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by nohuck13 13y ago
I agree that parallel is really interesting. Its especially true with the classic Agile stuff, where a lot of the processes are explicitly borrowed from the automotive industry, particularly Toyota: Kanban (lean process management), kaize
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by nohuck13 13y ago
How does personal sacrifice correlate with market price for your skills? Maybe it's progress when someone with a liberal arts degree (and presumably some programming experience) can get competing developer job offers based on his skil
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I think that's a key question, but I've never been a fan of the notion that robots (or efficient frameworks) are going to put us all out of jobs. If you look at what we've actually seen in the last 20 years, efficient framew
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by nohuck13 13y ago
You're misinterpreting what I said. I'm an American, and I live in London. It worries the crap out of me that the U.S. government can listen to all my calls, read my emails, for all I know track my anti-NSA HN posts as part &quo
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Hold on a minute. You can't discuss labor markets without discussing productivity. In the heyday of the automotive industry, the best auto worker in the world produced about the same output as the average auto worker. Maybe they mes
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by nohuck13 13y ago
"a document dated June 2012 shows that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's emails were being read." I have serious issues with the NSA spying on civilians, the lack of oversight, the notion that the NSA can use terrorism t
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Re: theory #1- there are commodity solutions to the queriable data warehouse problem, e.g. Vertica or Greenplum. Looking at these can give you an idea of what might be hard. You've just described Vertica pretty accurately (column-ori
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Translation from cable-news-speak: Henderschott used paper trading to estimate an upper bound on the amount of money to be made by _all arbitrageurs combined_ trading AAPL on BATS for one day. He assumed perfect execution as an estimation
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Maybe it's because of biases like these, but we tend to vastly underestimate the timespans in which cities can be radically remade. 50 years? Commercial buildings being built in 1964 would have been expected to last 50+ years. Much
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I had the same thought. The article is more about the history of securities clearing. I worked for a couple of years on clearing tech and have worked in trading tech. The two sides are didn't share much in the way of systems but clea
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by nohuck13 13y ago
The thing about rule law is that it's not about critical mass. It's the edge cases that are important. It's easy to have justice the majority of the time. If the state can arbitrarily subvert the rules just because they thi
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by nohuck13 13y ago
"It's time we called the government's actions what they really are: commandeering. Commandeering is a practice we're used to in wartime, where commercial ships are taken for military use, or production lines are converte
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Thanks
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Could you post the link? Would love to read it. My quick googling didn't turn up anything.
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by nohuck13 13y ago
There's a benefit in incentivizing good service (assuming it leads to better service, which my anecdotal experience at tipping vs service charge restaurants makes me think it does). We tend to marginalize things like this when big soc
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by nohuck13 13y ago
TL;DR: the tipping system has a negative externality- some customers receive worse service because they "look" like bad tippers, according to the prejudices of the waitstaff (e.g. by being black). This negative externality is so
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Ok. FWIW, a) I didn't know this page existed. It was news to me that there's a place where the official details will be (or not). That's kind of interesting right? b) It's in the title.
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Completely off topic to otherwise excellent discussion, but funny how "nihilists" were the first thing he flagged up. I can't think of nihilists without thinking of The Big Lebowski. http://assets.sbnation.com&#x2F
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Yup. Though Hayden is engaged in politicking. Salon is engaged in politicking while reporting on Hayden's politicking. When I'm feeling extra rational, I really dislike this, even when I agree with views like Salon's. It&#
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Original Guardian article here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-direct... Interesting quote further down where he begs the question, Betteridge's-law-of-headlines-style: Hayden
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I couldn't disagree more with this. Having to involve two actual people, who have to drop whatever else they're doing and complete a trivial transaction, which can probably only be done during business hours, is a problem just be
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by nohuck13 13y ago
That was my reaction too. You see exactly the same thing with concert tickets and scalpers. It's supply and demand problem that venues want to use rationing because it increases cachet, but abritrageurs have an incentive to step in a
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Chicago Trading Pits Going Quiet, 165 Years After Shouting Began(reuters.com)
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Falkvinge must be a mainstream politician now. He's pandering to the base with ad hominems while foregoing the opportunity to make an intellectual case :) I want to try and understand. On the WTO "having moved ahead from that fai
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Oh, agreed. I was surprised at the attitude that taking code might be a commonplace thing. Didn't mean to defend the punishment.
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by nohuck13 13y ago
I was working at one of the rival HFT's mentioned in the article when all this went down. I had some thoughts. -It's never ok to take proprietary code with you after quitting. I don't know anybody that would have thought
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by nohuck13 13y ago
The best synopsis I could find for the dubiousness of the government's approach is from bradleymanning.org [1]: "The government says that Bradley Manning used the automated downloading program Wget to retrieve hundreds of thousand
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Good point, didn't see that. It's interesting how clearly it differentiates between core CPython style and 3rd party style. I'm guilty of thinking of PEP8 as the definitive general style guide. But this not what it claims
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by nohuck13 13y ago
Guido just proposed a patch that undoes this change and restores the old 79 character limit... http://bugs.python.org/issue18472#msg194089 --- a/pep-0008.txt +++ b/pep-0008.txt @@ -159,12 +159,11 @@ Maximum Line L
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Human Rights Watch Doubts Authenticity of Snowden's Invitation(english.ruvr.ru)
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