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by minimax 13y ago
Good point. There does seem to be a lot of survivorship bias built into the outlook espoused in the original post.
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by minimax 13y ago
The T-shaped person thing is from Valve's hiring guidelines. http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
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by minimax 13y ago
I think I'm in the minority, but I'm happy to see C++ in a college course. I thought it was all Python and Java these days.
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by minimax 13y ago
It's on this slide: http://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#13
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by minimax 13y ago
Use space bar / arrow keys for navigation.
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by minimax 13y ago
I've seen this story (NASDAQ being hacked) reported in a couple of places, but it isn't clear to me what damage was done. It's not really possible for them to have messed with the actual trading without anyone noticing. Every
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by minimax 13y ago
There is a lot of bad financial reporting out there, but this isn't it. They aren't "comparing the per-share number to the total revenue." They are comparing the current quarter's EPS to the EPS for the same quarter
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by minimax 13y ago
I think you fat fingered the calculation. The S&P is up something like 30% since the FB IPO (5/18/2012).
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by minimax 13y ago
It's good to know about SIMD instructions, but you can usually get at them with intrinsics (if you're writing in C) without dropping down to pure assembly.
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by minimax 13y ago
I find HN really irritating in this regard. My NY Times subscription costs about $15 / month. It doesn't even register on my budget. I don't understand why everyone here is so reluctant to cough up a few bucks for decent jour
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by minimax 13y ago
As a GMail user, if you drag an email from the Promotions tab to the Primary tab, it will ask you if you want future messages from the sending address to go to Primary. This is the right way to do it. Users should be in charge of categorizi
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by minimax 13y ago
Just tried that and now I've got tabs in GMail. Thanks for the tip.
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Nate Silver Moving from The New York Times to ESPN(espnmediazone.com)
2 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
few Americans begin study of a second language before secondary school Are you sure about that? I grew up in Texas and I remember taking Spanish in elementary school.
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by minimax 13y ago
MSFT is keeping up with the S&P 500, but it's still doing pretty poorly compared to its biggest competitors (GOOG, AAPL, ORCL).
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by minimax 13y ago
Can you really call municipal bankruptcy a nationwide phenomenon? You have: Jefferson County, Alabama that got mixed up in some interest rate swaps they had no business getting involved with; a couple of cities in California that got punish
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by minimax 13y ago
It's true there is some new housing availability in the form of condos in central Austin, but my experience was that the majority of new Austinites moved into houses in the suburbs -- Round Rock, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Buda, Kyle, e
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by minimax 13y ago
In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private. They might have said something ridiculous like: "Based on the current price o
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by minimax 13y ago
Please be very careful doing math with bash and awk... I don't see how that's more true for awk than it is for any other programming language. Awk uses double precision floating point for all numeric values, which isn't a h
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by minimax 13y ago
AWK is worth learning completely. It hits a real sweet spot in terms of minimizing the number of lines of code needed to write useful programs in the world of quasi-structured (not quite CSV but not completely free form) data. You can learn
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Google Glass, Facebook Home and solipsism(ben-evans.com)
3 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
I don't get how having multiple copies of a quote hanging around in memory is a big problem. It's probably less than 100 bytes total (symbol + side + price) and probably significantly smaller than the size of the state associated
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by minimax 13y ago
You seriously think that people are selling their risky assets and then putting that money in bitcoins?
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by minimax 13y ago
This is noise. If you start looking around for arbitrary financial timeseries that track one another over a short period, you will find spurious correlations. I especially appreciate the author's thesis about the cause: Historically,
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Strangling Innovation — When Rent-Seekers and Startups Collide(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
I've interviewed with Google a couple of times over the years and the interview questions are usually of the form "you have X data in such and such format, and we want to answer question Y as efficiently as possible." Then yo
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Chicago Public Library Will Soon Have Public Access 3D Printers(chicagobusiness.com)
4 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
My work MBP has a spinning drive and FileVault 2 (whole disk encryption) turned on. Anything I/O bound (booting, starting applications, paging) is super slow.
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by minimax 13y ago
Business Insider is a tabloid. They'll post anything to get pageviews.
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by minimax 13y ago
He does know who owns those computers, and did not include any government computers on the list. It's completely possible that these computers (or netblocks) were used as jumping off points for attacks against the U.S. or U.S. compan

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