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by smanek 16y ago
When I've needed to send mail from C, I just call a CLI mail user agent like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailx , and configure it to talk to a local MTA (traditionally sendmail), which buffers messages locally before sending them to a rea
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by smanek 16y ago
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but all 4 positive comments were by accounts created in the last month and have little history. pg: if you're listening, were two or more posted from the same IP? And frankly, they sound a little spammy. Who s
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by smanek 16y ago
It sounds crazy, but as someone who reads a lot of fiction (and very little fan fiction, because most of it's crap), I sincerely think this is one of the best things I've read in years. I'd personally rank it up with Asimov or Heinlein at
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by smanek 16y ago
A startup without a business plan isn't a business. It's just some code. I disagree. Users make it a business - and users don't care if I have a business plan. They just care if the product (i.e., code) makes their lives better.
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by smanek 16y ago
I've refused (and I'm flying again tomorrow and plan to refuse again if asked). You get a, rather invasive, pat down. But, if everyone refuses, it will cost them enough time that they should have to stop.
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by smanek 16y ago
This is a really good explanation I saw a while back of the phenomenon. This debunker (a PhD @ Google) originally said it was impossible - and then realized he was wrong. Initial claim of impossibility: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/200
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by smanek 16y ago
Yeah, Amex's site only lets you use 8 characters (and it's case insensitive!).
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by smanek 16y ago
If you were right, then someone else will realize there's cheap/good labor available, and poach him at $3x. Then, someone else will steal him at $4x. And so on, until he's making close to what the American dev makes. Tech hiring is extreme
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by smanek 16y ago
In a competitive labor market, a dev should be paid close to the marginal value they generate. And I should generate close to the same value wherever I'm working. (with, maybe, a 20-30% premium for working local do to increased efficiencies
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by smanek 16y ago
Ah, my apologies! With the new parsing, your comment makes perfect sense.
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by smanek 16y ago
Yep - there just isn't enough information to jump to any conclusion. I personally know girls who have been assaulted at parties, and girls who have grossly exaggerated or comletely made up accusations. No way of knowing which this is yet ..
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by smanek 16y ago
How is it clear to any 'right thinking person what happened'? Until there is corroborating evidence (witness, confession, etc) I see no reason to believe anything about events that took place. It seems incredibly dangerous and irresponsib
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by smanek 16y ago
The article is down - but, without evidence (a conviction, confession, or eyewitnesses) I wouldn't take any action. Assuming the twitter dev contests her version of events, I see no reason to believe either one over the other. It would be s
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by smanek 16y ago
It's already monetizing, by getting YC amazing deal flow
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by smanek 16y ago
Most smart people I know got a 'good' (say, better than ~1400ish) score on the SAT. I can't tell the difference between someone I work with who got a 1450 and a 1550 though (unless they tell me, of course).
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by smanek 16y ago
I've heard it used by strategy consultants to mean someone who is well rounded and performs well in many roles/disciplines, instead of someone with a narrow focus/expertise.
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by smanek 16y ago
granted rentech probably has desco beat (at least in terms of recruiting toughness - the only metric I'm really in a position to judge by). But I don't think anyone would deny that desco is part of that top tier too. FWIW, in my experience
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by smanek 16y ago
I don't know about that ... DE Shaw & Company takes its very smartest people (and a non-trivial portion of their profits) and puts them to work at DE Shaw Research, where they work on protein folding and other computational biology that
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by smanek 16y ago
Yeah. At my interview, I had the guy who wrote the O'Reilly OpenSSH book asking me to derive Fermat's little theorem. Fun times ... IIRC, even the HR person I spoke to had a PhD (russian literature, I think). They are a very impressive
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by smanek 16y ago
As I understand it, he was a VP at DE Shaw - which probably put his annual bonus at least several times higher than that (and low 7-figures wouldn't even be too unusual).
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by smanek 16y ago
IIRC, it's closer to 10-15% of harvard grads go into finance. If you expand that to include 'business', 'management', and 'consulting' it's something more like 30-40%. Still no where near what you claim.
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by smanek 16y ago
A. Absolutely, I can think of a few off the top of my head. B. There's the off chance that something could get filled that I don't want filled, and I'll burn some of my rate quota/cpu/bw.
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by smanek 16y ago
There are enough market participants that the difference between N and N-1 is negligible. Do you really think you're at much of an advantage if you 'only' have to sort through 9,999 people screaming at the top of their lungs instead of 10,0
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by smanek 16y ago
Some people I work with (at a HFT firm), joke that it's someone warming up their JVM by placing clearly unfillable IOCs ;-). My personal pet theory (for some of the graphs) is that someone is just loading up the book at many price levels wi
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by smanek 16y ago
FWIW, my experience has been different (I work at a proprietary HFT firm in Chicago). -Open office space (no one short of C-level gets an office). We all work together in a large open space to collaborate better. We have reasonable sized de
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by smanek 16y ago
Sorry, local to chicago only
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by smanek 16y ago
C/C++/Java/Erlang/Haskell/Python Devs - Chicago, USA We're looking for smart people to help at an established high frequency trading shop. We have a few positions open, from latency critical stuff that must be done in C/C++/Haskell, to 'off
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by smanek 16y ago
I highly recommend 'paredit' mode for any Lispers having trouble getting used to the parens. It takes a few days for the shortcuts ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet ) to become second nature, but then you never really think
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by smanek 16y ago
What's wrong with the financial system and internet? I have a pretty intimate knowledge of both, and I'm OK with them (I don't know anything about food though ...)
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by smanek 16y ago
An individual desk might not, but it's not that unlikely for the firm as a whole to.

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