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by chrisduesing 11y ago
Isn't donating money to someone wanted by the state a crime? He might be hiding out in Russia, but I'm not...
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
Considering the CFTC didn't regulate Bitcoin until today I wouldn't think so. Their application would have been received with a polite "save yourself some time and money, we don't regulate that" I imagine. Unless so
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
This is an interesting development. Typically commodities futures and options contracts can only be traded on a DCM (designated contract market) like ICE or CME. After leaving once DCM, the Chicago Climate Exchange, I started an exchange as
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
Generative Art, a Practical Guide Using Processing by Matt Pearson, and Learning Three.js, The JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL by Jos Dirksen
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
The document includes a 1x preference, anti-dilution, board seat, etc. Aren't those fundamentally the things that make their shares different than common? Can you disentangle the name 'preferred' from the added rights over co
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
That is code for "wow, this is way more work than I thought it was going to be."
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
> A Car Guy's right hand man An article, 4 nouns and an adjective. This isn't parseable without 3 or 4 passes. The idea is spot on, it's short and simple, but improve the English to make a reader's life easier. You ha
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
Educational and entertaining as always Evan, I would love to see a similar writeup on Elixir. Maybe a Chicago Boss port is in order ;)
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by chrisduesing 11y ago
I started about 1.5 years ago and it has been great. Strength training + cardio, planned by someone else, on a schedule, guided by a coach, with peers that encourage and motivate you. It pretty much addresses all of the psychological reason
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
We're a marketplace that uses Balanced's ACH + escrow for moving money between buyers and sellers. I am glad to hear you will be supporting this on Stripe, but since I only have 90 days to migrate when will api/ruby support b
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Yes. Of course I wouldn't characterize it as blindly following so much as being able to rationally step back with some perspective and identify some trends as positive. Lisps are a beautiful and powerful family of languages, but you ar
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
> You know the term REPL, right? Yes, and notice how it doesn't stand for Rrepl-Evl-Princ Loop. > There is a good rationale behind those names. No, there is a good rationale for having separate functions, there is no logical rati
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
So in 2020 people will have forgotten the etymology of print or format, rendering them nearly meaningless while princ, car and cdr endure? That's rhetorical, you don't need to reply.
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
No one is arguing that CL sucks, but that if you are going to re-skin the whole thing with learnings from modern languages, with features like string interpolation, then you might as well make the function names more intuitive while you are
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
I do. There is a reason for the success of Ruby and Python, and why Elixir is dragging Erlang in to the present. It turns out you don't just have to write your language in the shape of the machine/vm but it can be a tool conformed
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Mercaris, data and trading for Organic agriculture, based out of 1871, founders are grads of Excelerate (now Techstars Chicago), recently closed a Series A, hiring/growing.
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
How are all writes immediately consistent? What if two clients make simultaneous writes to each shard? Or more extreme, what if there is a net split and writes continue on both shards? I suppose I could just ask if you have an architecture
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
As I mentioned the code that writes the event to the db notifies the client about it, so it knows about the client. This isn't really an issue. In the case of an exchange I never split a single order book across multiple servers, but I
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
So obviously that would be application specific. In the case of an exchange when a client connects they get a snapshot of the whole market and then begin receiving streaming updates that took place after that. I generally prefer ascending e
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Looking at the docs it doesn't appear this is meant to stream to the client, but to the server. From there you would still need to manage queues and sockets, etc.. I've had to write several exchanges that do something along these
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
"This means that somewhere, this instance needs to be connected to a proxy server, which assigns a 10.x.x.x address to the “Windows” machine, and then forwards the connections through. Basically, world’s weirdest, most hipster ISP on t
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
It's not power, it's credibility. If someone who has never done anything says they are going to accomplish something large people are skeptical. If someone who already created a successful and highly adopted programming language s
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
I am trying to hire Rails programmers and everyone I talk to from other founders to recruiters to lead devs all report the same problem: too many Rails jobs way too few available programmers. Unfortunately I am not looking for remote worker
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
There are a lot of non-Apple products. I recall seeing things like printers buried in the old design, but I assume drones are new? I am curious how people will feel about the perceived dilution of the brand vs. knowing their audience and cu
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Does this imply we are headed towards a future where there isn't a 10x difference between the best programmers and the worst? Where someone comes up with repeatable training that can help programmers advance throughout their career?
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
50mm is an aberration, it is the only glass you can get <f/1.8 affordably (35mm are ok in this regard as well). Go check out the price of a <=f/2 100m+, which is much more suited to portrait, macro, etc. Then go look at <
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
This is why people are willing to spend so much more on glass than camera bodies. The glass will continue to work forever, and depreciate very little relative to the camera which, like every gadget, will be "worthless" in 4 years.
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Take a look at the Sony A7S, it's dynamic range and low light performance are quite impressive. Reviewers seem impressed with it's video capabilities as well, though I only shoot stills.
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
Senior RoR Developer - Mercaris - Chicago, IL Mercaris provides data reports and auctions for Organic and non-GMO crops to help farmers, food manufacturers and retailers bring healthier products to market and meet skyrocketing consumer dema
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by chrisduesing 12y ago
I won't get in to fundraising in Chicago in a public forum, but you aren't hearing me argue. That said, fundraising typically only requires a warm intro. Techstars alums can get to pretty much anyone in the country. Our fundraisin

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