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by spitfire 14y ago
Whenever I hear of an amateur built trading system, the first question that always comes to mind is: What's your risk and money management like? It's easy to come up with an algorithm, but where the real pro's win is with risk management. E
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by spitfire 14y ago
GM thought like this, and Toyota ate their market from the bottom up. If the old guard aren't the ones destroying their business, then they should be petrified of anyone who gains a beachhead.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Neat. But it's really the hardware size that's the restricting feature of linode. In particular: Memory.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Reminds me of an old dialup BBS. Can I post a comment on the wall?
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by spitfire 14y ago
Do they have a list of datacenter locations? Particularly datacenters in Switzerland? I can't seem to find their DC locations.
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by spitfire 14y ago
It's Canada. This is standard operating procedure. EDIT: To clarify, I mean modestly wealthy individuals attempting to take advantage of hopeful entrepreneurs is SOP in Canada. I've seen it on the west coast first hand, and have reports fro
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by spitfire 14y ago
"an offer they can't refuse.". Are you sure about this?
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by spitfire 14y ago
In short, Heroku needs to hire someone with some operations research experience. This is a mathematical modelling problem, not really a code problem. Break out Mathematica, Matlab or R and model the damn problem. Then go research the soluti
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by spitfire 14y ago
I'm honestly surprised there aren't tools available now replicating what Heroku does. We should have puppet scripts to deploy, instrument and manage all the popular infrastructure choices by now. The same way originally Linux was a build i
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by spitfire 14y ago
Both Nvidia and ATI have been caught cheating at graphics benchmarks. Their drivers would detect when the benchmark programs were being run, and go through lower quality fast paths. You can google "quack.exe" for details on one particularly
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by spitfire 14y ago
Michael Abrash talked about this in his black book of graphics programming. WHen he was writing quake, they could trade off between lighting fast graphics (40fps+, on a 486) 99% of the time with the occasional horrible slowdown to less than
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by spitfire 14y ago
This somehow reminds me of the slammer SQL worm. A simply formed single packet caused a tsunami over the internet. Personally, I am not at all surprised that this sort of thing exists. I'm sure there's lots more defects out there to be foun
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by spitfire 14y ago
You've just described how TV infomercials work. 1. Play the commercial on tv. 2. Sell the product and collect the money. 3. earn interest and find the cheapest manufacturer to do JIT manufacturing in the 6-8 weeks you have to ship the produ
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by spitfire 14y ago
I'll wait for tokenadult to show up and set us all straight on the matter.
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by spitfire 14y ago
safari adblock was the culprit here. However, I'm not going to turn it off to see their site, so they should probably figure a way to rectify the issue.
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by spitfire 14y ago
That link seems to be missing CSS. The content is fine, but it looks straight out of circa 1995 internet (minus the "under construction" sign).
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by spitfire 14y ago
Nope. They've already got a prototype running: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
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by spitfire 14y ago
He's definitely a keeper.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Bit of a cruel trick on christmas eve. But I hope you all enjoy!
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King William's college general knowledge quiz 2012(kwc.im)
2 points by spitfire 14y ago|1 comments
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by spitfire 14y ago
You couldn't be more right. We're still working with such low level tools it's embarrassing. The worst part is, I think this is because of a sort of job security mentality. We had real working RAD tools in the 90's (NeXT/Apple enterprise ob
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by spitfire 14y ago
So is there anywhere people outside the US could watch this silicon valley show? I'm curious but can't find a source that doesn't block those outside the US.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Twitter is making billions? I didn't know they had managed to even top tens of millions.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Not quite. The unicomp/model M's were clicky. The NeXT keyboard had a nice plastic "thonk", with an echo to it, but no click. It also had a very solid (no twist/wiggle) travel. I am considering getting one of those keyboards with the colour
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by spitfire 14y ago
Uhm. It was? I remember running an N64 emulator on a 300mhz PII back in the 90's. A bunch of us were standing around and our jaws dropped when zelda ran for the first time.
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by spitfire 14y ago
mmm. The original NeXT keyboard had one of the most physically pleasing feels to it ever, along with a beautiful sound. Just a shame it didn't have pgup/dn, home/end keys for fast maneuvering. Otherwise, so very tempting.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Do any of these static site generators support A/B testing (probably via some JS)? That's the real thing that I see missing in a lot of CMS's. If I could setup A/B tests right in markdown and easily post the results somewhere(A bit tricksy,
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by spitfire 14y ago
I thought it was DJ Kool Herc.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Feature request for MMA 10. Bayesian classification and bayesian networks. and a bunch of spit and polish on the Mac notebook interface - undo as people have mentioned, scrolling performance, responsiveness, etc. Thanks from a 17 year MMA u
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by spitfire 14y ago
The basic language is the easy bit. I've gotten the itch and written a sort-of-mathematica interpreter twice now. Each time I've gotten to the point where I can do basic derivatives/integrals/polynomials/etc and realized the real power is i

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