choiway

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by choiway 7y ago
Is the $200M net of what he made as employee number 10? Also, Microsoft's stock is up 5x since 2003 so he would have done well by just staying put.
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by choiway 7y ago
Does he have the Pied Piper USB key?
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Programmer for Flash Crash Spoofer Renews Motion to Dismiss Enforcement Action(lexology.com)
1 points by choiway 7y ago|0 comments
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Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks, Hedge Funds, BIS Says(bloomberg.com)
2 points by choiway 7y ago|0 comments
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by choiway 7y ago
There's survivorship bias here. Where's the list of companies that pivoted to oblivion?
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by choiway 7y ago
This article just makes matters worse. Saying nothing would have been better. Not selling would have been the best. This seriously falls in the "I didn't know you could do that category" for me.
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The BEaM Stack(choiway.github.io)
1 points by choiway 7y ago|0 comments
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by choiway 7y ago
No at the start of a project. Yes for refactoring. I used to write tests for all pure functions because they were the easiest tests to set up. They are also the easiest to debug so the test didn't really help unless you're checkin
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by choiway 7y ago
I like the way you characterize this but what on your thoughts on why you can't be a wizard with a typed language? Seems to me that if you start with something like Go or Typescript you cover a decent middle ground of foregoing a lot o
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by choiway 7y ago
Realistically, it might be that realism is the cause of depression.
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by choiway 7y ago
Larry might need to sell his island.
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by choiway 7y ago
Great story...thanks for sharing!
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by choiway 7y ago
Fair point. It's just sad that reality doesn't live up to the marketing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
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by choiway 7y ago
Wondering if Steve Jobs would have pulled the plug.
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by choiway 7y ago
The issue of discrimination is real but the intent of this lawsuit is not as honorable as you think. Check out the commentary online about the plaintiff, Students for Fair Admissions, and their anti-affirmative action bias.
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by choiway 7y ago
Gotcha, the "short cut" doesn't work any more. edit: Actually took at look at the model. Looks like the issue is with a negative strike or current price, not the risk free rate.
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by choiway 7y ago
Most of the criticisms regarding Black-Scholes that I've seen has to do with the assumption that the probability distribution of future prices is a normal distribution. I didn't think using the risk free to account for the time va
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by choiway 7y ago
Was thinking the same thing! When did this become a thing?
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by choiway 7y ago
You spend a couple hundred dollars to help get your kids into school, you go to jail. Spend a couple million tho...
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by choiway 7y ago
Agreed. What I'm saying is that I think you avoid a host of problems if you distinguish between data and state.
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by choiway 7y ago
The problem with OOP isn't the concept itself. IMHO, the problem seems to stem the fact that people use a "Class" as both a means of organizing code and as a state machine. When you confuse the two, problems just get exponent
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by choiway 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what did you find hard about it?
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by choiway 7y ago
So it's a lame version of dot net / Azure?
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by choiway 7y ago
I don't think the modern two wheeled in-line design is an obvious starting point or design iteration. It's not obviously user friendly either. Proof: 90% of the people reading this thread probably had to be "taught" how
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by choiway 7y ago
This is an overly simplistic complaint that leads to the argument that you should never use a 3rd party library.
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by choiway 7y ago
This is a more interesting tidbit about os/2 than the entire article
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by choiway 7y ago
> phone booths continuously taken up by tech-bros hogging the quiet space Truth
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by choiway 7y ago
Short version: How? We had a intern build it. Why? Intern didn't know erlang.
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Using Genetic Algorithms to Search for Trading Signals(medium.com)
2 points by choiway 8y ago|0 comments
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by choiway 9y ago
Mission Workshop Arkiv Modular system. I've been using the R6 for three years and it's still like new. https://missionworkshop.com/products/arkiv-bag-series

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