rdlowrey

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by rdlowrey 5y ago
Agree with this. I’ve hired hundreds of software engineers and I don’t give a flying flip where you went to school or even if you got a degree. What I do care about is whether or not you can do the job, and that comes from actually doing
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by rdlowrey 9y ago
Spot instances. Spot instances. Spot instances.
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PHP loses contributor, scalar types in limbo(news.php.net)
17 points by rdlowrey 12y ago|3 comments
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by rdlowrey 13y ago
I don't really care to argue this point so I'll just explain why I find this extremely problematic. What percentage of browser users have any concept of how TLS works? This an exceedingly low number. You're essentially creati
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by rdlowrey 13y ago
Section 6 (Security Considerations) is truly shocking. And Section 7 (Privacy Considerations)? Whaddya know? It's empty !
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Explicit Trusted Proxy in HTTP/2.0(tools.ietf.org)
109 points by rdlowrey 13y ago|45 comments
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by rdlowrey 13y ago
I agree ... many PHP devs seem to think that programming only exists between when the web server gives a request to a PHP process and when that process closes it's STDOUT handle to complete the response.
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by rdlowrey 13y ago
The problem with this is you can accomplish essentially the same thing in userland if you know how to write a good "compiled regex" ... Calling the pcre functions in C land gains you very little. An extension is totally unnecessar
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by rdlowrey 13y ago
Just one? I feel like the victim of a cheesy "one weird trick" advert re: the link title.
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by rdlowrey 14y ago
I agree, though as far as HFT is concerned (staying on topic), I'll reference this other comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3895308
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by rdlowrey 14y ago
I tend to agree with your position. The fundamentals of individual microeconomic decision-making are much more sound IMHO than their extrapolation to large-scale macroeconomic systems. At the macro scale I believe the system is far more c
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by rdlowrey 14y ago
I can appreciate your reasoning. I know you aren't suggesting this, but the popular blanket conclusion that HFT is bad because anomalies like "flash-crashes" sometimes occur is misguided. It's equivalent to saying we should outlaw highways
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by rdlowrey 14y ago
But math isn't. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; mine just happened to result from the mathematical proofs I was forced to study and write for the postulations of that "bullshit field." I would also submit that your argument ignor
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by rdlowrey 14y ago
As a programmer with an economics degree, I'm thrilled to see articles like these on HN ... popular media outlets do a terrible job of explaining how these systems work and usually devolve into generalizations like "HFT is evil and you shou