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Why won't you DIE? IBM's S/360 and its legacy at 50(theregister.co.uk)
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by cpwright 13y ago
But there are already 13 of them that are regulated. At this point BATS owns 4 of them, the only reason to have 4 different exchanges is to have slightly different rule sets and fee structures. Any one of the existing exchanges (especiall
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by cpwright 13y ago
I don't know, but I can't see very many good side-effects, though can think of some negative ones. The first thing I would think is that participants would gravitate towards trading where the SIP is to avoid transit latency, redu
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by cpwright 13y ago
The exchanges do send the information to the SIP at the same time that they publish it on their own direct feed. NYSE actually got in trouble for not doing this properly. This isn't actually an easy problem, because there is a TCP in
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by cpwright 13y ago
(f) seems particularly troubling to me. How can one expect to work their way through school, if they are not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. This seems like a really bogus restriction for a school to place on you.
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by cpwright 13y ago
Just because you do it in 3 years doesn't mean you take any less gen ed, the degree requirements are exactly the same; you just have to work at a higher intensity for 3 years instead of 4.
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by cpwright 13y ago
I went to SUNY Stony Brook and graduated with a BS double majoring in Computer Science and Applied Math in 3 years. My wife and her roommate also graduated with CS degrees in 3 years. All it takes is focus, and scheduling things properly
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by cpwright 13y ago
Just because something doesn't have the recurring razor blade model of revnue (as glucose meters currently do), doesn't mean a company won't make money off of them. Now they give you the meter, but I get charged about $0.25&
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by cpwright 13y ago
I'm 31 with a Ph.D., married, two kids. I've had 3 employers in the last 7 years since I graduated. I can relate to the bit about most other parents being older, my son is 8; and we are probably at least in the bottom quartile a
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by cpwright 13y ago
>In recent decades, however, there's still been a relative abundance of salaried jobs that require stability and organizational and interpersonal skills, which women, either by genes or socialization, are better at. Another choice i
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by cpwright 13y ago
At least in NYC, they don't ban left turns, but the majority of streets are one-way; and they alternate street by street (or avenue by avenue). So you often need to put together 3 rights to make the left. There are exceptions (e.g.,
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by cpwright 13y ago
If you have the my UPS app they will send you a push notification to your phone. It is possible to reroute it with the app, but I've never needed to; since the UPS driver will most likely just leave it. In my experience, only freight
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by cpwright 13y ago
I tend to think of poaching as a bit broader than that, but not just cold calling someone because you know they work at X. For example, if someone leaves the company, and then there is a concerted effort to recruit other members of that tea
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by cpwright 13y ago
"The average NYC tech ecosystem hourly wage is $39.50 49% greater than the NYC median (AND 44% OF THOSE JOBS DO NOT REQUIRE A BACHELOR’S DEGREE.)" This seems like a terrible abuse of statistics. The average wage of $39.50 may be
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by cpwright 13y ago
In general, I think this advice is off. Particularly, "don't use a word other than made." Using developed, designed, implemented, deployed, or a variety of other words that have slightly different meaning to indicate what y
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by cpwright 13y ago
"If you're the most talented, expert employee in an office, in general there's not going to be anyone in the office that can answer your questions, so an open office doesn't buy you anything." I've never worked
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by cpwright 13y ago
I find it useful when they have the list of cards they take on there, and one lights up (or they are all lit up and the other 3 choices gray out). The thing that they are suggesting with showing me the text of the card seems pretty bogus t
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by cpwright 13y ago
The article starts out saying that this group (the top .01%) has income that is flying away from everyone else. As with most of these articles decrying the income distribution, there is the implication that there is something nefarious abo
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by cpwright 13y ago
I worry about the effects of this overdoing it on the eventual Gen 3 vehicle. Clearly, at least in general a luxury vehicle that costs $70-100K is going to have more wizbang safety features than a $35K mid-range car. However, if Tesla is
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by cpwright 13y ago
I'd expect it to provide about the same value as a book, and be browseable; not something that is purely linear one after the other (e.g., I could skip to dynamic programming, graph algorithms, or whatever topics there happen to be).
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by cpwright 13y ago
My first thought was that just getting a min and a max was the right answer, mainly because I having something hard-to-borrow is the edge case; and that the general case is that you can short.
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by cpwright 13y ago
Parsing and outputting CSV can definitely be a pain, and there are a lot of corner cases. I think that this is certainly one of those times where rolling your own should be avoided if at all possible. I am a big fan of Text::CSV or the Py
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by cpwright 13y ago
I'm not sure it is a worthwhile endeavor to hope that new users hit 1000 karma. I think the discourse would be better served by having a wide variety of people saying something worthwhile occasionally rather than trying to say somethi
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by cpwright 13y ago
He has four kids. He should have life insurance, and he should have gotten it when he first had kids and presumably was fairly young so that the rates would be inexpensive. Even if it wasn't for the mortgage or the van, you would want
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by cpwright 13y ago
If GM wants to do direct sales, they should buy out the franchisee. Tesla never sold away its franchise rights, so should be allowed to sell direct.
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by cpwright 13y ago
I don't think anyone expects someone to stick around at a company for more than 10 years.
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by cpwright 13y ago
This quote tells you how sloppy the journalism is: "Even so, Bitcoin is vulnerable to massive theft, fraud and scandal, which has seen the price of Bitcoins whipsaw from more than $1,200 each last year to as little as $130 in late Febr
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by cpwright 13y ago
If you take away school choice through private schools, then wealthy people will exercise residential school choice. That is, if you have the $45K for a private school, but suddenly they become unavailable in NYC; those same people have th
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> Watsi is being classy by not even naming the company There is no doubt as to who a multi-billion dollar health insurance company who would take issue with a logo that is literally a blue cross with a triangle cut out of it. I didn&#x2
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by cpwright 13y ago
This is true. I think that people should have the capability of being successful, but only if they do approach it like a full-time job. That doesn't, however, guarantee success, even a large operation like the last one I worked for c

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