karlmcguire

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by karlmcguire 6y ago
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails by Nassim Taleb.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
Yea, because that's been working great thus far.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
Nice, Robinhood is a publisher now!
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
Thanks for the pallene link! Terra was fun to play with but I've always wanted a simple compiled Lua.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
I think most "master" software engineers are a bit more idealistic than that... Not saying I am a master but I occasionally write something and consider it genuinely beautiful.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
It seems like with Quora you either get very bad or very good answers. The good ones tend to be significantly older, i.e. before it got big and people started to gamify the system.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
Any time someone logs into your account you immediately get a notification on all devices with the IP address the attempt originated from.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
The most interesting thing about Telegram to me is the development team: about 10 very good engineers who travel with Pavel and work from hotels.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
It's not clear who made Telegram's crypto but it was probably Nikolai Durov who is a genius mathematician and engineer, so it's not like it's some guy in a garage.
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
I found it interesting that direct calls (just calling one of your contacts) can be peer-to-peer if you enable it in the settings. They even have a unique code at the top of the screen (like 5 emojis) that you can verify match on the other
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
"All systems operational" What's the point of a status page if it doesn't reflect the real status... It's either the status page goes down with everything else or the status page is wrong. Great. EDIT: Looks like it
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by karlmcguire 6y ago
> So, if we can't stop the project from happening, what can we do? > 1. Do nothing. Assume that you will be able to grow and borrow forever. The Fed is buying individual corporate bonds now. The only thing keeping this American e
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Glad you liked it! > does it have a distributed mode like groupcache? Not at the moment, no. Though it could, theoretically, be used within groupcache. We'll look into that as it has been brought up a few times now. > it would be
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Thank you. The sync.Pool lossy ring buffers are probably my favorite innovation, especially because of how little code it is. I was worried about type casting as well and generally avoided bare interfaces like the plague. However, in all th
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Thank you for the kind words! You're right about our rabbit holes. Our initial "why" for this project was essentially: "Caffeine is written in Java with excellent performance. Go should be (and usually is) competitive wi
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Do you have a source for their blockchain being launched EOY? I've been following their blockchain project since the whitepaper, and they've been quietly missing their launch goals by many quarters... I think Telegram has a unique
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Bisqwit?
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
If you need flashcards to remember syntax, you're probably not writing/reading enough code.
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
I think you're underestimating the cryptocurrency "hodl" hysteria...
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
> It certainly didn’t help that the crypto community was choke-full of conspiracy theorists, libertarians that never read anything else after falling in love with Ayn Rand as teenagers, and get-rich-quick schemers. I agree. Because of th
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
I'm curious how people still consider BCH a viable currency after the 51% attack done "in good faith" by a major mining pools BTC.top and BTC.com [1]. What's to stop them from doing it again the next time it's conve
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Luke 19:26 repeats the line but within the context of money. It certainly isn't an "endorsement of the 1 percent", but more a statement of truth observed in virtually every human domain.
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
You're right about that specific verse but that line is repeated throughout the Bible - some within the specific context of compounding money (Luke 19:26). It applies to the article because the Pareto principle (also known as the Matth
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
Thanks for writing this. I'd love to hear your input on a possible application for this. I'm not sure if you're aware, but Counting Bloom Filters are useful as space efficient counters in LFU cache admission/eviction [1]
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
This reminds me of recent talk by Jonathan Blow [1], where he talks about how we've made very little progress in the field of software and anything that appears to be progress is just software leveraging better hardware. It's qu
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
I (and others [1]) have found that the act of logging itself helps you build and maintain momentum. For some people not wanting to "break the chain" of visible squares/X's/dots is enough motivation to continue. [1
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
You're basically describing the black swan problem [1], but I'm not sure what your argument has to do with the premise of the article, which I understood as "tracking your life in a mechanical manner allows you to make better
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by karlmcguire 7y ago
I found it ironic how unreadable this article was.
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Breaking up Big Tech would be a big mistake(theglobeandmail.com)
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by karlmcguire 8y ago
Not only is Durov's net worth $2.7B, but Telegram just raised $1.7B in an ICO for their cryptocurrency they're launching off of Telegram.

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