mmsmatt

I use the Facebook app/site to follow food trucks and bars. Going to the news feed to find out anything about my friends' lives? No, I'll write them on Messenger and ask what's up.

If I'm no longer reading my news feed, why would I start typing into it, hoping they are reading theirs?

He who play in root, kill tree.

-Slackware fortune file

> If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.

Well put.

Pick up "Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals" - a great resource - and get a taste of this as early as the preface! The author writes about a bug he introduced in a program making markets in treasuries. It cost his firm $30k every trade, and the errant trades piled up as other participants recognized his mistake.

For a longer (and fairly technical) answer, see "Slapped by the Invisible Hand".

Essentially, a subprime mortgage had the price-will-rise-forever view baked in, as a way for the borrower to passively increase equity in the house while making very low payments. When the prices stopped rising, these borrowers went underwater fast and could not refinance when they needed to.

aalib + mplayer would be my guess.

Complete agreement with the last sentence.

I can think of two projects in my past five years that really showed performance sensitivity. I knew that at design time so I chose to care about where data sat in memory and how it would behave in multilevel caches.

All other projects, couldn't care less where the kitchen dude stored my pots, and he never lost one.

None of those projects jumped from performance agnostic to performance sensitive overnight.

I dual booted Win 98 and various Debian flavors. Once I got OpenGL going, I would sometimes see the "last" frame of a Windows session flash as X started up.

My first distro was Corel Desktop Linux, based on Debian circa 2001. That started me on a path of exploration I've never left.

Now I wait for the rest of the story...

Yes, those yahoo chess ladder rooms burned through a ton of dial up hours at my house.

From the article: "The plan for this section is to write a simple program and then poke it in gdb until arrays start to make sense."

I poked arrays and pointers with printf() for too long before they started to make sense, would have loved an early introduction to debuggers!

I'll try to provide a secular account here ;)

The principles are obvious, and Covey states this in his appendix of the Kindle edition. He claims credit only for packaging them in an accessible way.

7 Habits was effective for me because I answered the questions it posed throughout the text. The book presented a self-evident principle, such as "Put First Things First", then forced me to consider a dozen ways I could implement it. Then, all the positive effects those implementations would bring. I would try to put one of these ideas into practice each day I read. Repeat for 6 more principles.

I put in a good deal of effort and got out a framework that slowly increased my output at work, my understanding at home, and my patience under stress.

No road to Damascus here, just compounding interest over the months since I finished the book. I recommend it based on that.

Made me think of Muphry's law there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law

GS is 30k people, 12k of them VP-level, of which Smith was one.

http://dealbreaker.com/2012/03/goldman-sachs-was-less-than-t...

VP in IB doesn't map to VP in any other industry I've seen. The (many, many) titles become more confusing when employees refer to Managing Directors (highest rank) as MDs, as if that wasn't overloaded. ("gonna see my MD today...")

To kill the popup, I lied and claimed I was already registered. Shady first impression, puts me on guard before I read anything else on your page.

Article does claim much of the highest tier's wealth comes from investment as opposed to income. The products in which they invest have to come from financial services, including Cynicalkane's employer.

George Carlin had similar thoughts:

"A Place for My Stuff" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac