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by jfager 16y ago
What's the difference in the marginal investment required to go from illiterate to literate vs. uncreative to usefully inventive? Assuming that the market will get you what you want because it got you something else you wanted before is da
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by jfager 16y ago
I'm not a Ruby guy, so this might be a stupid question, but: why would you need to run more than a single instance of an app on a given server?
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by jfager 16y ago
All of these Scala "RC" release announcements are pretty worthless. They say nothing at all about what's getting fixed in each, they just repeat the same general Scala 2.8.0 feature set. Edit: also, if you read the mailing list, people are
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by jfager 16y ago
The Penny Arcade community isn't made up of douchebags. Explanatory enough?
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by jfager 16y ago
I completely agree, that's what I expected them to do, and that's what we ended up doing for them.
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by jfager 16y ago
My gf had to take her laptop into the Genius Bar a little while ago for an airport issue. Apparently, a routine part of the intake process is to ask for the user's account password. This pissed me off so much I almost caused a scene in th
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by jfager 16y ago
There are lots of ways to make money that would ultimately harm the market that have been made illegal or have been banned by exchanges. Nobody has a problem with people getting rich from providing value, but there's a long history of patc
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by jfager 16y ago
If you have a big enough order, it has to be made across multiple trades. If people start seeing one buyer chasing a bunch of shares across multiple trades, they'll start hoarding and drive the price up. That's how a lot of these algorith
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by jfager 16y ago
Let's say you're an institutional investor with an obligation to maintain a particular investment profile, and there's some event that forces you to rebalance your portfolio in a fairly dramatic way. You're used to working with stable port
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by jfager 16y ago
Flash orders are weapons used on both sides of the arms race. I was just referring to the 'legal frontrunning' a lot of these algorithms are trying to achieve. A few pennies? What do you mean by that? High speed trading only nets fractio
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by jfager 16y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. FWIW, I work at a risk analytics company. And if you worked on an automated execution desk, please excuse me for suggesting that you may be more inclined to see and emphasize the positives of
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by jfager 16y ago
Automated trading is a tax on transactions, not a lubricant. The machines jump in front of trades between willing "real" buyers and sellers and screw both (or one or the other, depending on the transaction). There are entire companies tha
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by jfager 16y ago
At the risk of setting off a pointless semantics wrangling session, iwantsandy and dabbledb were/are both great products that never got the attention they deserved. I think it's hard to make the case that lists (while nice) are in the same
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by jfager 16y ago
They bought Values of N a while back, so this makes at least two companies with top-tier product design chops brought into the fold. I'm a fan of the twitter web UI, and I think they've done a good job with their feature set so far, but I
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by jfager 16y ago
Sounds good, just added it. The script now offers white and black lists, where whitelisted users get an orange-highlighted username and blacklisted users get their comment text collapsed.
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by jfager 16y ago
I wrote a small greasemonkey script for blacklisting, it definitely helps keep the site useful for me. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745 I also second the suspicions about whitelisting being a desirable thing.
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by jfager 16y ago
I'm amazed that Betterment got so much love, it's nothing more than a cynical attempt to convince the unwitting that ETFs and Treasuries are just savings accounts with higher returns. I would think the more appropriate response would be to
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by jfager 16y ago
A savings account that charges a management fee, can't advertise a return rate, takes twice as long to move money through, has more complicated tax implications, and isn't insured against market movements. But it has a slider. Sign me up.
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by jfager 16y ago
No, but why would you say "not without my lawyer" if you weren't actually willing to get a lawyer and talk? If you make the offer with the intent to rescind it if they take you up on it, why make the offer in the first place?
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by jfager 16y ago
If you actually have information and there's not even the slightest possibility that it could turn bad for you, then sure, be a good citizen. But if you don't have any information, or if there's even the most remote possibility at all that
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by jfager 16y ago
Those sound like social or job-related interactions, which are completely and obviously different from the kind of interactions the article and I are referring to. Have you had any on-topic interactions with police?
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by jfager 16y ago
Again once you've asked for your lawyer interrogation must stop. So there will be no probing. But they might take you down to the police station and wait for your lawyer to show up. Do you see that as a successful outcome? Second if you
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by jfager 16y ago
How many times have you actually interacted with the police? Between being pulled over several times, living in an apartment that was previously occupied by a guy with warrants, being assaulted with a golf club, and various other stupid mi
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by jfager 16y ago
Probably not, but if people start disrespecting their wishes, and the code is all their own (that is, does not include other parties' GPL'd code), then they can simply change the license and get the same effect.
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by jfager 16y ago
This whole thing is so lame. Anyone who wants to kill you for drawing a picture already wants to kill you for other reasons, they just haven't singled you out yet. If you're participating in this because you want to stand up to a violent t
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by jfager 16y ago
They've already developed the vast majority of the infrastructure needed for this product in the course of working on their own projects. Why not start selling it? It's pure gravy for them, and it eventually means even greater economies o
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by jfager 16y ago
I didn't say saturation should be a goal, I said that they didn't have anything like it and therefore had room to grow. When each additional paying customer over a certain number is almost pure profit, the number of customers you have is a
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by jfager 16y ago
How is that not an answer? Do you think ZenDesk has anywhere near saturated their market? Why should a company that's aiming to grow take the marketing hit that comes from pissing off their current customers? Why turn potential evangelis
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by jfager 16y ago
How do you find blogs you like to read? Google only gets you so far, so you come to places like HN. You still have to know where to look in order to wade through the masses of crap. "Low signal" is just a fundamental characteristic of th
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by jfager 16y ago
They said "you can change your billing cycle to a quarterly cycle in order to extend grandfathering beyond July 1st billing cycle" - so one additional quarter, if you prepay for that quarter, followed by the increased prices. The only way y

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