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by yangyang 17y ago
I agree with most of the things you say. I've worked in finance for the last 9 years. But to nitpick, the latency issue has got nothing to do with dealing rooms , which are rooms where traders, salespeole, quants and support staff sit. A h
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by yangyang 17y ago
There is no evidence of anything in this poorly written, poorly reasoned article. A choice quote: "Control of to network and server access codes is unclear. A number of shops run their network and job control operations with UNIX shell scri
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by yangyang 17y ago
I don't see why they'd scrap a dealing room "in order to get a few milliseconds improvement in their real-time trading abilities". Automated real-time trading apps run on servers, in machine rooms, not in dealing rooms. Hence the mentions o
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by yangyang 17y ago
> Given that large trading houses will scrap perfectly good dealing rooms in order to get a few milliseconds improvement in their real-time trading abilities Who's done this?
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by yangyang 17y ago
It does seem to be rather fashionable to slate Firefox at the moment. I've tried using Chrome and Safari 4 but have gone back to Firefox (on mac). It looks fine on a mac with the GrApple themes Fission and the PDF Plugin. The addons I use a
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by yangyang 17y ago
They trade OTC on Pink Sheets: http://pinksheets.com . Blog post about GM trading on Pink Sheets http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2009/06/01/gm-to-trade-on-pi...
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by yangyang 17y ago
It might well be experience, I haven't used ruby a great deal. I wanted to do something similar to izip in Python and couldn't see a way to do that without constructing lists in Ruby. I completely disagree with having to write lots of boile
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by yangyang 17y ago
I have used both, Python more than Ruby. Python's iterators are more usable in many situations than the Ruby block system. I can return an iterator, stick it in a variable, call another function with it that returns another iterator, and so
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by yangyang 17y ago
Rather minimal "maths". There's no mention of the pricing models used for CDS and CDOs. That would have been more interesting.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Perhaps I'm unusual, but I find the dicussion is often as interesting as the link (perhaps not for this item :-). And you don't get that on an announcements RSS feed.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Has anyone done something like this, but grouping by (user, domain), and maybe ordering on something like (number of user submissions / number of user submissions for this domain)?
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by yangyang 17y ago
Same for me. I'm pointing out that there are some things that you don't have to ask, you can tell by looking.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Without the guidesigner.net adstorm (and working examples): http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php
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by yangyang 17y ago
I doubt it. They're not allowed to discriminate based on these things, but it doesn't mean they can't know them (though obviously they probably won't ask you as that's asking for trouble). You can't discriminate based on age or gender
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by yangyang 17y ago
Slightly unfair quote, as his next sentence is "The latter is not my standard of comparison (Symbolics Genera, the state of the art, is." ... There were plenty of cool things about lisp machines. But obviously the world's taken a differen
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Thumbs Down for Clojure(loper-os.org)
45 points by yangyang 17y ago|52 comments
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by yangyang 17y ago
Argh, too many levels of indirection. The paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244#Pa... Article on The Register, referenced by the Slashdot post: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/copyfraud/
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by yangyang 17y ago
But the "making you log in" bit is the crux of the post. That's crossing the public / private line.
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by yangyang 17y ago
If it's public, you've got to expect people to see it, including potential employers. It's ridiculous to expect anything else. If they don't like it, they don't necessarily need to talk to you about it. You just might end up not being consi
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by yangyang 17y ago
I'm not saying they're not good , just saying they're nothing really new - just a locally produced "clone" (for want of a better word - I realise they're more than that) of another site. Not particularly innovative. I hadn't seen that ar
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by yangyang 17y ago
Doesn't really say a lot. Xcode is nice, there's a simulator, Interface Builder has lots of windows, and you need to program in Objective C. Nothing very insightful.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Am I alone in not really liking screencasts? I can't really go at my own pace, or skim, like I can with a web page. I can't cut and paste. I can see why they appeal, TV vs. book etc. etc. Less perceived effort.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Most of them look like Nigerian versions of existing sites. Nothing particularly new.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Where do you stop? Obviously what happened to Turing was wrong. But is it better to concentrate on improving things for the future rather than endlessly looking back at the past?
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by yangyang 17y ago
It's not just the government though. If you asked people at the time if what had been done was correct, how many would have said yes? Attitudes change (for the better in this case). An apology from a government doesn't change history.
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by yangyang 17y ago
Rupert Murdoch's News International (publishers of the Times [of London] and The Sun) did something similar last year. They opened a plant on the edge of London costing about $300mm to replace their Wapping printworks. http://www.pressgaze
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by yangyang 17y ago
Crediting a photo is one thing; using it without permission is another.
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by yangyang 17y ago
It is a shame when a library closes. I find they (at least in their traditional incarnation) are a place where I can really concentrate, something that's so difficult almost anywhere else. Some of my fondest memories from university were of
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by yangyang 17y ago
But how much longer will it be economically viable to build stuff with an artificially limited lifespan?
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by yangyang 17y ago
That indeed looks awesome. I used an IBM SpaceSaver (not the space saver mentioned above) with a pointy stick for a while, but the keys just didn't feel right.

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