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by vegabook 10y ago
Even 4-5 minutes is still an eternity if you're in a queue behind 10 cars during the holiday rush, and have to 'fill up' twice to get to your destination. What would be a 20 minute wait for gas becomes an hour, for something
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by vegabook 10y ago
The idea of separate charging for food and service acknowledges a certain orthogonality in the two activities, and also offers the service staff a measure of unbundled independence, in the diner's perception. It reflects the tradition
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by vegabook 10y ago
IBM PCs came with PC DOS which you could also buy separately, which was an (essentially identical) licensed version of MS DOS. It was vendor independent, though.
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by vegabook 10y ago
2-4GB is not enough for you? And the brand spanking new 2016 Macbook Pros default to 8GB and 2-4 is not enough on an old computer? I routinely browse the web in a 2GB Linux VM with Firefox under Windows, with less than 1GB in use on htop. I
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by vegabook 10y ago
Wow. This should be the canonical answer for all Why Fortran performance questions. Never thought about this effectiveness/experience advantage in Fortran's favour.
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by vegabook 10y ago
I've personally re-implemented bond daycount for multiple markets several times at different shops. Maybe quantlib has this? Have never been allowed to use it.
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by vegabook 10y ago
like that's what you're supposed to be worried about at age 10. Ridiculous.
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by vegabook 10y ago
because coding can be unhealthily addictive.
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by vegabook 10y ago
agreed and well put. Don't even get me started on R's inconsistencies between for example, base, and zoo/xts POSIXlt, POSIXct and as.date, when it comes to summer time changes. One lib counts 6 days the other counts 7! Becaus
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by vegabook 10y ago
Arguably bringing multiple dependencies under one roof, with a nice, human-readable interface, is exactly what the value is here. This SO answer from Pandas lead Wes Mckinney says it better than anything I could comment. Python datetime&#x2
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by vegabook 10y ago
and perhaps that is a legitimate concern for more than just Europeans, and that includes Americans, and perhaps it's not just about war, but about competition, trade, and fair global access to a technology not being beholden to a singl
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by vegabook 10y ago
what is murky about 10x more precision?? Sounds like sour grapes. Sure GPS is amazing. Now there's something better. Just because it isn't American doesn't mean its value is questionable. Nothing is being taken away here. Cho
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by vegabook 10y ago
Intel is quite happy to ship CentOS Linux on its 64-core (256 hardware thread) Xeon Phi Knights landing dev boxes: http://dap.xeonphi.com/ Here is Linux htop with 288 hardware threads on the higher end KL: http:/&#x2F
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by vegabook 10y ago
intriguing idea. Especially if we could also get Edge on Linux and OSX. Personally I quite like Edge when I have to use it.
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by vegabook 10y ago
Just like this fawning article, a very optimistic scenario for Nvidia is in the market pricing of its stock. Nvidia trades at a 45 trailing PE vs Intel's 15. It's valuation therefore assumes at least 3x more growth than Intel. In
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by vegabook 10y ago
apologies the only "CSA" I know is the Credit Support Annex between counterparties, which seeks to minimize risk on mark to market of derivative contracts. Is this what you are referring to?
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by vegabook 10y ago
Finance, specifically fixed income: Regulations will unbundle research from liquidity provision starting sometime in 2018 (moving regulatory target, but theme seems clear). Sellside will have lower incentive to pay large research groups; bu
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by vegabook 10y ago
This scientific programmer (python/R/C) thanks you for an amazing resource. I have been looking to augment my Python knowledge with a new, faster scripting language. Lua(jit) was my first choice, but JS is so fast these days, and
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by vegabook 10y ago
Looks incredible. I for one cannot encourage enough, dataflow competitors to the current JVM lockdown on this space. A few questions: a) will Fractalide support dynamic dataflow graph change at runtime? b) For reasons of clarifying your obj
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by vegabook 10y ago
Your average user does not love Google. They love accuracy. Yes, the result is the same (GOOG lockdown), but that does not mean there isn't concern about the homogenization of the Internet. Most non-coder people I know have become forc
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by vegabook 10y ago
it seems to me that ocaml/(ocaml zealotry) > haskell/(haskell zealotry). This of course does not suggest that Ocaml>Haskell, only that one must probably apply some coefficients in favour of Ocaml given that it is extra-anglo
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by vegabook 10y ago
so can we reasonably surmise that Ocaml outperforms Haskell massively on GC pauses? What's the catch, if any?
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by vegabook 10y ago
a large part of the point of a diamond is the emotional response. It's not just about how it looks, it's about how rare it is, even if only you know it.
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by vegabook 10y ago
A few counterpoints: * In the market oil is a very popular short. So much so that despite Iran coming back onstream, oil has since risen 20 points. * Aramco's IPO will force it to open kimono on its reserves. Is there a negative surpri
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by vegabook 10y ago
why do we need this? Mongo (3.4) is now doing graph and will also (obviously) do document and key-value. Is there something special about the storage engine, for example, that will make this awesome for range queries (contiguous location al
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by vegabook 10y ago
sure but I have been running a Cubietruck with Fedora 20 with an allwinner A20 for 2 years, hooked up a proper SATA 128gig SSD for 35 bux, and when it comes to IO, it beats my Raspberry Pi 3 4:1 even trying my best with "high speed&quo
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by vegabook 10y ago
I fully expect it to be an utter piece of junk, but at 89 dollars with 2GB RAM this beats a Raspberry Pi or a Cubietruck hands down on price/performance considering either of the latter require at the very least 100 bucks extra for mon
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by vegabook 10y ago
I think I may adjust my point to suggest that financial gain is orthogonal to kindness. Thank you for your insightful comment.
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by vegabook 10y ago
you're very smart. Your comparison with Berlusconi is accurate and entertaining. But here's the problem. Smart isn't enough. You need generosity. The main problem with the past 70-years Hayek/Randian "every man for
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by vegabook 10y ago
I am not a Trump fan but your post is pure bile.

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