1. smabie Jun 7, 2025 parent

   The original sin of Pandas is row indices
2. smabie Jan 31, 2025 parent

   People outside the industry just use that as cope because they making way less money.

   "How do you live with yourself making high 6 fig / 7 figs a yr?"

   Quite easily in fact.

3. smabie Oct 6, 2024 parent

   Don't most array languages have first class functions?
4. smabie Oct 5, 2024 parent

   LTCM wasn't really an options selling fund though selling equity options did become a big trade for them

   Also they were more of advisors in the fund then anything else

5. smabie Oct 5, 2024 parent

   Safer bet would be to hold short term treasures.
6. smabie Oct 5, 2024 parent

   Why? the mean can be negative?
7. smabie Oct 5, 2024 parent

   Turns out mediocre code is fine most of the time though
8. smabie Oct 4, 2024 parent

   Or you could beat the guy up
9. smabie Oct 4, 2024 parent

   With a 10% edge you really don't need to be very good

   And in fact if these guys were good they wouldn't be banning people at all

10. smabie Oct 2, 2024 parent

    Actually in reality these so called professionals will diagnose you almost immediately
11. smabie Oct 2, 2024 parent

    Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.
12. smabie Oct 1, 2024 parent

    Having had a few interactions with the Indonesian government, the Netherlands should have just kept them.
13. smabie Sep 29, 2024 parent

    Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways
14. smabie Sep 28, 2024 parent

    No chance they spend the most on leisure activities. Definitely it's baby boomers.
15. smabie Sep 27, 2024 parent

    People like to play these games and thus probably good for societies

    World would be pretty full without competitive games / sports

16. smabie Sep 27, 2024 parent

    Could they ever operate without the gambling?
17. smabie Sep 11, 2024 parent

    If you're laser focused on a end product then learning can happen remarkably quickly.
18. smabie Sep 11, 2024 parent

    Useful in society says a lot?
19. smabie Sep 11, 2024 parent

    Your entire comment basically talks about how a Yale degree means you probably better tho?
20. smabie Sep 11, 2024 parent

    If you're truly underpaid for your experience and location then you should be able to get a new higher paying job easily. And if you can't easily get one well maybe you aren't underpaid.
21. smabie Sep 1, 2024 parent

    almost all of them?
22. smabie Aug 25, 2024 parent

    All quants know pandas. beyond that their technical skills are often quite limited.

    It makes sense to invest resources into something everyone knows how to use, even if it's suboptimal.

23. smabie Aug 18, 2024 parent

    Yeah and Finish devs also make a small fraction of what's possible in America
24. smabie Aug 10, 2024 parent

    In my experience, it's just not that good? I programmed professionally in Lisp (Racket to be specific) for a couple years and while I was initially enthusiastic about it, my enthusiasm for it diminished over time.

    The heavy line noise in service of an easy to understand macro system just isn't worth it (moreover, a lot of languages have advanced macros these days without S-expressions).

    Looking back, I think I was so into Lisp because I just wanted to feel superior and better than the dirty Java or Python programmers?

25. smabie Aug 7, 2024 parent

    You can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list

    should be doable

26. smabie Jul 30, 2024 parent

    A better question you could ask is: have you ever wished you could display images on a window
27. smabie Jul 23, 2024 parent

    Author says Rust wouldn't solve the crowd strike outage but then literally admits that it would have prevented it?

    This article makes no sense

28. smabie Jul 11, 2024 parent

    got contacted by a trading firm when one of the founders saw one of my Show HN posts. Was my breakthrough into the quant / hft industry and I now run my own trading firm: that one event massively changed the trajectory of my entire life.
29. smabie Jul 9, 2024 parent

    So who would sell it to you then? At any given time there's not very many actual natural buyer and sellers for a single security.
30. smabie Jul 5, 2024 parent

    No one has gone back for real spreadsheet work tho

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