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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Please elaborate on how you define adulthood, and why it’s so different between men and women.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I wrote a server application that runs with about a million goroutines and performs quite well. It's not a webserver, but it responds to "requests" within hundreds of micros. Surely this would not be possible with OS thread
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I’d love to work on a tech stack that can be mastered in six months, with just as much understanding as someone who has been around it for five years.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Can you explain why? I agree, but I’d like to be able to justify it as much as possible when arguing for SQL.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Right, I figured the sibling commenter covered that.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
This is not actually true anymore, Fidelity has responded. Their pure index funds are extremely competitive with Vanguard.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
It's worth pointing out that property taxes can't really be avoided in practice, cause we all need somewhere to live, and those taxes are filtering down in some form.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I think that's the parent's point: it's not "refactoring" if the external behavior changed. Though I generally agree with the down-voting of the comment as needlessly pedantic, given the common usage of the term.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
It's the only generic, centralized, realtime source of news. The key is that the definition of "news" is quite broad.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Agreed. It's unfortunate that Go and Rust are frequently compared to each other, they're not really trying to solve the same problems, they just happened to be modern, hyped, backend languages. I don't blame this post really,
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Interesting thought, You should email Matt, I'm sure he would have a response that he would put in his column.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Agreed. He may not be a software engineer or IT professional like many of us are on Hacker News, but he is a true hacker in the way he explores ideas and thinks about the world. It's a pleasure to read him every day.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Where do you put the adapter when you're listening through some other 3.5mm source though? That's what I'm most worried about, as someone who will be buying his first headphone jack free iPhone.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I don't think those things are related.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
What skill sets should they select for?
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Haha I have the same question. Until self driving cars are common presumably, but I think a lot of people are deluded about how soon that will be.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
"Code review seems pointless at a company with defined code conventions." I don't mean to disrespect you, but either you are you are very green or are living in a completely different universe of software engineering than I a
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I believe he's just saying 50% of what is currently allocated for the military, so by your math, 8% of the federal budget.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I love that kind of thought experiment! In practice, at hedge fund scale, no one is going to sell you options with that risk/reward profile I think.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
That's a good way of putting it, and I think he would actually agree with you on that. I was at his "Event driven architecture" talk at Goto Chicago where he talked about four patterns that can show up in something you might
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I'm curious, why $13? Why not worthless? (I don't believe they should be worthless, but I'm curious how you decided on the precise middle ground)
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Interesting, can you point to previous examples of this phenomenon? Would love to see the correlation.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
The obvious problem here is that taxi or cab to most people means the thing with a light on top that you raise your hand to hail.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Dark pools aren't some magic bullet that prevents price movement on big orders. They're a tool, but not the obvious answer.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
I'm totally with you, but what would you propose as a pragmatic solution? I really can't think of anything myself.
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by pgwhalen 9y ago
Yeah, unless you get the riders involved as well. Which is of course a lot tougher.
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by pgwhalen 10y ago
Really? I'd be curious to see that source. It would seem to imply that it's not pure chance, but that you maybe learn from a bad year.
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by pgwhalen 10y ago
Similarly, a ton of financial trading, especially derivatives. What people fail to realize is that these exchanges of value exist because the buyer often values something more than the seller does, not the exact same amount. In that sense,
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by pgwhalen 10y ago
In the (approximated) words of Matt Levine, ask for credit when you don't need it, because when you do need it, they won't give it to you.
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by pgwhalen 10y ago
I don't really have time to respond to and refute this post, but anyone reading it should know this person doesn't really have any idea what they're talking about, and worse, probably thinks they do. But my go-to resource on

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