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by hp50g 14y ago
Good questions. A failsafe/circuit breaker is a possibility but shutting down the market will affect confidence. I'd prefer to see a market operate on a tick basis I.e all trades for a tick are transacted in one go with a window between eac
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by hp50g 14y ago
So, some languages demand some tools and other languages demand more complicated tools? I'd rather have a language that didn't demand lots of tooling. Lots of tooling is expensive, unreliable and a time sink. Which is why I like vim (and ha
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by hp50g 14y ago
It does but there are some real downsides: Failures can cause exchange crashes big time. This has nearly happened a few times before. Risk is centralised and multiplied. HFT contributes to volatility. Hurts long term investment by human bro
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by hp50g 14y ago
I've never seen Conservapedia before. It wasn't until about 5 minutes after reading some of it, I realised it wasn't some parody like Uncyclopedia. I'm utterly shocked that the human race actually is possible of pumping out shite of that gr
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by hp50g 14y ago
Fair point. I will do the tutorial again! :) I might get it if I keep trying. (ironically I did an engineering degree which was rather maths heavy so I should get this).
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by hp50g 14y ago
A single function/expression tends to drag over too much space for my liking. It's hard to break down some of them into functional units that fit in my head properly. Perhaps I'm just thick :) Look at List.hs (sort/sortBy) for what I mean:
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by hp50g 14y ago
Give people a platform for their voyeuristic, narcissistic ramblings and they will hang themselves through ignorance. If you write it on the Internet, be polite and respectful or anonymous!
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by hp50g 14y ago
It's not the tutorial specifically - more Haskell itself: Syntax feels slightly horrid. Doesn't seem to visually or syntactically scale well with the size of the problem at hand. Some of it is plain ugly (records). It's harder than the othe
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by hp50g 14y ago
(for the moment). HFT will eventually fall off a cliff or be regulated out of existence. I think the FSA in the UK are on this already.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I had an idea for a similar game in the late 90's but I never bothered with it (thanks to Unreal Tournament consuming a big chunk of my time) I'm glad someone else came up with the same thing as the idea certainly had some merit. I will be
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by hp50g 14y ago
I've been through this a few times. It puts me off Haskell even more each time. Bear in mind I'm pretty handy with obscure obfuscated by default things like RPL, Forth and Perl and occasionally common lisp.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I use postfix+Maildir. I never get spam. I rarely give out my address and if i do, its usually an alias unless i really trust the person. Spam? Delete the alias and get the fucker blacklisted as it deterministically points to the culprit. I
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by hp50g 14y ago
Spot on. In the UK this business mentality is rife. You're always seeing it plastered all over the news. "Students unsuitably trained" "No skilled workforce" It's all down to greed and margins which are the two main problems with the "busin
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by hp50g 14y ago
Nope - having been there as a contractor, it's still done on paper believe it or not.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I've run my own mail server since I got my first permanent connection in 1995. It's not hard to keep it up and reliable, especially on a small scale. It's not much harder to keep a large one up (I designed and operated a huge qmail hub in
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by hp50g 14y ago
I agree about moving contacts and calendar off Google myself. To be honest, if it's not actually somewhere you control, it's not yours. At least if you host or manage it yourself, you are only at the mercy of your own incompetence, whereas
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by hp50g 14y ago
Yes. The Wikipedia article is to be honest, crap. RPL is a functional stack based language sort of like lisp and forth combined with mathematica thrown in for good measure. Its both compiled and interpreted and a system language and a user
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by hp50g 14y ago
No sign of RPL, which is insanely expressive :(
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by hp50g 14y ago
Whitelist and restrict to certain staff. We have to cover our asses as we deal with classified information and financial data. We even search people leaving the building.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Your working copy has a URL. You can switch it to another URL (a branch/tag) using "svn switch". It only transfers the differences between the two. You can have two separate copies checked out, but you don't have to.
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by hp50g 14y ago
That's a similar path to the one I took and I thoroughly regret it.
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by hp50g 14y ago
I disagree with the first bit. HTTP is an ambiguous, overcomplicated mess. I regularly have to wedge myself into the stack and deal with things like cookie directives, pipelining, persistent connections and utterly broken caching semantics
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by hp50g 14y ago
I agree entirely with this. the world wide web lacks any "engineering" at all. It just happened and is as a result, a bit of a mess. Even standards such as html5 don't get anywhere near making something coherent and consistent.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Yes they were all right, unfortunately. Thanks for an insightful comment.
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by hp50g 14y ago
They don't have access to that :)
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by hp50g 14y ago
Yes this is something you learn not to do by accidental deodorant spray :) ouch!
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by hp50g 14y ago
We have content filters and policy based email management. You can't send documents or content through the mail gateway at all.
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by hp50g 14y ago
Unless you use svn and svnsync...
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by hp50g 14y ago
Indeed. We just create patches in such an event :)
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by hp50g 14y ago
Actually it would be even worse as we can't risk people pushing our code to their private repo so Mr Firewall goes "no way". Another problem: we dont know which repo we're pushing to at a network level. Code theft is a major problem. Not be

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