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by vegabook 11y ago
Yes, you're left high-and-dry if your counterparty goes bust, and since this would be such a cataclysmic event in the case of Deutsche Bank, the authorities would be forced to step in (at ginormous cost) to prevent it. It's worth
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by vegabook 11y ago
Deutsche Bank is counterparty to 55 trillion euros of derivatives contracts (about 65 trillion USD). I worked for 3 years on its trading floor. It was Sales-a-gogo. "Print as much as you can". It's one of the very biggest c
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by vegabook 11y ago
Computer Scientists in my experience are quite respectful of a number of other fields, including mathematics, most engineering disciplines, physics, even philosophy (logic) and psychology (big in stats), and most recently, biology. Computer
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by vegabook 11y ago
First world patronising Africa, again. As if the minute amount of power produced by this shameless, transparent attempt at viral marketing will ever recoup the cost of production of the device itself, let alone the R&D budget or mainten
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by vegabook 11y ago
I have been using Nvidia cards since the original geforce 256 in 2000. I purchased one of the first ATI 8514 Ultra cards in the early 90s. I own two R9-290s, and at work I use Tesla K40s. I follow GPU computing avidly as I do machine learni
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by vegabook 11y ago
I wanted to use nanomsg 6 months ago. Google alone, at the time, had it as a better zmq. I had to really read between the lines at the time to figure that it was losing momentum. It was not an easy sense. I'm glad this forthright pie
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by vegabook 11y ago
It's valued at 14 billion dollars. Hardly distressed or inept.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Only central to the pedants who wanted to "clean it up", and not central to the user base which, as anybody can see, is now cleaved into two warring factions, a result which is far worse than any of the marginal "improvements
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by vegabook 11y ago
> community be damned couldn't agree more. Yet all the evidence is that they're still using 3.x as their personal little hobby playground. Exhibit A: type annotations. Just because others are doing it. Nobody is asking for this
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by vegabook 11y ago
much more likely: you'll finally find the motivation to upgrade your code, not to Python 3 which is 5% better than 2 and 50% more of a pain-in-the-butt, but because there are a multitude of new, faster, parallel-aware languages that ar
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by vegabook 11y ago
...which begs the question: why are there any differences at all!
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by vegabook 11y ago
Interesting info that I was not aware of. I guess I was just a casual player, not a developer like yourself doing it all day long (super-kudos btw - you changed the gaming world). All I remember about Wolfenstein and then Doom, is the wonde
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by vegabook 11y ago
This article wants to frame the bunfight in terms of tech. "Streaming vs offline". Actually it's more about incumbent vs challenger. Challenger spends more money doing something different (offline access) but the actual tech
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by vegabook 11y ago
What beautiful presentation. I realise that there is subtle enhancement going on in all of these, if it's not the pleasant animations, it's the saturation, or the slight diffusion giving an impression of dreaminess, to some of the
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by vegabook 11y ago
Wow, the real (rhs) images have so much more of an "emotional" appeal. Somehow the middle images, while I admire the tech, really don't add much to the black and white, and they might even take something away. They seem much
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by vegabook 11y ago
"Sick from Doom"?? I don't remember anybody getting sick from Wolfenstein or Doom. Controversy around (for the time) violent graphic realism? Sure. Seasickness? No.
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by vegabook 11y ago
Does anything like this exist in Ocaml?
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by vegabook 11y ago
+1 for terminology. Fast even on the cubieboard that I (also) run it under, and somehow, in my opinion, it does font spacing really well even under Ubuntu. Better than the standard terminal in both Unity and (especially) Gnome where kerning
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by vegabook 11y ago
so the dollar is dead because Zimbabwe says so. haha
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by vegabook 11y ago
Agreed. You're carrying this thing around with you 16 hours a day. Design is crucial. And if it isn't then increasingly, you'll be fine with a 100 dollar generic phone. Unfortunately, design is something that you can't j
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by vegabook 11y ago
Amazing to see Firefox Nightly more than double the speed of Safari on my late 2013 i7 mac mini.
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by vegabook 11y ago
in the beginning, >>> print "hello world" was the best marketing slogan for Python's down to earth simplicity versus competitors that one could possible have devised. Not even any brackets!! It defined the et
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by vegabook 11y ago
only if you believe that capital incentives are perfectly aligned with society's interests.
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by vegabook 11y ago
your silly faux-incitement "joking" ( your words ) strikes the wrong tone in this literally deadly-serious subject matter, and if it potentially offends sensibilities then I'm sorry, but pointing that out to you can be constr
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by vegabook 11y ago
The Bank of England is one of the very best places you could start to make contacts and learn about finance, in the world's capital of international finance.
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by vegabook 11y ago
I don't find your "joke" very funny at all, in the aftermath of almost 200 terrorist deaths (in the west) in November alone. GrumpyBen's prescription is not fun and anti-liberty, but so is living in a society being preye
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by vegabook 11y ago
Interestingly though, Windows version of Numpy on Anaconda is quite a lot faster than what you'll get with Ubuntu, like 2x faster easily. I think it has to do with the fact that AVX instructions are used on the windows linalg routines
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by vegabook 11y ago
Numpy can basically be considered to be part of the standard library for Python so I'd say using it still qualifies as "using Python". Pandas is newer but is graduating to that level of ubiquity too.
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Enlightenment e20 released with full Wayland support(phab.enlightenment.org)
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by vegabook 11y ago
You are not saying anything original here that is not the complete median view on the Street. Eurozone 0%: check. UK bright spot: check. Japan a debt disaster: check. Russia suffering: check. China/US the future: check. There is nothin

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