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by caffeine 6y ago
It's important not to apologize if you don't honestly believe you have done something wrong. When faced with a mob claiming victimhood or hurt feelings, apologies can confer legitimacy to complaints that don't deserve it. The
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by caffeine 6y ago
If you didn't do something wrong, do NOT apologize. That is what gives them their power.
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by caffeine 6y ago
This. The new requirements you will need to implement are probably unknown right now. If your code has no extra fat, it will be easier to adapt.
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by caffeine 7y ago
https://github.com/real-logic/simple-binary-encoding is a good way to do this
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by caffeine 7y ago
Proprietary software. This is mostly stuff used for options procing. Every options trading house has a substantial investment in proprietary options pricing software, mostly using customized adaptations of these models rather than what yo
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by caffeine 12y ago
> Say to yourself, if I had to ship this literally four hours from now, what would I do? How could I fake it so that it appeared done? Do that. Then do it again. Then do it again until it's sort of really done. That is really good
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by caffeine 12y ago
Agreed, but OP asks about getting the job done despite fatigue and burnout, short-term. For more general information on handling burnout long-term, I believe there are a wealth of HN posts already.
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by caffeine 12y ago
Seriously, the only practical thing that works is exercise and sleep. If you have to push through, exercise 1hr per day and sleep at least 6 hours during your ordeal. The exercise will clear your fog brain like nothing else can. Also, mo
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by caffeine 12y ago
Calling it "selling insurance" is pretty good. People blank if you say "options", but selling insurance captures the immediate small upside with potential massive downside later
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by caffeine 15y ago
Many of these ideas are already present in picolisp
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by caffeine 16y ago
Suggestion: you should now build a second app which generates a stream of single-use urls that are invalidated as soon as they are accessed, and which proxy through to an original base url. Then hook the two apps together and profit.
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by caffeine 16y ago
The obvious hole in your chain of reasoning is that "$0.70/bitcoin" would obviously change when every American attempted to fill his wallet with bitcoins.
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by caffeine 16y ago
To be honest, that's probably #2 most important thing. #1 being, of course, that people want your data.
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by caffeine 16y ago
It's the realistic position.
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by caffeine 16y ago
Check out GNU parallel
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by caffeine 16y ago
> I'd rather see an HN filled with articles that help materially in getting there, It is.
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by caffeine 16y ago
The majority of the questions on that first page of proposals have nothing to do with Quantitative finance. Moderating such a forum would be a nightmare. Perhaps this indicates a market for a separate "Hokey-pokey finance" StackExchange
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by caffeine 16y ago
Excellent! What a helpful list. This is one of my major stumbling blocks as a programmer trying to build usable apps.
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by caffeine 16y ago
I think none of the answers in that summary really say it. Google won (in the beginning) because: 1. It *just* searches. Really well. 2. Ad auctions. That's basically it. It's the same way Starbucks won in the beginning: 1. *J
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by caffeine 16y ago
> I don't want to try anything new because of the fear/knowledge that it won't stick My point was ... so what if it doesn't stick? Just don't worry about it. So you're a person who starts things but doesn't finish them. Big deal. J
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by caffeine 16y ago
To be honest, in martial arts, the basics is really all there is. You don't tell a novice from an expert by which katas they know, or even their belt. You tell them apart by their attitude toward training (patient, calm, focused) and their
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by caffeine 16y ago
This may sound hokey to you, but I quit using an iPhone app called Quit Smoking Now, which is basically just a recorded set of hypnosis tapes. I listened to it one night (~1hr), threw my pack away, and never smoked again. Then there's a s
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by caffeine 16y ago
In case you live in London .. come see the Science Museum (South Kensington), they have an incredibly cool deep-sea fish exhibit going on, including bioluminescent ones.
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by caffeine 16y ago
Hi Damnit, Just wanted to say that I exhibit much the same set of phenomena that you do. I don't ever finish anything I start, I always look for something new, I ride the wave of exhilaration that comes from sinking my teeth into some seri
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by caffeine 16y ago
I created a thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1483783 to try and get a list of synthetic bio startups. If you know one/work at one, would be great to hear about it!
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Ask HN: Synthetic bio startups?
25 points by caffeine 16y ago|10 comments
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by caffeine 16y ago
Even if the metric is a direct business metric that it's manaagement's job to optimize (like profitability or number of users)? I've always thought it would be interesting to see the results if half of everybody's salary (including the CEO
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by caffeine 16y ago
The formatting is ridiculous. Also, much of the article is written from an outdated point of view. In particular, dendritic arbors - the complicated and highly structured tree-like structures of a neuron that receive inputs - are now know
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by caffeine 16y ago
It's amazing that I can ask a question like this on SO and have one of the world's experts answer. The conclusion was, basically, read Xmonad.
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by caffeine 16y ago
Is that an Easter egg?

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