thejvexperience

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   by thejvexperience 3y ago

   +1. Seems like one of those things that makes for a nice hot take but doesn’t actually stand up to a rigorous technical analysis.
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   by thejvexperience 4y ago

   Along similar lines, i once watched this guy on YouTube implement a Python-based Forth _compiler_ (not interpreter) and optimize the crap out of it. It was a great video, if anyone’s interested it was called “Porth” and i think his GitHub p
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   Where do you find fellow collaborators in a given field of expertise?

   1 points by thejvexperience 6y ago|1 comments
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   by thejvexperience 8y ago

   I'm feeling old. This is really at the top of a HN thread? Since you self-describe as "coming from Python," you maybe haven't yet really gotten that deep into the internals of computers and what kind of stuff you might w
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   by thejvexperience 10y ago

   I built the core financial engineering stack at Tally and absolutely love our product! The stuff I worked on was cool (lots of highly non convex optimizations, cool statistical methods, all Scala stack, very FP-oriented, etc.) but mainly th
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   by thejvexperience 10y ago

   At work I write Scala and the IntelliJ Scala support is simply unbeatable. It's refactoring engine etc. is fully Scalafied -- when you paste Java code, there's even a "translate to Scala" function offered. I use a "