atemerev

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2401.
by atemerev 10y ago
Sorry, but I, personally, enjoy cars and driving, observe speed limits, and you, good sir, can take my steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. If you want cooperation and understanding from us drivers, you'd want to stop patronizing,
2402.
by atemerev 10y ago
Why should they?
2403.
by atemerev 10y ago
...which works exactly as well for hash functions.
2404.
by atemerev 10y ago
The author considers speed of light being the absolute, irrevocable certainty, but how does he know that? Does he know _why_ c is constant? Had he mastered general relativity enough to be 100% sure that it can't vary in time or space?
2405.
by atemerev 10y ago
Right. Thank you, comrade!
2406.
by atemerev 10y ago
I am Russian, and I confirm that all these (and countless others) are real.
2407.
by atemerev 10y ago
There's a modern one on that (circulated in Russia pre-US election): "Today, violent clashes between Clinton and Trump supporters occurred at Red Square and Manezhnaya. Moscow police had to resort to tear gas and water cannons&quo
2408.
by atemerev 10y ago
Back in USSR, everyone thought that it is KGB who tracks these jokes and those who spread them. Who knew it was CIA all the time? :)
2409.
by atemerev 10y ago
Scaling everything else (stateless non-persistent services) is nearly trivial, with or without Docker. It's scaling databases where things get interesting, but here we are back to dark ages of DBAs and manual deployment :(
2410.
by atemerev 10y ago
While it's still complicated, many countries use the notion of "tax resident", usually defined as "somebody who spend more than 180 days / year physically at our territory". While it doesn't help US reside
2411.
by atemerev 10y ago
...right until you have kids ;)
2412.
by atemerev 10y ago
It's not expensive, but quite time-consuming. :(
2413.
by atemerev 10y ago
Which canton are you incorporated in? My experience is with the canton of Geneva, where I have made multiple beginner's mistakes.
2414.
by atemerev 10y ago
The same story in Switzerland, perhaps even worse. Any company here generally requires a full-time administrator to handle the paperwork (and salaries here are huge). Or you can outsource it to the agency, but it will cost at least $10k&#x2
2415.
by atemerev 10y ago
I had a successful software engineer career without a degree, but some time ago I decided to go for it (to leave open the option of pursuing the PhD). So, here are the results: - Change in my career possibilities and new job offers: exactly
2416.
by atemerev 10y ago
The binary file of the database (all-inclusive and statically linked) is around 300 kilobytes (!), which makes is probably the most expensive (non-custom) software per kilobyte.
2417.
by atemerev 10y ago
These great things will still remain unfinished at 90% completion ;) (Been there, done that. Feeling incredibly sad after reading this article).
2418.
by atemerev 10y ago
This article deliberately confuses normal distribution, which applies to such things as height or IQ, and power law distribution, which applies to wealth, social connections, city sizes etc. I think nobody is surprised about the fact that t
2419.
by atemerev 10y ago
Way too small for any serious players working with "traditional" HFT. Which is good. :)
2420.
by atemerev 10y ago
HFT is quite rarely about arbitrage, in fact (at least not directly). I don't do arbitrage (there are easier ways that I hadn't fully exhausted yet), but between e.g. OKCoin and GDAX 30-second delays are common every day. The best
2421.
by atemerev 10y ago
OKcoin endless errors in documentation and lack of sane reporting, using multiple channels for market data flow (e.g. Websocket for incoming book updates and FIX or HTTP for outgoing orders), trying to account for many many possible failure
2422.
by atemerev 10y ago
(If you reach 2000 trades per day, even on OKCoin, it usually means that you are well into HFT territory, at it is generally impossible to stay profitable any other way. I might not know something about other options, though.)
2423.
by atemerev 10y ago
Most of the exchanges (including OKCoin) are using cloud infrastructure. I place my instances in the same cloud and region (meaning, the same datacenter). Nothing too fancy, I rent usual EC2 (or analogous on other cloud) "medium"-
2424.
by atemerev 10y ago
My experience tells otherwise.
2425.
by atemerev 10y ago
Russia in the 90s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, was arguably as dangerous and poor as some African countries. My family was never rich, and I left home early, changing careers, places of residence and learning relentlessly.
2426.
by atemerev 10y ago
Straight into post-bubble doom and gloom? The experience was different than today, but I wouldn't considered it lucky.
2427.
by atemerev 10y ago
Well, this is a first test — you see the bachelor degree requirement and you apply anyway, being ready to explain how your specific experience and domain knowledge from previous free gigs will bring more value to their business than a gener
2428.
by atemerev 10y ago
Well, that's what I've been busy with the first years — building skills and evidence, sometimes working for free (and sometimes paid). Much less expensive than a Stanford degree. I am not saying that high education is without its
2429.
by atemerev 10y ago
I really do not understand what this fuss is all about. I started working as a software engineer back in 2001. It was a no-brainer to steer to higher-paying areas (from Perl to Java, and then to software engineering in banking, then to quan
2430.
by atemerev 10y ago
Usually, multicast market data is used within a single local network (single optical cross-connect / multiple consumers). Even in professional environment, it is not yet necessary for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as the amount o

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