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www.bloombergquint.com 5y ago

Apple Told to Pay $506M in Texas Patent Trial Verdict

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www.cyclingweekly.com 7y ago

Veloviewer: The WorldTour teams’ new secret weapon

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Parents of student killed by police at Georgia Tech speak out

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www.bloomberg.com 8y ago

Facebook's 21-Year-Old Wunderkind Sayman Leaves for Google

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Secret millions for 0x00A651D43B6e209F5Ada45A35F92EFC0De3A5184

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Race to Prevent Airline Terror Turns to Laptops, Thin Bombs

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medium.com 9y ago

Introducing RealWorld – Exemplary fullstack blog apps powered by many stacks

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Signs of Brisk Demand from Snap Shorts as Stock Falls Again

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researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com 9y ago

Shamoon 2: Return of the Disttrack Wiper

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www.itjungle.com 9y ago

The IBMer Who Decoded Bernie Madoff's RPG

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www.telegraph.co.uk 10y ago

‘BoatyMcBoatface’ to live on as yellow submarine

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observer.com 10y ago

Why People Check Their Tech at the Wrong Times (and How to Stop It) – Observer

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bravenewcoin.com 10y ago

Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar

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blog.bethcodes.com 10y ago

Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor

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www.bloomberg.com 10y ago

JPMorgan a Victim of Large Customer Hack

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 10y ago

With 'Brandeis' Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Screw Texting. It's Time to Pick a Universal Messaging App

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nypost.com 11y ago

Uber cars seized amid crackdown on illegal pickups

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www.nydailynews.com 11y ago

Opting out of NY tests an act of courage

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www.theatlantic.com 11y ago

What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test?

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medium.com 11y ago

Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons

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www.wired.com 11y ago

The IT Culture War: The Struggle to Adopt DevOps

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fusion.net 11y ago

Who do we blame when a robot threatens to kill people?

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motherboard.vice.com 11y ago

There's a Problem in the Silk Road Trial: The Jury Doesn't Get the Internet

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www.latimes.com 11y ago

Hack at Sony Pictures shuts computer system

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www.omscs.gatech.edu 12y ago

Applications now open for Georgia Tech Online MSCS

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www.rollingstone.com 12y ago

Hackers Courted by Government for Cyber Security Jobs

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www.extremetech.com 12y ago

IPhone 5S: The 64-bit A7 chip is marketing fluff and won’t improve performance

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brassreader.com 13y ago

BrassReader: a serverless RSS reader

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court

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First things to do on a new windows 10 install are run the decrapifier.ps1 and install classic shell.

Problem solved. It is a shame that the default is so garbage but there's an easy solution.

You don't delete it because it's a liability in the maintenance account but it's an asset in the features account.

I still prefer Excel to esoteric regular expressions in vim for parsing complex text to copy paste. For example extracting individual pieces of data from a bunch of log file lines or reformatting text into syntax valid in some programming language.

You can work up the correct syntax in the top cell with mid, left, right, etc. And then just copy down once you have it right and copy the resulting values to your editor.

There's also "text to columns" for parsing separated or fixed width text.

Yeah, I agree.. Doing enough prep to get a hundred percent acceptance rate is not worth it. And it is a level I couldn't achieve anyhow. I've done fine on my career with 50 percent or lower acceptance rate at interviews. It's one of the things I'm the worst at in this industry, but you only need to change jobs fairly infrequently.

I also question a lot of these "I landed every offer" claims. People often exaggerate their victories.

Folks, these companies can still offer free food. At smaller companies in NY that don't have a cafeteria but want to keep the employees in for lunch they give out a seamless allowance. It works quite well. Not sure if it would scale to an office with thousands of workers but it probably could. Some places also order catering from local food vendors.

I would generalize this for accelerated learning: Identify the minimum you need to learn to complete your next task and learn only that. This is difficult for two reasons. First, without the knowledge it's hard to identify what is the minimum you need to learn. And second, as someone with an interest in technology it's hard to stop yourself from going deeper. Solve the first problem by guessing with a bias towards learning less and solve the second problem with discipline.

If you proceed with this accelerated learning process you can start knocking out tasks using new technology rather fast and you will achieve better results. You may not know all the details of every language and tool that you use but you'll know how to get things done.

It's good you pointed this out because many people don't know. I took a first aid class and they taught us in an emergency situation, never say "somebody call 911!" Because everybody will think someone else will do it. Point to a specific person and say "you, call 911!"

It's the same thing.

No. Many smaller financial firms derive their advantage from technology. There are many areas of finance aside from high frequency trading and they all benefit from significant force multiplication from technology. Even in the lowly area of operations automation there are firms that achieve significant scale with a small number of personnel through technological advantage. Granted this is sometimes achieved with a combination of in house and commercial technology packages, and sometimes the overall system design is done by non-technical people who just manage grunts to do all of the work, to say that these companies are not benefiting from force multiplying technology is foolish. There are very few financial professionals left who are not technology people in some sense of the word.

Many firms benefit from better data. All that data needs to be acquired and managed. Many firms benefit from better analytics and models. Those models need to be tested and implemented.

Your number is low.

I'd like to see a discussion of this by people who understands social networks better than me. Facebook updates have been meet with similar backlash and usually result in more user acceptance long term. Is that because they are tweaked to meet expectations or the users get used to them?

It sounds like they choose to deemphasize streaks and a lot of users really love that feature.

Is there a better way to handle this sort of rollout?

When Intel stole Digital's alpha technology the lawsuit ended with intel acquiring the Digital chip business. I guess that's also sort of money, but not exactly.

You can't short real estate easily because it's a physical thing. Subprime was bonds that were secured by mortgage loans on real estate. You can short bonds but it's not easy because you have to find some to borrow. But then someone invented credit default swaps for subprime bonds. CDS are derivatives insuring bonds from default. They are similar to futures by being a 2 sided contract where cash flows between the two parties and the winner pays the loser the difference. One side is long and the other short. In subprime they took it a step further and made packages of these CDS contracts so you could go short a ton of subprime all at once. These instruments coming out coincided with the top of the real estate market in 2005 and their peak popularity was at the peak of the subprime boom in 2007.

Interactive brokers accounts can trade cme futures. Whenever these come out it will be just what you're looking for. The margin requirements allow you to short with a lot of leverage too.

Good luck.

Music Fandom Maps 9 years ago

The integrated youtube videos are really nice in this page. I like this best as an introduction to music I haven't heard. I like Kevin Gates 2 Phones.