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by ggruschow 16y ago
You seem to be under the erroneous assumption that human specialists and market makers actually caught falling knives in the past. Sure the rulebooks said they were supposed to, but rules aren't reality. Black Monday is the classic example.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
3rd party hardware can screw things up every bit as much as 3rd party software.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I was told my work could be requested under the FOIA when I programmed for the army.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Consider what that means: at one time Java was THE way to do mobile phone apps.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
gvim doesn't need them either. Goodbye toolbar :set guioptions-=T Goodbye menubar :set guioptions-=m
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Sorry, I meant in regards to trying to change the world or whatever. I can't recommend books for self-studying trading. It's a bad idea, and probably an ill-conceived one at that. If you must though: 1) Read an overview of how the products
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I'm probably not quite as successful as PG is in his space, but I've done embarrassingly well in the area under discussion. Sadly, I can't disagree with the assessment about studying to become a quant. Odds would be higher if you simply pic
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Does anyone, and I mean anyone , intentionally click on mobile ads? I pay attention to and click on way more web ads than average, but only when I'm "browsing" -- just scanning and reading information. I don't think I've ever intentional
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Busted left and right on Opera (10.51 on Win7). I assume you can update it as you please since you host it, so maybe it'd be better to just disable it on untested browsers.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
With respect, isn't it normal to start with something less than would satisfy customers? I think the difference you're describing is in direction, not position. On the side you prefer, you figure out what someone wants, and heads toward tha
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Bringing people on that are great at passing the typical interview questions is a great way to get a team up to speed on passing typical interviews. I doubt anyone can reliably figure out in a few hours if someone will be a productive addit
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Solving your problem (procrastination) may require figuring out the root problem(s). People have already mentioned a lot of good solutions for a lot of problems, but trying to solve the wrong problem can make your's worse.. or at least frus
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by ggruschow 17y ago
If the new employer is getting involved trying to make this as easily as possible, why not just give the present employer a call and work it out? The employee has their part in it already, why also make them into an emotional middleman?
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I should start publishing this news, since my source seems faster and more reliable, though a little hard to understand. I get an email at least a few hours before the announcement that reads "Your new absolute-top-of-the-line-hardware has
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Maybe we should stop writing long articles on our computer also. (Disclaimer: Instapaper rules... except at hacker news comments.)
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by ggruschow 17y ago
There's many firms with similar stories and profits. There's a few with far more. They don't have a nearly perfect solution, nor is there one.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Maybe, but you'd need to show you'd be able to show you can be as concise, useful, and readable. If you're serious, I'd recommend you do a sample chapter and outline. You could come back to me if you'd like, but you could shop it around to
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Ugly/scary drives me away from converting.
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PiCloud : Cloud Computing. Simplified.(picloud.com)
112 points by ggruschow 17y ago|41 comments
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by ggruschow 17y ago
"this is my job application" This guy's resume and professional contact list together are shorter than this sentence, at least 1 in 10 people in this country can't find any suitable work, and he just landed a fantastic job interview -- co
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by ggruschow 17y ago
He jokes and people cringe, but Excel is a huge win in some sorts of.. I'm not sure what to call it. I hesitate to call it programming because programming to me means all the text-file stuff from BASIC to C to Python to Haskell. It's a lang
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by ggruschow 17y ago
"Otherwise we are resigned to this cycle of great tech companies having relatively short lives compared to industrial counterparts." What's the problem here? Did I miss the lesson on why we need to create long lived legal entities? It's not
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I seriously doubt others are much better, so unless you're planning on withdrawing from the modern banking system, I wouldn't bother.. I met a guy who did that, and I definitely wouldn't bother with that. He ended up going off-grid too beca
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by ggruschow 17y ago
There's a similar opportunity almost everywhere something is sold at a massive premium to material costs.
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Magnetophoretic writing tablets were 3 for $10 at the drug store down the street last week. They don't require any power to draw, display, or erase and I'd guess their contrast ratio is better than the current electrophoretic/e-ink displays
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Where's the control group? The study seems to compare two skills in bilingual kids only. It's interesting, but it doesn't seem to tell us anything about the advantage of speaking 2 languages.. like single language kids could read 2x as fast
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I really wish that thing had a touchscreen. No pointing device, no scroll wheel, and poor cursor update speed will make the interactions people are used to now impossible. It shuts down its radio all the time right? I assume push notifica
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by ggruschow 17y ago
Why don't all of these libs close the popup when you click the image?
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by ggruschow 17y ago
I'm not sure I'm smart enough to use it, much less understand it. I can understand that it's mouse based though, and I can't grasp how that would be more efficient for the way I code. I am intrigued by the idea of no built-in commands, rely
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by ggruschow 17y ago
gvim hates proportional fonts: E596: Invalid font(s) I just can't bring myself to use emacs.

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