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by zallarak 14y ago
Wow - imagine scaling to 60 million on AWS/someone else. Doable, but would be a non-trivial engineering challenge.
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by zallarak 14y ago
One shouldn't place so much of their identity/desires on getting into a school; if you want to learn, knowledge is always there.
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by zallarak 14y ago
Wow, that is disappointing. I had higher hopes for MIT.
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by zallarak 14y ago
If you were in the bay I'd definitely ask you to coffee / be intrigued to hear of your experiences. Congrats, that is so legit!
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by zallarak 14y ago
This article may be of interest to you; "Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage" by David Foster Wallace: http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html . The relevant argument is that general consensus and what people a
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by zallarak 14y ago
This is awesome! Thanks for putting it together.
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by zallarak 14y ago
This is a bit more pragmatic and short-sighted, but learn a good text editor (Vim, Emacs, there are others too) and type [relatively] fast.
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by zallarak 14y ago
Very cool post. The code samples really make me want to try out Go when I get some time to do so. Thanks.
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by zallarak 14y ago
This is awesome. Cannot wait to start using it.
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by zallarak 14y ago
In a time when I didn't really know what to study/learn, MIT OCW gave me a huge repository of credible and well-structured information. The SICP and intro to algorithms/data structures lectures were among the coolest introduction to compute
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by zallarak 14y ago
Germany is killing it. Their economy is roaring, they've set very strong renewable energy goals and are acting on them, and to top it all off, they protect their civil liberties and are a relatively benevolent nation.
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by zallarak 14y ago
It seems to be that America is slowly becoming less free; considering factors such as Obama's domestic assassination program, federal wiretapping and more. As an American, I still acknowledge we live in among the freer societies of the worl
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by zallarak 14y ago
After hours trading statistics shouldn't be taken too seriously, because there are far less traders resulting in less liquidity/larger spreads. For all we know, the -40% quote was triggered by a single trade [perhaps a panicked investor agr
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by zallarak 14y ago
Another interesting thing to note about profit coming from bankruptcy is the Legal and Banking/Restructuring fees. The restructuring advisors both on the legal and financial side get massive fees from bankruptcy advising (negotiating debt s
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by zallarak 14y ago
My situation was a little different as I got serious about programming when I was 23, a year ago. The first real book I read was SICP (I had done learn python the hard way by Zed Shaw right before that, but it's more a set of exercises than
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by zallarak 14y ago
Seems like this should be the default; that publicly funded research is free for the public.
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by zallarak 14y ago
I recall using HelloFax to sign and fax legal/tax forms, an upgrade from having to do it physically. This takes it to a new level of convenience; now one may apparently sign/fax docs, clicking right through docs stored on Google's cloud, wh
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by zallarak 15y ago
This is a ridiculously misleading post, cannot believe its on the front page. The NYT is worth approximately $1.5B. It's market cap is $928MM, its debt is $773MM and cash is $175MM. Enterprise value = Debt + Equity - Cash, so that puts it a
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by zallarak 15y ago
There's also a lot of evidence that bringing in more women into any group increases its performance [for example: http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea... ]. EDIT: MaxGabriel pointed out this article claims more wome
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Evolution of the mind; HN: What do you think of this?(ee.uwa.edu.au)
1 points by zallarak 15y ago|0 comments
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by zallarak 15y ago
My brother, who is studying in medical school right now pointed this out to me: "the whole time i was reading this though, i was bothered by what usually bothers me about studies regarding the mechanics of the brain, which is that we dont k
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by zallarak 15y ago
Traffic has gradually declined, as I haven't put any work into it for quite a while. Also, I'm not interested in it. I mainly made the guides and website as a learning experience to begin with.
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Free Organic Chemistry Study Guide [from an old project]
8 points by zallarak 15y ago|3 comments
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HN [bay area]: I want to trade my finance knowledge for some html/css expertise
4 points by zallarak 15y ago|0 comments
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by zallarak 15y ago
This is excellent, why should a convention be preserved solely for the reason that some want to continue to extract profit? It's like having a great new technology that cures everything, but physicians opposing it because it endangers their
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by zallarak 15y ago
I love this. This not only speaks to their values, but to their long-term vision. Lots of companies speaking out against SOPA/PIPA would potentially be threatened by the bill, I doubt HelloFax would operationally [I may be ignorant though]
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by zallarak 15y ago
Yep, but proportionally the amount is trivial.
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by zallarak 15y ago
If you want an easier/more clear guide that the one linked, follow their first-time use tutorial. Learning how it works is as simple as installing it and running their tutorial; it wouldn't take you more than 15 minutes. Again, as a beginne
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by zallarak 15y ago
If the markets [or the managers] performed better, a higher proportion of investment gains would go to the investor. As mentioned in this thread, fund managers are compensated based on a % of AUM and a % of profit, such as 2% and 20%. When
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Ask HN: Know of any good web-based email alternatives [to gmail]?
6 points by zallarak 15y ago|7 comments

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