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Have you had severe withdrawals? I've withdrawn cold turkey off of a $500/day heroin habit. It is the worst pain I have ever experienced. If I had a gun on me at the time, I am 100…

Why are you on hacker news?

Yes.

It's not a programming language, it's not turing complete and it is guaranteed to terminate. So what's the problem?

Is this really any better?

Well the problem, of course, is that they would test drive the cars in the dealership and then buy online.

Who exactly?

You have no idea what you are talking about. How exactly does GS manipulate the markets to its will? You'd think their balance sheet would look better if that was case..

Why not use the computer to help you define and understand the problem? It will be much faster to iterate quickly at a repl and then write the cleaned up version later rather than …

I'm not sure the fees are going to go down so much as that a ton of hedge funds are going to go out of business. There are many funds generating real alpha and have made outsized r…

A 2% fee isn't very much considering the AUM of hedge funds. If you have a 250m fund, that's only a fixed 5m fee per year. Also, investors are very fickle with their money, you can…

There's not much that needs to be elaborated. Hedge funds don't make any money if they're not generating alpha. the 2 and 20 structure is powerful motivator to search for outsized …

I work at a hedge fund and you have no idea what you are talking about.

I'll give you the first 2 at least. On another note, having an impoverished type system isn't much of an ideology..

What, exactly, do you think is going on here? How on earth would the executable on the disk get modified by pointer manipulation? (without the use of mmap, of course)

I've only been at this place for a week and a bit but it seems most people are working about 11 or 10 to 13 hour days.

I'm talking more like 10-13 here...

Hi previously I was a developer in academia and the expected work hours were pretty reasonable (Also reading books and papers was considered work). I just started at my first job a…

I'm in the middle of creating an online service but I have no idea how to make my site attractive. Are there any good resources to learn how to design a modern clean website?