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by chuckcode 11y ago
Both the article and the original "flash boys" book make a compelling case about how HFT can in some cases be used to virtually front run orders. I personally don't understand the system enough to prove or disprove those clai
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Title is a little misleading. The article is seeking to refute a letter from Citadel opposing the establishment of IEX ('Flash Boys' exchange) on the grounds that it is not as efficient for the smaller retail investor. Article exp
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I think you're absolutely correct that Google Glass users taking lots of unwanted and unnoticed pictures wasn't a big issue. I do think that most people won't understand those nuances and just don't like having a camera
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by chuckcode 11y ago
It seemed to me like it was the camera that provoked a backlash from general public. People still like to know when they are being photographed or in a video and I'm not sure putting a light on it is going to solve that. Wish Google wo
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Completely agree! I think it is ridiculous that financial institutions don't have a read only password for sharing with accountants, tax advisers and other programs.
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that dynamic linking doesn't get you around having to use a GPL compatible license if you link to the library [1][2] and distribute your code to others. That is why GNU releases the standar
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by chuckcode 11y ago
And at least a couple months ago you couldn't cancel subscription online. I had to call them to cancel and go through multiple rounds of "yes I really want to cancel"...
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Having kids and generally rising US prices for housing, energy, childcare, school and health care certainly make it feel like I need to work. Certainly didn't feel as important before having a family. Kind of ironic as you have to work
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by chuckcode 11y ago
If you don't like that tone, definitely don't watch the video as it has zero details and is all jargon about "teams working smarter" without so much as a screenshot or product details. I can see how the whimsical tone mi
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I've gotten a lot of use and a lot of value out of Asana and much appreciate all the great work they have put into the product. I'm liking the new UI and love that they kept the celebration unicorn in the updated version (under my
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by chuckcode 11y ago
All it takes is a billionaire genius with twin kids and a car company to finally engineer a real solution to the hassle of having room to put kids in the car seats. I sure hope some of these ideas come in a slightly more affordable version.
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Would be interested to see some comparison with the Android app which seems to have most of the same functionality at 1/4 the size with 25MB [1] compared to the 100MB of iOS. Seems like either iOS team at FB has significant cruft layin
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by chuckcode 11y ago
> It's just come down to not trusting myself, so I try to make it so I don't have to. Very wise words in my experience. I think of it more as understanding yourself and setting yourself up for success. Make it hard to do the th
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Can definitely see how different parts of the company operate differently but no paternity leave an minimal maternity leave speaks a lot to the general philosophy of the overall company.
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I would love to see better tools to help people collaborate remotely, or even just from a different building on the same campus. Certainly the rise of applications like slack and github show that the demand is there. Personally I'm sur
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Like this list, very practical and pragmatic. Although normally reddit is not a place to go for increased productivity I thought PeaceH's guide for disciplined[1] was very helpful and provided a useful framework. - Action: Get stuff do
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Perhaps I'm mistaken in my reading of the article but the quotes below set a tone for me of an organization that was succeeding where it shouldn't have instead of an organization with huge financial backing delivering products tha
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Awesome, now I understand why there are two different HBO apps and why HBO Now is a little clunky. Little confused about how the article is spinning BAM as a plucky underdog. They got $77 million dollars from Major League Owners, demanded a
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Certainly everyone has the responsibility to make sure that they like the deal they entered into and ask for more compensation when appropriate. I think that good management realizes that things will end badly for them if they don't co
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by chuckcode 11y ago
True in my experience that managing developers paid better and had other perks like more equity and some control over priorities and projects that was nice. Technical or pure software companies seem to do a better job of valuing engineering
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I wonder how many journalists are employed by news organizations compared to fact checkers. Seems to me like the main thing keeping journalist's facts correct is not wanting to lose their reputation points.
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by chuckcode 11y ago
gperftools also uses libunwind and does some nice timing and performance analysis for cpu and heap. https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Seems like better representation could save a few orders of magnitude in data size. Humans only differ at about 1/1000 nucleotides so storing just differences rather than all genomic positions should greatly alleviate the issue. In the
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Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?(journals.plos.org)
24 points by chuckcode 11y ago|16 comments
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by chuckcode 11y ago
qwerty keyboard is my favorite example. Designed to solve the key sticking problem when typing too fast but now we're all stuck with a layout designed to be inefficient. https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/dvorak-vs-qw
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by chuckcode 11y ago
I'm all for a replacement for BAM file format and the quality scores. Ideally something that supports delta based encoding to a reference genome similar to CRAM and something that more compactly represents quality of bases sequenced. I
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Thanks! That looks very interesting, will definitely try it out!
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Pretty amazing work to put this all together in perl! My only worry is commandment #45 as a lot of the perl I've seen is mostly regular expressions. Thou Shalt Not: 45. Use Regular Expressions, Smart Match, q Quoting Mechanisms, Unic
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Ideally something c/c++ and liberal license. I'll take a look at ceres-solver to see how it works. Like that it is using Eigen under the hood to get benefit of SSE instructions.
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by chuckcode 11y ago
Anybody familiar with this know if it has a good implementation of Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm? Or know of one somewhere else? I can't find anything in their docs about non-linear function solving which seems like something google mu

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