It's deeper than just being a racist joke. It's a reasonable and funny comment on English language and cultural perspective. We write the history books, and that's what Americans get taught in schools.
One man's shipwreck survivor is another man's discoverer.
Why would a bank write nontrivial software? If they are just writing rules and scripts on top of commercial systems, then there is no CS to be done.
"Bank," as used here, does not mean a little retail branch in Dallas. It means a big financial entity transacting in a lot of exotic financial instruments, and that requires a lot of high-level math and CS.
The commercial systems are horribly primitive compared to the best internal, bespoke, solutions.
So I pay taxes on what I earn this year every single year afterwards? No, thanks. Property tax is possibly the most unfair there is.
Why? Hanging on to a big chunk of wealth requires police, courts, lawyers, etc, or the private version of the same. 500 years ago, you would be paying a bank to hold your money. 5000 years ago, you'd be maintaining a city-state just to protect your wealth.
Don't like it? Just hold cash: you pay income tax on the interest earned, you're not consuming much. You want a $1M pleasure garden for your private use? Expect to pay a bit more.
If you signed an NDA to interview, you are a seriously junior cog in the machine.
The only point of the NDA is to make you think the firm is super cool and has magical secrets for making money. Oh, and if by a miracle, you actually understand what the real bet is (trust me, you don't) they would like you to be afraid to talk about it.
I mean, it's full of objects with derivation and virtual functions, and structs on which constructors and destructors have to be called for everything to remain in one peice. Seems odd not to use a language which is every bit as efficient, has a familiar syntax and yet does a large number of common tasks automatically and without errors.
Grasshopper, a good language is not defined by its features, it's defined by how well its features hang together.
C++ is a nuclear power plant driven swiss army knife. Perhaps worthy of a Sunday comic strip, but little else.
Yep, and it's pretty settled: Microsoft lost in the USA when claiming "Microsoft Windows" somehow gave them the exclusive right to the common word "Windows." And don't even get me started about that "edge" crap.
If you write a game about X (e.g. scrolls,) there is basically no way in the USA you can be prevented from using X in your product's name. It is descriptive, and can not be the exclusive property of someone else.
If you have a simple problem, an RDMS is a great solution.
Many of us old guys working on big systems gave up on them years ago - you need to put semantics in the right place, and the RDB is not the right place. I'll take 10 of the top end of those young developers.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
From the article: 90% fewer fatal/serious injuries on 40% fewer accidents.
Your behind is not a reliable source of information.
I would explain Godel's theorem to a lay person by saying that logical analysis is layered, and above each layer is another layer that analyzes the underlying propositions, predicates and so forth differently. It is therefore impossible to accurately predict all the results just by using logic.
Good idea to restrict your explanation to lay people. If you used it on experts, they would laugh at you.
Read the pdf: Skype claims a "call right." Lee can exercise his vested options, but then Skype takes the stock back from him at the exercise price. So Lee gets nothing.
The language was unambiguous, but pretty deceitful. Basically, it said "if you are not with the company at the time it is sold, it can take back all your vested options."
Any reasonable contract would have spelled out clearly, not described it as a repurchase agreement referencing another document. He should definitely see a lawyer.
In actuality the country would be broke in 24 hours because everyone would be guilty. We are corrupt as hell, all of us.
Doubtful. On Wall St and in casinos, everyone is basically tracked/taped/videoed constantly. 99% of people behave well.
The other 1%? Well, it's sorta funny to see a lawyer, two armed guards, an IT guy, and a team of movers shrink-wrapper an employee's entire desk + all technology and cart it off to forensics for analysis.
"The perp observed a man withdrawing money from an ATM. He should get a reduced sentence because the victim was basically asking to get mugged" would be laughed out of court as absurd.
That is absurd. Do you really think ounces of silver is a good measure of prosperity or capital?
Yes, it's very constant over time. Much more reliable than most other measures for smooth data. Certainly there are short-term variations but these average.
Well, most commodity prices are very constant over time. That doesn't help you if you are trying to use them as a currency, though. Silver prices are all over the place, even long-term, e.g. the Hunt Brothers fiasco, the transition from film to digital photography.
The price of gold is all over the place too: the old canard about a man's suit just doesn't stand up to scrutiny (these was no middle class and thus no generic fine suit for most of history.) A simple USD, discounted by interest rates, matches suit prices much better than gold.
I agreed that wealth has been transferred away from the middle class. They got screwed in the USA, but don't blame the Fed, blame the Reagan revolution.
>Interestingly, average wages are only 10x of what they were in 1964 while commodities, like silver are up 25x or so. If the currency had been kept sound, today's wages would be seen to have decreased by about 60%. This is the erosion of the middle class that the Federal Reserve helps hide by inflating the Dollar.
That is absurd. Do you really think ounces of silver is a good measure of prosperity or capital? How much did an iPhone cost in 1964?
What did an ounce of silver buy in 1964 in terms of food, clothes, TV, cancer treatments, etc? Is the median person in 2011 really 60% worse off than the median person in 1964?
That is just not true. The a priori lack of knowledge of an observer has nothing to do with the statistical properties of the thing being observed.
Even if it were true, it doesn't produce "fair outcomes" as people generally understand "fair." E.g. If a bug causes twins and triplets to always get drafted as a group, no one is going to consider the results "random," and few will consider the results "fair."
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It's deeper than just being a racist joke. It's a reasonable and funny comment on English language and cultural perspective. We write the history books, and that's what Americans get taught in schools.
One man's shipwreck survivor is another man's discoverer.
Why would a bank write nontrivial software? If they are just writing rules and scripts on top of commercial systems, then there is no CS to be done.
"Bank," as used here, does not mean a little retail branch in Dallas. It means a big financial entity transacting in a lot of exotic financial instruments, and that requires a lot of high-level math and CS.
The commercial systems are horribly primitive compared to the best internal, bespoke, solutions.
So I pay taxes on what I earn this year every single year afterwards? No, thanks. Property tax is possibly the most unfair there is.
Why? Hanging on to a big chunk of wealth requires police, courts, lawyers, etc, or the private version of the same. 500 years ago, you would be paying a bank to hold your money. 5000 years ago, you'd be maintaining a city-state just to protect your wealth.
Don't like it? Just hold cash: you pay income tax on the interest earned, you're not consuming much. You want a $1M pleasure garden for your private use? Expect to pay a bit more.
Yeah, but one of them has a problem with reality.
If I said "on day 1, I saw 100 prisoners in a death camp, on day 2 I saw 100 corpses, so 50% death rate" I would be considered a moron.
Eric May is not doing much better in the transcript.
Only if you are being willfully stupid.
If you signed an NDA to interview, you are a seriously junior cog in the machine.
The only point of the NDA is to make you think the firm is super cool and has magical secrets for making money. Oh, and if by a miracle, you actually understand what the real bet is (trust me, you don't) they would like you to be afraid to talk about it.
It makes no sense: he's just stringing random words together.
Seems to be something about correlation trades and varying liquidity based on trading hours. She probably moonlights as a FOX or CNN financial pundit.
I mean, it's full of objects with derivation and virtual functions, and structs on which constructors and destructors have to be called for everything to remain in one peice. Seems odd not to use a language which is every bit as efficient, has a familiar syntax and yet does a large number of common tasks automatically and without errors.
Grasshopper, a good language is not defined by its features, it's defined by how well its features hang together.
C++ is a nuclear power plant driven swiss army knife. Perhaps worthy of a Sunday comic strip, but little else.
New York City will be fine. We deal with planes flying into buildings, sovereign defaults, and rats the size of polar bears.
The NY suburbs might need to be told what do do, though.
Yep. As one of our MDs quipped "we have a 4MW server farm with one of the most expensive views in Manhattan."
Congratulations, you have achieved 3 out of a possible 10 on the sexual expertise scale.
Be proud of the fact that you have a better understanding of sex fun than:
a) the zeros: what is sex?
b) the ones: sex is to make babies
Yep, and it's pretty settled: Microsoft lost in the USA when claiming "Microsoft Windows" somehow gave them the exclusive right to the common word "Windows." And don't even get me started about that "edge" crap.
If you write a game about X (e.g. scrolls,) there is basically no way in the USA you can be prevented from using X in your product's name. It is descriptive, and can not be the exclusive property of someone else.
Been done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Tower_(New_York_City)
If you have a simple problem, an RDMS is a great solution.
Many of us old guys working on big systems gave up on them years ago - you need to put semantics in the right place, and the RDB is not the right place. I'll take 10 of the top end of those young developers.
All in all, I believe they reduce the risk of fatal accidents but do cause more non-fatal ones (there are probably some statistics floating around but I cba looking them up...)
Statistics seem to claim the opposite, according to Wikipedia they are actually safer, with up to 90% fewer fatalities because most collisions occur at an indirect angle.
But 90% fewer fatalities on 500% more accidents is, what? And yes, I pulled that 500% out of my behind; but they have just GOT to cause more fender-benders and near-misses than conventional intersections.
From the article: 90% fewer fatal/serious injuries on 40% fewer accidents.
Your behind is not a reliable source of information.
I would explain Godel's theorem to a lay person by saying that logical analysis is layered, and above each layer is another layer that analyzes the underlying propositions, predicates and so forth differently. It is therefore impossible to accurately predict all the results just by using logic.
Good idea to restrict your explanation to lay people. If you used it on experts, they would laugh at you.
Read the pdf: Skype claims a "call right." Lee can exercise his vested options, but then Skype takes the stock back from him at the exercise price. So Lee gets nothing.
The language was unambiguous, but pretty deceitful. Basically, it said "if you are not with the company at the time it is sold, it can take back all your vested options."
Any reasonable contract would have spelled out clearly, not described it as a repurchase agreement referencing another document. He should definitely see a lawyer.
In actuality the country would be broke in 24 hours because everyone would be guilty. We are corrupt as hell, all of us.
Doubtful. On Wall St and in casinos, everyone is basically tracked/taped/videoed constantly. 99% of people behave well.
The other 1%? Well, it's sorta funny to see a lawyer, two armed guards, an IT guy, and a team of movers shrink-wrapper an employee's entire desk + all technology and cart it off to forensics for analysis.
Well said.
"The perp observed a man withdrawing money from an ATM. He should get a reduced sentence because the victim was basically asking to get mugged" would be laughed out of court as absurd.
That is absurd. Do you really think ounces of silver is a good measure of prosperity or capital?
Yes, it's very constant over time. Much more reliable than most other measures for smooth data. Certainly there are short-term variations but these average.
Well, most commodity prices are very constant over time. That doesn't help you if you are trying to use them as a currency, though. Silver prices are all over the place, even long-term, e.g. the Hunt Brothers fiasco, the transition from film to digital photography.
The price of gold is all over the place too: the old canard about a man's suit just doesn't stand up to scrutiny (these was no middle class and thus no generic fine suit for most of history.) A simple USD, discounted by interest rates, matches suit prices much better than gold.
I agreed that wealth has been transferred away from the middle class. They got screwed in the USA, but don't blame the Fed, blame the Reagan revolution.
>Interestingly, average wages are only 10x of what they were in 1964 while commodities, like silver are up 25x or so. If the currency had been kept sound, today's wages would be seen to have decreased by about 60%. This is the erosion of the middle class that the Federal Reserve helps hide by inflating the Dollar.
That is absurd. Do you really think ounces of silver is a good measure of prosperity or capital? How much did an iPhone cost in 1964?
What did an ounce of silver buy in 1964 in terms of food, clothes, TV, cancer treatments, etc? Is the median person in 2011 really 60% worse off than the median person in 1964?
And you think this is due to the Fed?
Troll, but not stupid.
"when biology was a backwater field designed for heterosexual people on a man-only ship crew" is actually a pretty funny lure.
Unexpected results are, by definition, random.
That is just not true. The a priori lack of knowledge of an observer has nothing to do with the statistical properties of the thing being observed.
Even if it were true, it doesn't produce "fair outcomes" as people generally understand "fair." E.g. If a bug causes twins and triplets to always get drafted as a group, no one is going to consider the results "random," and few will consider the results "fair."
Even with a random source, you still need to write a fair "choose M of N" algorithm. Most people cannot do this.