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by davidmr 9y ago
Respectfully, this is just plain incorrect. You're describing some situations that do happen and just choosing to ignore what happens the rest of the time. When demand precisely matches supply, you're correct--you need a matching
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by davidmr 10y ago
That's extremely well said. While it certainly beats the alternative of rolling something like it yourself, I've struggled a bit trying to get in the flow of tf, pardon the expression. My impression is that it's an ecosystem
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by davidmr 10y ago
I agree up to a point. Certainly the implication you should not continue doing something if a) you think it's fun and/or b) you think it's important seems wrongheaded to me and not a very fun way to go through life. I'm
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by davidmr 10y ago
In the mid-90s, I was 16 and had just started my very first job at a local ISP after having dropped out of high school (his needing a job with some urgency). It was right around the time that everyone and their mother started to check out t
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by davidmr 10y ago
Completely agreed. The landscape 2-3 years ago looked incredibly different, and I picked Mesos for a rather ambitious project. After it became relatively clear that k8s was going to eclipse Mesos and not by a little bit, trying to unwind th
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by davidmr 10y ago
Try actually reading the article. That's not really what it's about.
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by davidmr 10y ago
As a rule these articles about gentrification almost always irritate the hell out of me (likely because I live in a gentrifying neighborhood in Chicago and honestly just don't feel all that bad about it), but this is a rare exception.
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by davidmr 10y ago
I think we've lost the war. I was even asked to meet with my company's architects and designers about a new space we were building out. I basically spent an hour telling them in every different form I could that what I wanted was
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by davidmr 10y ago
I don't yet know if I'm leaving, but I am extraordinarily disappointed. I sat down and did the math a while ago and came to the conclusion that, with the benefit of the taxable/tax-deferred tax management and tax loss harvest
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by davidmr 10y ago
I've been spending several hours a day on it over the last couple weeks, and I'm really frustrated with their Cloud ML beta. I realize that beta means beta, but there's very little working code out there that runs properly (e
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by davidmr 10y ago
I'm confused. How did the USDS conduct surveillance on basically every citizen in the nation, or are you painting every US gov't employee with a very, very broad brush?
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The search for MH370 has been suspended(theguardian.com)
2 points by davidmr 10y ago|0 comments
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by davidmr 10y ago
I spent 15 years in academia and now work with dozens of former academics. In all my time, I don't think I've ever met a single person who didn't loathe the journal system from top to bottom, and that includes at least a coup
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by davidmr 10y ago
Maybe you and I have different interpretations of what affects us, but I'm still affected if I live in a city with a dramatically increasing murder rate, even if I'm not likely to be murdered. I have friends working in trauma care
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by davidmr 10y ago
I'm genuinely surprised that this post is up to 214 comments and nobody has mentioned Paris yet. I have no idea what the practicalities of a life in Paris are, but it's still at the top of my list. In maybe half a dozen visits, I&
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by davidmr 10y ago
Well said. Domination isn't the right word; perhaps "importance to" rather than "domination of".
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by davidmr 10y ago
I realize this is a stupid argument, but as long as someone else is reading it, I don't feel like I have to. I'm not recommending everyone stop reading the news, just me.
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by davidmr 10y ago
I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand I have also decided to become as ignorant as possible about the news because (at the risk of overusing the phrase), I think we have firmly moved into a post-truth American society. If election
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by davidmr 10y ago
I agree with you in every paragraph but the last and maybe even then. While the economy is obviously different than it was 70 years ago, what made the US so dominant in WWII was our ability to design and build things. In four years, we bu
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by davidmr 10y ago
4% by population of course, which is what you meant, but I think 40% of the world by wealth. While I understand what you mean by saying there are new middle classes being created from the other 96%, it seems like, absent another even more c
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by davidmr 10y ago
Usually I can see why titles are edited. This one makes no sense to me. After reading the article I can certainly see why he was important, but a household name he ain't.
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by davidmr 10y ago
Apropos of nothing, the proper anglicized name of the country is The Gambia, which along with The Bahamas, are the only two countries whose official names include "The". Obviously Reuters knows what they're doing and I'm
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by davidmr 10y ago
Many long years ago now in a past life, I was a network security guy for a big research university. Overall, that was a pretty fun job: universities make for a target rich environment. The downside was we that we were responsible for handli
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Ask HN: Evaluating candidates' tech skills your firm lacks
1 points by davidmr 10y ago|0 comments
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by davidmr 10y ago
Even more than that. Going by their 2015 reports, KCG made $885M in revenue, and Virtu made $757M. JPMorgan made $93,543M. If you look at net income, it's even more dramatic since HFT firms generally run on tighter margins. I've n
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by davidmr 10y ago
I worked at the Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics at $respected_university for about 10 years, and I think your comments aren't super accurate as a description of a solution to their problems and I don't think the ending snark i
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by davidmr 10y ago
I think in general the hawker stands are such an integral part of the Singaporean culinary culture that, even as an homage, you'd have to honor that culture by finding the best one to give a star to. I'm certain that his food is o
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by davidmr 10y ago
I genuinely don't understand the point of this article. It seems to be that, because technology companies are partnering with businesses in other industries, they're somehow betraying the "disruptive" culture of the tech
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by davidmr 10y ago
First of all, congratulations on getting this to a point where you can show it off. A lot of hard work clearly went into this, and it's can't be an easy decision to unleash the hordes of HN programmers knowing the inevitable &quot
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by davidmr 10y ago
My advice to you would be to start backwards. Find a few interesting-looking papers in the field and get a feel for the math involved and learn it. If you learn your mathematics as a tool to make sense of the papers you're reading, you

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