Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — whyme

whyme

HN member
Joined
Thu, Dec 17, 2009, 5:35 PM UTC
HN karma
397
Public activity
219 items

About whyme

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #7532781

    I haven't read the book, but I've followed the chatter and have been listening to Lewis on Bloomberg. I get the impression that many justify HFT by comparing current or past altern…

  2. comment
    Comment #7524457

    I think you missed the "we" part.

  3. comment
    Comment #7523729

    It's sad that I as a retail investor need to spend my valuable time focusing on how not to get screwed by the exchanges that have introduced a side business which does not serve th…

  4. comment
    Comment #7519820

    This may appear spammy, but I found Kepner Trego training[1] to really help prevent this kind of stuff from happening. The strategy is more effective when everybody in the room has…

  5. story
  6. story
  7. comment
    Comment #7513868

    So you think BA's can not learn, even through experience, what can or can not be done? Sure, there's always somebody else, same role or not, who has more expertise, but don't confu…

  8. comment
  9. comment
    Comment #7513830

    > However, this is illustrating a particular problem that only affects engineers -- engineers are the ones at the end of the day who have to make a solution reality. This is simply…

  10. comment
    Comment #7510881

    I subscribe to the minimalism approach. i.e. I do my best to improve the signal to noise ratio (which is inline with the authors goal). Also, in many cases, having a both the unit …

  11. comment
    Comment #7509906

    I'll suggest there's a missing ingredient here...I found I was able to eliminate many of my comments by asking myself if that someone whom might read my code would be better served…

  12. comment
    Comment #7503368

    And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7497688 For the OP: maybe log this as a poll?

  13. comment
    Comment #7503095

    Here's a wasteful comment as my test...I might delete it. If you see this can you add a reply. Only if not already done. Thanks.

  14. story
    Ask HN: Is this the way to replicate a bug on HN?

    I'm logging this post as a test to see if I can replicate a commenting bug on HN. I chose to create this post instead of polluting another thread. Hope that's ok.

  15. comment
  16. comment
  17. comment
    Comment #7496618

    yeah, i should have said in high quantities, but I was just paraphrasing the video. The point was, in the video, he did not say it was just fructose, glucose can also be a problem.…

  18. comment
    Comment #7496533

    I'm pretty sure, in that video, the argument was that while glucose is still really bad for you, fructose[1] is much, much worse - it's a poison that's causing an epidemic. 1. And …

  19. comment
    Comment #7496490

    Ever seen those web adverts that list a few generic health problems and ask you to 'click here', or read a horoscope that makes claims almost anyone can relate to? So how is this d…

  20. comment
    Comment #7494443

    I wouldn't discuss with the Microsoft rep. This is a decision your school needs to make. You could politely decline to participate and provide your reasons for doing so. If your de…

  21. comment
    Comment #7494355

    Unfortunately, things like this are more damaging overall. i.e. Even if you succeed and get some more women involved, you will have also created resentment from men whom are not gi…

  22. story
  23. story
  24. comment
    Comment #7475272

    For those who don't know HN has a RSS link. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss I downloaded a rss reader app then put in the main HN link, but the app rejected it. The RSS link worke…

  25. story