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by pdovy 14y ago
Does the university have an established policy for email retention and access to that data? It seems unlikely that they wouldn't, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere. It's never a good idea to rely on goodwill to prevent access to sensi
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by pdovy 14y ago
How is it that the initial (2002-2013 interest excluded) tax bill is 5 billion kroner, when the acquisition cost was only 10.8 billion kroner? Is the tax rate really that high? I understand that the tax is not on the acquisition itself bu
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by pdovy 14y ago
This is really too bad, this was a great site and there doesn't really seem to be anything else like it out there. I'm surprised they couldn't come up with a way to make this profitable - and the closure is pretty sudden, wonder what the b
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by pdovy 14y ago
I believe it should. If the systems have separate thermostats you'll need two nests though I think (they apparently can communicate with one another).
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by pdovy 14y ago
Based on the article it seems like the motivation for the deduplication is as much bandwidth conservation as reduction of storage costs. What you're proposing would make sense if storage costs are your only concern, but it shuts out bandwi
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by pdovy 14y ago
Taking them at their word on their statistics (seems reasonable as citricsquid pointed out based on interviews with the World of Goo developers and CD Projekt), I wonder how that would look broken down by country. That is to say, is piracy
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by pdovy 14y ago
It's better to miss an opportunity than potentially expose yourself to a loss. If the exchange side system has become obviously unreliable (not responding to requests would count here), it's generally wise to stop trading. I can see the te
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by pdovy 14y ago
Yeah this seems like a baseless claim to me. I work on these kinds of applications and we always assume that an order is eligible to execute from when it's sent until the exchange confirms it has been canceled/deleted. This is pretty stan
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by pdovy 14y ago
So ... what the heck is NFC?
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by pdovy 14y ago
The use case for this would be communication between different colocations, which is where the networking "race" really is for HFT. For example, to arb products on the CME vs. the equities exchanges in the New York area (really colocated i
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by pdovy 14y ago
Exactly. Even more direct benefit to retail investors - low liquidity costs mean that we can invest in mutual funds and especially ETFs that have extremely low fees. Those funds have to shuffle around their holdings as investors come and
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by pdovy 15y ago
As others have pointed out below, the value of the company may change at a fast rate, however that is far from the only reason that you might see many deals in a short period. One of the primary benefits that market makers (which are often
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by pdovy 15y ago
Definitely. I did a lot of applying and interviewing when I was first looking for a job out of school, and it's amazing how disorganized some companies are. I will always specifically remember the companies that may have said "no" but wer
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by pdovy 15y ago
That isn't necessarily true. I have and frequently use a credit card, but I do not actually need the line of credit. I have it to establish a credit history so that someday when I actually do need credit (e.g., for a home loan), I'll be
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by pdovy 15y ago
I don't think there is necessarily any correlation between being a great businessman and a great human being. Was Jobs the former? Certainly, I don't think anybody would dispute that. Was he the latter? I don't know, and I don't think i
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by pdovy 15y ago
This is a cool idea. I doubt you'd even need to offer a rebate at all, though it'd be an interesting incentive. If reporting errors was as easy as highlighting a passage and clicking a button on your e-book reader, I bet a lot of people w
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by pdovy 15y ago
The major point that I've discovered from doing this stuff for years (on considerably more complex cases than the example above) is that programming efficiently for a modern architecture is qualitatively different ... I think this is a gr
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by pdovy 15y ago
Argh, guys like this give the rest of us a bad name. It's ridiculous to claim that we're somehow universally better than developers at Google or anywhere else. One of the big arguments in that Slashdot thread seems to be backlash over deve
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by pdovy 15y ago
Has anybody used the __builtin_expect feature to good effect? We had been using this extensively in our codebase in places where there is an obvious common "fast path". I tried an experiment where I did a comparison of the __builtin_expect
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by pdovy 15y ago
Universities can and should do more to provide CS students exposure to real software development, but I'm not sure that a vocation school is really the way to go. In my mind the greatest benefit of a strong CS degree is that it gives you
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by pdovy 15y ago
If you bothered to look at the above linked article/video prior to replying you'd find it is not some stirring endorsement of standing desks. He actually explicitly makes the point that sitting or standing poorly all day will be detrimen
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by pdovy 15y ago
Kelly Starrett did a talk at Google recently on (roughly) this subject: http://www.mobilitywod.com/2011/06/episode-276365-mobilitywo... He's got a PhD in Physical Therapy, so I'd rather listen to what he has to say about being healthy beh
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by pdovy 15y ago
It's unfortunate that this happened to these guys, but I'm glad it's been made public. I'd like to think I'd always carefully read a contract before signing, but this is one gem we can all watch out for now in particular.
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by pdovy 15y ago
An order with 1/100th penny precision isn't usual for currencies, but I see your point. Either way, this was a very unusual situation. Why were there so many people sitting at $0.01? If you're going to play that game, why not jump on at
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by pdovy 15y ago
I'm not sure where you're coming from with #2. Most exchanges use price-time priority to determine execution order. From the description the best bid was $0.01, so obviously he would get filled first at $0.0101. The real problem is that t
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by pdovy 15y ago
I got rid of my cable service about a year ago and haven't regretted it. It seems to me there is a lot of room for cable companies to easily improve their service, yet IMO it remains consistently poor. - On demand selections are limited, a
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by pdovy 15y ago
I don't doubt that people that use coupons are probably statistically poor tippers, but this seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. If you expect someone to tip poorly, so you give them poor service, of course they are going to tip po
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by pdovy 15y ago
Yeah, most of these weren't anything new, but I hadn't heard about ack. Very useful.
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by pdovy 16y ago
This would introduce another performance consideration though, wouldn't it? You may not be paying the cost for the explicit copy, but now you are paying the cost of allocating space for a Foo on the heap instead of the stack. It would depe