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by adambratt 13y ago
To those complaining about this, you're not the target market. I was on a train from Chicago to Detroit a week ago and there was a group of about 10 high schoolers sitting behind me. We got talking about iPhone apps and I asked what wa
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by adambratt 13y ago
I really have no reason to doubt this guy as he's a pretty prolific trader. That said...traders are rather known for hyperbole. Per the 20%, I forget what it was but I know trades were rolled back and there was some kind of threshold f
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by adambratt 13y ago
Options are complicated. At their most basic level they are no different than a bet, so yes zero-sum. However when used in a spread or as a hedge or any other way to avoid risk or when sold against stock you own as an income generator, it&#
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by adambratt 13y ago
The week after this we had a trader in our office who had a meeting at Knight on the morning it happened. He said he saw the whole dev team just power off and go home at 11am, followed quickly by the rest of the employees. At that point, th
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by adambratt 13y ago
There's this super stealthy startup right now that's trying to solve this: http://apiweb.io Keep it on the dl.
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Healthcare.gov is a Technological Disaster(blog.fmsinc.com)
13 points by adambratt 13y ago|11 comments
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by adambratt 13y ago
CODE is an amazing book and I rarely see people mention it. I've yet to come across a resource that is so good at joining electrical engineering and computer science. It starts with an abacus and 400 pages later of flip-flops, memory g
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by adambratt 13y ago
This is insane! Last year they had an entire floor in a massive building dedicated to sleeping hackers!!
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by adambratt 13y ago
While there have been some good points brought up here, I think the author misunderstands what the purpose of Facebook is. Facebook is not in the same category as Reddit. Social network used to be a very specific category of website, now al
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by adambratt 13y ago
I'll give you a buck
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by adambratt 13y ago
Ever since I learned that TOMS (the store) and TOMS Shoes (the charity) were 100% separate I started to feel a weird vibe from the company. I have no problem with a for-profit having a separate charitable entity. But they clearly make it se
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by adambratt 13y ago
I think I read it based off the same recommendation. After reading that book I don't think there's any way you can come away without seeing him as one of the top 25 programmers in the world. Mad genius for sure.
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by adambratt 13y ago
Shit just got real.
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by adambratt 13y ago
I'm reposting one of the comments from the blog here for a bit more exposure. I think this gives a good alternative viewpoint on the case: "I worked literally side by side with Serge while at Goldman Sachs, so I have substantial p
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Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2000)(amazon.com)
155 points by adambratt 13y ago|101 comments
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Don't shoot your friends - Twitter game with real consequences(toys.usvsth3m.com)
11 points by adambratt 13y ago|8 comments
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by adambratt 13y ago
More info on this? Hadn't heard of this being done other than through content spinners
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by adambratt 13y ago
Great article! One thing I'd like to point out though is how his note about making generalizations in the first section makes it seem like everything he says is mostly fact. I haven't lived outside the United States, but I have sp
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The Top Free-to-Play Monetization Tricks(gamasutra.com)
76 points by adambratt 13y ago|39 comments
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by adambratt 13y ago
Yeah, I wish I could find a good tool/site for quizzing myself on these. Something that would give me a paragraph and ask me to name the bias present if any.
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by adambratt 13y ago
Fellow readers, what's the best book you've read for improving your critical thinking/rationality?
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by adambratt 13y ago
So in an actual dangerous situation the cop would have the choice to either run or to fire his gun and lose his job. Would you really want someone to protect you at the risk of losing their job?
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by adambratt 13y ago
Would you rather have a person or a machine serve as the market maker? If anything, HFTs have made it cheaper to trade. Because of the way exchanges are setup, the man in the middle will always be making a cut of the trades. Now though that
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by adambratt 13y ago
A good amount of HFTs fail. I've heard numbers ranging from 70%-90% of new HFTs fail within their first 2 years. Very similar to startups when you think about it. Also, HFTs are most definitely taking profits from each other. In fact, in a
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by adambratt 14y ago
Tried it and I can tell you it's not production ready. It would randomly go rogue on our production servers and would start falsely detecting a worker crash and start launching more. It took us a long time to trace it down and we quickly sw
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Wading into an Online World of Chinese Dating(vice.com)
1 points by adambratt 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: We built a live tracker for hedge fund brawls(marketfy.com)
2 points by adambratt 14y ago|0 comments
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by adambratt 14y ago
Really makes me want to learn more about molecular biology. Any solid factual resources besides the references mentioned in this justified rant?
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The Best UI is no UI(cooper.com)
2 points by adambratt 14y ago|0 comments
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by adambratt 14y ago
Love what you guys are doing. Crazy quick turnaround on customer/developer support too. I found an issue in the python API and it was fixed and pushed within a couple hours.

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