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by minimax 14y ago
For anyone interested in the crazy live blog of the Katrina aftermath from the guy holed up in his ISP in New Orleans, start here: http://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/ This is the guy you're talking about, right?
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by minimax 14y ago
I'm not from the Jim Cramer crowd and it doesn't sound like you are either. If you are sending orders at the best bid/offer and you can't get filled it's probably because you're too slow. I suppose you could send a marketable limit order in
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by minimax 14y ago
"And, in fact, every single one of our simulated trades was profitable, even while the stock overall was going up and down." This is a huge red flag with respect to the simulation results. You show some trades like this one > 2013-03-05
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by minimax 14y ago
"slipage is the price the trade gets executed vs. where you thought it would be." Anyone not using limit orders in an automated trading system deserves whatever they get.
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by minimax 14y ago
You should check out http://www.northbranchmerchants.com/
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by minimax 14y ago
Just think of all the things you could be doing with your time that don't involve following this stupid Internet drama. Now go do one of those things. Seriously this is such a waste of time.
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by minimax 14y ago
AFAIK comprehensive numbers for YC outcomes are not public, but Paul Graham has indicated that returns from YC investments follow a power law distribution, meaning that if you can only get equity in a single YC company (by virtue of being a
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by minimax 14y ago
To borrow your analogy, to me Scrum is like the guy who reads some stuff about working out on the Internet and proceeds to try and correct everyone in the gym on their form.
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by minimax 14y ago
The only thing I appreciate about my experience with Scrum was that I could use the hours long "sprint planning" meetings to reflect on my long term goal of never having to sit through another hours long "sprint planning" meeting ever again
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by minimax 14y ago
You didn't get shut down because of SXSW, you got shut down because you started singing in the lobby of a big downtown hotel without asking permission. Pinning it on "SXSW, Inc." is disingenuous.
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by minimax 14y ago
I'm about as unaware of the Ruby ecosystem as anyone who regularly reads HN can be, so while I've heard of Resque I'm not really sure where it fits in. I suppose the definition of job scheduling is dependent on what your workload entails. I
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by minimax 14y ago
I don't think it's uncommon at all to roll your own job scheduler. I know I've done it at the last two places I have worked, though neither had nearly as fancy a front-end as Chronos appears to have. This particular scheduler (Chronos) lo
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by minimax 14y ago
There is no need to fire up gdb in the example case on the backward-cpp Github page because it's a trivial example (dereferencing an obviously invalid pointer), but to say it eliminates the need for gdb to debug segfaults in general is a bi
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by minimax 14y ago
Which compiler are you using? Clang is much better at dumping template related error messages and recent versions of gcc are getting better.
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by minimax 14y ago
What I like most about is that it embodies the idea that funding is an end rather than a means. Rather than commemorating revenue you're celebrating funding. It's perfect for the VC centric world of Silicon Valley.
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by minimax 14y ago
"Technological improvement actually did lead to widespread unemployment once: the Great Depression." Economists argue about the causes of the Great Depression, but the idea that the Great Depression was caused by improvements in technology
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by minimax 14y ago
"I'm pretty sure the jobs everyone's freaking out about are never coming back" There's nothing wrong with that. In 1900 something like 40% of all employment was in agriculture, but improvements in technology have reduced that to 2-3% now (a
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by minimax 14y ago
This is a facile take on the economics of technology. Productivity increased steadily throughout the 20th century and while in the short term that may have eliminated certain (mostly unskilled) functions, it didn't lead to widespread unemp
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by minimax 14y ago
The difference is that SSD backed key value stores are something people are actually interested in (Google LevelDB, Tokyo Cabinet, Twitter fatcache), and Firefox with SSHFS swap partition is not.
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by minimax 14y ago
"Is this really something that needs testing?" Yes. Running tests to validate your assumptions is a big part of robust software engineering. In this case the results were unsurprising but not uninteresting.
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by minimax 14y ago
I agree that there is pedagogical value in forcing yourself to write programs using only immutable data structures, but I don't think it's a restraint we should impose on ourselves for real world day-to-day programming. You aren't "cheatin
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by minimax 14y ago
I was thinking about this the other day and I think it generalizes beyond any specific language. I'm pretty sure every time I have learned a new programming language I came away a better programmer. Different programming languages (and th
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by minimax 14y ago
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Why_Not_Wayland_.2BAC8_Westo...
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by minimax 14y ago
I think a successful strategy could look something like this: First, fire a bunch of people to free up some money. Next, hire some upper level management from Google (or Facebook, Apple, wherever) and give them the authority to build new
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by minimax 14y ago
I agree that it will be interesting to find out if Yahoo is sitting on a pile of talented engineers who just need better management in order to return to productivity, or if years of bad management have caused all the real talent to flee.
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by minimax 14y ago
”We’ve checked and some people who work from home haven’t even logged into the VPN…” Wow. The WFH ban is starting to sound like the beginning of a bigger shake-up. I suspect Yahoo will want get rid of a ton of its unproductive employees an
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by minimax 14y ago
This is interesting and from a black box view of MySQL, this is a good solution. For the MySQL developers, it seems like an opportunity for improvement. When you get bottlenecked on malloc() it usually means you are frequently allocating
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by minimax 14y ago
"Stripe uses a collaborative hack project (typically prepared in advance to make sure they’re well suited for someone’s interests and skill set)." This sounds like an interesting wrinkle on the more typical whiteboard programming puzzle.
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by minimax 14y ago
You have to take the article in context. The author of the post is a partner at a venture capital firm. In VC the only real measure of success is return on investment.
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by minimax 14y ago
Great info! What are you pinging? Is it the default gateway or a specific host on the Internet? Also how do you determine download speed? The numbers for wi-fi are so disappointing. I wonder if you're not really measuring the speed of

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