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by hogu 16y ago
I've been a Matlab user for 10 yrs, recently switched to python because of the increased flexibility. never going back to Matlab ever again. Python math and science libs can be a little rough around the edges, but the flexibility more tha
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by hogu 16y ago
I have an acer aspire 1410 11.6' runs ubuntu well, 1.2ghz SU2300 (dual core celeron) good alternative as well. and it was only $400
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by hogu 16y ago
I don't know, I use XP at work and linux for everything else. My complaint is that there's the menu bar AND there's the dock the combination really takes up alot of screen real estate I personally use awesome WM one status bar at the top, n
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by hogu 16y ago
he's a big headhunter for finance. Try to get banks to drop VB. good luck.
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by hogu 16y ago
zmq isn't an MPI library, it's a generic messaging library they refer to it as sockets on steroids
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by hogu 16y ago
yes, but you still loose the top to that menu bar
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by hogu 16y ago
no, people should be alotted a certain amount of variance for daily arrival times. They only really need to be on time for meetings, where their lateness wastes N peoples times
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by hogu 16y ago
huh? its an indicator of both the reliability of public trans, as well as the person. I would expect anyone I worked with to take reasonable precautions to be on time for meetings(not for everyday work) In a certain public trans system tha
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by hogu 16y ago
you may want to consider ZeroMQ, depending on what you're trying to do, the python libraries are very good, they work hard to avoid copying excess data, as well as releasing the gil appropriately http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35490/sp
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by hogu 16y ago
you don't get more bugs in python vs statically typed languages, you just get different types of bugs also - there are code parsers like pylint that help you sanity check your source code in that manner. speed - python is slow. We use pyth
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by hogu 16y ago
I love webOS's notification system
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by hogu 16y ago
matlab skills are highly desired for some jobs, If you know it well enough to put it on your resume, you should just lump it in with the other languages. same with latex(if you're possibly looking for anything academic/research lab)
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by hogu 16y ago
You don't know what a college program is like yet, it won't be all about scantron multiple choice questions. It should be hard, and you should get exposed to alot of material you hadn't been exposed to. Some of it will be stupid, but that
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by hogu 16y ago
how's the battery life on that thing?
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by hogu 16y ago
as an emacs user, I don't like the ctrl alt placement. the kinesis looks to do a good job at that (i haven't bought one yet but i want to)
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by hogu 16y ago
If you're in the bay area there are way better things to see than those things. those are just famous startup places
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by hogu 16y ago
You could try working in finance. Ideal job is to work as a developer on a trading desk. You probably won't get much more as a base salary, but you can get a bonus ~ 70% of your base. But it is stressful. you need to work on the trading
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by hogu 16y ago
what language do you develop in? IDE's are bloated because they have tons of features, If you tell us what features you require, someone might be able to suggest a non-bloated solution to do what you want. I develop mostly in python, so I
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by hogu 16y ago
NYC,London,Austin. Enthought is hiring, we're a scientific computing company working on Numpy and Scipy, and we do some consulting as well. www.enthought.com We're looking for Python/C/C++ developers who are good at math, numerical methods
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by hogu 16y ago
Why wouldn't you just use Cython? it has good numpy integration as well as being quite good for everything else?
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by hogu 16y ago
python has, RPy2 so you can still access R's statistics libraries http://scikits.appspot.com/statsmodels , and http://pandas.sourceforge.net/ (dataframes) plus, scipy has a decent stats library as well (random variables, etc) still rough
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by hogu 16y ago
in quantitative analysis, you try to figure out how to make decisions that are statistically likely to be profitable. generally, those that practice technical analysis, look at charts and apply rules, however you don't have any statistical
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by hogu 16y ago
don't loose all your money, interactive brokers has paper accounts that let you fake-trade without consequence.
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by hogu 16y ago
ymacs is emacs in a browser. emacs-w3m is a browser inside emacs I just tried to run ymacs in a emacs-w3m, but it didn't work. that woulda been cool though, emacs in a browser running inside a browser which is inside emacs.