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by zimablue 9y ago
The reason why this is interesting to me, game of life is like my mental shortcut to the idea that there are simple rules that lead to computations that can't be effectively shortcut. Turns out that this one can, kinda.
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by zimablue 9y ago
Second this, this is one of the best coding books I've read. edit: it also gives a lot of similar advice to the article, big-bang rewrites often impossible, drawing a line somewhere in the application to do input-output diffing tests w
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by zimablue 9y ago
I think the standard counterargument is that if unit testing is ubiquitous, we're already admitting static analysis is at best very incomplete.
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by zimablue 9y ago
I don't think that the statement Hedge fund returns average the same as passive equity Implies that you should never invest in a hedge fund, because it's possible that they have individual characteristics which mean that they&#x27
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by zimablue 9y ago
The big man was maths and engineering. Others I dunno, they're normally pretty sharp and focused and good looking ( I guess it's intrinsically client facing)
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by zimablue 9y ago
I work at a hedge fund (as a dev for an average Dev salary). The pay for head manager seems roughly right, and we're 1bn between about five-ten analysts with one making most of the calls. ( I give a range because some are kind of apart
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by zimablue 9y ago
I can think of a couple of reasons: safety, attr access by .<thing> means you knew what you wanted at write-time, so it's reasonable to assume that you're gonna want to know if it doesn't exist, and not just want to
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by zimablue 10y ago
I'm not sure that's true, there are plenty of "value" firms who invest based on dividends not growth. Maybe there's a skew but there's an underlying rationality to investors where ultimately you add up the mone
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by zimablue 10y ago
As someone who's written in a few languages and is now learning/writing Python full time, "pythonic" is starting to cause me a twitch of pain every time I read it. It seems to imply the Python has the final solution in h
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by zimablue 10y ago
In the UK at least, flexible time and place of work (as well as use of company equipment to do your work) are considerations when considering whether you can be classed as self employed. Re the base comment, it's almost not worth reply
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by zimablue 10y ago
Brexit is arguably much more destructive to Britain than Isis to the US. In the absence of major casualties economic impact is relevant. It wiped 10% of the pound's value out and there will be more impact before we're done. The da
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by zimablue 10y ago
I don't drive- I had lessons and didn't find parking noticeably difficult, but was learning in a normal-sized car.
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by zimablue 10y ago
The only thing I can contribute to this is my experience of one-eyedness. I think people are probably more afraid of it than they should be, having had eyesight in two eyes till I was early twenties I can remember the difference. In terms o
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by zimablue 10y ago
I don't know enough to justify my opinion but I really really don't get REST. Having recently had to learn a lot of web stack in a short time REST was one of the most confusing parts, and I think it's because it intrinsically
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by zimablue 10y ago
1. look at data 2. form hypothesis with associated way of testing it (demonstrating it false) 3. perform tests, see if hypothesis stands up The argument I guess is whether in this example, the "finding evidence" stage would ever h
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by zimablue 10y ago
This is hyperbole, I've worked on dev side in finance a while now and bloomberg data is often unreliable, everywhere I've worked people have built layers on top of it, checking vs other sources and fat fingers. Also I'm actua
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by zimablue 10y ago
How does this stack up against Ag-grid? The former is very strong in features from some experience using.
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by zimablue 10y ago
Disintermediation itself isn't tied to the creation of an underclass, rapid technological innovation destroying jobs might be but that's something we need to solve with welfare (and Americans are really going to have to get over t
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by zimablue 10y ago
This is really cool, I gave up on Clojurescript partly because the weight of tooling combined with everything being bleeding edge when I didn't even understand Javascript tooling buried me at the time.
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by zimablue 10y ago
It's closed source?