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by mmsmatt 11y ago
I use the Facebook app/site to follow food trucks and bars. Going to the news feed to find out anything about my friends' lives? No, I'll write them on Messenger and ask what's up. If I'm no longer reading my news f
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
He who play in root, kill tree. -Slackware fortune file
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
> If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes. Well put.
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
Pick up "Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals" - a great resource - and get a taste of this as early as the preface! The author writes about a bug he introduced in a program making markets in treasuries. It cost his firm
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
For a longer (and fairly technical) answer, see "Slapped by the Invisible Hand". Essentially, a subprime mortgage had the price-will-rise-forever view baked in, as a way for the borrower to passively increase equity in the house w
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
aalib + mplayer would be my guess.
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
Complete agreement with the last sentence. I can think of two projects in my past five years that really showed performance sensitivity. I knew that at design time so I chose to care about where data sat in memory and how it would behave in
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
I dual booted Win 98 and various Debian flavors. Once I got OpenGL going, I would sometimes see the "last" frame of a Windows session flash as X started up.
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
My first distro was Corel Desktop Linux, based on Debian circa 2001. That started me on a path of exploration I've never left. Now I wait for the rest of the story...
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by mmsmatt 11y ago
Yes, those yahoo chess ladder rooms burned through a ton of dial up hours at my house.
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by mmsmatt 14y ago
From the article: "The plan for this section is to write a simple program and then poke it in gdb until arrays start to make sense." I poked arrays and pointers with printf() for too long before they started to make sense, would have loved
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by mmsmatt 14y ago
I'll try to provide a secular account here ;) The principles are obvious, and Covey states this in his appendix of the Kindle edition. He claims credit only for packaging them in an accessible way. 7 Habits was effective for me because I an
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by mmsmatt 15y ago
Made me think of Muphry's law there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law
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by mmsmatt 15y ago
GS is 30k people, 12k of them VP-level, of which Smith was one. http://dealbreaker.com/2012/03/goldman-sachs-was-less-than-t... VP in IB doesn't map to VP in any other industry I've seen. The (many, many) titles become more confusing when
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by mmsmatt 15y ago
To kill the popup, I lied and claimed I was already registered. Shady first impression, puts me on guard before I read anything else on your page.
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by mmsmatt 15y ago
Article does claim much of the highest tier's wealth comes from investment as opposed to income. The products in which they invest have to come from financial services, including Cynicalkane's employer.
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by mmsmatt 15y ago
George Carlin had similar thoughts: "A Place for My Stuff" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac