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811.
by vegabook 11y ago
Agreed. Clearly I'm being unfair, but I think I may not be alone in my aversion to the old Ballmer brands. Perhaps SN should "do an Edge" on the VS moniker.
812.
by vegabook 11y ago
Indeed - Why?? IronPython. Might trick me once... won' let u trick me twice.
813.
by vegabook 11y ago
Microsoft + Python = Ironpython. !Cred.
814.
by vegabook 11y ago
This stock appears to be the high-beta canary-in-the-coalmine for the rest of tech. Tech in general has been cut a lot of slack in the past 10 years by the market. Anyone with a dream and a disruption pitch was given the benefit of the doub
815.
by vegabook 11y ago
arguably HTML 5 is a co-culprit here - it is the new Flash and has massively worsened the situation. Try running a modern home page on anything other than a fast Intel chip or ARM chip and it's basically unusable (Rpi, low end Arm phon
816.
by vegabook 11y ago
If you're in your late 20s and coding is all you've ever done, be afraid. Domain knowledge is where it's at. I am in a similar situation to the OP having started off with a ZX Spectrum, did CS, coded, but in my late 20s I was
817.
by vegabook 11y ago
> VR is such a tiny niche ...and in danger of stalling: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=oculus%20rift
818.
by vegabook 11y ago
My sense is this is kind of a beta programme and that they want to get it right before putting it into US, where a much fiercer press in general would kill it at the starting gates if it's not 100% ready. Moreover the size of the US ma
819.
by vegabook 11y ago
I've been using it purely as a phone for now (other than the occasional ssh into the office), but it is exactly the vision you state above that puts me into the early adopter camp. I don't know about X apps. MiR is supposted to ha
820.
by vegabook 11y ago
I've been running the Aquaris E5 for the past few weeks and while it has a few bugs, I am amazed at how much smartphone functionality Canonical has put into this clean and easy new interface. Everything I expect on the "device inf
821.
by vegabook 11y ago
Awesome...but. No text? That suddenly wipes out my use case (data viz). I was super encouraged reading this post, multiple renderers including canvas / webgl (so I assume speed - unlike D3), smart, clean, indeed creative looking logo&#
822.
by vegabook 11y ago
There is no excuse for publishing anything that does not stand up to replicability and a significantly high enough threshold chance that published prediction will be realised. Hence the OP is correct in pointing out the unfairness of equati
823.
by vegabook 11y ago
The point is that most semiconductor predictions come true, whereas biomed predictions are much less reliable. Unfortunately, that is a reflection on the latter's practitioners as they are aware of their poor odds yet still publish.
824.
by vegabook 11y ago
The Ars article you refer to appears to be fairly bullish on IBM's process technology and in particular the extreme ultraviolet lithography which has been problematic elsewhere. IBM has deep history of fundamental research turning into
825.
by vegabook 11y ago
I think the animation turns it from one of the worst visualizations I have ever seen to one of the best. Its point is ultra clear when you see tiny red dots become huge swathes of overvalued crimson. Texas is amazing. Look how even intra-st
826.
by vegabook 11y ago
Talk about big city distortion. I can't help thinking this trend is at its zenith. Where economic growth is faltering, we're seeing de-urbanization, and I would be long the yellow areas and short the red, because if there is any u
827.
by vegabook 11y ago
Both sides cannot lose money simultaneously, by construction of the financial markets. +1 - 1 will always equal zero. Not -2. If your point is that "it always goes back to the fundamentals" and therefore fundamentally-driven inves
828.
by vegabook 11y ago
Looks like I owe you five bucks (as of 8am London time) ;-) Assuming $2.50 market in upvotes, duly upvoted you twice! ;(I'll wear two downvotes if you want to be strict about it).
829.
by vegabook 11y ago
> Everything dies Python itself might die when Python 2 dies, and arguably, Python 3 makes that more likely.
830.
by vegabook 11y ago
Bet me what? That SHANCOMP will go lower from here? And I assume you already know that your payout will be skewed: options price in a higher chance of downside than upside already so you should probably pay me $7 if it rallies against my $5
831.
by vegabook 11y ago
Yep decent strategy I would think. The idea is to find the second order implications which are not yet priced in. The first order "China is slowing down" is already in the price of the pureplay indices, and as you point out above,
832.
by vegabook 11y ago
Inevitably, whenever The Economist (or the press in general) latches onto a markets story, it's because everything is already in the price. Shorts should be taking profit here, because the journos are usually the last to know. Recall,
833.
by vegabook 11y ago
Just sell some aussie dollar or for the brave, buy USDZAR. Much more liquid than the stocks, and exposed to all the second order factors which are already priced into stocks but not yet into the the implications for currencies: lower commod
834.
by vegabook 11y ago
Well put. Yet all our banks who have been reckless lenders have simply been led to the trough of unlimited QE to short circuit this healthy mechanism that you cite. We'll pay more in the end because of it.
835.
by vegabook 11y ago
Pikkety's case is essentially that debt is not sacrosanct, and that treating it as you are is counterproductive. Sometimes the creditor must share some of the pain, in order to save (even himself) more pain down the line.
836.
by vegabook 11y ago
You forget that their are two Greeces, just like there are two Europes and increasingly, two Americas. Your comments are entirely reasonable when it comes to the rent-seeking corrupt upper classes in Greece who have run the country aground
837.
by vegabook 11y ago
That's my point. For the vast majority of (smaller) flows HFT makes bid/offer tighter. TLDR on the above: HFT makes you pay a fair price for your liquidity requirement. If you're retail, your liquidity requirement is negligea
838.
by vegabook 11y ago
The idea that HFT is front running any more than a human market maker is a fallacy. What HFT does, is to properly price the liquidity in the market. Previously, large institutional or more likely hedge fund orders would be priced very tight
839.
by vegabook 11y ago
yes! Where is dsi-pi already? We don't need a case when pibow already does an excellent (better than this?) job already.
840.
by vegabook 11y ago
That's a very nice piece of kits for 10k I have to say. Thanks for the "sweetspot" price/perf advice. Seems like excellent value. I've had my heart on a badass mac pro but these specs put it to shame.

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