igorlev

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by igorlev 5y ago
There were no companies, as that would require private ownership of factories and other means of production. As the article says these were built in state owned factories. There were no other kinds. There were no other factories and even sm
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by igorlev 5y ago
I wonder if there’s any information on how the Australian dialect (if there was any) was accepted when it was still a penal colony? Cockney would also be a great comparison as both it and AAVE can be seen as class signifiers while the Austr
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by igorlev 5y ago
The government very clearly provides for support for the equities in many ways (which I’m sure you’re aware of) How do the following not count as benefits to the equities in your vault?: 1. Maintaining a navy that reduces piracy enough to h
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by igorlev 5y ago
I love the fact that a large portion of medicine is basically debugging and reverse engineering as a profession. It seems to be a good time in the debugging of these complex pathways as there's another, related avenue of signal manipu
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by igorlev 5y ago
At least a few banks have been running like this since 5+ years ago, and at least one collaborated with AWS which led to this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-workspaces-desktop-c... .
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by igorlev 6y ago
"En Engine, Not a Camera", a great book and posits that this effect drives a large portion of modern (post-1970s) financial markets. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134474.An_Engine_Not_a_C...
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by igorlev 6y ago
At first I thought it was yet another experiment that generates nonsense papers to show which journals will accept just about anything, but after running a quick search on some of the authors ( https://pubpeer.com/search?q=Ma
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by igorlev 7y ago
That part is not as weird as it seems. It's not unheard of for VCs who are looking to maintain a relationship with a startup to provide an introduction even before investing as a gesture of good faith. Also, to clarify, the call was ju
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Ask HN: How widespread are these VC shenanigans?
18 points by igorlev 7y ago|9 comments
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by igorlev 7y ago
I usually bring up this research when talking about employee onboarding but there was a study done in 2015 (with Mozilla) that showed a “good first issue” approach didn’t actually lead to the intended outcome - having more folks successfull
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by igorlev 8y ago
Ahh this brings back memories. One of my first projects at a large investment bank was working on a tax engine where the first step was transaction classification using a decision table with dozens of columns and hundreds of rows. The best
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by igorlev 8y ago
Results like these are not always malice, as other commenters pointed out search by price is not well figured out yet. There are some issues with relevance ranking for price where junk rises to the top when you sort by price ( https:/&
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by igorlev 8y ago
What happened is that the technology spawned by the Semantic Web "fad" is now absolutely everywhere but it looks and works nothing like how people thought it would. Freebase, after being bought by Google became the foundation of t
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by igorlev 8y ago
Retrofit( https://square.github.io/retrofit/ ) is probably one of the best Java libraries I've ever used, missed it a lot when working in Python. Cross-pollination is awesome.
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by igorlev 8y ago
Slow, in this context, is too much of a vague term. Are we talking about latency? Throughput? GC pauses? UI sluggishness? VM startup speed?
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by igorlev 13y ago
I read it as the author of that quote explicitly _choosing_ to say that to make the message simpler to his target audience. I think the author fully understands that in reality it's a mix of both nurture and nature but there's ple
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by igorlev 14y ago
Something about your comment really struck me. In most sci-fi utopias, increasing automation was assumed to lead to cheaper marginal prices that gave everyone more leisure time. In reality the benefits from increasing automation (and global
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by igorlev 14y ago
You are correct. The something new, at this point, is going on disability and waiting it out until they get Social Security payments. Most 50-year-olds with a high school education will not be becoming coders. If we are lucky, their kids ar
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by igorlev 14y ago
I used GNOME for 10+ years and switched to the Mac a few years ago. The nail in the coffin was the Unity/Gnome Shell craziness that was so poorly executed. Is it just me or this article outlining the most natural path for any Linux desktop?
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by igorlev 14y ago
Anytime I hear microtubules I instantly think Penrose and The Emperor's New Mind
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by igorlev 14y ago
I wish I could up vote the part about physical reality a few times more :) What's even worse is with something like usability, it's even more insidious since may never really find out something is "broken", or even think of it as being brok
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by igorlev 15y ago
It would consist mostly of line of business applications. Everything from the aforementioned high frequency trading applications to record keeping (stock positions, cash balances, margin), regulatory reporting (tax forms, various bank repor
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by igorlev 15y ago
I think there's still a start-up stigma attached to programmers from financial firms. Unless you have high-frequency trading, algo trading or some other high end signal attached to your name, the assumption is that you are a cookie cutter,
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by igorlev 15y ago
This is hilarious, as the whole original point of patents is to make knowledge more widely spread so that people can use that knowledge after the expiry of the patent. It seems that a point of law meant to help the little guy is instead eff
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by igorlev 15y ago
3. Something similar is actually already the case in areas like Hong Kong and other commonwealth states. It's called a stamp tax ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_tax#Hong_Kong ) Might be an issue in the US for obvious reasons :)
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by igorlev 15y ago
I don't think it's starvation, it's just a big slow patch. Innovation, just like evolution doesn't work on a smooth continuum but in jumps and bursts of flowering. Neal Stephenson is being observant but unfortunately shortsighted himself by
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by igorlev 15y ago
Not a prize. More like a fair trade where government offers their powers of enforcement to guarantee your monopoly and you offer a detailed explanation of your invention so that everyone else can use it freely after the patent expires.
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by igorlev 15y ago
It's interesting to me that the author is writing an article with a slant against the modern "winner-take-all" economy and has chosen as an example, computer programming and technology. i.e. one of the best illustrations for the basic ratio
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by igorlev 15y ago
If you were educated in a communist country at any time from 50s to 80s you would pretty much by default be either a scientist, an engineer, an architect or a doctor. Most likely an engineer. It's like trying to predict the behavior of a Mo
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by igorlev 15y ago
Not only is the translation of a surprisingly high quality, but reading the original in Russian is more awkward since a lot of the technical terms are originally English. I needed to read a particular portion 3 times before I realized it me

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