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Can we stop quoting the underlying notional size when comparing size to equity markets? If you know how a derivative works, it's well understood that quoting the notional to repres…

Anyone notice how the main video on that page is almost exclusively women using the app? Guess that's linking in to the idea others have quoted here about the attractiveness factor…

classic double irish setup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish

It's interesting to think about how underutilized some of that knowledge actually is in the broad scheme of things - for instance, how popular is reading the classics of literature…

According to the page, it's neither a framework, nor a library - isn't that a bit counterintuitive? That makes it sounds as if it is beyond any of the existing styles of code reuse…

Yep that's what I was getting at - still not comfortable relying on an external service for email.

Like the UI of your product alot - I take it there isn't a way to get the frontend without hooking up to your backend (e.g. simple IMAP setup?) What is your business model for it? …

How can one say: And not a single one of these game is using that "Component Entity System". That seems like an impossible statement without deep knowledge of the inner workings of…

If you were planning to write a high performance game using python, most likely you wouldn't be using the vanilla cpython interpreter, but instead using cython ( http://cython.org/…

"Bigness" matters because only a few of the large banks are primary dealers [1] - they directly play a role in US treasury auctions. All the other investment banks that aren't prim…

It's funny how this ended up on here - this article about "nail houses" was recently posted today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915398 The magic roundabout is mentioned in …

After becoming somewhat disappointed with silverlight running in a win VM on linux (constant crashes, no reporting, buggy video driver usage) and being pleasantly surprised by the …

That goes against many recommendations I've read about refactoring and writing cleaner code: "Good code invariably has small methods and small objects. I get lots of resistance to …

Highly suggested essay regarding food automation in the future: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

Most are setup to use a double irish scheme, and usually throw in the dutch sandwich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_sandwich

Unless the original filer happened to be your grandfather

This app goes a bit further: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y... (and clearly had more funding) - more applicable to the scientist than the casual user play…