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Twitter reports 255 million users, disappointing Street(reuters.com)
6 points by pierrealexandre 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple’s Jobs Declared ‘Holy War’ Over Android (blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|0 comments
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High-Speed Traders Rip Investors Off, Michael Lewis Says(bloomberg.com)
36 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|80 comments
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Microsoft CEO Nadella’s Memo on Leadership Changes (blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk: Visionary or Rent-Seeker?(bloombergview.com)
45 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|74 comments
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Polio-like disease appears in California children(usnews.com)
1 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|0 comments
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by pierrealexandre 13y ago
> With almost half the world’s Internet-connected population using the service, the company is facing the immutable law of large numbers and simply can’t keep adding users at its previously torrid rate. Pretty sure this journalist does n
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Uber and a Child’s Death(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
33 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|61 comments
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Google Broadens Its Outreach to GOP [paywall](online.wsj.com)
2 points by pierrealexandre 13y ago|0 comments
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by pierrealexandre 13y ago
In my opinion the following paper is a good and accesible primer on econophysics: JP Bouchaud - The (unfortunate) complexity of the economy http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0805
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The most ingenious algorithms in computer science(quora.com)
2 points by pierrealexandre 14y ago|0 comments
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
This is the perfect cheatsheet for a question I got during an interview at a major GPU company : "You write an OpenGL program displaying a colourful object, but you get a black screen when you launch it. What could have gone wrong in your c
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FSA Chairman Proposes Global Tax on Banks to Aid Poor(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pierrealexandre 17y ago|0 comments
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
The feature "display my position" is available in Google Maps. It is not when I use Safari 4.0.
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Firefox 3.5 is "location-aware"(en-us.www.mozilla.com)
21 points by pierrealexandre 17y ago|17 comments
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
Paris, France
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Google’s Android Jumps to the Living Room(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by pierrealexandre 17y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs Recovering Well From Liver Transplant(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pierrealexandre 17y ago|0 comments
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
In my opinion, it shows the absurdity of tax competition among states, not of tax hikes themselves.
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
I would rather read what makes Paris different from NYC in your opinion. It would make for a much more interesting comment.
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
Most of the quants have to code themselves. Some of them have PhD/MS from the best CS departments. Very few of them have an army of "minions hacking for [them]". That doesn't automatically mean they develop superior sofftware development sk
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by pierrealexandre 17y ago
I may be totally mistaken, but doesn't the result depend on X and Y unit (or alternatively on the standard dev of the gaussian) ?
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by pierrealexandre 18y ago
Yes, I don't get this quote neither. I honestly am not sure how to interpret it. Does his lack of answer show that he has no clue about this million-node botnet thing ? Or that he does not want to talk about such a sensitive matter ? Moreov
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Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm(nytimes.com)
17 points by pierrealexandre 18y ago|8 comments