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by veyron 15y ago
The arc http://arclanguage.org/ source code for the site is available. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390689
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by veyron 15y ago
I probably should have replied to this post, but I gave some recommendations in a post to the parent
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by veyron 15y ago
You need to be a little more specific regarding your interests and background. If you are interested in theory, there are plenty of books discussing specific models. However, most practical or buzzword (e.g. HFT) books are rubbish (think
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by veyron 15y ago
What he's criticizing is doing a startup specifically so that it could be flipped later. If you are in it to build a real company, you actually go through the hard work that Jobs is talking about. Did you start viaweb to sell it to someone
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by veyron 15y ago
Does anyone have a copy of the original QBASIC NIBBLES.BAS source?
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by veyron 15y ago
If everyone said "thank you" to every post, those would swamp any meaningful discussion. Think about it. On this article alone there would be over 100 such comments. Generally, you can give a +1 by upvoting. If you have something to add
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by veyron 15y ago
It's odious because they refuse to remove info about you if you ask them to. There is no legal obligation to, but most people believe that they should respond to user requests
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by veyron 15y ago
stupid question: what is considered "silicon valley"? Is it in northern or southern california? (I was under the impression that it was southern california)
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by veyron 15y ago
"exercise outdoors in shorts and a t-shirt 365 days a year" <-- Some people in new York, myself included, do the same thing. Even when it's snowing, most of my friends sport tee shirts and shorts. It's actually more pleasant than the 1
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by veyron 15y ago
Direct Link: http://www.enophilia.net/writable/uploadfile/chimica%20della...
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by veyron 15y ago
URL should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellation_d%E2%80%99Origine_C...
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by veyron 15y ago
Is that true of osx lion? How do you recompile and load the kernel?
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by veyron 15y ago
Didn't they do a similar announcement in the past (for older versions of the phone) that turned out to be vaporware?
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High Frequency Accounting (veyronb.wordpress.com)
6 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
There's a whole class of cars in the 100-250K class (more expensive BMW/Mercedes/Porsche) which are a notch below the 350-450K range (Bentley/Rolls Royce) That first range is generally for the rich professionals who do care, to some extent,
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by veyron 15y ago
There are a slew of more expensive cars. Whether they are finer is a matter of opinion. For example, I think that the bugatti veyron is one of the finest cars in the world. As for price, the hermes-modified veyron is about 10 times more ex
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by veyron 15y ago
"yes and sophisticated HFT systems screw large funds from moving into and out of positions with relative ease/fairness." <-- that's completely false. It is precisely because of HFT systems that the capital markets were reasonably resil
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by veyron 15y ago
"Under European law, consumers have the right to request a record of the personal information held by a company." Given that Facebook's international headquarters is in Ireland, does the law also apply to Facebook when it deals with US user
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by veyron 15y ago
"Suffice to say, there were/are pros and cons to having a specialist." Let's not go there. Specialists were accused of favoritism: filling orders that certain traders submitted and ignoring requests from other traders. More generally, the
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by veyron 15y ago
There is actually a wellspring: quantitative finance. There were many people drawn by the allure of finance back in 2006-2008 and are now thinking of leaving. Generally people have enough money to carry themselves for some time on a low sa
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by veyron 15y ago
I would sign up, if that's any consolation :) More generally, it's one of those things that you don't want to change if it works well. Maybe the best model is an short term contract (e.g. 3 or 6 months) which can roll into a multiyear cont
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by veyron 15y ago
The reason why AAPL is so expensive is because of the TAF (a tax assessed by the SEC). Currently its 19$ / million dollars sold. Note that this fee is proportional to dollars sold, not per share (other transaction costs are per-share). Le
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by veyron 15y ago
too expensive for most HFTs to play with
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by veyron 15y ago
Let's put it to a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3148005
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Poll: for US people, What is your compensation?
5 points by veyron 15y ago|2 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
0-50K
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by veyron 15y ago
50K-100K
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by veyron 15y ago
100K-200K
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by veyron 15y ago
200K-500K
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by veyron 15y ago
500K-1M

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