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by TheTank 7y ago
I would be cautious using this as a proxy for performance ranking as some items (dataset, queries) are normalized, but the hardware setup is not.
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by TheTank 7y ago
Former options trader here. The reason its called stupid flow is that 99.999% of retail traders use them wrongly and don't understand them. That said, you can educate yourself and use options properly. But don't let any broker or
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by TheTank 7y ago
Comments about events "priced in" are absolutely right. With a little work, you can make it transparent and use it to your advantage. In simple terms, the price of an option at a given time is equal to the product of what you can
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by TheTank 7y ago
QuestDB | Head of dev relations | San Francisco | Full-time QuestDB ( http://questdb.io ) is a startup building an open-source time-series database that makes nanosecond-latency performance accessible to everyone. By focusing on s
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by TheTank 7y ago
Hey, generally users like to define datasets so it looks like the data they will eventually use for their application. As such they are all bespoke and I don't know of any "standard". But generating bespoke random data quickl
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by TheTank 7y ago
One of the main pain points I keep hearing about kdb is the complexity and its consequences in terms of time spent trying to do anything, and money spent on consultants. The language is efficient and you can write pages of Java with 2 lines
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by TheTank 7y ago
QuestDB ( https://www.questdb.io ) might help. Import your file(s) by drag and drop directly into the web console. Once data is loaded, you can run SQL queries in the console to order, format, concatenate, join (including time-bas
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by TheTank 7y ago
In addition to the costs of developing good foundational code, I think revenue is becoming a driver for slower-than-necessary software. An increasing number of providers (for example databases) charge per server, per core, or another hardwa