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by fixxer 14y ago
I've got about 80% of a Prusa Mendel sitting on my desk right now, staring at me. I'd really like to get into ceramics (that Unfold project is a mind blow) and do a custom bong start-up.
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by fixxer 14y ago
I'm currently doing a hardware start-up. I totally agree with the crowdfunding strategy, especially if the technology has a mobile angle. The problem we have is IP... IP management is such a burden for a small start-up. I'm working with a U
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by fixxer 14y ago
Sure it is, Ms. Hoover.
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by fixxer 14y ago
I didn't know we could say "y'all" on HN, either.
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by fixxer 14y ago
I somehow got an IP ban. That was annoying.
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by fixxer 14y ago
Spain needs to breed. Their median age is ~41 (US at about 37... ). Not as bad as Japan, but very ominous when you've got a society built on pensions. Ireland is about 35 and it shows (little pale kiddies running around everywhere). That is
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Spain's self-cannibalizing downward spiral(marginalrevolution.com)
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by fixxer 14y ago
Should be entertaining when this gets hacked.
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by fixxer 14y ago
I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who tried searching for porn with this.
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by fixxer 14y ago
so true. if i had to go back, i'd (gulp!) actually consider an IT role over trading.
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by fixxer 14y ago
> ...eyeball-glazing polemics full of hopelessly re-contextualized non-information. I had to chuckle at that. You, sir, have not worked in finance. (complement!) >> EDIT: CME, eh? Which markets? >> EDIT2: I'm not countin
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by fixxer 14y ago
I think, in the case of fixed income, there is a public expectation of fair play (i.e. competitive market). That simply is not the case, nor is it mandate. Case in point, there is no such thing as "insider trading" when it comes to UST auct
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by fixxer 14y ago
I agree. Sounds like two jagoffs joking around. I used to be one of those jagoffs, and I joked around like that with friends at other firms. That said, I believe the article. Some of the stuff you could get away with LEGALLY on BrokerTec (I
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by fixxer 14y ago
That's the one.
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by fixxer 14y ago
> That's not in any of those books. For good reason!
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by fixxer 14y ago
Uhoh, looks like that Malaysian restaurant down the road is going to get even fewer customers... shame (I love those Singapore prawns!)
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by fixxer 14y ago
I know the "pull of the markets" is strong and my words will likely fall on deaf ears, but here it is: If you actually qualify for a quant job in today's crappy markets (solid technical PhD is a start; keep in mind your bonus potential is a
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by fixxer 14y ago
Those that know don't write books. If you'd like more of a live view into what is going on in the markets (strategy-wise), check out nuclearphynance.com. As for technical books, I prefer Maureen O'Hara's structural approach over continuous
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by fixxer 14y ago
I never thought he was dumb. I just thought he was wrong.
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by fixxer 14y ago
Asian internationals. I hear rumblings that U.S. schools are falling out of favor with Chinese, but I haven't seen evidence and my colleagues have more applicants than ever.
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by fixxer 14y ago
Can't speak for Harvard, but I'm at a pretty good public engineering school and I'm quite confident that we aren't discriminating against Asian students. If anything, they are sought after to help keep the lights on (they are the only ones
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by fixxer 14y ago
I've been addicted to these documentaries on Netflix lately, but they seem to glance over those precious details.
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by fixxer 14y ago
A new medium, perhaps. Not a new strategy.
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by fixxer 14y ago
> We should not react to such news at all, it would solve the terrorist problem and the economic issues in one go. That isn't how markets work and, more importantly, if you were to institute some policy that forced them to work that way
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by fixxer 14y ago
> This statement needs to be qualified. Yeah, "seems to be correct" is a little wishy washy... I'd argue that Go has enough syntactic sugar to be easy to learn from a Python background, but enough structure that it encourages good softw
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by fixxer 14y ago
I've heard this argument a lot (since 1999), but I'm not confident it holds true anymore. The free alternatives are so good. You may be right regarding Professors, but that is also changing as they age out.
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by fixxer 14y ago
I'm saying there is a systematic advantage to using proprietary technologies in academic research (companies have money, so you can write a grant and they will pay you $). Case in point, look at apps coming out of academia and you'll see a
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by fixxer 14y ago
You're preaching to the choir. Looks like NEC funded this. NVidia seems to be the preferred hardware for institutions/big companies. I'm not sure if this is because NVidia's architecture is better for supercomputers or if they're simply bet
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by fixxer 14y ago
Again, your basis for making this "magical" statement is questionable. I'm in a research institution with considerable resources and it ain't magic. It is, however, a lot of bureaucracy and poor resource management (and 60% overhead! talk a
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by fixxer 14y ago
Presumptuous. You make execution/implementation sound so easy. I find your stance confusing (JD not floating your boat? I see you aren't an academic). I'm actually in a PhD program at a top 3 engineering school and I'm frustrated as hell by

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