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721.
by veyron 15y ago
Can you explain how libel differs between the US and the UK?
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by veyron 15y ago
He was asked to pay for advertising. He wasn't happy with previous dealings with yelp, so he declined. Then, all of the positive reviews that were on the site mysteriously disappeared. One plausible explanation is that all of the positiv
723.
by veyron 15y ago
Maybe yelp paid a firm to generate positive reviews of yelp?
724.
by veyron 15y ago
Can you explain what exactly is closed with github that is open with gitorious? (I confess lack of familiarity with both)
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by veyron 15y ago
I imagine it could be used to circumvent whatever forensic tools that some organizations use. For example, in the very recent case involving Yihao Ben Pu and Citadel: '... Pu had also downloaded a "port scanner" program to his Citadel comp
726.
by veyron 15y ago
Rockefeller Center NYC, onsite: #1 looking for #2 Bootstrapped prop ultra low latency trading firm (as opposed to a firm which originally had investors and later kicked them out), and I'm willing to cut significant equity. see http://news.
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by veyron 15y ago
I agree that many of the parts aren't really that useful. That having been said, if we were to devise the "HN test", what would be required?
728.
by veyron 15y ago
There are a lot of places that still use tarballs for "version control". Technically it saves "versions" even if it isn't quickly accessible, and doesnt require a proper VCS
729.
by veyron 15y ago
While Joel Test is good in general, for a bank some of these requirements aren't relevant or advisable. The author gives a reasonable argument for why #3 isn't applicable here. Rule #2 seem to yield no flexibility with regards to testing a
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by veyron 15y ago
No but the taxes would have to be paid only after a successful patent case. The point is that the patent has no real market price until the first successful willful infringement penalty. Until that point, the price is arbitrary.
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by veyron 15y ago
There was a case of a startup shoe sales site with a really elegant interface for selecting the exact type of shoe you wanted. Basically, it allowed you to see many very similar styles on one page to be able to compare similar offerings fr
732.
by veyron 15y ago
Everyone will game the IP tax by valuing it at pennies -- after all, they may not directly be using it may not have a fair market value before they take someone to court. As a real-life example of people gaming these types of taxes, people
733.
by veyron 15y ago
is the word 'cajoles' or 'cajones'?
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by veyron 15y ago
I think that IT recruiters who are more technical in nature (ie were former IT employees) attract more competent IT people and know which candidates are relevant to employers. As a result, the experience from the employer is much more plea
735.
by veyron 15y ago
What software / design patterns do people use to make these infographics?
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by veyron 15y ago
I think the idea is that the force multiplier WORK(2 people) / WORK(1 person) < 2, which IME is very true.
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A short rebuttal to a technology complaint about HFT(veyronb.wordpress.com)
3 points by veyron 15y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
It's more subtle than that. Jobs had a preternatural ability to determine when a technology was sufficiently mature and when people were ready to accept a well-executed solution. Some would argue, for example, that Newton was executed wel
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by veyron 15y ago
I think he was specifically referring to cache. You still take a large performance hit to have to go to main memory, and iirc nehalem has 12MB cache.
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by veyron 15y ago
The question is about quantitative finance, which is much larger than just HFT. In those spaces, the actual language is almost irrelevant. Hell, you can eek out sub-100 microseconds tick-to-trade times using perl, 150 using python and 200
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by veyron 15y ago
Aren't they required to record the confirmation if it is over the phone? And if so, they should be able to replay it to you. For example, if you try to do a balance transfer over the phone, they explicitly read you they will start recordin
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by veyron 15y ago
!x[$1]++ Use that at least 10 times a day Also, Larry Wall (perl) said "I still say awk '{print $1}' a lot."
743.
by veyron 15y ago
During the earthquake, cell phone service was out but landline worked like a charm :) And that's why we have one
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by veyron 15y ago
An older discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486231
745.
by veyron 15y ago
There is a claim of ~$80 per "Active User", but what is an active user? The article conveniently ignores those figures.
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by veyron 15y ago
If Tim Cook and Apple without Steve Jobs can continue innovating at the same pace, shareholders will see it as a small investment in Apple's future. And it seems like this was geared to appease the markets.
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How the NASDAQ data center prepared for Hurricane Irene
4 points by veyron 15y ago|2 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
You couldn't use TI-92 on APs or other exams though :/ TI-89 for me :)
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by veyron 15y ago
I subscribe to the "silence is golden" camp -- blogging when there's nothing meaningful to say just devalues your efforts when you actually do have something useful to say.
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by veyron 15y ago
the numbers have been revised a few times

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