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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
That's fair. I wasn't close enough to see how "surprising" it was. The point stands that it looks nothing like HFT active trading risk. Knight Capital created such amazing training material for the industry. What wen
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
The CHF de-peg wasn't really technology risk. Brokers lost money because they undervalued CHF/EUR risk, undervalued liquidity risk (stop orders were executing FAR worse than expected, or simply failing to execute at all), and did
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
A real life application of Odysseus's Oar. I have mentored junior devs who have "heard" of SVN and also think CVS is just a pharmacy. It was a real gut-punch the first time.
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
Retail consumers aren't exactly disadvantaged by the gradual narrowing of spreads, so what are you trying to fix? The latency arms-race is exclusively professionals fighting each other. Getting back on topic, being a software develope
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
It's not about you, though; it's about all of the fathers that will follow you. Does your partner see this dynamic as well? Will she support you by redirecting conversations to force your inclusion? That's where I would st
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
I've always seen this solved by sorting (lexicographical order of bytes, originally). First two characters were digits, for all files within a wildcard directory.
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
I agree with your points. But just imagine the news cycle if the Chilean miners _were_ children!
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
> Doesn't this kind of depend on the law? Applying a consistent process is what gives the population continuing faith in the system. Laws that are universally supported will sail through the process with ease, so what's the ru
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
The use of "just" here is classic underestimation of complexity or investment required. Technologists everywhere face this negative language from customers and other laypeople, and I expect many readers understand from first hand
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
That was my first thought upon reading the title. However, people learn, grow, and change. I believe his argument will carry more weight with the acknowledgment and duscussion of his own prior decision. It's not hypocrisy; it's
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
There's a DVD "limited edition" of the trilogy that is 2 discs each, and the "extras" disc has either the original or laserdisc edit. This is good. The downside is that the black levels and audio are obviously dat
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by ycombobreaker 3y ago
This sounds like pretty bad, or at least risky, advice. Mind you, I think it'll work on average; but it's a dishonest and adversarial way to start a new relationship, for probably not a ton of money.
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
I can see how an awkwardly-delivered statement could by misconstrued, regardless of the speaker's true intent. However, doesn't this play out pretty poorly for the rank-and-file anyhow? Anyone caught deleting emails would get th
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Sure, there will be some high performers that get caught in that 10% net. The F500 shops wants their recruiting teams looking for those candidates, but they need protect themselves from adverse selection. An ex-FAANG developer who thinks
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
As an adult who probably has some hearing damage, I always watch with closed captions enabled now. There is SO much material that I have lost from mishearing a word here and there. Reading the script along with the audio helps my to follo
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
There is a segment of the new Dune movie where I feel this happens. I believe it is Paul and Jessica's crossing and their encounter with the worm. The contrast feels so washed out and it distracts me because my eyes start straining f
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Yeah I'm used to in-house, no material contract experience. > the dysfunction is everyone else's fault, not our own I specifically said the relationship. It takes two parties for effective communication to occur. An engineer
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Why would you change plans and expect the construction crew's prior estimate to remain unchanged? Estimates change if the project changes. A commercial developer's job includes recognizing that and communicating changes upstream
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
A trading shop can afford to give bigger bonuses to a smaller set of staff, not everyone who is still cutting teeth.
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Isn't HTTP POST content similarly encoded? Likewise with small embedded images in CSS, though I am rusty on that topic. Likewise with binary email attachments in SMTP (though this may be uuencoded, same net effect). The particular ex
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
The same... with no public scrutiny, last trade price most likely reflecting a primary sale (i e. the market only contains buyers), and very few sample points overall. That's not the same confidence of price, even if the structure is
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
"better" is a projection of various personal features onto a single axis. If you ask those 100 engineers to predict their strengths and weaknesses relative to the room, they'd probably do an OK job of it. Asking who is &quo
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
The "colo provider" role is just rent collection from HFT customers. It's 100% derived from their exchange business. It's an interesting idea, but don't think you can segregate their exchange role from their author
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
> if I were to tell you in September 2021 that Meta was going to trade 70% down within a year, you wouldn't have believed me I would have probably asked "who is Meta?" at which point you explain you are a time traveler, an
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Peloton in particular was a beneficiary of the pandemic and lockdowns. With no ill will, I'm content to see their stock price drop if it is correlated with an improvement in the general state of the world. It's absolutely not inf
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
> Cute names have no chance of being useful. A cute name can be useful if it implies its intent. This usually relies upon some social shared context. Gopher: mechanism for fetching data Ask Jeeves: search engine Alta Vista: i guess lite
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Children's interests can be fickle. Learning a skill takes a serious investment of time, and a child left totally to their own devices could end up bailing on a lot of interests prematurely, because they never get over the initial hum
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
A couple of months of weekly piano instruction is simply not enough exposure for most young students to even have "one jazz tune" under their belt. It's likely that the jam session invitation was predicated upon some minimu
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
> This is what you get when you treat everybody else in the same way, by telling them cosleeping is evil. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. I am an American, and my family's pediatrician gave cosleeping advice when aske
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by ycombobreaker 4y ago
Google or any search engine provides links to relevant documents, whereas ChatGPT functions as a pure summary. Neither the search engine nor language model summary should be treated as authoritative, but at least a search engine cites it

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