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by helsinki 4y ago
Colleague is an ambiguous term. I wonder if he meant Citadel employees (only a couple thousand, which is pretty bad, if true)? The CEO of Citadel has tens of thousands of 'colleagues', though.
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by helsinki 4y ago
Not sure why this is about Chicago. Almost all of the major hedge funds and banks have been increasing their Miami presence over the past 18 months. Maybe it really is because of the violence, but I think he is making a political play and t
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by helsinki 4y ago
Fucks up your throat, over time.
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by helsinki 4y ago
DMed you on Twitter
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by helsinki 4y ago
I park on a random street, right next to the office, and never get a ticket. There is an unspoken secret that you can’t get tickets in NYC if you put a cover on your motorcycle. In FiDi, there is a good spot to park if you work in Battery P
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by helsinki 4y ago
Too late.
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by helsinki 4y ago
I mount the home directory to NFS for all of my machines.
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by helsinki 4y ago
I have been riding my motorcycle to work in Manhattan, three days a week, for about eight months. I recently picked up a vest that doubles as an airbag. https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/dainese-smart-jacket-rev...
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by helsinki 4y ago
Hi Sam, It might be worth adding a section on distributed anonymous scrapers that use some form of messaging middleware to distribute the URLs to scrape. Regarding the anonymous aspect (independent of job distribution, of course), you could
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by helsinki 4y ago
This feels like they are so full of themselves. They should have simply summarized it as, ‘Revenue greatly dropped in 2020, and the subsequent increase is inversely correlated to the level of society’s fear of covid.’ Instead, they have to
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by helsinki 5y ago
The male guest is the least fun person alive.
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by helsinki 5y ago
Cool - now scrape the web for new songs that match one of yours and sue them ;)
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by helsinki 5y ago
The only problem is that a Pret sandwich in the US is about 8x as expensive as a full meal from a Japanese gas station.
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by helsinki 5y ago
You would be surprised to find out that some web servers are capable of detecting browser emulation through curl or Python’s requests lib. Try programmatically scrolling through Instagram photos. It will work if you use curl, but it will no
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by helsinki 5y ago
I find working on single services / components more exhausting.
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by helsinki 5y ago
I only had to read the summary to dissuade myself from continuing. Not interested in Twitter’s usage of vendor software.
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by helsinki 5y ago
How much of the recommendation engine is built around a spatial index that performs a KNN search?
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by helsinki 5y ago
This reads a bit like a plea to Facebook for account restoration.
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by helsinki 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5982313
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by helsinki 5y ago
Right there with you. Never again. Fuck that.
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by helsinki 5y ago
Reminds me of the painting, ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_I...
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by helsinki 5y ago
> Kafka couldn't cope up if there are hundreds or few thousands topics. High CPU load, longer startup times... It also uses num_partitions*2 open file descriptors per topic, which can quickly surpass the default ulimit on a host
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by helsinki 5y ago
It varies based on her schedule. We aim for 25-30 hours per week. There is a lot of downtime on her end, which I am fine with.
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by helsinki 5y ago
Correct.
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by helsinki 5y ago
Ah, I figured the housewife comment would wreak some havoc, but I can’t really think of a better way to describe. There is no emotional or romantic attachment. If anything, it is friendly, at best. Nothing to really read between the lines o
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by helsinki 5y ago
Same, except my team is in the office again.
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by helsinki 5y ago
I found my personal assistant on Craigslist. Very happy I found her. I put up a simple posting, ‘computer programmer seeking personal assistant’. Turns out she was tired of being an au pair and decided this would be a better fit. It’s reall
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by helsinki 5y ago
Sorry about that. I was typing from my phone, blindly. This is a cool website, thanks. Here is the correct solution: cal -y | sed -E '1,2d;s/(.{20}) /\1\n/g;' | python3 -c "from calendar import month_name;impor
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by helsinki 5y ago
cal -y | sed -E '1,2d;s/(.{20}) /\1\n/g;' | python3 -c “import sys, calendar;[print(ln.strip()) for ln in sys.stdin.readlines() if ln.strip() in calendar.month_name]” easier to do: python3 -c “import calendar;[print
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by helsinki 5y ago
cal -y | sed -E '1,2d;s/(.{20}) /\1\n/g;' | egrep “^. .* $“ or cal -y | sed -E '1,2d;s/(.{20}) /\1\n/g;' | python3 -c “from calendar import month_name;import sys;[print(ln.strip()) for

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