jabberwcky

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by jabberwcky 6y ago
A browser and its bookmarks are my personal window to the world, I wouldn't enable a feature like sync for love or money. What a crazy idea: hey ad company, here is everything I bookmarked that I wouldn't dare even mention to my c
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Multi-master hardly comes for free in terms of complexity or performance, you're at the mercy of latency. Either host the second master in the same building, in which case the redundancy is an illusion, or host it somewhere else in whi
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
> but does anyone actually do that? Backtesting a regular single symbol model on CPU is often not cheap, especially at higher frequencies. Now multiply that by 50 correlated instruments, each having say, 1500-3000 strikes+sides+expiries
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
I have heavy boozers on both sides of my bloodline, never expected it would hit me because I was so aware of it, but at some point in my early 30s I realized I was always the one dragging friends to bars, and of course despite a self-impose
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Pretty sure the EULA does not cover copying essentially a DRM key from the SMC and checking it into GitHub, conveniently set up in such a way as the repo does not in fact require Mac hardware
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
A Canonical employee releasing a wrapper to download and run unlicensed MacOS, and shipping it via Ubuntu's explicitly for-profit app store? There is noooo way this was approved "Sofireme" seems way more appropriate, or maybe
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Fashion-oriented posts like this are always a shitfest, and this one is no different. It is setting up a variety of different architectural styles as if they were in competition for the "top spot", which is to say the only option
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
You definitely need both, these are two completely different kinds of journalling: - Filesystem journalling is making robust changes to the data structures describing directories, files, and where files live, in units of atomic filesystem o
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Counter case: Twitter forces authors to be succinct and to the point, and encourages them write in a style similar to the classical newspaper article structure where the most pertinent information is presented first There is a wide variety
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Option Volatility and Pricing by Natenberg is extremely complete while managing to avoid drowning in maths, it is widely recommended and considered a classic. There are more informal books around that focus a little too much on trading&#x2F
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Unfortunately you won't find much interesting commentary in a politically charged thread like this, best to just scan and pattern match the kind of exchanges occurring before moving swiftly along.
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Perhaps we can soon get a post on how to write a post about tail call optimization? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Not complaining.. but curious that this one feature gets so muc
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Quick take: this is staying on my phone, great effort :) Notes: - Doesn't keep flash permanently on (like CamScanner) - Skew correction looks maybe worse quality (than CamScanner) - Totally fine for at least 80% of the things I'd
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
If you turned up to interview, or even worse, arrive at a client site, and they hand you a mouldy 80386 to work from, and point you to the basement, would you feel comfortable? Jira is the mouldy 80386, and the client's culture is that
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
I hate to pile on a thread where you're already taking a lot of flack, but this point is really important to the future of Atlassian: > In a dream world of course, everything would load in < 1s (everything drawn, everything inte
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
Mongo stores objects pretty much the same as PG here, a single key update requires a rewrite of the object. Maybe Mongo has some fancy algorithms to avoid full decode/reencode in some cases, but in principle the physical data formats a
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
After what feels like a solid month of front pages cooing over the new hardware, a little counterbalance really could not hurt. I'm no longer an Apple hardware user, so this post (along with your comment) was the first time I'd he
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by jabberwcky 6y ago
> That’s the strategy. That’s the magic. You don’t need to go Open Core or any other permutation of kind-of, sort-of open source. You can open source everything and just ensure you have a rock-solid managed cloud service. This reliance o