pantaloons

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by pantaloons 5y ago
I worked on Windows back in 2014, probably the most surprising thing joining there out of college was looking through the bug database. Every issue that gets complained about online -- and many more -- are in there, and have been for a long
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by pantaloons 6y ago
I work for a large wholesaler and wrote the code that handles client GTC orders for on behalf of pretty much every brokerage in the US. Whatever your experience is, it's no longer correct. NASDAQ stopped accepting GTC orders in 2015, b
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by pantaloons 6y ago
A confusing and incorrect comment all around. Exchanges do not receive or handle GTC or GTD orders, see for example the NYSE pillar spec.[1] Broker-dealers handle stock splits and the behavior varies according to your broker. Some brokers w
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by pantaloons 6y ago
The fund would not have such a simple construction - but you can build a simple tail risk strategy with options. Buy deeply out of the money puts on SPX and periodically roll them. You are now betting on a tail risk wiping out the market (a
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by pantaloons 7y ago
In your written testimony, the goals for privacy regulation seem quite watered down from past proposals of yours like prohibiting behavioral ad targeting, or eliminating data brokers altogether. Does this represent a shift in what you think
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by pantaloons 7y ago
Of course, if this technology was able to price securities better than the market (the fundamental job of almost every market participant), it would be printing money and they would not release it. This is not the secret sauce, but probably
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by pantaloons 8y ago
It's very disappointing. I wrote a fun app for my friends which would find the nearest bar serving picklebacks in New York City on top of Foursquare. These API changes effectively killed it. This is the same company that regularly host
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by pantaloons 8y ago
The only viable solution is #4. So long as Facebook can make money by targeting specific groups or behavioral features, their algorithms and advertisers will find facsimiles for protected groups, the vulnerable, children, or Nazis since thi
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by pantaloons 8y ago
This is largely due to Amazon stock appreciation. Amazon does not pay senior engineers $400K, let alone $500K. In FAANG, a typical non-promotion raise is 5-8%. The author could probably have been a bit more specific and noted that his incom
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by pantaloons 8y ago
This is standard practice, the system compositor has a fast path for video decoding and rendering. The fast path will not be taken when software composition is needed (eg, something is overlaid or blended). If you’re asking why they didn’t
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by pantaloons 8y ago
I graduated six years ago, have worked at Microsoft and Dropbox, and anecdotally around a quarter of my friends at either of them wouldn't work at Facebook now. Parent comment is not obviously wrong, and you shouldn't assume bad f
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by pantaloons 8y ago
The company will be put into receivership when it can no longer meet capital requirements imposed by regulators, this may not be a company breaking event - the receivership proceedings will determine if the insured and creditors are best se
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by pantaloons 10y ago
The Windows runtime is backwards compatible, so there are no breaking changes in WinMD files. You should be able to just generate a module for the latest available version of Windows.WinMD. Attempting to call functions which don't exis
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by pantaloons 10y ago
Split the transaction in YNAB, send your part to the correct category "Dining", and itemize owed amounts per person into another category "Loaned Money". It's easy to track if "Loaned Money" has a positive
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by pantaloons 12y ago
If reminding customers that they are actually making recurring payments to a company causes that company to go out of business, I don't think we need to shed any tears.
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by pantaloons 12y ago
No MDIL. NGEN can still JIT for things like cross domain generics and because it loads non-native code, still needs to optimize at run time. Project N compiles to fully native code, so there can be no JIT, and significantly smarter optimiza
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by pantaloons 13y ago
You earned the right to not be spied on? What, specifically, did you do that exclusively grants you that privilege?
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by pantaloons 13y ago
For one, you're criticizing a web API here and not the C# language-- and you've failed to even do that convincingly since it's an intentionally verbose example using an outdated API. res.Text = (await new HtppClient().GetStringAsync(url.Tex
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by pantaloons 13y ago
The use of McDonalds as idiomatic low quality trash is questionable too, I've found McDonalds in Australia and New Zealand is significantly higher quality than in the US. While it's still not a luxury brand by any means the restaurants do h
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by pantaloons 13y ago
But A and C can still collude against B, no?
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by pantaloons 14y ago
What is your platform?
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by pantaloons 14y ago
Do you happen to have a link? I would be interested in reading that paper.
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by pantaloons 14y ago
What makes you include GMail in that list? It has, by all measures, failed to move up the value chain, its revenue is completely eclipsed by that of Exchange. (Disclaimer: I work at MS.)
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by pantaloons 14y ago
The main point is that it is decentralized and (ostensibly, with enough care) anonymous. This makes it ideal for illegal transactions (drugs, gambling, weapons, contract killing, child pornography). These being incredibly inelastic goods, p
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by pantaloons 14y ago
I can't dig up a source, but Blizzard representatives have confirmed in the past that they hired economists to work on Diablo III -- this isn't something unique to Valve.
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by pantaloons 14y ago
As an Australian CS graduate, the best offer I got from an Australian company was less than half the worst BigCo offer in the states. Google might hem and haw about "Australia's future prosperity", but their motives should be clear. More gr
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by pantaloons 14y ago
Looks like there are permissions problems when emailing botrace@scribd.com
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by pantaloons 14y ago
What are the grid-size and fruit-count limits like on the server -- the same as in the standalone client?
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by pantaloons 14y ago
In fact Microsoft has in some cases gone to great pains to avoid introducing features for which independent ecosystems already exist.
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by pantaloons 14y ago
Because consumers do not have choice, the person ensuring that the service is free and universal does. It is by definition not a free market. I didn't indicate that I think any should be free. I think education should be universally accessi

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