chrisaycock

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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I'll echo the thanks. It was fun contest; I wish there were more programming challenges as they force me to think about something that isn't work-related. Usually I have to stick to Stack Overflow for that, though.
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
Link to the actual article: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/1108/best-small-companies-...
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I wonder about the companies that a VC rejects that end-up going under. How much is a firm's failure due to lack of funding vs. actual competitive forces or management inability. Not saying that I'd be a shinning beacon since I would have t
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I never drink coffee (no tolerance for caffeine), and rarely drink tea. I usually drink water during the day. As for alcohol: wheat beer, port wine, and single-malt scotch.
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MPI applications are usually written in C or Fortran, namely because the use case is number crunching. That's very different from what Clojure and Python are associated with. There aren't many scientific applications targeted to virtual mac
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I like the comment: "poor programmers get very defensive about their language"
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You could store the static (non-changing) text in a couple of C strings and then call writev() to communicate everything. That would save you the step of continuously reconstructing the header.
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How I got accepted to grad school: I sent a typed letter as "priority mail" (where the recipient has to sign for it) to the prof I wanted to work with. It was my junior year and I told him I could meet him in-person during spring break. He
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
Said Business School runs a number of events: http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/ They host the Idea Idol campaign as well; give that a look if you're interested. Also try to get ahold of cperciva on here. He's another Oxonian who start
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
As PG might say, the primary killer of start-ups is the start-ups themselves, not any other competing force.
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Right, the only metric I want to see is the roundtrip latency between when I submit my order to when I get my execution report. I just aggregate the timestamps in my FIX logs and usually quote the min, median, max when trying to compare exc
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
This recent discussion of angels vs. VCs is just like the debate of hedge funds vs. proprietary trading firms. What's happened in New York (and Chicago) is that they've gone after after completely different strategies. Hedge funds have a lo
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I like the comments about dice. With one die, an outcome of 4 or 2 is equally likely. With two dice, an outcome of 4 is three times more likely than 2. So while one and two dice games are both random (as in unpredictable), only the one-die
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I like to see improvement in the company's fundamentals. For example, a decrease in net debt or an increase in economic value added. Additional information is comparison to other stocks, such as within a related index (use GICS or similar
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
As I understand it, xargs only runs on the local machine; GNU parallel can run on remote machines as well. So parallel is the cluster-friendly version of xargs's -P.
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Because it can be run on the command line, ad hoc. Make -j is great for pre-existing command lists and dependencies. But as the man page describes, parallel is like xargs, which I use all the time on the command line for ad hoc actions (fre
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I've always loved the title of that essay, since Dijkstra wasn't known for being humble. An example from http://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/144-dijkstra.htm... He was legendary for not sitting quietly in lecturers and talks by ot
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I use LaTeX with TeXShop on my Mac. http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/ It goes with the MacTeX distribution, which includes other Mac-friendly goodies.
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
Anyone who sends me a cover letter or resume typeset with LaTeX moves to the head of the line.
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
New York, NY. Tachyon Capital Management We specialize in high-frequency trading in equities and futures. We are a small firm of seven people who build and execute automated trading algorithms. We are looking for another software developer
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I second the comment about open-ended computer science questions. I like to ask candidates what happens during a thread switch. Their responses allow me to probe other areas of computing knowledge. What are the performance implications of l
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
And if I can just marry .01% of the women I meet, then I can potentially have 300K wives if I just travel enough! Made-up percentage numbers aren't an accurate means of prediction. Doubly so since the "customers" that Groupon brings in are
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
England has "managing director" for the CEO.
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The OP responds in the comments: "Universities are famous for it: small departments filled with people who are expected to spend their entire lives there, with tiny, tiny rewards at stake, a system of recognition that relies on self-promoti
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
I like what Fred Brooks says here, something along the lines of: Be prepared the throw the first one away since you will anyhow.
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
The company that originally made the "k" language (Kx Systems) has a Google group: http://groups.google.com/group/personal-kdbplus That one is mostly for "q", a proprietary follow-up language. There's also the "k idioms", which are always
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by chrisaycock 16y ago
Now I'm waiting for screencast of sudoku: http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv... or game of life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4