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by pgwhalen 7y ago
For what it's worth, I work at a place that would write a similar domain object, and we would use both of those and not feel bad about it. The FUD on money as a double is way overblown in my opinion - it only becomes a bad idea once yo
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I didn’t say there aren’t frameworks, I said there is a reasonable argument that the language’s feature set tends away from frameworks.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I would argue that the lack of features like generics and meta programming (annotations/decorators) push Go the language away from frameworks. (I know that the absence of generics is temporary)
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Pirating is easier in the same way an FTP server is easier than Dropbox.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
>who really knows if it is actually deleted and not available to the boss as a paid upgrade! It's very much available, as someone who works in a highly regulated industry, it would be absurd from a compliance perspective to allow mo
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Ain't that the truth! I guess where I'm trying to draw the parallel is that it's becoming somewhat of a "default" where people aren't critically thinking about whether it's right for them, they just see d
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Maybe people aren’t expecting riches, but I will say that all of my peers (late 20’s) looking for a career change are looking at coding boot camps as a way of achieving stability. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but there’s no fr
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I've worked for a company where the CEO's home office had less than 10% of employees, and the HQ (for lack of a better term) halfway across the country had greater than 70% of employees.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Watson isn’t software, it’s a brand.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
How often are you sorting something where N is great enough for it to matter how the sorting works? I spend most of my time choosing data structures such that sorting anything other than handful of elements is unnecessary.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Is it really that we didn’t know how the models behaved in certain market structures, or that we were feeding them the wrong inputs?
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Every broker sells orderflow, so yes.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Yeah I don’t understand why people in this thread aren’t entertaining that possibility. It objectively worked for Facebook, at least in terms of financial return.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I’m not trying to defend kubernetes complexity or saying it should be used for deployment of all server-side software, but I’d push back on the oft-repeated idea that kubernetes is just solving for scale. It’s a model of deployment that hap
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
The “reports” are just the bankers putting out offers essentially, and seeing how the (investing) public reacts. So on the one hand, they’re extremely real because they’re from the people who will eventually set the price, but on the other
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Ask HN: How do you help coders outside of the tech org at your company succeed?
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
>As banks can only invest based upon the deposits of their customers This is not strictly true, read about the money multiplier myth. As another (much more informed than I) HN commenter put it, banks think about constraints on lending in
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Artificially stale derivative prices are unquestionably more complex than up to date ones.
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Kafka Improvement Proposal: Replace ZooKeeper with a SelfManaged Metadata Quorum(cwiki.apache.org)
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I read your comment before doing it and still laughed out loud. I think that was the first time I’ve seen a web page provide actual physical comedy.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Perhaps you should make that URL scheme a standard?
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
You’d be served well by reading confluent/Kafka documentation a bit more closely. They do not claim exactly once delivery, they claim (and achieve) exactly once processing (“semantics”) which is still very useful.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Can you describe what you mean by indirectly?
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
Obviously true, but it is overwhelming popular in certain demographics in the US.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
I would say iMessage also fills this niche, probably in the US only.
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by pgwhalen 7y ago
> Evidence is that the vast majority of immigrant labor, both skilled and unskilled, are net positives economically I don’t necessarily disagree, but the way you say it here this is not “evidence,” it’s a conclusion you’ve made without p
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by pgwhalen 8y ago
It’s funny that you say that about pharmas - I’m not terribly informed but I’ve sure read a lot recently about big pharma following that model quite a lot actually.
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by pgwhalen 8y ago
This is a very strange way to put it. More likely, the fine was priced in with some level of uncertainty, the with the fine having been decided, the market corrected relative to its estimates.
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by pgwhalen 8y ago
Why “against?” Surely Boeing is on the same team as everyone in wanting prevent any further loss of life. If they believe there is a safety issue I’m sure they would encourage the FAA to take action so airlines were obliged to.
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by pgwhalen 8y ago
What is "wasteful" about HFT and how would it be reduced with smaller tick sizes? It seems like there would need to be considerably more order activity with smaller tick sizes. I understand the intuition that the ability to comp

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