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by sk5t 7y ago
It is also very helpful to avoid re-typing expressions. select a || 'baz', avg(b) from foo group by 1 order by 2;
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by sk5t 7y ago
Why are shorts necessary in the presence of put contracts? I think the problem some folks have with short selling is that it creates for the market an illusion of willing sellers where there may not be supply.
453.
by sk5t 7y ago
The shareholders eat the loss. Maybe they can sue the board or officers, but that is the end of the line. It's not taxpayers' problem. Ask yourself this: who made Enron shareholders whole after the scandal? Who compensated Bern
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by sk5t 7y ago
My reading of the article is that Muddy Waters first performed some quiet investigation, then established a short position with respect to NMC, then subsequently sent out a vague tweet concerning a report Muddy Waters would release the next
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by sk5t 7y ago
Two things to consider: 1) audit + compliance are running the show 2) the bank not killing the golden goose is more important than anything else.
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by sk5t 7y ago
CMU has a tremendous reputation in fields other than CS--engineering, fine art, psychology. However, it may be that those fields themselves are less prestigious than law, finance, and politics. As a CMU undergrad in the 90s, most of us in
457.
by sk5t 7y ago
Parent worrier has some funny notions, to boot. Like, Cornell _is_ an Ivy League school by definition. It just isn't Harvard or Yale. On the hiring front, undergrad school can sometimes tell you a bit about who a person thought they
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by sk5t 7y ago
Ex Machina and Solaris would probably be at home on this list too. The Lighthouse is fantastic.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Ready Player One misinterprets The Shining as a horror flick and not as psychological horror. Delbert Grady disapproves.
460.
by sk5t 7y ago
FWIW the first practical application of input tainting that comes to mind is Perl's circa 2001, although I wouldn't be surprised to hear Smalltalk went there before.
461.
by sk5t 7y ago
Two spaces are the only civilized option, and I hope the world's numerous, two-space-loving lawyers use their now abundant spare time to lay into MSFT about this.
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by sk5t 7y ago
FWIW across ~10 years of HNing my sense is it's pretty hard to land on > 1 person's shitlist, and while it's unlikely you've garnered a coterie of haters, it is the iron law of HN that complaining about--or speculatin
463.
by sk5t 7y ago
It's called the same thing ("mother") in English, across uses in sourdough starter, kombucha, balsamic vinegar...
464.
by sk5t 7y ago
I've done the same for a span of a couple months--immediate mute, no interaction. It didn't seem to make a difference one way or other other though with regard to call frequency.
465.
by sk5t 7y ago
"Oh, do you need me to make an emotional decision? Right now? Hang on a minute--how do you think this is going for us both?"
466.
by sk5t 7y ago
Swapping out database platforms is pretty deep into YAGNI territory for most. Unless you know you are selling an on-prem software product to some customers who will demand MSSQL and others who will demand Oracle, or whatever, this "
467.
by sk5t 7y ago
A more functional mindset can definitely help here. Think of your "sales per day" model in terms of starting with a sequence of days--startingDay up to startingDay + n--as the input to a function that maps to an aggregate of that
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by sk5t 7y ago
I wouldn't call surgical intervention and long-term emotional cost a very effective "shield," would you? It's an unfortunate mitigation at best.
469.
by sk5t 7y ago
Ditto, intubation is a pretty brutal course. Try to imagine suggesting that blood transfusions lead to low blood pressure.
470.
by sk5t 7y ago
Honestly, $600k/month for 300 knowledge workers is horrible revenue if growth and margin aren't on the right track. This is more like a "20-30 pretty decent consultants in a second-tier American city" number.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Hiring too much is a problem, but also bear in mind that having customers sort of gums up the works--you can't go changing stuff on a whim without communication, more careful assessment of impact, migration plans on customers' sch
472.
by sk5t 7y ago
Depending on the business, this can be like poking out your eyes to save money on eyeglasses.
473.
by sk5t 7y ago
How does a town of 35K people raise $300MM in annual tax? $8,500 per capita seems very, very high.
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by sk5t 7y ago
If you're really married to the idea of "keep different hash-functions of the password ( ldap supports this)" then I think you are going to have a tough time without really digging into candidate products' customization
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by sk5t 7y ago
Is there a shell+terminal+font combo that folks really like for WSL? I've tried the new terminal beta with zsh and--for reasons I can't quite articulate right now--it feels "off" and I invariably proceed to boot up virt
476.
by sk5t 7y ago
Watch out of you'll end up in a debate about whether and how HFT and front-running are good for the Main Street investor...
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by sk5t 7y ago
> Theranos was committing fraud - selling investors a product that didn't exist Well, the FDA is not the SEC--and Theranos was also providing patients with erroneous lab reports! This is more than a bit worse than wasting the time,
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by sk5t 7y ago
The FDA maintains it is within the administration's purview to regulate tests--including laboratory-developed tests, or LDTs--although the current state is that the FDA often elects to exercise its discretion to permit LDTs sans regula
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by sk5t 7y ago
Some of the Windows tools use the NTFS / USN change journal for very fast access to metadata without traipsing across the rest of the filesystem. I dunno if APFS has such a thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN
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by sk5t 7y ago
Also, Oh My Zsh has a nice little fzf plugin that marries shell history search (ctrl+R) to fzf.

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