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by tmsh 15y ago
google search: 'malcolm gladwell third'. Sort of relevant. Different mindsets. I don't completely buy the argument (the marginal utility of learning from the first and second iteration isn't always as meaningful as you might think) -- but I
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Think Different(youtube.com)
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Increasingly, the key is to main orthogonality towards your problem solving (like an eagle) within the decaying confines of a semi-bloated (often mostly educational in terms of what not to do) ecosystem. Which means rewriting crufty pieces
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by tmsh 15y ago
The most correct program (in terms of maintainability and evolution -- as well as mathematical correctness) approximates the most orthogonal program. In term of modeling it with objects that contain state, this may mean having objects that
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by tmsh 15y ago
Ring structure! (The microphone.)
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by tmsh 15y ago
I don't know if anyone here watches Suits. But basically the reason the Harvey character wins is the reason Wall Street has not been held accountable. A lot of people pay a lot of money and there is enough ingenious strategizing to protect
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Spaceout (on a mac)(tmsh.posterous.com)
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by tmsh 15y ago
His response is almost as great as jean patches. Man, that probably makes me sound like a troll. Oh well. Here's to one of the greatest capitalist visionaries of our lifetime though. In jean patches no less.
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by tmsh 15y ago
You may enjoy early Socrates if you haven't already.
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by tmsh 15y ago
Combination of things. I'm originally from the Bay Area (Berkeley), so I always wanted to get back (I think I could've gotten into the Chicago winters if I'd picked up following hockey more, but was sort of too late by the time I realized t
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by tmsh 15y ago
Pretty much all custom. On the trading client side, a lot of firms used to tie into TT (Trading Technologies), etc. Then usually they rewrite with their own order gateways / price servers, and if they have enough resources, develop their ow
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by tmsh 15y ago
Had an uncle in the industry (with wall street experience who was (re)starting an algorithmic shop for the first time in the late 90s). Sometimes I think I would've saved more time if I had stayed in the Bay Area and not gone into HFT (in C
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by tmsh 15y ago
Good, stringent mentors (esp., good, rigorous code reviews) are key. Theoretically, depending on which language you choose, you should be able to rewrite a bit of code until there is literally not a single character that you could improve t
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by tmsh 15y ago
I used to work in HFT. From about 1999 (right out of high school) until 2008. In response to the OP, zedshaw and a couple of others (who make good points), I'd say: * obviously if you're good at your job in HFT after a while you don't have
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The Open Corporation (California Management Review, 1991)(cmr.berkeley.edu)
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by tmsh 15y ago
That's true. It's also true that there are quite a few marketplaces out there that serve this same market http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html The difference is execution. Any skilled designer (and I'm not a designer but I can respect
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by tmsh 15y ago
High-performant, world-class C++ is fairly well understood (afaik) to only use a very limited subset of C++'s features (e.g., see the JSF Coding Standard or Google Style Guide or go work for a hedge fund where low latency and high reliabili
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XSL and other (lightweight) XML cleanup(tmsh.posterous.com)
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How Slavery Really Ended in America(nytimes.com)
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by tmsh 16y ago
The article makes it out as if Paul Allen is some sort of unlucky, dabbling entrepreneur post-Microsoft: Many of his business investments, like the cable company Charter Communications, software company Asymetrix Corp. and set-top box make
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Out of options: A surprising culprit in the nuclear crisis(boston.com)
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by tmsh 16y ago
Although a very serious situation, couldn't help but note Paul Kedrosky's observation: http://twitter.com/#!/pkedrosky/status/46604765890752512
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by tmsh 16y ago
Thanks! That's really nice. And nice blog! I'll check it out more and send you a message. (Joy of HN.)
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A Hacker's Notes for Learning Spanish(tmsh.posterous.com)
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The power of lonely(boston.com)
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Working with mp3 metadata in Python (e.g., changing track title to filename)(tmsh.posterous.com)
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by tmsh 16y ago
Anybody done or know of any performance comparisons? Particularly intrigued by: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#multi-threading http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093...
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by tmsh 16y ago
Yes, but historically this is how Microsoft wins. They win by entering the dialogue. They copied UI from Apple back in the day, and then were able to cut prices, etc., and Apple lost (at least for a decade). I would caution Google to ignore
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by tmsh 16y ago
Not all who seem awkward are lost.
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One caveat, though I imagine this has been thought of before, is that mobile versions of sites often have the same content as full-browser versions of sites. So ideally, perhaps m.google.com would be able to sort through this and not penali

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