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by randombit 17y ago
Learning new languages makes you a better programmer. It really has very little to do with C or Lisp specifically. The more different the language you are learning is from ones you have used in the past, the more new approaches you learn. F
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by randombit 17y ago
Actually, more likely it's a few hundred different automated trading systems all playing off each other. If you're managing a pension fund, volatility is the last thing you're after.
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by randombit 17y ago
This made me think of a quote which turns out to be from a Clay Shirky essay ( http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html ) "It may be time to dust off that old issue of Wired, because the RIAA is succeeding where 10 years of hecto
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by randombit 17y ago
If you are interested in secure backups you may want to take a look at the Tahoe Least Authority File System ( http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe ), which has a much more useful security model than tarsnaps (for instance, you can share read-on
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by randombit 17y ago
Does anyone know what exactly Apple did that infringed this patent? Looking at it (to the extent I can parse patent-speak) it appears to be on an optimization in PCI DMA transfers. Does Apple actually make their own PCI controllers? I would
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by randombit 17y ago
Probably so. However on Wall Street in general (especially in areas investment banking portfolio management, high frequency trading, etc) programmer salaries in the 100-150k range is the norm. Part of that is simply NYC cost of living, of c
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by randombit 17y ago
I do sometimes use psuedocode, especially to either work out for myself a complicated algorithm or help provide additional documentation for readers. However one key difference is instead of unstructured natural language, I use Python or Sc
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An independent security analysis of the Monotone distributed VCS(daniel.carrera.name)
1 points by randombit 18y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 18y ago
I'm pretty sure the algorithm has not been wholly (publicly) specified yet. Much of the hash tree structure is, as are parts of the compression function, but not the whole thing. Probably it will not be fully described until later this fall
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by randombit 18y ago
I'm learning Scala as a first JVM language, and it is definitely great to be able to access so many Java libraries so seamlessly (Mina, Apache commons, Hadoop, ...), all the Scala syntax/type inference goodness just works and in some cases
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Ask HN: What books can I use to help teach my girlfriend Lisp?
6 points by randombit 18y ago|2 comments
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by randombit 18y ago
The food is actually really good too (at least, assuming you like sauerkraut, venison, sausage, and/or quail)
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by randombit 18y ago
MacOS X is cited as an example of minimalist software design? It may be many things, but I'm not buying minimalist.
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by randombit 18y ago
I'm not sure about the derivatives market part, but remember that (in the US, at least) most student loans are administered by the federal government, and are 'guaranteed' by them. That means if you don't pay up, the government will fuck wi
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by randombit 18y ago
The idea presented in this article that /dev/urandom output is predictable is completely wrong. It is simply not secure from an information theoretic perspective: if an attacker had some amount of previous /dev/urandom data, and no new entr
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by randombit 18y ago
A capabilities system in Scheme was done in the 90s, though AFAIK it is now dead. Still the paper describing it is worth reading and may give you some inspiration: http://fare.tunes.org/tmp/emergent/secureos.htm
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by randombit 18y ago
FTA: "Wait," a third one questioned, "did you do an UPDATE before the COMMIT?" "Did I what?" the second developer replied. "Oh. Crap." Thats the real WTF here. Die CVS, die.
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by randombit 18y ago
$ host paulgraham.com paulgraham.com has address 68.142.205.137 paulgraham.com has address 216.252.126.190 paulgraham.com mail is handled by 10 milter1.store.vip.mud.yahoo.com. paulgraham.com mail is handled by 10 milter1.store.vip.sp1.yaho
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by randombit 18y ago
_What languages can we select?_ Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these part
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by randombit 18y ago
What languages can we select? Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts
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by randombit 18y ago
What languages can we select? Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts
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by randombit 18y ago
What languages can we select? Realistically (ie, if you're asking what to learn to get a job at one of these places), C++, Java, and C# because (outside of handful of places like Jane St) it seems like that is what everybody in these parts
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by randombit 18y ago
Creating AND USING your own cipher is nearly always a bad idea (for typical non-security-clued developers, in particular, who are the ones most prone to this). Designing and analyzing one can be a fairly interesting and/or educational proce
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by randombit 18y ago
That is awesome and all... FPGAs, yay. Except that NYSE Openbook (their primary/"fastest" data feed ATM) has an internal latency of 100 milliseconds. We notice it was significantly slower than our NASDAQ and ARCA feeds and finally their net
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by randombit 18y ago
Some more information at Ben Laurie's blog: http://www.links.org/?p=327
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Social Networks Could Still Change The World(senzee.blogspot.com)
1 points by randombit 18y ago|0 comments
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by randombit 18y ago
IBM Model M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_Keyboard
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by randombit 18y ago
True fans, without a doubt. People who are interested in and care about your product will send you comments and ideas, and will evangelize for you. That is, assuming you care about making the best possible product. If you're just looking fo
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A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda Calculus(fare.tunes.org)
5 points by randombit 18y ago|0 comments