whole basis of Science. It is required to be provable, or it is just someone's opinion, and my opinion might be different to yours. Perhaps you should
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by SeanDav 13y ago
It is laughable that all this is based on imprecise models and simulations and not actual science. There is nothing provable with any of this or for that matter disprovable. Alter the inputs and weighting in the models by merest fractions,
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by SeanDav 13y ago
For readability nothing beats BASIC. I sometimes wish that BASIC had taken off rather than being allocated to niche environments like VBA etc. It just wasn't powerful enough and in order to make it more powerful it was kind of bastardi
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Considering that 99% of USA politics is driven by lobbying and big business this legislation has a snowballs chance in hell of actually passing without a lot of watering down.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
If your only, or even main criteria was performance you would write in assembly language. The fact that you don't, means that Rob probably nails it with this comment: "C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fough
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I see a lot of developers using earphones and listening to music while doing their stuff. As someone that prefers relative quiet I have always wondered if this makes them more, or less productive. This article would tend to indicate the lat
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Ask HN: Is HN implementing a new comment ranking system?
9 points by SeanDav 13y ago|4 comments
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Yet another popular, relevant and useful topic locked on StackOverflow. What a surprise....not. There seems to be a pedantic core of people on SO that go around locking topics, rather than contributing in their own area of expertise.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I have always been fairly fascinated by bees and kept 3 hives for a while. I got stung twice and each time had more swelling and pain than before, so I decided that risking life and limb to keep bees was probably not worth the risk and dona
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by SeanDav 13y ago
They are all pretty funny, at least when I can actually understand the inside joke...
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Not dissing your comment, but I am not a believer in any "compile to" language because ultimately when things go wrong you are forced to deal with the underlying language in any case. Rather become an expert in the underlying lang

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