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Dilpil

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About Dilpil

Math/Computer science student at University of Pittsbugh. Soon to be working at one of those dastardly high frequency trading firms. Lover of all things mathy and puzzly.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #2619507

    The higher your bid the better. Your $100 an hour rate is your premium branding.

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    Comment #2523119

    Wait a minute- DHS? As in, department of homeland security? Why are they involved in this even?

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    Comment #2479408

    There are quite a few games I wouldn't mind seeing my kid get hooked on. If raising a chess champion is a good thing, I can't imagine that raising a starcraft champion is a bad thi…

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    Comment #2473412

    Alot of people probably look for Random but find Math.random().

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    Comment #2441885

    salesman => college student => software engineer

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    Comment #2439491

    So given all the negative reviews of this so far- why isnt there a good C++ repl? Surely there is a huge demand.

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    Comment #2430653

    I might add: especially to entry level jobs. These jobs are hard to judge candidates for- you can't evaluate their past work, you have to evaluate their potential for future work.

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    Comment #2427374

    This is what happens when your approach to system design revolves around whacking out the latest bugs with quick fixes rather than creating something logical and consistent. How ma…

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    Comment #2373363

    If investment banking is so needless, why did the economy falter when lehmen brothers went bankrupt? If high frequency trading is so needless, why does the entire market go into sh…

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    Comment #2371354

    Id be very surprised if more than 100 of those employees were involved in this decision.

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    Comment #2368189

    I would pitch it to the adult industry as follows: If someone is surfing from behind a content filter, they are either a child without a credit card, or in an area where sex is so …

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    Comment #2330204

    Aye, me as well. And later written my fair share of them when the going got rough.

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    Comment #2281684

    Decent graphics are murder for adventure games. With some of the oldest adventure games, there were only a few places you could plausibly click on and see a result. Hunting for the…

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    Comment #2273941

    A better challenge would have been "a million dollars to the first person that points out a contradiction in my viewpoints".

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    Comment #2266758

    Horrid sound glitches on mozilla in windows 7 as well.

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    Comment #2264690

    Heres how people actually use this application. You get crushed. Now you crush everyone you know of the opposite gender to figure out who it was. You then email the person who crus…

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    Comment #2224672

    The reason film and music operate like this is because consumers have loyalty to individual actors and musicians. It is also very hard to imitate having a specific actor in your mo…

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    Ask HN:What Web Stack?

    If you were going to found a web based start-up tomorrow, what stack would you develop in? I hear alot of discussion here and there of various web stacks on HN, but I haven't ever …

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    Comment #2173231

    OP is not owner of OKCupid, post is satire.

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    Comment #2164222

    My favorite: "Whats yours?"

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    Comment #2154596

    I'm not sure about that- unlike social network data, there isn't a publicly availible dataset containing the names of all the people in here which could be used to de-anonymize thi…

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    Comment #2146448

    Before taxes, no non monetary benefits. Not a perfect measurement, but it is the standard.

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    Comment #2145682

    High frequency trading

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    Comment #2141642

    Below industry average? Do elaborate.