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In Finance Theory/ Market Microstructure there is the concept known as "Noise Traders" (Finance Theory, see Journal of Finance, is a playground for mathematicians and physicists btw). Noise Traders create a market niche for themselves by t
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Very nice summary of last 10 years - The Javaverse:(fiber-space.de)
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WOW - Excel running in a Firefox browser (see video on page)
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Last: Create your own Economy, by Tyler Cowen Current: Real World Haskell
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I remember 10 years ago when I asked econ profs what they thought about behavioural effects and how I was mostly knocked down (because this was back then not according to doctrine). That's when I began to realize the importance of politics
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Malcolm on being old school. Damn, we need more people with names like 'Betsy' and 'Hank'. There is a certain attraction to 40's/50's imagery - this polite simplicity masking darkness beneath... alcohol, war stories, adultery, mental issues
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With an Austrian co-founder; employees were a European/international hodgepodge; so, not necessarily brits in a strict sense.
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This test is cinematic, but badly implemented: couldn't understand the instructions clearly (accent, echo, background noise - even on 2nd pass through the game, I didn't understand the voice), the flow of interaction was awkward, didn't und
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Good that legislation is moving towards the direction of dealing with Internet services in a reasonable way (since Internet as main distro media pipeline cannot be stopped). Also good that they've figured out rates. Although, they're still
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1st rule: create a software app of high enough quality, that CS college grads from good departments will not vomit, when they see your source code 2nd rule: don't run out of money; get a part-time job; mow your neighbors lawns etc. 3rd rule
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was posted several days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686344 for what it's worth - my summary: -AIG FP was created in 1987 when Howard Sosin, former Drexel Burnham, created a model on how to value and trade interest-rate swaps
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Agreed. Some of the smartest people I've met were actually quite athletic. The one does not exclude the other - most of our top students in high school (in Germany) were great athletes and are pursuing anything from theoretical physics to m
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nice article (this is more or less a summary for myself to remember the highlights): -AIG FP was created in 1987 when Howard Sosin, former Drexel Burnham, created a model on how to value and trade interest-rate swaps -The company to make mo
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Thanks for the insights! Yes, my friend's dad in Munich used to program the main software handling Hypo-Vereinsbank's transactions and it was all in COBOL (a previous programmer had introduced a small rounding error, which resulted in havoc
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Wait a sec, that's not infrastructure there running in individual trading departments. Major transactional backbones in banking almost all run on Java/Unix as I understand.
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I was surprised that a major stock exchange would pick something that is not standard.
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hmm... I was surprised several years back by the announcement when LSE (London Stock Exchange) moved to MSFT server products, since people in banking mostly tell me that Java/Unix is standard.
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-Nginx frontend with Python running for web templating -URL requests are matched with Erlang patterns (and possibly some regexes with Nginx) -Python/ Erlang bridge done with internal REST Api -most unstructured data stored in CouchDB -reque
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I remember visiting my cousin in Pittsburgh, P.A., in high school (from Germany, where I went to school) and they were handing out candies for solving simple arithmetic problems in math class. I was like... what??? There are many examples o
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very enjoyable read. thanks.
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Truly amazing - giving away the source code! This will encourage many others, using this system, to start local micro-news channels in their own communities. Instead of the local newspaper/TV channel owning the regional media turf, this cou
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Very nice slide set and easy to read. Good update for me on learning some more SQL and database tricks. This is something where e.g. Erlang's Mnesia database excels at: storing tree data. Relational databases were not built for this. Mnesia
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They also seem to be the tallest country: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/04/05/040405fa_fact
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Actually the Dutch are much more open minded, individualistic then other continental European nations. This is reflected in their openness and willingness to engage in conversation etc. They seem to have an interesting blend between individ
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The problem is partly social in nature IMHO: if you allow people to make unsustainable minimum wages (by that notion you could also allow child labour, Manchester Capitalism, Darwinian chaos etc.) so that they cannot afford health care, leg
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Aha. This changes the perspective of that NYT article completely, because the NYT article does mention (but not blame) the spending habits of the wife breaking the budget.
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Yeah, 3 years is better, cheaper, more effective. Then you can go back for a Masters when you need it. The extra year is not going to give you the extra kick. Only a Masters will do that. The Brits got it right. Of course this will kill the
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Doesn't guard against sending Javascript: my browser was killed with popups - ANGER!!!
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My mistake - quoted from memory (comment system on HN locks edits after 1 hour), tried to edit later.
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What a wonderful, well-written article. Thanks for the submission. Peace. Also, the article vividly describes the moral dilemma common in corporate institutions of being forced to say or do one thing, while acting otherwise for survival. Ju

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