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by ewjordan 16y ago
A related case: I have never bothered to learn, nor will I, what the default modifiers for Java’s variables and methods are. Thus, every one of those things gets one of private or public or protected in front of it. There are way better th
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Tau is an awful symbol in my opinion. Agreed, mainly because it's already used so widely in so many very standardized ways (including many constants). Of course, most of the Greek alphabet has been used by convention for one thing or ano
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by ewjordan 16y ago
D'oh. Don't know how I didn't realize that, given that my response got messed up so that my "corrected" version read exactly like the one I was confused about... Please disregard everything I said, in that case. :)
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Karelis doesn't understand econ, but criticizes it because econ disagrees with his thought experiments and political leanings. Sounds like a model economist to me - because of his political leanings, he doesn't like what the oversimplifie
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Astroturfing == posting fake "grassroots" testimonials about the product/idea/company in question to make it seem like a lot of people care about it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing I'm sure it's pretty effective, especiall
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I don't take a strong position on evolution one way or another because the outcome doesn't affect me in any way. You're just fine with having the next generation of schoolkids taught that "God Did It (or maybe aliens)" is the only accepta
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Sorry, that didn't make much sense to me - in your first example, you can't say "foo is an int", because it's not, it's a pointer to an int. And in your last example, you can't say "foo[5] is an int", because it's not, it's a pointer to
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Now what I do, which goes against stated policy, is keep the CustomerData variables (String name, int custId, and so on) public so I can set them easily. The only time I require getters and setters for primitive types (for example, name) i
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by ewjordan 16y ago
FWIW, looking at those graphs, it does appear that a lot of the extraneous action was happening right on the edge of the inside bid/ask. Additionally, your broker starts getting annoyed at you when your fill rate drops below 0.5% or so. If
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Technically speaking, it may not be a trivial matter to ignore your own quotes, but it's not very difficult, either - if it takes M operations to handle your typical fully processed quote, and N operations to hash the quote and compare it t
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by ewjordan 16y ago
...and before the coin drops into the company's coffer, it's already been taxed as income against the person that earned it to spend, and before that as corporate tax against the corporation that employs that person, and as income tax again
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Many of the people I know that work in the vast world of "other people's money" feel exactly the same way, FWIW - on many occasions I've had discussions with them about the fact that all the only value they ever create is to shave the odd b
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by ewjordan 16y ago
That might be a little harsh. I suspect that what's going on is that rather than targeting the naive or desperate, it's naive HR folks that think they're "getting into our heads" or "speaking our language". It's sort of like a parent tha
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by ewjordan 16y ago
His argument was that those active investors, minus the fees they charge, won't beat the market over a long timeframe. I agree with him there as well. But that argument completely ignores the point of the bet: obviously the average of all
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Before getting upset about this, make sure you read what the author says (in an update) near the end: I specially carved out “young people” from my argument. Most young people are infinitely mobile. Also, I need to carve out mid-level de
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Further, people with your typical high-powered "successful" jobs are almost without exception routinely drug-tested, so they are forced to make a choice between continuing to smoke and having their careers. Talk about selection bias...that
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Also, I'm concerned about establishing burn-out as a disease (as am I with most psychological diseases) because the victim mentality can set in pretty quick Yes, kind of like how people with major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disord
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Mike, Git seems unintuitive because you don't have a good grasp of what it does behind the scenes. In other words, Git's abstraction is leaky. That's usually considered a bad thing in our profession. Except that since it's Git, we all us
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by ewjordan 16y ago
There is a kernel of truth in there as I often wish CSS let arrange elements independent of the order they appear in the HTML doc. ...and that type of thing is probably the source of most of the discomfort that the author feels with the w
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Now, even though there may be people out there willing to sell you the shares at 100,000, these programs can find out your top price, and they will but the shares at $26.10, and sell them to you at $26.39, thus making a profit of the diffe
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by ewjordan 16y ago
...and then, if your scheme works (which, as others have pointed out, would take a miracle, and a very carefully chosen market that's not handled the way most of the big ones are), both you and your friend go to jail for market manipulation
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by ewjordan 16y ago
You should be able to get any of this information - a good broker will always show you a), b), and c), and using tick-by-tick data in most markets you can figure out d). Not so much secrecy; however, that doesn't mean there aren't errors, a
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by ewjordan 16y ago
+1 for IB - that's what I've been using for the past year, and they're quite solid from what I've seen. It's not a very elegant API (or trading platform [Java based + clunky] or documentation [brief at best], for that matter!), but they've
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by ewjordan 16y ago
It is simply tragic that we live in the country that invented the Internet, and yet the bandwidth available to the average citizen is very low compared to the rest of the first world countries. To some extent that is a result of the fac
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by ewjordan 16y ago
From the link Judson posted (not the text of a law, but some sort of legal advice link): You can't be convicted of a California Penal Code 496 charge if you intended to return the property to its owner or the police when you bought or rece
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I couldn't get any animations to work Make sure to remove noLoop() from the setup function. Try this: void setup() { size(200,200); frameRate(30); background(0); fill(255); PFont fontA = loadFont("courier"); textFont(fo
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Microsoft force you to use .Net (of some form) and their APIs because that fits their business model (i.e. ties you to the XBox). They're restricting me from using my platform portable pure C code, which is their choice. You're missing th
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Most users of most websites probably fall into both - they neither understand nor care about the privacy implications, nor would they even if they were explained to them, as long as the site keeps them "in touch" with a lot of their friends
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by ewjordan 17y ago
It may be legal, but it still has to be explicitly agreed to, correct? And employer doesn't have a default claim on all IP generated by their employees outside of work hours, I would hope. Maybe I'm paranoid, but just to cover my ass, thes
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Personally, I don't see how any of it adds up to a fair deal in anyone's mind, but I very often am unable to understand why people do things that are against their own best interests. You've listed the upsides, which for some people (I da

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