SeanDav

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by SeanDav 14y ago
The US won WW2 quite simply because of its massive production and population base. Most of the technology was already provided by the Brits. This is not to demean the efforts of the USA who really were the saviours of the Allies. Without US
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Couldn't get it to recognize my drawing of a castle/rook in chess, but it did find my bishop. Great site.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
America has some of the finest laws that money can buy. Right there is the issue and America is going to continue to get ridiculous laws while the lobby system exists.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Even if these numbers were profit and not just revenue, it is is very possible for the shares to drop 15 percent. It happens all the time, although usually not at the 15% level. The reason can be summed up in one word - expectations. If eve
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I may well be maligning you but on the other hand I have over 20 years experience working as a trader/researcher and developer in the finance industry for tier1 investment banks as well as hedge funds and have seen a lot. You are not doing
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I was going to post something similar in reply - but your comment is just so much better and more polite than I would have posted!
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by SeanDav 14y ago
They are being backed by GETCO, which most definitely is a "Wall Street" company...
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Regulated by the SEC does not mean much at all. All the major trading scandals have occurred in institutions regulated by the SEC. Trading institutions can do pretty much what they want - even today there is a huge amount of insider trading
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by SeanDav 14y ago
To decide if we should give Steve the benefit of the doubt, look at his tweet/post history. If he does this often, he is an asshole, if not he is an accidental asshole, which is fine because it is so easy to get real intention completely wr
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Call me cynical but this is a bad idea, and not for Quantopian either. It is well known that only a small fraction of traders ever end up making money consistently. Effectively Quantopian get a vast and relatively cheap set of researchers/t
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by SeanDav 14y ago
By now, everyone should know that anything you post or do, at all, on Facebook is probably going to become public at some point. That is how Facebook makes its money. If you value your privacy then simply don't use Facebook. I stopped about
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I was wondering if/when someone was going to make a post like yours....I believe you missed the point entirely - HN does not always get it right and on many occasions hell banned people still make posts worth reading. There are reasons why
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Not sure you actually read the article - the OP used a paid account...
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by SeanDav 14y ago
From the sounds of it - just change your group description to something not descriptive enough and hey, presto, one perma-deleted group.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Never heard about that type of hell banning before on HN. I must admit I am not a fan of people getting hell banned on 1 post or submission, unless the post truly is grossly over the top. I see a lot of hell banning as a result of a single
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Gave me my first laugh of the day - very nice!
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Some people are abusing "show dead" on HN
46 points by SeanDav 14y ago|46 comments
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I always thought that a googolplex was a googol to the power of a googol.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I have always been a huge fan of Alan Turing and could not respect him more, but keep in mind that he was part of a team. The story of Enigma is really a story about a whole spectrum of people, many of whom also played very significant role
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Thanks for the link to that C++ style guide
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by SeanDav 14y ago
It is extremely difficult to program a computer to respond well to bluffing and other betting patterns. Poker is not just about betting on the probabilities of the cards in front of you but there is a huge element of analysing betting patte
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I tried using ST2, but it lacks one basic feature that is essential to me. It will automatically update a loaded file with any changes made externally. This is fine, except when you don't want it to do this and then discover there is no way
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Ouch, some heavy-weight posters there that would probably like to rephrase their opinions in light of current events.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I think the attorneys getting fired would be a great first step. After all they hounded Aaron and people like him to send a "message". Let them get sent a "message" in return.
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Family blames US attorneys for death of Aaron Swartz(arstechnica.com)
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by SeanDav 14y ago
> C as a very thin virtual machine is a common conception and not an incorrect one I have worked extensively in the past with C and have never heard it referred to as a virtual machine, thin or otherwise. I understand that the OP prob
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Madhadron, you make a lot of claims but provide no detail. Also using terms like "virtual machine" with respect to C is plainly ridiculous and a case of bullshit baffles brains. Turbo Pascal vs C? Really? In its time Turbo Pascal was an ama
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I tried this a while ago, but just found the colours weird and distracting, probably because I don't really have a problem with the normal colours/intensity at any time, but more a gamma issue. I was hoping more for a decent gamma adjustmen
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by SeanDav 14y ago
What is the point, there is no skill in this....oh wait...you get to press a button to select the target, yeah 1337 skills required for this. On the upside, hopefully the animals will suffer less due to better accuracy on kill zone. Persona
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Synctools for SysInternals(kennykerr.ca)
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