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by elemeno 14y ago
That's largely because there's the potential to abuse the drugs as well. Giving people painkillers is good, giving them at a strength that makes it easy for someone to overdose from one bottle, less good. For what it's worth, you can easily
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by elemeno 14y ago
An API or a data dump of what?
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by elemeno 15y ago
"Experienced Investor" often has quite specific meanings - namely that the investor fully understands all the risks involved in an investment. This generally goes beyond just knowing that there's a risk involved but also understanding the r
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by elemeno 15y ago
You do realize that with current US interest rates the interest on a 21 day hold would amount to even less than $150[1] per $1mil held - and thats assuming that they could even get Fed Reserve lending rates, which you're not going to be get
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by elemeno 15y ago
Amazon ships worldwide, region free DVD players are pretty much the norm worldwide as well. I really do think you'd have to stretch to find somewhere where a torrent is available but it's impossible to get a DVD. If you're just trying to co
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by elemeno 15y ago
Is't that option just called buying the shows from iTunes or on DVD?
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by elemeno 15y ago
I'd argue it's because they're universally rather dull. On a technical level, demos are highly impressive and how they manage to overcome the limitations imposed by the scene to create the works that they do is ingenious, but it doesn't mak
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by elemeno 15y ago
Why should it? A GitHub calling itself a standards committee is hardly, y'know, a standards committee.
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by elemeno 15y ago
It's already here and it's been here for a while. I work in the financial industry where there are some strict regulatory requirements about information flow (you know, things like like insider trading and maintaining firewalls between diff
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by elemeno 15y ago
As far as The Algorithm Design Manual and CLRS is concerned I would not say that they are comparable. CLRS is about algorithm analysis and formally proving that they behave in certain ways - like proving that quicksort has a guaranteed wors
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by elemeno 15y ago
I don't know that that's a great analogy - there is a compiler market but it's not necessarily one that people notice. Microsoft sells it's compilers in the form of Visual Studio. Intel sells a variety of C++ and Fortran compilers. There's
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by elemeno 15y ago
Sure this counts as something that would be a lawful business purpose.
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by elemeno 15y ago
I'd second that. In the past five years (or at least since VS 2008), I can remember VS crashing on me maybe half a dozen times. That's with spending most of my time working on pretty large multi language projects. For context, I don't use a
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by elemeno 15y ago
A reasonable grain I'd say :) While I'm not a quant in anything other than job title (I'm a Quant/Dev really), my experience in the financial world suggests that there are two main reasons why C++ is used so often - 1) Legacy Code. When you
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by elemeno 15y ago
When I was at GS it depended highly on which teams you were on. In FICC, where I was, SecDB/Slang ran everything, but there where definitely signs that it was falling out of favour elsewhere and more Java and C# projects were emerging. If I
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by elemeno 15y ago
Why so? If someone breaks into a company's system, surely the company has a very real obligation to help prosecute the law-breaker? While I can see where there's an argument to made in favour of not prosecuting someone who really is a white
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by elemeno 15y ago
With everything that's been and being added to C#, I'd argue that it keeps getting more and more interesting for experienced developers and further away from novices. Your typical novice developer is going to have a hell of a time trying to
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by elemeno 15y ago
Perhaps that's because most people who think that the claims are BS have never worked with codebases that are expected to exist and be maintained for at least a decade with minimal downtime. Within large companies those types of codebases a
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by elemeno 15y ago
Interesting - I'm not well versed on the Python stats ecosystem. It's a side effect of working in finance where every place I've worked already has large well tested libraries in C/C++/C#.
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by elemeno 15y ago
If you're using Python, what are you using for your stats libraries? R is, generally, the go to language for stats work I've found. It's certainly used a lot in the financial world for statistical modelling, and all the libraries in it are
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by elemeno 15y ago
If that was all it was then no. However, what they did was demonstrate a novel way of making use of two different processing cores that exist on the chip (namely using both the CPU and an integrated GPU) to improve the performance of their
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by elemeno 15y ago
Here's the dirty little secret that people like you overlook - spending four years hacking around and hanging out on HN will teach you nothing about Big O notation and how to analyse it or about advanced data structures. What it will teach
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by elemeno 15y ago
I don't see anything in there which refutes the statement that refined sugar from cane and beets isn't significantly different to HFCS in terms of their effect.
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by elemeno 15y ago
I suspect that part of the secret to that one is called Librarians. Well, that and it's likely that when doing a literature review is hard and time consuming, people aren't quite as concerned about it's completeness as well it's easy and qu
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by elemeno 15y ago
Or far simpler - Akamai Torrents are great, but most people don't know what they are and won't want to download a torrent client just to get the supplementary materials for a textbook. Using Akamai, or other similar services, means they'll
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by elemeno 15y ago
No, those clearly refer to the mean not the median. People do not ask the question "Given the range of heights in the population, what is the middle value", they want to know the mean height of the population. This is especially easy to see
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by elemeno 15y ago
It's psychology - we all fall fowl of the labels we apply to ourselves.
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by elemeno 15y ago
I think you're missing out on an important point - Users are not the same as Customers. Customers pay you money, they are what you need to build a business. Having millions of users who don't provide any revenue is only useful if your goal
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by elemeno 15y ago
To my mind, that sounds like a good thing. My employer using Facebook for communication sounds just terrible.
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by elemeno 15y ago
I'd have a hard time believing that 'many' of these weekend projects go on to become a long-term project. To me at least, they seem like people taking a shotgun approach to starting projects and hoping that one of them will stick and become

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