flefto

4 ms·

1.
by flefto 5y ago
How about you do things that actually have merit? Not by some stupid elite standard, but by your own standard. Stop comparing yourself to others. Be yourself, everyone else is taken. Who cares about stupid elite schools and companies? Go li
2.
by flefto 5y ago
Everything must be squeezed.
3.
by flefto 5y ago
I think you might have missed the point of what Yacht Rock is. It ain’t Elvis.
4.
by flefto 5y ago
It’ll get sorted out now it’s on hacker news.
5.
by flefto 5y ago
Good luck with that. Secrecy is a drug that governments become addicted to, and with zero down side for the government, nothing ever gets wound back. Things will only get ever more secret.
6.
by flefto 5y ago
I don’t believe in private variables/fields. They shouldn’t be used or implemented. A waste of time and effort.
7.
by flefto 5y ago
Meh. All your objections are hand wavey and not factual. Databases actually work fine as a queue but emotionally you don’t like it. That’s fine it’s just not real strong objections. What you have not said is “it physically does not work”, a
8.
by flefto 5y ago
So use a separate database. Is contention with the application your only objection? That’s pretty weak. What’s the real compelling reason not to use a database? You haven’t said.
9.
by flefto 5y ago
MySQL and Microsoft SQL server also support SKIP LOCKED.
10.
by flefto 5y ago
On the day in question, Robinhood posted to say this is what it was doing, and it explicitly stated that it was doing so to protect its customers from volatility. It absolutely said nothing at all about doing it because of regulatory or oth
11.
by flefto 5y ago
If so, why doesn’t this happen all the time? In fact, when has it EVER happened before, or since? If it was normal wouldn’t there regularly be stocks that can’t be bought but can be sold?
12.
by flefto 5y ago
Robinhood’s own customers got tossed to the dogs because Citadel told the CEO of Robinhood to manipulate the market. If you have a Robinhood account then you risk Robinhood making decision that lose you money so that the hedge funds make mo
13.
by flefto 5y ago
Just a reminder that robinhood prevented people buying certain stocks while allowing them to sell, causing many people to lose money, but supporting the short selling hedge funds, whilst claiming to be “investment for the people”. Possibly
14.
by flefto 5y ago
Errrrr.... did they get the news that crypto already crashed?