abhijitr

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by abhijitr 15y ago
"All of PyPy, CPython and IronPython have a GIL" IronPython actually does NOT have a GIL: http://wiki.python.org/moin/IronPython
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by abhijitr 15y ago
Isn't that like saying the Mac OS GUI cannot coexist with command-line based apps?
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First look at Windows 8 UI(crunchgear.com)
8 points by abhijitr 15y ago|6 comments
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by abhijitr 15y ago
AFAIK, they don't take your I-94 if you're traveling to Canada or Mexico for under 30 days.
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"Ion twinning" another step towards quantum computers(techeye.net)
1 points by abhijitr 16y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
After IE6, a good chunk of the team was repurposed to work on the next-gen presentation technology for Longhorn, which eventually became WPF/XAML. Another part of the team went on to build some ill-fated re-skinnings of IE, such as MSN expl
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Apple and the Rise of the Subscription Economy(gigaom.com)
2 points by abhijitr 16y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Agreed, we believe there's a huge amount of value in aggregating and cleaning fundamental data. To your point about back testing, would you want guidance as to what the in-sample and out-sample time ranges should be? Tools to help you make
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Thanks! We're not quite ready to share screenshots, but I see your point about providing more technical details. Some code samples would definitely help. As for the business model, we're still iterating on that, but the current thinking is
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Thanks for your feedback! We will clarify it on the page, but the short answer is both daily and tick data. We plan on starting with US equities unless we get strong feedback to the contrary. As for security, we plan on running each user's
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Ask HN: Review my startup idea, Algonaut
22 points by abhijitr 16y ago|11 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
See also: Detours library by MSFT research( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/ ). It doesn't require you to recompile your binaries to add NOPs.
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by abhijitr 16y ago
See this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079237
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by abhijitr 16y ago
I use Windows Live Mesh for this. By default it replicates across your PCs and Macs, but you can configure it to sync to cloud storage as well.
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Microsoft's Next-Gen Surface Uses Every Pixel Like a Tiny Camera(gizmodo.com)
3 points by abhijitr 16y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
"What small businesses really care about is cost effective customer acquisition." The other high order bit for small businesses is repeat customers. Loyalty programs on mobile could be the killer app that gets small businesses online.
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Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street(wired.com)
4 points by abhijitr 16y ago|0 comments
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What The Heck Are You Actually Using NoSQL For?(highscalability.com)
121 points by abhijitr 16y ago|64 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
It begs the question, why don't submissions automatically get de-duped?
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Tumblr has 1.2 billion page views on 14 million uniques?(techcrunch.com)
5 points by abhijitr 16y ago|0 comments
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by abhijitr 16y ago
According to those estimates, the margins on AWS will actually increase from ~11% today to ~15% in 2014. It seems more likely that cloud computing will trend towards commoditization, and margins will collapse over time. Amazon is trying to
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by abhijitr 16y ago
I would assert that it is pure folly to attempt to build a non-trivial application in a compiled language without the assistance of a competent debugger. You simply cannot iterate quickly enough through the debugging loop of "Form theory" -
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Ok, not quite an algorithm, but the PCP theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCP_theorem ) is easily the most mind-blowing result in comp sci in the past 20 years.
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Cool project! I was working on something similar recently, and found http://greatsummary.com/ to be far superior to OTS. It won't scale very well, since you have to do an RPC every time, but maybe you can convince them to give you their c
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by abhijitr 16y ago
Maybe it would be less unfair if the taxpayer bore the risk? Typically when private industry can't provide a service that is deemed good for society in a cost-effective manner, the government steps in to fill that gap. Why not in this case?
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Facebook breaks OAuth(forum.developers.facebook.net)
3 points by abhijitr 16y ago|2 comments