skywalk

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by skywalk 13y ago
Can we stop quoting the underlying notional size when comparing size to equity markets? If you know how a derivative works, it's well understood that quoting the notional to represent size just doesn't make sense. To put it simpler, a termi
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by skywalk 13y ago
Anyone notice how the main video on that page is almost exclusively women using the app? Guess that's linking in to the idea others have quoted here about the attractiveness factor of the photos in question.
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by skywalk 14y ago
classic double irish setup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish
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by skywalk 14y ago
It's interesting to think about how underutilized some of that knowledge actually is in the broad scheme of things - for instance, how popular is reading the classics of literature, versus the latest novella of the day? Changes in technolog
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by skywalk 14y ago
According to the page, it's neither a framework, nor a library - isn't that a bit counterintuitive? That makes it sounds as if it is beyond any of the existing styles of code reuse in software development, which is not the case. I'm sure ma
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by skywalk 14y ago
Yep that's what I was getting at - still not comfortable relying on an external service for email.
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by skywalk 14y ago
Like the UI of your product alot - I take it there isn't a way to get the frontend without hooking up to your backend (e.g. simple IMAP setup?) What is your business model for it? Since it's free, are you parsing all the mail and providing
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by skywalk 14y ago
How can one say: And not a single one of these game is using that "Component Entity System". That seems like an impossible statement without deep knowledge of the inner workings of the popular games you are referring to, which you certai
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by skywalk 14y ago
If you were planning to write a high performance game using python, most likely you wouldn't be using the vanilla cpython interpreter, but instead using cython ( http://cython.org/ ) to write extensions in essentially C for all your high pe
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by skywalk 14y ago
"Bigness" matters because only a few of the large banks are primary dealers [1] - they directly play a role in US treasury auctions. All the other investment banks that aren't primary dealers only play a part in the secondary market. Part
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by skywalk 14y ago
It's funny how this ended up on here - this article about "nail houses" was recently posted today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915398 The magic roundabout is mentioned in another posting on that same site: http://www.theworldgeo
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by skywalk 14y ago
After becoming somewhat disappointed with silverlight running in a win VM on linux (constant crashes, no reporting, buggy video driver usage) and being pleasantly surprised by the ease of running netflix desktop ( http://www.compholio.com/n
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by skywalk 14y ago
That goes against many recommendations I've read about refactoring and writing cleaner code: "Good code invariably has small methods and small objects. I get lots of resistance to this idea, especially from experienced developers, but no on
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by skywalk 14y ago
Highly suggested essay regarding food automation in the future: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
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by skywalk 14y ago
Most are setup to use a double irish scheme, and usually throw in the dutch sandwich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_sandwich
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So you want to be an artist...(ft.com)
2 points by skywalk 14y ago|0 comments
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by skywalk 14y ago
Unless the original filer happened to be your grandfather
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by skywalk 14y ago
This app goes a bit further: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y... (and clearly had more funding) - more applicable to the scientist than the casual user playing around with an app on their ipad