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by ryporter 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA. Full time. H1B okay. AMA Capital trades billions of dollars per day in the foreign exchange market. We are all engineers, and we all do a little bit of everything. We design and implement our own trading strategies and infras
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by ryporter 14y ago
While I don't blame the founders for choosing Goldman, I do think that they should have recognized that paying a flat fee was a bad idea. Incentives matter, and it's easy to see how even the most reputable investment bank would allocate fe
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by ryporter 14y ago
I worked at Amazon in '05/'06, and the perception of frugality was still important then. For example, someone from another group complained to me that they were being forced by higher-ups to remove a set of plastic plants they had recent
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by ryporter 14y ago
Steve Yegge's "Math For Programmers" was one of the (too) few posts I've read that actually resulted in action on my part. It made me realize how much I had let my math skills atrophy since college, and I invested a substantial amount of t
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by ryporter 17y ago
I've been having problems with my Yahoo Pipes of Hacker News as well. I get the same error of "error fetching http://news.ycombinator.com/rss (502 Bad Gateway)". This has been happening for at least a month.
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by ryporter 18y ago
I completely agree with your second point, and, FWIW, I suspect Nassim Taleb would as well. This site seems to promote the "narrative fallacy" that Taleb rails against in "The Black Swan." I worry that it could end up with some very embarr
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by ryporter 18y ago
A reference that I thought would have made a great headline: "A Black President Event"
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by ryporter 18y ago
You're right. I do see myself as separate from others who vote. If I vote, am I working together with a voter who just wants to restrict gay rights? What about a racist who won't vote for Obama because he's black? These are extreme exam
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by ryporter 18y ago
In your scenario, if I don't pass along my brick, then the chain is broken (or, others at least have to do more work). However, in an election, if I don't vote, then no one has to pick up my slack. We'll still elect a president tomorrow.