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by jevgeni 5y ago
This is what irked me about it. We already have VS Code. For me the defaults there are tolerable, but not the pinnacle of ergonomics.
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by jevgeni 5y ago
Yes! It boils down to "I can pay money, so that you would need to pay money, and since I have more money, you'll go bankrupt quicker." I'm not all too sure about American laws, but in Europe Amjad's argumentation, e
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by jevgeni 5y ago
Probably not, since they have more money and can’t be outlawyered like an intern could.
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by jevgeni 5y ago
Although this is an interesting topic to me, I struggle to read the site behind all the cookie warnings and newsletter begging.
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by jevgeni 5y ago
Flat UI design is the shag carpet of computing.
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by jevgeni 5y ago
Title has a very airy typo. Also, my new favorite library.
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by jevgeni 5y ago
I used to be a fan of suckless and cat-v until I realized that complexity doesn't go away when you pretend it did, or when you just tell your users to "git good".
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by jevgeni 6y ago
I am being flippant about a topic where HN readership thinks that their cursory knowledge of it makes them experts. I mean, I agree with you. But to me, the whole complexity is just moved to vol modeling. BS with its economic assumptions is
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by jevgeni 6y ago
It's a market convention, with as much predictive power as knowing options used to be quoted in vol points.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Planes don't crash all at once every few years and resume flying only when the airports renegotiated the basic laws of physics. What you are referring to as "re-calibration" in planes and rockets is actually stochastic contro
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by jevgeni 6y ago
“Expensive” (at least for market makers) means you have to maintain a staff of quants whose job is to essentially create a curtain of rigor and hide the fact that traders usually rely on a bunch of simpler models to judge the broad dynamics
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Buy-side firms don’t use BS with the same assumptions as market makers. If you’re a fund manager, you are interested in objective estimates of the value. If you’re a market maker you want to show that you can perfectly replicate and thusly
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Neither of those examples are simple.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Having two sets of assumptions for buy and sell side is pretty indicative of the quality of the model.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
That makes BS essentially a very expensive interpolation method, where you get to pretend to the auditors that you can hedge away your delta perfectly.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
> Kitten is a statically typed, stack-based functional programming language designed to be simple and fast. It's amazing how many languages are designed to be simple and fast. You'd think that at some point the design would con
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by jevgeni 6y ago
It's not a short circuit if you consider asset liquidity.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Oh, those are impressive websites, don't get me wrong. But I think that the intent and purpose in design matters. And awwwward website's purpose is pretty vacuous. The websites there are ad brochures. A single short sentence in hu
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by jevgeni 6y ago
I started going to Awwwards to find what to avoid doing.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Let’s just give them crabs different colored flags
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Probably that’s what all those struggling hotel and restaurant owners right now are missing: a can-do attitude!
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Most of the functions are syntactically distinct.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
I think the problem here is that Rust exposes a lot of additional problems in a domain that are swept under the rug in other languages. I mean, those problems have always existed, it's just we are used to hoping or assuming that the ge
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by jevgeni 6y ago
This is a great insight, thank you! I *try* to make my software initially intuitive and gradually discoverable. I think a gentle learning curve is better than a completely flat one. I thought quite a bit recently about the problem that you
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by jevgeni 6y ago
I think partly it is because UX is measurable (“A is less usable than B and thusly bad”), whereas aesthetics are not (“different tastes”). A kind of means to escape personal emotional accountability.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Those Somalian kids that might not know (gasp!) about Lollapalooza sure are sheltered then. If only they had the courage to get out of their comfort zone of war and poverty, and just witness a mediocre first-world yuppie music festival, th
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by jevgeni 6y ago
The word 'sheltered' is still misapplied here.
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by jevgeni 6y ago
Can you install a Mercedes OS on BMW board computers? No. Can you install a BMW engine into a Mercedes? As much as you can install macOS on a Lenovo laptop. Car manufacturers have their own part standards and their own tools specifically de
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by jevgeni 6y ago
All of this also applies to BMW or, say, Tesla cars, but nobody is claiming that they have absolutely no competition. The only claim one could make is “hey, 30% seems a bit high to do business there”. Yet Apple can claim that you pay a prem
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by jevgeni 6y ago
It’s still difficult to argue that Apple refusing to subsidize Epic store is anti competitive

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