andrew1

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by andrew1 17y ago
I'm baffled by all the 'do a startup' advice. Your complaints seem to be: - you feel you're working too hard and too long - you don't have a work/life balance, hence the girlfriend problem - you want to lead the good life - you are peeved t
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by andrew1 17y ago
I don't see what's so unfair about effectively a first-come first-served system, or to put it another way, how a fairer system could work. Perhaps more to the point, exchanges compete for business, if the rules used in an exchange aren't wh
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by andrew1 17y ago
The 'news' events they're reacting to are financial events at the level of price changes, order book depths etc. They don't react to things like the president being shot, and I'd imagine that if that did happen then at least some of those t
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by andrew1 17y ago
I suppose maybe the counter-argument to that is that the technological advancements that come about as a result of finance pushing for them, propagate out to the wider world and can help speed up the rate of discoveries as new technologies
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by andrew1 17y ago
What does your disclaimer mean? Ramanujan was a tremendously talented mathematician. Just because you come from the same country as him or find his religious beliefs archaic and/or irrational doesn't mean you can just dismiss his achievemen
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by andrew1 17y ago
It may do elsewhere but it doesn't at Wimbledon.
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by andrew1 17y ago
Just out of interest, what things does the iPhone offer that an Android phone could never do?
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by andrew1 17y ago
Maybe it's an atypically good product.
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by andrew1 17y ago
But the final (i.e. fifth) set is never reached in the solution. At Wimbledon it is entriely correct that you can win the match in three or four sets by winning the third or fourth set in a tie-break. There is not a problem with the solutio
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by andrew1 17y ago
If you need to send a 'pen and paper' document or form to someone and you don't have a scanner or a photocopying machine which can make digital copies, then faxing is an option.
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by andrew1 17y ago
Suppose as an extreme example that 90% of the users of this site found that this article being listed here was useful for whatever reason (perhaps they're outside the US so it's not big news where they are and certainly not on TV, perhaps t
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by andrew1 17y ago
As a non-American this is interesting to me (and possibly others) for a couple of reasons: * American politics has a large bearing on my life. America's decisions about finance, foreign policy, fuel, war etc. affect us all. So it's nice to
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by andrew1 17y ago
I would expect that the average application reviewer has access to a dictionary though.
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by andrew1 17y ago
I think 'customer' is a somewhat fair term. The fact that I use the free version of X makes it more likely that at some point I might buy the non-free version of X if I've built up a level of trust with the company, and/or that I'll recomme
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by andrew1 17y ago
I'd agree with your dislike of ugly solutions. I guess the benefit of this being accepted as a proof is that all the conjectures that begin 'Assuming that x is true...' can now be converted to theorems saying 'x is true, therefore...', whic
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by andrew1 17y ago
Symbian OS is written in C++, excluding some internals of the kernel written in C/ARM assembly. I was told when I worked there (3-4 years ago) that the entire code base (including test code, variant code etc.) is on the order of 50 million
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by andrew1 18y ago
Looking at streets in London that are not included I wondered whether they're not included for security reasons. Maybe there are government buildings on Princes Street that the authorities don't want "them" to have pictures of..
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by andrew1 18y ago
That's not really correct, if they'd lost 100% productivity instead then each person wouldn't have been (75 - 0) / 3 = 25% less productive. Dividing like that's not valid.
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by andrew1 18y ago
996 out of a thousand would be 99.6%, but I agree with your suspicions.
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by andrew1 18y ago
You need to invert your answers, the first is then better...
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by andrew1 18y ago
I don't think that that's correct. I think that the 'short selling ban' banned actual short selling, and actions which had an equivalent effect. So your example of shorting the index and buying all the stocks except one would have fallen fo