erikig

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   by erikig 9y ago

   Genius!
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   by erikig 9y ago

   I get short term nostalgia when I look at the root comment that started this thread...
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   by erikig 9y ago

   Even though not quite open source - I'd also recommend checking out https://www.quantopian.com and their Pipeline API - https://www.quantopian.com/help#pipeline-title . The data and the algorithms are only
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   by erikig 9y ago

   They do in my case. I've been interviewing junior fintech dev candidates in the South Florida area and I've found that the candidates that have Udemy, Udacity or Coursera certificates are a better fit for our start up and showed a
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   by erikig 9y ago

   I'm also not likely to submit my email unless the form requests some info on the categories of audience I'd be targeting - e.g music, gaming, startups etc. I'd rather receive one or two newsletters every couple of months that
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   by erikig 9y ago

   This resource for Matt's attributions footer is a boon for CLI hackers: http://www.newardassociates.com/files/SSCLI2.pdf
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   by erikig 9y ago

   I wonder how they knew whether this is just one narwhal's or one colony's modified behavior or the behavior of all narwhals'. Sea mammals are pretty intelligent, who's to say that this one or this colony hasn't adap
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   by erikig 9y ago

   After seeing Parsey McParseface, Boaty McBoatface and Namey McNameface I've been wondering where the <x>y Mc<x>face meme came from?
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   by erikig 9y ago

   I'm reminded of a Father John Misty song which goes: Try not to think so much about The truly staggering amount of oil that it takes to make a record All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining, the high gloss The tape and the g
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    by erikig 10y ago

    "A simple sort on minimum-guaranteed-salary seems best." How would do you handle crucial skilled jobs that don't pay a lot or where there isn't a lot of competition?
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Thanks for these but alas - the formatting!
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    by erikig 10y ago

    I'm not sure what is going on here. Is this Sesame Street advertising Google Earth?
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    by erikig 10y ago

    https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ You can download the two tools wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage which use WebKit to generate pdfs/images.
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    by erikig 10y ago

    If you want to get more active, I'd recommend Interactive Brokers APIs: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1325 Ditto for TDAmeritrade but their forums are not very active. http://apiforu
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Some recent similar questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12802121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8515192 React Resources: https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Bezos owns about 83M[1] shares of Amazon which are currently $875. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Amazon-does-Jeff-Be...
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Oh yeah - this would be a great addition to an already great serivce.
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    by erikig 10y ago

    You'd be surprised how quickly this can change. I'm actually more worried about workers in developed countries where the costs and ongoing benefits are higher. As the expertise spreads across the globe faster than ever, why build
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    by erikig 10y ago

    No, it just means Westinghouse is going to get its debt restructured. They'll still keep operating under supervision of a bankruptcy judge.
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Chapter 11 bankruptcy might be a the best thing for a critical company like Westinghouse. Unlike Chapter 7 the operations continue but the entity gets debt relief. "In Chapter 11, in most instances the debtor remains in control of its
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    by erikig 10y ago

    There is a version of this in the automobile space - Car2Go - in a bunch of US cities. I used this a few times in Miami where they had Smart FourTwo's scattered across the city. As a member, you could walk up, unlock it and drive it an
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    by erikig 10y ago

    All hail the Paradox of Choice!
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    by erikig 10y ago

    I disagree with the author's premise: "Nearly a decade after one of the most devastating financial collapses in modern history, Wall Street appears as corrupt as ever." Considering the size of 'Wall Street' the size
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    Can You Resolve the Unexpected Hanging Paradox?(youtube.com)

    1 points by erikig 10y ago|0 comments
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    by erikig 10y ago

    I beg to differ - nowadays most successful finance (Citdadel, RenCap, Susquehanna etc) are quant-driven and the primary costs are tech/research talent, data and servers - very similar to tech companies.
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Thanks for sharing - this is pretty good. I'd recommend including the actual text next to or below the user's avatar instead of in a separate view.
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    by erikig 10y ago

    Thank you. As a former international student, I really appreciated the efforts that were made by our faculty to help us integrate. Many of the friends I made, both from the US and from other countries were from the informal events and clubs
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    by erikig 10y ago

    You'd be surprised by how many don't want to.
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    How Female Engineer got rejected by Y Combinator and bounced back [video](inc.com)

    1 points by erikig 11y ago|0 comments
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    by erikig 12y ago

    My point exactly. I showed this to a couple of my non-tech friends and they couldn't quite understand why we'd spend hours looking at what seemed like "work stuff"