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by yellowstuff 6y ago
> I expect once again for my bubble call to meet my modest definition of success: at some future date, whenever that may be, it will have paid for you to have ducked from midsummer of 2020. Two can play at this game. I predict that at s
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I'd assume they're optimizing for beginner developer UX, and assuming that anyone using mysql for something important will know to customize the error handling.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
HFT trade with retail. Your comment doesn’t make much sense.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Normally that's not really the case. There's a lot of academic and practical evidence that the most rational investors generally determine the prices of stocks, because even if there are a lot of irrational investors making random
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
If you know the term LPs you should know the typically senior management at hedge funds have a significant portion of their net worth invested in their own funds.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
"Hedge fund managers typically have a substantial amount of their own capital invested in the funds they manage, and a significant portion of their compensation is based upon the absolute, or positive, performance they achieve for thei
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
His concern was not that people familiar with his blog could deliberately find his real name, but that patients who searched for his real name would find his blog, which would make him unable to do his job. He justifies his concern pretty c
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Think Stats is a very good book aimed at Python programmers who want a broad overview of practical statistical techniques: https://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
> This may be a romantic notion that I misunderstand but isn't there a mechanism wherein I, an aggrieved (citizen/neighbor/bystander/victim) can buy a single share in a public company and then, as a shareholder, speak
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
He also counts the Curious George books as being not suburban, which might be true of the original series, but there's a reboot by different authors that has a suburban feel. George drives around in a car, and goes to places like a pan
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I have over 10 years of experience and was recently on the job market. The highest paid job I was pitched by a recruiter paid more than double the lowest paid job I was pitched.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
cvs, not svn.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I'm not sure this is the best argument against these types of jobs. Food used to be completely unregulated and potentially unsafe, but there are still jobs regulating food safety. It's basically a solved problem, but it still requ
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
As I recall, the trick is that you can post a tweet, grab the URL, then if you edit it quickly enough it won't show up as edited.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
A random blogger who no one's ever heard of explains this in excruciating detail and very persuasively: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o... He agrees with the linked article that lifestyle f
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Every baby is different and every parent is different. Sleep training worked well for my family but that doesn't mean it's the right choice for yours.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I think you're right, "manipulative" has negative connotations that aren't appropriate in this context. When a baby is overcome with distress and cries instinctively I think it's important to always soothe them, whe
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I don't see this as paradoxical. For babies past a couple months old a lot of cries are actually manipulative, and a more empathetic person can better distinguish them. I think my wife and I started sleeping training our son at around
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Amazon had its ups and downs, but with them and Uber it was never a great intellectual leap to see how they could be very profitable. That's not at all the case for Google or Facebook. As late as 2002 Google itself wasn't convince
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Joel said from the beginning that their goal was to kill Experts Exchange, which at the time was a scammy site that used dark patterns to lure people into paying for answers, but still popped up all the time on Google. And although I often
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
> Is it fair to assume the most hedge funds are relatively good at tracking recent information and the value is in older archives that's hard to collect? No, like he said the most valuable data has a signal that is independent from
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education > "To separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to thei
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I don't have hard statistics, but there's a New Yorker article about survivors of Golden Gate Bridge suicide attempts that says many of them regret the attempt and don't try again. The people who survive jumping off a bridge
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
M is 1000 in Roman numerals. While it is uncommon, M is used to mean 1000 in business contexts, such as CPM: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cpm.asp Therefore "mm" is the most unambiguous way to den
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I don't totally agree with the article, but I think it's totally fine to give an ambiguous question in an interview, to see how the candidate handles it. Almost every real world project will involve ambiguous instructions. Obvious
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
Yes, and a lot of the best software writing I've ever seen was an advertisement for Fog Creek Software. Having an ulterior motive doesn't make this a bad article.
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
> Do you think that the "programming language" should sacrifice the usefulness of its syntax in order to appeal to beginners more? No. This has been tried a lot and has mostly failed. The notation can be a barrier but it isn&#x
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I don't like the term "programming language" and your comment illustrates why. We would expect that an aspiring architect needs to learn a little bit of notation, and a lot about the tradeoffs and constraints of making a buil
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by yellowstuff 6y ago
I don't think that line of thinking will get you very far. You can pick up the ball and run with it in American football but not soccer. You can insider trade in US commodity markets but not US equity markets. Spoofing is illegal in US
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It's complicated. The short version is that a Nash equilibrium exists for multiplayer games, so there is a GTO strategy for multiplayer poker, but it is not as useful in theory or practice if pots are frequently multiway post flop. Thi

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