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by aleyan 14y ago
Would it be fair to say that this approach for achieving gender balance can thus be summarized as: "quotas"?
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by aleyan 14y ago
As an Amazon Prime subscriber who bought mustache wax from their affiliates on two occasions, I have to report very disappointing shipping times. Living in NYC and ordering in the morning, I expect delivery the next day. Alas, my mustache w
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by aleyan 14y ago
Are they really talking about "entrepreneurs"? I have hardly heard that word in Russian media. Now if they talking about the people whom Russians call "businessmen", I can believe it. "Businessmen" has become a generic term for people invo
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by aleyan 14y ago
I subscribe to your hypothesis that people were trading Zynga as a proxy for Facebook. The fortunes of Zynga are highly dependent on Facebook, and when big daddy was going down today so was Zynga. As for making money on this, no dealers had
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by aleyan 14y ago
A more accurate description would have been 3 years of government spending in 1 graph. We have the US budget for each of those 50 years, then why throw out 47 data points and keep arbitrary 3? This graph with it's hand picked years and twee
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by aleyan 14y ago
Underscores are silly! We only use them in code to separate words in tokens because the default natural word separator, whitespace, is already used to distinguish tokens. At my old job, we had DSL that allowed and encouraged very descriptiv
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by aleyan 14y ago
I am surprised Google Voice hasn't been mentioned as an alternative. It piggy backs on existing networks by allowing you to communicate with Google servers over your data plan, which forward your texts as SMS to their destinations. I run it
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by aleyan 14y ago
The article suggests that drivers who kill people get off lightly in NYC and that may be true. But what statistics say is that the City has been progressively getting safer for pedestrians over the past decade. There were 4.87 fatalities p
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by aleyan 14y ago
That is correct. A few months prior to gmail announcement hotmail lowered their free offering from 5 MB or 6 MB to 2 MB.
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by aleyan 15y ago
No SecDB/Slang outside of Goldman because it is completely proprietary, but the single platform vision within has no signs of abetting.
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by aleyan 15y ago
It appears to be mostly inertia. People learned C++ and a few relevant specialized libraries, so they keep on them. Outside of a few relatively narrow topics like high frequency trading, trading algorithms for direct market access and solvi