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by rluhar 11y ago
Return of a King (William Dalrymple 2013) - A book about the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century. To paraphrase Mark Twain: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes Being Mortal (Atul Gawande, 2014) - Powerful book about old age and con
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by rluhar 12y ago
There is a free 32bit version of kdb available ( http://kx.com/software-download.php ). For the commercial version, pricing information is not publically available.
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How to corner markets Bitcoin style(ftalphaville.ft.com)
2 points by rluhar 12y ago|0 comments
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by rluhar 12y ago
Just being pedantic here - grand parent post mentions £650 a day, which is around $1000 per day depending on the prevailing exchange rate.
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by rluhar 13y ago
Happy Birthday! There will always be things that you feel like you should or must be doing when you are 24 or 25 or 65! Its great that you have found something you enjoy. As you get more experience and explore new avenues, you may find
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by rluhar 13y ago
You can sync your passwords across multiple devices using DropBox. It will work with IE, FireFox, Chrome and Safari. It will also allow you to share passwords (via Dropbox) between Macs and Windows machines. It can generate strong passwords
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by rluhar 13y ago
Yes spot on - many restaurants, especially the smaller places do not take credit cards. Even a large chain of Convenience Stores (FamilyMart) do not accept credit cards for payment. (Way off topic) Japan can be quite strange with banking an
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by rluhar 13y ago
This is quite similar to way convenience stores work in Japan. You can pay at a convenience store and get Amazon to ship your goods to a convenience store. Japan (similar to India) is still very much a cash based society and I suppose some
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by rluhar 13y ago
Well, it looks neat on my desk. I am happy to pay $50 for something that may not be very useful, but looks good..
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by rluhar 13y ago
I have a 15 inch Macbook Pro mounted on a BookArc stand [1]. I use an Ergotron LX monitor mount [2] for a cheap 27 inch Iiyama monitor, though I do want to upgrade to a Thunderbold cinema display. I use an Apple wireless keyboard, wireless
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by rluhar 13y ago
I agree with your premise that Clean Code is not a suitable book for all programmers / and or all languages. But a good amount of "enterprise" software is written in Java. And, in "enterprise land" (where I currently live), there are lots o
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by rluhar 13y ago
I think the OP is spot-on on his takeaways from Clean Code. I work with a number of people who do not have a CS or Software Engineering background but are assigned to the team as "programmers". They can hack together something that will wor
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by rluhar 13y ago
Excellent question - they wouldn't. But firing up the printing presses would cause inflation. This is bad news when Japan is not self-sufficient for energy or for some food production.
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by rluhar 13y ago
I think there are real structural problems that need to be overcome for the economy to grow. Debt monetization is OK - but what about a shrinking population, stagnant productivity and very low immigration levels? Japan's economy has got a n
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by rluhar 13y ago
I have heard and read similar analysis. I reckon the Government could force the mega-banks and pension funds to just take the pain and keep hoarding JGBs. Not having to deal with external yield hungry investors has it's advantages. I can im
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by rluhar 13y ago
Around 90% of Japan's debt is held on-shore, either by pension funds or by the mega-banks. The interest rates on JTBs (Japanese government treasury bills) have already spiked, albeit from a very low base. This has resulted in falling JGB pr
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by rluhar 13y ago
I had a similar commute - from Leytonstone down to Liverpool Street. Mile End road is horrible, especially with the huge bendy buses (the 25?) with the drivers whose mission was to flatten as many cyclists as possible. I used to have early
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by rluhar 14y ago
Look great and thanks again for open sourcing it. I am also working on a fun iOS side project (as a break from the day job). Do you have any recommendations for useful resources (books, websites, etc.) for somebody just starting off?
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by rluhar 14y ago
The OP talks about the trap of the small task, where he put off doing something that should have been menial for so long, that when something small went wrong, it's effect was disproportionate. There is also the danger of focusing only on t
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by rluhar 14y ago
The current version of Reeder supports Fever. It took me about ten minutes to setup Fever (you need a MySQL instance, but thats about it). I use Bluehost for my hosting and setting up Fever was pretty painless. It does cost $30, but it is w
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Effective email and meetings in multicultural teams(rushi.luhar.org)
1 points by rluhar 14y ago|0 comments
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by rluhar 14y ago
Some exchanges or interbank dealers in the FX world quote a "Minimum Quote Life" - usually around 250ms. I am not sure how strictly this is enforced.
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by rluhar 15y ago
You may want to check out the forums at wilmott.com or the forums at nuclearphynance.com A lot of work in finance is also done in statistical programming languages like R. Some firms have also made big investment in vector processing / APL
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by rluhar 15y ago
Would you care to elaborate on how exactly this "scam" works? The job of the underwriter is to guarantee that a certain amount of stock is sold at the point of IPO. They are paid to canvas their clients and market the IPO. That is what they
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by rluhar 15y ago
China is undergoing the biggest urbanization in history. More and more people are moving from the country side to the city to find work, make more money and improve their standard of living. As already mentioned in this thread, the jobs ava
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by rluhar 15y ago
Thanks for your comment. I will take a look at the book you recommend. To be honest, it has been a while since I was an undergraduate! On a related note - how easy is it to transition from having first learnt how to program in Lisp (or a fu
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by rluhar 15y ago
I understand that Java is verbose and does not have the same "instant" feedback loop that a language with a fully supported REPL has. But I do not agree with the assertion that Lisp would be a good substitute for Java as the core instructio
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by rluhar 15y ago
By the nature of the business, most of these shops are secretive. But there are some technology vendors out there building products based on FPGAs. Stone Ridge Technology is one of them (I saw an article in magazine, have no experience mys
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by rluhar 15y ago
Thanks Nathan. The sort of latency that we are working with is in the order of milliseconds. There are many HFT shops out there that have invested in FPGAs or other hardware based solutions to get sub millisecond latencies for processing in
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by rluhar 15y ago
Thanks for the article. I am wondering if anyone here has any experience of using Storm for working with real-time market (financial) data. If we take FX market data for example, you could be looking at multiple feeds, each updating a few t

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