whyme

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by whyme 12y ago
I haven't read the book, but I've followed the chatter and have been listening to Lewis on Bloomberg. I get the impression that many justify HFT by comparing current or past alternatives, however his argument is that HFT is corrup
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by whyme 12y ago
I think you missed the "we" part.
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by whyme 12y ago
It's sad that I as a retail investor need to spend my valuable time focusing on how not to get screwed by the exchanges that have introduced a side business which does not serve the functioning of the market and instead corrupts it.
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by whyme 12y ago
This may appear spammy, but I found Kepner Trego training[1] to really help prevent this kind of stuff from happening. The strategy is more effective when everybody in the room has had the training, which limits its usefulness with external
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Common ways criminals launder money... A few mouse clicks away(bloomberg.com)
2 points by whyme 12y ago|0 comments
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by whyme 12y ago
So you think BA's can not learn, even through experience, what can or can not be done? Sure, there's always somebody else, same role or not, who has more expertise, but don't confuse role/title for expertise. I've s
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by whyme 12y ago
> However, this is illustrating a particular problem that only affects engineers -- engineers are the ones at the end of the day who have to make a solution reality. This is simply not true. In the past I was a Business Analyst. I woul
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by whyme 12y ago
I subscribe to the minimalism approach. i.e. I do my best to improve the signal to noise ratio (which is inline with the authors goal). Also, in many cases, having a both the unit test and the comment is a redundancy.
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by whyme 12y ago
I'll suggest there's a missing ingredient here...I found I was able to eliminate many of my comments by asking myself if that someone whom might read my code would be better served with a unit test instead. I also found, however,
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by whyme 12y ago
And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7497688 For the OP: maybe log this as a poll?
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by whyme 12y ago
Here's a wasteful comment as my test...I might delete it. If you see this can you add a reply. Only if not already done. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Is this the way to replicate a bug on HN?
1 points by whyme 12y ago|2 comments
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by whyme 12y ago
yeah, i should have said in high quantities, but I was just paraphrasing the video. The point was, in the video, he did not say it was just fructose, glucose can also be a problem.
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by whyme 12y ago
I'm pretty sure, in that video, the argument was that while glucose is still really bad for you, fructose[1] is much, much worse - it's a poison that's causing an epidemic. 1. And specifically the manufactured fructose isolat
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by whyme 12y ago
Ever seen those web adverts that list a few generic health problems and ask you to 'click here', or read a horoscope that makes claims almost anyone can relate to? So how is this different? Why so many upvotes...really, this is ju
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by whyme 12y ago
I wouldn't discuss with the Microsoft rep. This is a decision your school needs to make. You could politely decline to participate and provide your reasons for doing so. If your department feels strongly enough about it then let one of
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by whyme 12y ago
Unfortunately, things like this are more damaging overall. i.e. Even if you succeed and get some more women involved, you will have also created resentment from men whom are not given equal opportunity, which then can lead to women not bei
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Amazon event announcement likely for new set-top box(theverge.com)
2 points by whyme 12y ago|0 comments
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by whyme 12y ago
For those who don't know HN has a RSS link. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss I downloaded a rss reader app then put in the main HN link, but the app rejected it. The RSS link worked. This may seem obvious to some, but
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HackerNews RSS(news.ycombinator.com)
1 points by whyme 12y ago|1 comments
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by whyme 12y ago
As I said, I'm all for having a great framework.
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by whyme 12y ago
When I make mistakes, which I often do, I don't go around thinking oh, darn, they should have known that for me. That goes for using a bad framework or lack thereof. As I said, I'm all for having a great framework, but I would not
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by whyme 12y ago
> The argument here is "build a clojure framework lots of people use. The argument I am addressing is that people are deploying products with poor security because a great, all encompassing, framework does not exist. There's n
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by whyme 12y ago
> This is a standard developer response vs. a what? I've worn many hats in my day, the least of which has been a developer hat. There's equal risk in relying on a code base incorporating features with underlying concepts that y
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by whyme 12y ago
I've spent the last 3 years developing in Clojure and found I was quite happy not having an all encompassing framework. It forced me to learn all these issues and understand them well enough to be able to customize each and align them
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by whyme 12y ago
To me this is like posting my password on the wall so that I don't forget.
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by whyme 12y ago
I turned the data plan off on my smartphone about 1 month after I bought my first tablet. What sucks is finding a phone, in today's market, having a decent screen plus keyboard for texting. It's looking like Im going to have to bu
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Veterans theory on missing MH370 goes viral(philly.com)
17 points by whyme 12y ago|4 comments
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by whyme 12y ago
I don't see the how part as something worth getting into. It's also dependant on the technological advancements and makeup of society at the time change starts to happen. It took centuries for the monetary systems to develop wit
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by whyme 12y ago
How is not relevant. What's relevant is that society has to change to the point where it becomes possible and also a priority. I do believe, unfortunately[1], that the money system has to collapse first. 1. unfortunately in the sense t

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