I read an article on Hacker News about some US kid (apparently common situation) who was bullied for owning an Android phone (Samsung top of the...
Wonder if anyone gets this, relies on a rather obscure cultural reference. I'll explain it later if you don't know what this is about. [ATTACH]
Tomorrow I'll turn 45. I'll have a few drinks today and evaluate my life so far, then (re-)evaluate what follows next.
Programmers know what this is: a plague of software engineering where developers scratch their butts ahead of time devising architectures and...
My 20 years experience as a professional software developer through various companies and projects as well as my interactions with people on this...
I have created a trading system that beats the market (the index) systematically. I want to sell the system, preferably to institutional...
Here for starters: I have a system that beats the market. Now I used to brag about my IQ and all, but it's not the 150 as much as pure raw grind...
35 years ago in communist Romania, do you know what was the most prized, cared for, cutting-edge technology in my family? If you'd think a TV...
I think they share strong similarities. COVID has done two good things for me, at least one of which people say has been a revolution not seen...
I can feel there's two sides of me. The civilized European. And the Falx yielding barbarian: [ATTACH]
I have two acquaintances if not to say friends, on the American continent. One in US, the other in Canada. I also have local, physical friends...
Although I live in a country where college education is free. Like not only the state didn't ask for money, they provided me with housing (a...
"How Transportation Technologies Shaped Empires" : https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/transportation-tech-shaped-empires Axiom: an...
Sometimes I went to bed hungry. Because of this, really, my mother. If only I knew how to cook back then... [ATTACH] On the other hand I...
Consider the following theoretical example: - stock price is around $100 - market price of put option on the stock is $10 - the true value of...
A thing to consider when marketing is feedback from "paying" vs "non-paying" customers. There is something of a cult of "feedback from customers",...
Half of this world (and the seemingly "advanced" one) is so retarded that they don't even know to wipe their ass properly. Like there's a saying...
To start with: English is completely retarded as far as phonetics of the alphabet letters go. Literally, every. fucking. vowel. Is pronounced as...
When computing option prices one needs an "interest rate", which I usually take as zero, or rather the rate I would get for a savings account in...
This is a programmer rant, posting in "App Development" because here's where you find programmers on ET. In my 20 years of software development...
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