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by aldanor 10y ago
One of the best ways to run Python on OS X (other than conda) is pyenv -- which you can easily install via homebrew
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by aldanor 10y ago
It's not all about the green pieces of paper though.
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by aldanor 10y ago
Some companies have very horizontal structure, there isn't much of a corporate ladder to climb. E.g., in trading firms a Quant is often just a Quant even after 10 years in the company. This doesn't mean at all, though, that the pa
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by aldanor 10y ago
I got spackshacking...
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by aldanor 10y ago
If you can afford to install emacs+x11, that could work pretty well over ssh.
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by aldanor 10y ago
Been using ST2 for many years, then ST3 till last year. Tried out Atom but it was slow and sluggish. Out of sheer curiosity, learned myself some vi from scratch and switched to Spacemacs, haven't looked back since :)
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by aldanor 10y ago
Yea there might be, better drop me a line w/ your cv, could try to figure it out.
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by aldanor 10y ago
Taking musicianship seriously. I started playing piano and taking classes when I was 15 but didn't pay enough attention to it. 15 years later, I'm angry at my past self at being so lazy and wasting time on things that are now utte
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by aldanor 10y ago
It's funny because I do work at SIG (Dublin, Ireland), and we do know a few folks from Continuum personally. For a quant role, even if in the end it is likely to involve a lot of hardcore low level coding, you're (generally) expec
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by aldanor 10y ago
MOBAs are pretty stateless, works for me :)
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by aldanor 10y ago
I do all of the stuff you mentioned on a daily basis (quant in a high-frequency trading firm) -- NumPy (plus its C API), Cython, numba, a good measure of C++, and even some occasional LLVM. The typical projects range from ingesting market d
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by aldanor 10y ago
Nit: C++ Standard Library != STL
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by aldanor 10y ago
All roads lead to Emacs
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by aldanor 10y ago
Easy of prototyping would be one thing
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by aldanor 10y ago
Depends on your definition of `ethically`.
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by aldanor 10y ago
HDF5 benchmark looks bogus, it's not clear what exactly the author meant by it and how the data was stored/retrieved. With proper filters set up, it should beat any csv reader by both (uncompressed) throughput and runtime
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by aldanor 10y ago
I agree with the author, and I think the idea is somewhat applicable to everyday tools like text editors. This is partially why I've switched to Emacs (Spacemacs/evil) after using "conventional" text editors like Sublime
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by aldanor 11y ago
Try learning Rust :)
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by aldanor 11y ago
Not a single objective reason to switch from e.g. 1Password.
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by aldanor 11y ago
The only benefit as I see it is it being very lightweight + providing tighter interop with C++ classes and C++11 shenanigans. For me personally, there're real reasons not to use it -- e.g., no support for structured/record arrays:
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by aldanor 11y ago
... as in, "this is actually a quite nice and readable old-style ANSI C codebase". Seriously, the downvotes...
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by aldanor 11y ago
Not quite clear whether (and when, if at all) it will be released to the general public.
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by aldanor 11y ago
Such C. Much ANSI. STATIC_OVL void mkcavepos(x, y, dist, waslit, rockit) xchar x, y; int dist; boolean waslit, rockit; { register struct rm *lev; ... }
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by aldanor 11y ago
It's a name of the human ship in FTL :)
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by aldanor 11y ago
Try Emacs with vim bindings and you'll have it, its GUI is a client that connects to a server
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by aldanor 11y ago
To close the GUI Emacs, you may just click the X as well.
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by aldanor 11y ago
One thing that is not immediately obvious about vim (or evil Emacs) is the gamification part. Before I switched to Spacemacs myself, I used to think -- why do those vim guys torture themselves using an old deprecated tool. Now I actually fi
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by aldanor 11y ago
I switched to Emacs (Spacemacs) from Sublime Text with zero prior knowledge of vim or Emacs. In a day or two I could continue doing what I was normally doing. In a few weeks I felt completely comfortable.
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by aldanor 11y ago
This was the case for me as well, until I got myself a split ergo keyboard. With conventional keyboards, you have to twist your wrists for your fingers to stay on the home row (even more so if you have big hands).
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by aldanor 11y ago
Spend a day / a week and (re)learn to properly touch type, then you will feel uncomfortable reaching for arrow keys and you won't miss that h or j.

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