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by davvid 14y ago
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/08/02/knight-capital-tr... Basically, they deployed a new HFT algo and it started buying high and selling low. oops!
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by davvid 14y ago
This is exactly the marketing angle that (desktop-centric) linux companies can and should take.
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I see no benefit. How about consistency?
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Some of the secret details are in my theme: https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/blob/davvid/themes/davvi... ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="" ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="" which lets it avoid expensive checks that my prompt doesn
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by davvid 14y ago
Were you using oh-my-zsh? I have a few patches that speed up its git plugin by letting you opt-out of expensive operations. https://github.com/davvid/oh-my-zsh/commits/davvid Last I checked, oh-my-zsh was in transition to a new version(?)
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Money spent cannot be eaten (or.. put in one's mouth)
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If you don't like that kind of fun, have you considered, um, not attending? Lame.
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by davvid 14y ago
That's an interesting stance. There are things I can do in http://git-cola.github.com/ that I simply can't do on the command-line. That's why I use a GUI. To be fair, I wrote it, so I know exactly what commands it runs. I do think I've
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by davvid 14y ago
Burbank, CA - Walt Disney Animation Studios We <3 Linux, Python, and C++ experts! https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups/ Contact me via github if you prefer to skip to the front of the line.
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by davvid 14y ago
For the set of features you have, with most calling conventions on most platforms you don't need to synthesize all that. You could simply have your apply function be written in assembly and handle setting up the parameters fetching them fr
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by davvid 14y ago
Are there any benchmarks against postgres? One of the noted features is concurrency; postgres scales more linearly than mysql when you add more cores so I'd be curious to see a comparison.
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by davvid 14y ago
It is mathematically impossible for all of the debt in the world to be repaid (without more debt, and it's this way by design). Money is debt, and debt is slavery. Shhh! You're not supposed to look behind the curtain.
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by davvid 14y ago
Walt Disney Animation Studios, Burbank, CA https://careers.disneyanimation.com/job_groups
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Quote: they might end up spending a lot of fruitless time trying to force Vim to follow the same model through its configuration. Here's a fun little snippet from my .vimrc. Enjoy ;-) " tab navigation like firefox nmap <c-s-tab
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by davvid 14y ago
Exactly. As mentioned in the article, `git reset --keep` is the preferred way to do it these days. It preserves uncommitted worktree changes.
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by davvid 14y ago
The git project itself is a perfect example, and the code reviews on the mailing list will often note changes that should be made to commit messages.
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by davvid 14y ago
This article helped me a bit when porting Shake to x86_64 (the first in the series is linked from the article): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/14/58579... The x86_64 calling convention can be a bit hairy. C.f. http:
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Locking (binary) files in git using gitolite(thread.gmane.org)
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by davvid 14y ago
Did a Stuck Quote Prevent a Facebook Opening Day Pop? Nope. It didn't pop the 2nd day either.
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by davvid 14y ago
BTW it was a parody of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule
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by davvid 14y ago
1. Any sufficiently complicated text editing program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of vim. 2. No new programming environment will ever satisfy advanced vim users without adding a "vim emul
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by davvid 14y ago
extraneous fluff Hey, now. Gödel, Escher, Bach has character and is IMO a very fun book. You might have to read it more then once, though.. it's self-referential and strange-loopy in that way.
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by davvid 14y ago
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ plan9 is more unix than unix. The Go language has channels which can be thought of as type-safe generalized Unix pipes. How cool is that?
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by davvid 14y ago
The $3B is only what's been reported. Tip of the iceberg. FB is being propped up to lure in "retail" investors. Retail investors == "muppets" == dumb money. If FB stock is so great then Goldman would be holding onto it themselves. Are t
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by davvid 14y ago
If users can't tell the different between Google Ads and search terms (or between CBS and a random site), they're unlikely to distinguish between newsfeed updates from friends and paid ads That's a big assumption to make. The bar is low
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by davvid 14y ago
I'm happy where I work. I interviewed for google once; their recruiter found me through an open source project in which google has a stake. Anyways, I was tired when I did my phone interview, having just returned home from work. I bombed a
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by davvid 14y ago
I really like git's original tag line: git - the stupid content tracker And, of course, "the information manager from hell", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2177877 I don't know if Linus meant it as a tongue-in-cheek joke, bu
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by davvid 14y ago
It's interesting to see how it's progressed. Before git-scm.com there was git.or.cz: http://web.archive.org/web/20080102111752/http://git.or.cz/
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by davvid 14y ago
All numbers are cooked, especially unemployment. The whole argument of this article is based on leaky correlations. GDP is gamed in many ways. I'm a bit of a skeptic. Head squid Goldman just slashed their April NFP employment estimates t
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by davvid 14y ago
Huh? $ uname -a Linux apollo 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ python -V Python 2.7.2+

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