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azmenthe

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    Comment #9219470

    Or C++ at any point in it's history. I guess it's the burden of being multi-paradigm. Edit: Looks like zak_mc_kracken beat me to it. Which I think just makes the point even more ob…

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    Comment #8789150

    I would like to read this book but the O'Reilly website eBook + Print combo deal is not available until next year.. Does anyone know how I can order both and get the early access e…

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    Comment #8700270

    That would be awesome, I'm using Scala and I would like to incorporate more scalaz into my programming but I have yet to find information convincing me how to go from math concept …

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    Comment #8700080

    I worked at a hedge fund at the start of my career, though it was somewhat atypical as it was a very new fund and had more of a startup environment than a well established hedge fu…

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    Comment #8698104

    I wanted to give some recommendations before I hijacked your thread with my own question but I was going to suggest What is Mathematics, How to Prove it and Naive Set Theory which …

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    Comment #8435022

    I would totally buy that book for my coffee table

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    Comment #8422116

    Is that the same method as fluorescent lighting?

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    Comment #8380950

    Does anyone else have an opinion on this book, I dismissed it at first but this has me reconsidering.

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    Comment #8308489

    For my high school's CS class final project, we made a street brawler using doom characters. All the doom art was captured via opening a game and using print screen, then hoping th…

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    Comment #8308451

    This is the link I bookmarked for later so not 100% sure it works: http://vlambeer.itch.io/gun-godz

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    Comment #8303362

    Wow I would love a Jane Street shirt

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    Comment #8264527

    Very cool, it would be nice if the animations looped though!

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    Comment #8244041

    Ah great, I uncommented the line but I didn't have the fonts installed.

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    Comment #8243593

    The (left,right)_seperators for me are | instead of the cool looking arrows. How do I enable these?

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    Comment #8180556

    Awesome project! Any timeline on vim support?

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    Comment #8120551

    Kixer - Austin, TX - Remote TL;DR: Mobile web ad platform optimized through machine learning and powered by Apache Scala Full Stack Engineer * Polyglots and generalists preferred *…

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    Comment #7971210

    I'm going to go way out on a limb here but also I would think that 4chan would be more likely to contain the type of smart person willing to put in many hours into a problem with v…

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    Comment #7963665

    Agreed, as someone who worked in HFT and thus has a positive bias towards it, I found Dark Pools to be an extremely informative and factual historical account of the industry even …

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    Comment #6930050

    Andddd... whoops.

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    Comment #6929741

    That's not really true per se. That's the chart of USD/BTC so the inverse of BTC/USD which has dropped significantly in the past few days so of course the inverse has shown an incr…

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    Comment #6884013

    Almost same exact story although I never got into Doom modding but did make my own games in high school because of doom. Actually reading "Masters of Doom" truly planted the seed f…

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    Comment #6879370

    I'm a bit late to the conversation but I agree with you and just wanted to add my quick two cents. I used to work in algorithmic trading (the kind which aims build consistent viabl…

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    Comment #6781462

    I haven't put up the source because it's pretty coupled with the hardware, that sign in particular is a BetaBrite. I used a Raspberry Pi and a ruby script to drive it. I was able t…

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    Comment #6776029

    Somewhat unrelated, but I made a bitcoin LED ticker, here's a link to an early testing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRIeb22QGI I later added some other price information…

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    Comment #6776009

    I completely agree with you. Playing with Mathematica in high school was the only reason I had any interest in math (ended up studying physics). I also agree FOSS is important but …