mruts

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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, you could say the exact same thing about objects..
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He never said functional programmers weren't morons, he just said they were "more smart."
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How about just: "We think that access to the internet for everyone is a good thing."
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My wife started a school/community center is Africa and we are one of the only places in town with computers and internet you can use for free. It was a rare occasion indeed that anyone wanted to do anything except watch youtube videos
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There’s no reason why such a structure shouldn’t exist. I believe this how a lot of Japanese conglomerates are structured: different companies structured around a central company bank with each company owning a piece of all the others.
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by mruts 7y ago
If one doesn't care about art, why not just use ascii art? I quite like the style of Nethack or Cogmind. If he cares about art (which he claims to), why not just make it look good and consistent? No one is expecting AAA type art and th
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by mruts 7y ago
I’m not sure there exists a cost free activity as far as people are concerned.
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It’s not like Multics or ITS or the Lisp machines or the IBM OSs were simple at all. In fact, they probably were more complicated. What you’re talking about are the toy OSs designed for extremely limited hardware for people who probably cou
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by mruts 7y ago
When someone initially looks at all the bespoke interfaces on an OS that could easily be provided by a single API, one’s first and natural response is to wonder whether all this complexity has a non-historical justification for it. On Linux
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by mruts 7y ago
I don’t think very many people agree with you. I appreciate Unix/Linux because they are fundamentally libertarian. I don’t have to suffer using some default crappy and bloated desktop environment (KDE certainly fits that definition), I
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by mruts 7y ago
A lot of the time, you’d just be wasting the developers time. In finance the research quants are going to have to test and explore dozens of ideas before even one is suitable enough to actually deploy in production. It doesn’t make sense fo
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by mruts 7y ago
Julia isn't really well suited for production environments. And by that, I mean on some server or something. In finance it's gaining marketshare as an exploratory analysis tool for traders and quants though. The code is typically
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by mruts 7y ago
I worked at a firm who’s stated goal was for all the street to have the Terminal on one monitor and our product on the other. Our application was sophisticated and advanced, but it was a web app. The Bloomberg didn’t really do what the app
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by mruts 7y ago
Normal static typing won't help you there. You would need some sort of dependent typing. For example, look at Idris.
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I like Julia a lot, but the lack of row indices for the data frames is very annoying. I’m used to pandas and saddle and row indices are essential. Can they express anything just columns cannot? No, but they are a useful idea. I just use the
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by mruts 7y ago
Exactly. You need to be in the zone of proximate development or learning isn’t very efficient. I remember as a teen I had a fixed mindset and would get 100% on every calculus test. The problem became that I liked getting a perfect so much t
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by mruts 7y ago
CAPM, Fama French Three Factor, or five factor? Are you serious? They don’t work anymore but they did at one point. The foundation of modern finance is built on published Chicago school papers.
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by mruts 7y ago
People don't use autocad for art, do they? I don't think Autodesk and Blender are really competitors. I could be wrong, though.
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by mruts 7y ago
I can't have much experience with dependent types, but I don't see how a compiler could ever tell if zip took two lists of the same length. Don't dependent types happen at run-time? It seems like you would have to solve the h
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by mruts 7y ago
Uhh, okay. This is already a solved problem, it’s called GPS. I can see this would be useful as an address system, but using it for the police to find you? Doesn’t make much sense.
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by mruts 7y ago
You know, this is probably one of the best comments I've ever received that consists of counterpoints to my own. Kudos for your well reasoned points with links. I really wish the rest of hacker news was as gracious and thoughtful as yo
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by mruts 7y ago
Yeah. I was surprised to. Might be an official policy or something. I've previously had weed found in California and wasn't surprised that they looked the other way. I was surprised however when they let me keep it even though I w
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by mruts 7y ago
If you think you don’t have any rights in America, you need to get out more. I live in Africa and if you want to see the real meaning of corruption and governments that can do anything they want, move over here.
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by mruts 7y ago
Exactly, he gets the risk premium. One of the most straightforward ways of making money in markets is being compensated for bearing risk. This is a systemic factor and will exist no matter how many people are doing it. That’s not to say it
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by mruts 7y ago
I mean, you just managed to do it with just words alone.
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No one actually cares. Weed is also banned on planes, TSA agents have found some of mine on my carry on a couple times, and no one bats an eye.
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by mruts 7y ago
Youtube has removed many videos pushing subversive views[1]. Do I agree with these views (maybe I do, I haven't seen the videos, but I doubt it), no. But that's beside the point. And you're right, youtube and 8chan don't
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by mruts 7y ago
I dunno, it doesn't seem like we are moving toward liberalism. Everyone wants everyone else kicked off a twitter, everyone wants censorship. Tumblr bans porn, youtube bans anything people complain about, cloudflare doesn't want to
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by mruts 7y ago
Weighted averages don't, usually. That's why they aren't best linear unbiased estimators.
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I do, but the question is, why don’t other people? It makes no sense to use Python for anything except data science.

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