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Your instinct is correct. Options markets are wide following an IPO (ie there is a significant difference between the price at which a dealer will sell a specific option at a speci…

Goldman took the same approach with instrument pricing ~30 years ago. I recall long discussions about "Node Purpling" in my ~13 year tenure there. Computer Science has evolved, and…

I was sad to see this, but a natural conclusion for a Google Product (whose history of non-search products is lamentable). Google Fiber / GFiber did a lot to both fulfill the promi…

If you are waiting until undergraduate level to take ethics, it's far too late to matter anyways. Doubly so for "business ethics" classes which became à la mode in the post-Enron e…

I moved to Asia from London / NY. I found this draconian policy jarring at first (never a drug user, but casual cocaine / pot use was everywhere in both London and NY, and the usua…

And of course, peculation means misappropriating or embezzling funds. Again, given crypto (and certain notorious crypto exchanges), even more appropriate.

A quick inspection of the article suggests there's a difference of intent. Datoviz is a relatively low-level visualization library. It focuses on rendering visual primitives like p…

I'm not sure how much that's creating outsized income for the founder... There are between 98 (2022 annual report number) and 120 (ZoomInfo) and 133 (LinkedIn number). German filin…

This is a really fun app. I took a painting class for a few years in an effort to exercise the other side of the brain - and this does what I failed to do with tens of hours of eff…

I liked the idea of tako - a slightly slimmed down, less clunky, version of Xonsh. However, it requires significant patching in order to work with modern python (I tried with 3.12,…

Brit / American checking in and agreeing. My first startup was a B2B SaaS and hiring in the UK was fantastic - the arbitrage was just silly. Experienced software developers (10+ ye…

A lot of discussion focuses on the supply side (not unexpected given the article). The demand side is where we can take individual / small group action. On the one hand, you have C…

BOFH is still a periodic fixture on TheRegister: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/

BTW - the fictitious calendar is very often used in bond repayments - e.g. https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/bond-payment-dates It has historically been used to allow for bonds…

Trivial pedantry - but the phrase is more commonly _requiescat in pace_ pacem would be the accusative[0] vs the ablative[1] - the difference being him being peaceful in rest, vs hi…

While I certainly don't encourage over-policing or the proliferation of "rules" - I subscribe to Churchill's view on regulations [0] - I'm not sure I can entirely fault the police …

Some questions come to mind after poking around the catalogue (having worked in an enterprise that ended up with many API catalogues, and now many APIs in startup land, I get the p…

I just read the article (shamefacedly seeking confirmation bias - I wanted to say "Oracle bad") - but I ended up agreeing with her main points: 1) most of the "third party security…

Depends on your definitions of cheap and large. Some banks are very good at FX in the 5,6,7 figure range. Others aren't. Fidelity, for example, charges no fee but a 1% spread, whic…

Using Linear on an 8 person team. Refugees from JIRA in the corporate world. Absolutely love it - keeps us on track across time zones. The one piece that's probably missing is a ti…

Excellent article - goes into some detail on the myth of oversubscription (well, inflation of reality)

Consider adding a Crossfilter or something similar that shows how many results exist in the criteria you are narrowing by. Eg: https://github.com/crossfilter/crossfilter For a work…

Why bother with the .99? Why not just charge €6 / €5 - the .99 gambit is, IMHO trivially deceptive and - speaking for myself - if I am presented two purchase / subscription choices…

I fly frequently from London to New York and San Francisco. The flights are quite fast - but here's the killer: in New York and San Francisco (and London if you aren't going near o…