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it's actually pretty funny since opus will suggest both of these with enough prying (though with a single-prompt it might not try it).

Assuming your result set isn’t massive, it’s not very hard to have a 30-40 line array function (that takes a query) and returns a sql resultset.

John Henry dies at the end of the story.

I find it amusing that there seems to be a cargo cult going on with respect to Steve Job's fashion.

A technology-enabled brokerage is very different from a technology company with brokers. First, there is a cultural difference in who the heroes of the company are. Also, the latte…

I think 4) holds. We have 2 spectrums for all known strategies (the amount of gold in the veins is another question): * Strats that are automatable vs non-automatable. * Strats tha…

I'm not sure that's completely true. 1) Are there places / markets that ST Arb and HFT won't go because it's too illiquid or too idiosyncratically volatile? 2) Are there edges so s…

Another huge thing -- Data quality. Bloomberg gets free crowd-sourced feedback on their data. Apparently, there are hedge-funds (especially for less liquid assets) that make money …

That's when the flustered interviewee can either fight (patch his solution) or flight (start all over using a class with refs). The most obvious patch is to use a large hashmap ins…

So the old - allocate a massive array, then use 2n+1, 2n+2 for the left/right children wouldn't have flown with you huh?

For an API, you can also try http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ (which is kinda free -- and uses OpenStreetMap data). The biggest problem we've had is changing non well-formed …

Aside from the total debt vs median wage issue - the chart also doesn't mention that THE recession that happened. What happens in a recession? 1) parental wages and/or job security…

I thought this actually involved dating other founders....

Listia is extremely fun. Just paging through some of the auctions, you see the goofiest stuff. Ex: PG's dracula cape (I think worth at least 10 credits...). http://www.listia.com/a…

Grats guys! Really love your product =P

Grats guys!