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Hurrying Into the Next Panic? The New York Times' Take on Algorithmic Trading(nytimes.com)
3 points by javanix 17y ago|0 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
Oh yes. I started a fairly large program at work earlier this year and used Struts2 to start off. Things went swimmingly until I started having to modify the template files, and from there I was spending far more time fighting the framework
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, Eclipse's project manager is great for Java. For C I'd much rather use just a straight text editor - IDEs just get in the way. C + emacs/vi is much faster than C + Eclipse, but C is always going to be faster to write than Java just be
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by javanix 17y ago
Yeah, that's one thing that bothers me about the cases they presented. What on earth motivated the Feds to even look at these guys? They had to have been doing something else to warrant the attention in the first place, or else this country
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by javanix 17y ago
Yes, I have to remain skeptical of the true "danger" posed to most of us by these laws. However, if the two examples are even close to as cut and dry as the article stated (not guaranteed, considering the source), I think that it is a clear
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by javanix 17y ago
Not really a horror story as a sysasdmin, but I figured that completely removing Python and all of its dependencies might be a good way to fix some conflicts I was having with a few programs. Needless to say, results were disappointing.
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by javanix 17y ago
It certainly trumps something that sells for $600, but is the build quality all that much better than a comparably priced ThinkPad or one of Dell's new high-end machines? The only real hardware advantage that I can find which isn't availa
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by javanix 17y ago
You were hoping for USB to magically be something that its not?
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by javanix 17y ago
I think the music industry finally realized that the only thing that DRM was cutting down on was their profits. The set of all people that are going to purchase is (and will be for the foreseeable future until/unless it becomes much harder
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by javanix 17y ago
I agree. Journalists (and through them, the general public) are smart enough to recognize DRM when they see it now. The music industry could (and, lets be honest, probably will) try to raise it from the dead at some point. Whatever they d
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, the "cleanliness" is probably because it hasn't been open-source for too long - most of the original work was done by a dedicated team of software engineers most likely operating under fairly strict code guidelines.
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by javanix 17y ago
Why would it make you want to pirate the game? How many times will you be using a computer that is powerful enough to run C&C4 but doesn't have a persistent internet connection? The current crop of DRM is horrible (and in my opinion, ma
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by javanix 17y ago
Oh, I completely agree on the regulation front - health care in this country is broken right now. I'm not in agreement with the current Administration's plans to fix it, but something needs to be done. I just think that when people star
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by javanix 17y ago
Unfortunately, there just isn't anything you or anyone else is going to be able to do to combat people's "selfishness". It may not be the way we want things to happen, but nobody is going to be able to convince every facet of the population
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by javanix 17y ago
If someone had come up with something like you suggested it would have been a lot bigger news and this "contest" really wouldn't have happened.
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by javanix 17y ago
There isn't really a hyperlink in that article, so here's the link to the actual website. http://wechoosethemoon.org/ It doesn't have much of an intro, so I thought people here would appreciate the backstory provided in the Herald article
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We Choose The Moon - Apollo 11 mission recreated in realtime(news.bostonherald.com)
18 points by javanix 17y ago|5 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
It shouldn't really be that surprising. C/C++ are generally still the "fastest" languages in terms of final application performance. And, I am pretty sure that all of the DirectX/OpenGL APIs are still tied pretty tightly in with C/C++ lib
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by javanix 17y ago
Thanks for the info guys. I should probably add that our school doesn't offer any sort of work-study credit in CS, so that's the reason I'm sticking around campus for the last semester (well, that and no desire to kill myself for my last "r
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Ask HN: Most Useful Undergraduate CS Courses
13 points by javanix 17y ago|15 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
Does anyone know what the 'Ford paradox' is? He refers to it in regards to the physical implications of real number representation.
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by javanix 17y ago
I agree that most of CS is far more freeform than these professions, but I mentioned systems/applications programmers for a reason. They need to write their software to behave compatibly with certain system restraints, and thus don't have q
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US to launch Flash-based IT spending tracker(arstechnica.com)
1 points by javanix 17y ago|0 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
Well put. I would add that there are more similarities between a master mechanic and a skilled applications/systems programmer than people usually recognize. Both professions require similar amounts of schooling (Two years at a tech/vocatio
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by javanix 17y ago
Unfortunately the problem with implementing this in other sports is the same problem with implementing a centered camera view in baseball - infrastructure. In order to get the awesome Madden-esque camera views that you describe (at least fo
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by javanix 17y ago
There really isn't the possibility for "screaming electrical death" unless you go through great lengths to attach something where it doesn't belong (and hence, obviously doesn't fit). Also, nobody in their right mind would leave their compu
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Ask HN: Job prospects for typical CS graduates
2 points by javanix 17y ago|3 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
Heh, I thought it was a bit cheeky.
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by javanix 17y ago
And if you look at my original point, you'll see that I was trying to point out that not everything can stay free and ad-minimal forever. I was simply using YouTube as an example of something that, absent of Google deciding to run it at a s
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by javanix 17y ago
That might work for YouTube, but how many companies have the deep pockets of Google to ride it out long enough for technology advances to make their product profitable? There is no way the vast amount of free, professionally made, high-qual

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