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by kchoudhu 10y ago
This happened a few times at the bank I worked at for almost a decade. You could count on the technologists to not throw gas on the fire by replying (everyone'd heard of Bedlam DL3), but once non-technical sales, trading and ops were o
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Sure, and investing with Goldman Sachs special situations will occasionally get your 10x returns too. It's not repeatable though, so it doesn't make sense to bet your or anyone else's retirement on it, which is what a lot of
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Do your due diligence, but here are the cliffnotes: All stocks in the US: FSTVX, VTSAX All bonds in the US: FTBFX, VBTLX Step 1: Put {your_age}% in one of the bond funds, and the rest in the stock fund. Step 2: Religiously invest a portion
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We looked into buying in JC and Hoboken before abandoning NY for good. Avoiding NYC taxes would have been nice, but the PATH train service was patchy at best on weekends, and the town was pretty expensive. Apparently lots of Wall Street typ
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I've had no issues serving with OpenBSD, but have gravitated towards FreeBSD myself due to the availability of ZFS and dtrace on that platform. Both are stellar operating systems, and you'd be doing yourself a disservice if you di
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Call me crazy, but the continuous addition of $5000 per month units is not the kind of zoning New York should be encouraging.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you: I moved way the heck out to Bay Ridge for exactly the considerations you mention. That said, a lot of people move to New York for work, and care about one thing only: how long it takes to get to and from w
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
A huge part of what ails New York is its degeneration into an ossified museum city that can't evolve due to terrible zoning laws. Fix that, and we can definitely get more building done.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
If anything, the L train shutdown is going to drive prices up in downtown Brooklyn as lease-terminating refugees from Williamsburg move downtown in an effort to keep living in Brooklyn.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
It'll be a glut when the cost of an average two bedroom rental 15 minutes away from lower Manhattan costs $2000. Until then: build, build, build.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Ah, the HENRYs. I remember laughing my head off at this crew working at a bank in the middle of the financial crisis, waiting for the world to end. http://www.felixsalmon.com/2008/10/unsympathetic-demographic...
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Jordan Hubbard is a very small voice in a very large chorus of people running FreeBSD. My money is on a new kind of init system coming to FreeBSD, but it not being anywhere near as controversial as systemd.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We'll be up to 5 point releases when 11 hits in a few weeks. Sayeth the new arrival to FreeBSD org: "What the fuck, which one am I supposed to use?" LATEST RELEASES Production: 10.3, 10.2, 10.1, 9.3 Upcoming: 11
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Journalist enters country, has bags searched. Customs officer: "This smartphone case is not allowed in the country." Oh well, we tried.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Wait -- TrueOS follows FreeBSD-CURRENT? How...brave.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
When your service provider is owned by the state, all you can rely on is the OS provider. Maybe we should all just go back to carrying dumbphones.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
FRS122 -- some freshman wrote this up as part of a first year writing seminar. Brilliant!
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Not to mention that most of the kids today would have stowed their entire population of receipts in whatever the datastore flavor-of-the-week is. At that point, the lookup would effectively be a SELECT -- which the DBMS would optimize away
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Next question: how often would this kind of malprogramming actually lead to deal-breaking performance issues in a project? After a decade in the industry, countless projects delivered and much shit code witnessed, I can empirically answer t
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I have libraries that make sure I don't do stupid shit.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
"We're definitely not Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan." You are. Why not own it? Not all businesses need to smell like a bed of roses.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Is this retroactive? My wife would love to go back and get 7 years of FICA paid for.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm surprised that they haven't cracked the full-silicon problem yet. We were looking at silicon quantum cascade lasers as a replacement for 3/5 QCLs back in college as an undergraduate project way back in 2006, and the lab P
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9407119 Because of the cross-platform focus of the NetBSD developers, I can replicate my package installation workflow on any number (20+ at last count) of operating sy
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The problems addressed by Homebrew, Macports and the like have all been solved in a cross-platform manner by the fine folks working on pkgsrc. Sane defaults, respect for system security settings, and a general lack of bullshit. As a *BSD re
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Is this as a result of the golden key attack[1] from a few days ago? [1] Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12259911
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> It isn't even automated. Yes. No. Maybe. There's a massive push towards exchange trading the more liquid products: traders are expensive, and if you can get a robot to do basic inventory management and market making for you (
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
> Vanguard runs etfs mostly Is there a socially acceptable way to call a person an ignoramus on HN?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Shadow Brokers => Mass Effect fans? Can't say I approve of these tools being leaked, but you have to admire their style.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
So: pregnant women can't do ibuprofen, and they can't do acetaminophen. What's left for them?

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