devingoldfish

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by devingoldfish 4y ago
> You should validate that the request is signed correctly I agree with you here, but wondering what you see the benefit of per-app PKI is, versus signing all webhooks with the same cert. Is it to prevent having to do a key rotation that
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by devingoldfish 5y ago
> Hasn't this pandemic pretty well proved that when people aren't at the office they want a little more space? Yea, and they want a pool and a free pony too. Given that people can't all get the housing they want, how do we
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by devingoldfish 8y ago
Hey man, as someone who also formerly worked in a different industry, thank you for raising this question. The longer I'm in software development (six years now) the more confident I am that all the varying rationalizations for this st
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by devingoldfish 9y ago
The claim that "we get our money from our customers" is, on its face, wrong. Of course we're paid by the company, not the customer. The simple truth this article misses is that your wage is simply the price of your labor, and
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by devingoldfish 9y ago
Just took another look and the data in the article is seasonally adjusted.
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by devingoldfish 9y ago
From the article: the worst two-month stretch of job losses since the Great Recession.
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by devingoldfish 10y ago
Came here to say the Technics 1200 turntable. Everything you need in a turntable and nothing you don't: pitch adjustment, 45rpm adapter, 33/45rpm speed buttons, and a light. The few controls it has are all intuitive and the qualit
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by devingoldfish 11y ago
From the article: "New high-end cars are among the most sophisticated machines on the planet, containing 100 million or more lines of code." Does anyone know where this number comes from and if its realistic? It's hard for m
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot Under the Hood(nytimes.com)
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by devingoldfish 12y ago
Ah so in your view, why was the order flow of retail brokerages worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year to these HFT firms? Michael Lewis is not the only person accusing HFT firms of front-running trades. Joseph Stiglitz, a nobel lau
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by devingoldfish 12y ago
The book explains that one company was running their own fiber optic cable between Chicago and New York to shave a handful of milliseconds off the latency. HFT firms also built their trading desks as close as possible to where the fiber te
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by devingoldfish 12y ago
Good catch, thanks for pointing it out.
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by devingoldfish 13y ago
> is it their responsibility to make sure he gets a sufficient amount of sleep? No, its their responsibility to foster a workplace that doesn't lead people to die from overwork. Everybody else already does this.
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by devingoldfish 13y ago
> ...some courts in the SF area to make you pay the ticket before you can contest it (read this somewhere, not sure 100% on truthfulness of it) Yea, that's false.
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by devingoldfish 13y ago
> If everyone called it in, there would be a lot of unhappy people holding paper instead of metal. This actually isn't true. All the physical ETFs claiming to be holding physical gold do actually hold gold for each individual share
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by devingoldfish 13y ago
This whole comment comes off as a sociopathic and mildly paranoid screed. The idea that software is an extremely anti-intellectual industry is remarkably out of touch. The numbers you throw around (95+ percent of all people, "cognitive 1-pe
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by devingoldfish 13y ago
For those interested in more about the algorithm, one of the guys who created Shazam released a whitepaper on it. http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
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by devingoldfish 14y ago
Presumably share volume, though I'm not sure what the multiplier is (my guess would be 1000x).