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by mruts 7y ago
I was under the impression that ITA used exclusively Common Lisp to inplement their software. I could be wrong, though.
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m surprised that no work has been put into Linux such that one instance of the OS can work across a whole cluster of machines. This seems like the main selling point of mainframes and you would think cloud providers would be interested in
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by mruts 7y ago
According to Wikipedia it seems like a lot of people use or used ITA: “This system has been and is used by travel companies such as Bing Travel, CheapTickets, Kayak.com, and Orbitz, and by airlines such as Alitalia, American, ANA, Cape Air,
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by mruts 7y ago
So I can submit jobs to them and have them do arbitrary computations for me? I can’t even get easy unfettered access to the filesystem for christ’s sake.
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by mruts 7y ago
Implicits allow for a kind of flexibility and power that is absent from pretty much every other language. Allowing functions to implicitly introspect their caller’s context is incredibly useful. The only languages that can even half way do
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by mruts 7y ago
Well, there’s already a lot of evidence about that, so there’s no need. Asking for evidence is absolutely essential to the progress of knowledge and truth.
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by mruts 7y ago
I don’t think you could find even one person who thinks our healthcare system is a free market system. If only we could make it a free market system I think most of the problems would solve themselves. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s feas
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by mruts 7y ago
That's going to be harder in a dynamic language. In fact, sophisticated type systems are supposed to (and do) solve these problems very elegantly.
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by mruts 7y ago
Well, I bet it comes from either shapeless or anorm or mything.MyObject. Moreover, how is this different from literally any other programming language? Also, I would venture to guess that almost all programmers regardless of the language or
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by mruts 7y ago
Just like how many of them dream of white collar work at their mine/construction site/shop. The difference being is that when they find some white collar work, they no longer dream of blue collar work (because it sucks and kills y
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by mruts 7y ago
Not an apples to apples comparison, but my uncle got paid 250k/year USD to drive a big rig in Iraq for the US military. He knows Arabic and can "fit in", though. You can get paid a lot more for taking on a lot more risk, eve
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by mruts 7y ago
I dunno, a guy who read all of TAOCP and did all the exercises is probably a better programmer than you would ever be (me too probably).
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m a professional Scala dev, what exactly do you mean? Structural sharing instead of copying? Implicits?
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by mruts 7y ago
Most colleges give you a BA for mathematics not a BS, btw (to reinforce your point). Which I think makes sense. Conputer science for some reason usually nets you a BS though, despite not being related to science in the least bit (and almost
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by mruts 7y ago
Like they’re very very good at what they do? Simmons is a genius ans the people that work st RenTec are some of the best and brightest minds in the world. Even so, I must admit, their profability and success is outstanding. But then again,
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by mruts 7y ago
Wait, so according to you, what can be called beautiful? Only people and maybe animals I guess?
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by mruts 7y ago
Why should I care about the woes of you opposed to me? Why should I care about the woes of the poor opposed to the rich?
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by mruts 7y ago
Beta (by definition) is not a zero sum game, but alpha is.
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by mruts 7y ago
Well Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe did figure out how to beat roullette. And BlackJack. And then Thorpe figured out Black Scholes and made a killing in the markets trading warrents. See my above comment about how statistics does not bear out
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by mruts 7y ago
Okay, let’s do the math buddy. Let’s assume the null hypothesis (the market) has a mean return of 10% and vol of 10%. RenTec’s Medallion Fund has made 80% annualized return before fees in the last 20 years. Assuming the market is a random w
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by mruts 7y ago
You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. RenTec is the most profitable money making machine the world has ever seen (and likely will see). RenTec’s Medallion fund has an annualized return for over 30 years in excess of 35% ne
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by mruts 7y ago
HKEX’s majority shareholder is the Hong Kong government. I would therefore say that HKEX buying LSE is, in fact, a little problematic.
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by mruts 7y ago
I don’t think you understand what a p-value is. The p-value is a percentage output of testing whether a given normal distribution actually has a non-zero mean. It is phrased in terms of the null hypothesis. So a P < 0.05 means that there
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by mruts 7y ago
I live in a country where practically no one except businesses possess personal computers and maybe 50% of the urban population has a smart phone (usually some $30 Huawei crap). I worry that this kind of leap frogging that 3rd world countri
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by mruts 7y ago
Unfortunately we all need the performance due to the unbelievable bloat of the web. And even with my iPhone X a lot of sites are still laggy and unpleasant to use. The state of the web is honestly really sad and makes me feel bad about our
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by mruts 7y ago
How is that even possible? I can't think of a single thing, material or abstract, that doesn't have a dollar value attached to it.
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by mruts 7y ago
Is there something wrong with that? Sounds like freedom to me.
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by mruts 7y ago
1000 kWh/month? That seems like a buttload to me. I used to live in the US (though I never measured how much I used there) and currently, average between 6-15 KWh/day. I know this because I live in a 3rd world country and must pre
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by mruts 7y ago
I live in a 3rd world country and had to go to hospital with no power and no lights. It was chaos, amputations by flashlight, doctors unable to see where to hook up IVs, etc etc. How could you honestly think that the power going off would b
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by mruts 7y ago
The price for electricity already varies hour by hour. Maybe not as much as solar would, but most people (including me) are not paying a pegged price for electricity 24/7.

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