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by tdees40 13y ago
For anyone uninformed on this matter, a few facts: 1) The Senate is a majority body, but it requires a 60 vote (i.e. 60%) threshold to cut off debate and force a vote on a bill; otherwise, debate continues indefinitely. 2) In practice, th
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by tdees40 13y ago
Is anyone using Dart in production? I'm not really a front-end guy so I don't keep as up to date, but it seems like this hasn't made much of a splash.
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by tdees40 13y ago
It's hard to get excited about the guy who ran Nokia into the ground.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Bread + protein (peanut butter, lunch meat, etc.) + (possibly some vegetables, i.e. lettuce, tomato) is pretty easy to get under $2.00.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Morning meal: granola or oatmeal (cost: $0.25-0.50 per person). Afternoon meal: sandwich, maybe bag of chips ($1.00-2.00 per person). Evening meal: meat, vegetables, carb ($2.00-3.00 per person). I guess if you compare it to eating out it&#
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by tdees40 13y ago
$65/week seems like a remarkable amount of money for this. I have a wife, and a kid, so that's $10K a year to go full Soylent. (I'm not really planning on this, of course, but that's the idea, right?)
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by tdees40 13y ago
Perhaps more to the point, Obama doesn't have the legal authority to prioritize certain payments. If he doesn't pay something, then he would be in violation of the law. He can't just unilaterally not pay bills. This isn&#x
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by tdees40 13y ago
My father-in-law is a veterinarian, and he got a call one day from a Yelp advertising sales person, who made it clear that if he didn't buy advertising from them, negative reviews would start showing up. So I just treat Yelp as legal
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by tdees40 13y ago
I think the free market mostly answers this question. According to indeed.com, the average software engineer salary is $91K. So obviously a company (assuming they could properly identify them) would pay $910K/year to a 10x programmer
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by tdees40 13y ago
My one issue with this is that he was, by all accounts, alarmingly thin before the seeds did him in, and winter hadn't even arrived yet. It's hard to imagine him surviving the winter, seeds or not. So while the seeds obviously s
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by tdees40 13y ago
Um, the Windows division of MSFT brought in $19.2B of their $78B in total revenue. I'm no expert, but giving up 25% of your revenue is no way to run a company.
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by tdees40 13y ago
da Vinci isn't a surname and shouldn't be used as one. It'd be like calling the Duke of Edinburgh "Of Edinburgh". See Wikipedia for more information.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Flat is irrelevant. Don't believe me? Go to Montreal. Outrageous topography, terrible weather, everybody bikes. Biking is about infrastructure and social networks. I live in Orange County, and nobody rides to work, but once they f
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Venture Capital Performance Continues to Lag(soberlook.com)
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by tdees40 13y ago
Keep in mind though that a 20-50% slowdown is pretty big in the browser world, especially given that those numbers represent a lower-bound for how much slower a GC browser would be. Would you trade your Chrome/Firefox browser for some
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by tdees40 13y ago
It does not, and this needs to change before Go becomes viable for applications like this.
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by tdees40 13y ago
So every twenty-two year old I've ever met has told me how boring their entry-level corporate job was and how they just want to get out. Fine. But recognize that your job is boring because entry-level jobs are boring. They just exis
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by tdees40 13y ago
Yes, this gives "elite" traders an advantage over the only-somewhat-elite traders, but I would suspect that most sane traders who aren't doing hyper-HFT-type trading will be unaffected. So it's a meh for me.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Do keep in mind that if you move to TX, your children will learn creationism IN SCHOOL. Also, they will likely learn about a white-washed version of slavery. This is a really big deal to me, and it should be a big deal to more liberals wh
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by tdees40 13y ago
Its resilience during the recession at least has something to do with oil. At least acknowledge that possibility.
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by tdees40 13y ago
Quick everybody, let's all trade this strategy immediately! We'll be rich! Meh. There are a million of these things, and they all backtest great. It's not really meaningful going forward though.
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by tdees40 13y ago
There were people who saw it, sure, but lots more people who didn't. So saying he was a complete fool is just ridiculous.
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by tdees40 13y ago
"So it is reasonable to be wary of an industry of rich and powerful men eliding its own interests with that of the country at large, or of claims that techniques appropriate to fix problems in one field can be applied mutatis mutandis in an
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by tdees40 13y ago
It seems like the give-up on clarity of code isn't worth of it for most of this, but the tail call optimization is a nifty little feature to have.
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by tdees40 13y ago
To get it started, subcategories include: 1) High-frequency trading. Very programming oriented as trade latency is everything. You'll need to be really good at making C/C++ code really fast. Math is somewhat less important than other fi
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by tdees40 13y ago
Saying "I want to learn Quant Finance" is like saying "I want to learn programming," in that it really all just depends. There's an impossible number of fields and sub-fields, and many people know one field intimately but may not know anot
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by tdees40 14y ago
Because clearly money and girl-banging are the only reasons to choose a career.
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by tdees40 14y ago
Second that one. On these sort of problems it's not uncommon to see 100x+ speedups. My general experience is that just re-writing this in C++ instead of Numpy you'd see a >14x speedup, so I'm pretty unimpressed at this point.
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by tdees40 14y ago
Two things: (1) The Law of Large Numbers doesn't mean what the New Yorker thinks it means. (2) Is issuance of a dividend really "financial engineering"? This is just a silly piece by a guy who apparently doesn't understand finance, tech,