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by jfager 17y ago
This article is the financial-world equivalent of beating up on a security researcher for working on Windows exploits. JPMorgan is a grownup company, it ought to be able to take care of itself. Outrage over the crisis should be directed sq
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by jfager 17y ago
Are you seriously interpreting this as "Bernanke wants banks to be able to infinitely inflate the money supply"? You do realize that Bernanke's briefing explains alternate mechanisms for accomplishing the same goal without the drawbacks of
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by jfager 17y ago
for every share I purchase "ahead of" a big order, a seller has been filled at the price he desired. But they would have been filled at the price they desired if they sold directly to the big order, as well. The end effect of the hft sys
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by jfager 17y ago
Everyone I know who leads the kind of lifestyle this article is touting is a drop out, yes. Trouble is, they dropped out of grad school, not high school.
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by jfager 17y ago
I know arxiv is where all the cool kids hang out, but here's the site and the code: http://ldeniau.web.cern.ch/ldeniau/cos.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/cos/
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by jfager 17y ago
Not at all, when did I say that? I said it makes no sense to think a cab driver has any reasonable expectation that the location of his cab would be private in any sense when it's in service and carrying passengers. As a frequent cab rider
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by jfager 17y ago
Foreign and speak poor English != stupid. I've had very few cabbies who didn't clearly know what they were doing, regardless of whether I could understand them or not. And the idea that they don't know the geography? What is it, exactly,
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by jfager 17y ago
Why would a cab driver have an expectation that his location be private when driving people around in a cab? That makes no sense.
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by jfager 17y ago
That's not how it works. What happens is a bunch of mortgages of varying quality get thrown into a pool. The pool is then sliced up into a bunch of different investment vehicles. The lowest risk (and lowest return) investments get paid o
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by jfager 17y ago
One of the most confusing parts about this switch, to me, was that it immediately precedes an LTS release. Why would you spring experimental changes right before the release you're calling 'stable' and committing to for 5 years? I was und
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by jfager 17y ago
Not even kind of the same thing.
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by jfager 17y ago
I recognize the point of the blog post, but I think that's it's more dismissive of interfaces than is warranted - the title outright says to mostly stop using them, and the 3rd paragraph suggests their use is split between over-engineering
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by jfager 17y ago
I don't track all sales law changes with my regulator. If you break the Amazon TOS, you maybe get your account terminated, but if you break tax law, you maybe pay fines or go to jail. Don't you think you might have your attention priorit
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by jfager 17y ago
Do you really think that interfaces on their own constitute 'uber flexibility taking over'?
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by jfager 17y ago
It's easier to evolve Python programs along that particular axis because of duck typing and dynamic dispatch, but otoh, it's harder to rename or remove methods or change method signatures without thorough unit tests. I really don't think o
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by jfager 17y ago
Ideally, you'd just get it right the first time, but if you're going to screw up, it's usually better to screw up by having an interface you don't really need than by having a class that should really be an interface. Generalizing that mak
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by jfager 17y ago
Please don't. Interfaces are one of the few redeeming aspects of the language. They give you a way to fake mixins, they're the only hook for dynamic proxies (for quick, simple, non-bloated aspect-oriented programming), and they let you sw
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by jfager 17y ago
When was the last time animal crackers flashed an almost pornographic image at you while your boss or your kids were standing over your shoulder? When was the last time animal crackers told your daughter she was fat, or wasn't wearing enoug
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by jfager 17y ago
The vast majority of sites that I visit, I visit from aggregators such as HN, from Google, or from 3rd-party links in my Twitter stream or RSS reader. I don't have any numbers, but I would imagine that nowadays that's how a large number of
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by jfager 17y ago
"Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads." Then I'm going to run an ad blocker. I visit how many sites a day? What percent at any given time are i
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by jfager 17y ago
That demo video needs to get to the point much more quickly.
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by jfager 17y ago
I understand it to be the opposite: if you're drumming up your own business, you should be fine, but if you're getting work from an intermediary, you have to be treated as an employee of that intermediary for tax purposes. IANAL, and I cou
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by jfager 17y ago
http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml
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by jfager 17y ago
IANAL, and I might be misreading the law ( http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml ), but the way I understand it is that if non-tech company A needs some tech work done, and they hire tech service company B to get it done for them, company
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by jfager 17y ago
I've personally seen it happen with 3 separate accounts, including my own. I don't know what we did different than you - we logged in to gmail, clicked 'no thanks' on the Buzz pop-up, noticed it was turned on anyways, checked our already e
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by jfager 17y ago
The title is wrong. Buzz itself is not opt-in, auto-follow is, but not yet, and not retroactively. The blog post also glosses over something critical: This created a great deal of concern and led people to think that Buzz had automaticall
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by jfager 17y ago
By default, your followers were auto-populated from your contact list, potentially revealing who you most email.
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by jfager 17y ago
What are you talking about? Buzz exposes your up-till-now private email contacts by listing them on your public profile page, unless you take the time and effort to understand that it's doing so and follow the convoluted opt-out process.
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by jfager 17y ago
Any new feature, product, whatever that exposes private information should be opt-in. Period.
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by jfager 17y ago
"Don't worry boss, the next time I have to make a call about whether or not I'll require millions of users to opt out of sharing some of their most private personal information with the entire world, I'll know just what to do." Some lessons

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