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exit x86 market, there`s merit in that, check

exit the x86 market, enter the vertically integrated server hardware space, this is insane.

why aren`t they spending that over a quarter of a billion dollars on building better cpus/gpus. not trying to become some sort of ibm.

deck lacks any sort of real meat.

.. but the web slides are cool

The reason its not so popular? IMHO because we live in a society that favors 1sec landing pages, customized per individual options, complexity that rivals air skyscrapers and shrinked wrapped ready-to-go solutions. This is not LUA.

LUA is just one tool in the tool box - its not the tool box.

over a year cool and thanks for the response! Mr Cerney on here too? aint spoken to him in ages :)

Yup yet I remember when ppl were complaining how PS2/Xbox games x10 game budgets and all hell was breaking loose with the industry doomed. These days iphone/android have technical constraints on par if not more so xbox/ps2 thus making a highly polished game on a phone hell of alot cheaper than AAA console title but still not something you can do in your basement.

Guess my question is what type of game would you start out with? AAA level phone game with 80H+ of gameplay and 10 levels will cost a lot to develop and no one will play past the first level, or pay more than $5 for - IMHO ofcourse :)

wow andy gavin on HN would never have expected that.

whats your current thoughts on the "gaming market" these days, so much has changed since the console under the TV ruled the earth. e.g. if you were to start all over what/where/how would you spend your time?

a few milliseconds here and there did not matter when the dinosaur roamed the planet.

keep in mind key money its also an incentive to not bail after 3months of living there. As unlike the US you can terminate your rental agreement at any time with a 30-60day notice and dont have to pay rent until end of contract or someone else moves in.

that article is a lot of ass. the timestamps in the packet are generated at the exchange(not on the wire) where its on different physical machines... perfectly reasonable for each machines clock o be a microseccond or two off.. about the resolution of GPS time sync.

being colocated dosent mean anything if your infrastructure sucks. e.g. what switch(s) you use, which PHYs/transeivers are used, what NICs you use, what kind of cables (fiber/copper) and what kind of hw/sw stack you run on. You might be surprised there`s 10s of nanosecconds difference between a twinax 10Gb copper cable, 0.5M 10Gb SR fiber and a 2M 10Gb SR fiber cable... which does make a difference. The differences between different vendors of NICs.. etc etc.

...this aint no FB/Google/blah.1M.requests.a.minute datacenter - its the latency not the thoughput that matters.

borring? really. if your doing middle/back office yeah but front office work is anything but borring. infact out of the 20 years of coding, nothing compares to finance in the interesting/dynamic environment category.

in addition to the some excellent comments

1) you live in your own personal reality. what you see/understand/think/etc others cant and what others can you dont. when you get this, it completely changes your perspective on communication.

2) readup and learn to identify the different general personality types. and understand how they view the world

3) you dont need permission from anyone. not your mom, your boss, your friends/peers/gf/spose etc. if you want to start a company, JFD. want to travel JFD. want to change jobs JFD. life is too short so beg for forgiveness.

4) dont seek out approval. meaning dont please your friends/peers/gf/spose/boss/clients to get a pat on the head. dosent mean be an asshole and dosent mean do do nice things for people. i means dont do things to seek their approval

working in certain areas of finance can be very fun interesting and excellent money wise. its a very rare combination where technology collides with money in such a direct and measurable way. think of how sales guys performance is quantifiably measured but replace sales with coding. you wont find such a directly quantifiable measure in any other field... yes the quality of your code/product isnt that important for startups.

so if you think your code/models/you are top shit... then its really easy to get a reality check on your percived abilities. its what makes it fun. all the bullshit and hand waving in the world is FUD against your PnL

dam how did i miss the first one! might be in london for this one :(

javascript is clearly the most popular and widely used programming language in history. c/c with classes has the most software built on top of it, putting them at the most important languages on opposite sides of the software stack.

what would be interesting is a back of the envelop calculation on # lines of js vs c executed globally per minute. id guss c probably wins due to frequency of execution.

a very one sided article there and fails to mention the algos used by your broker to minimize information leakage of your trades... if their large enough. what gets me is the amount of money HFT market makes make off your trade is tiny compared to the fist full of cash your broker is taking from you..

ive personally found finance is the complete opposite of a soul sucking cushy corporatre gig and infact working in a sme or larger company in the valley the real cubicle soul sucking el dilbert gig. yes your card says * famous web company but in reality all companies primary function is to make money, its just the branding is change the world vs lets make a ton of cash.

im going get downvoted like hell for this but saying all finance jobs are soul sucking cushy jobs is like saying your startup, yes YOURS, is the next google/facebook/twitter/blah

this is a great point. providing a premium membership that allows your members to ask the interviewers direct and interesting questions. guessing your price point for that could be fairly high.

what ive found is a 0 sugar, 0 bread, very low-carb diet makes a huge difference in my ability to focus. as your no longer riding the daily ups and downs of the blood sugar roller coaster.

.. certainly not easy to kick sugar/bread/milk habit.

you apply the bit operator patch to get this.

you need to realize lua isnt targeted as a batteries included platform, its design philosophy is minimalist, not junk included but customize for your requirements. where lua absolutely excels is when paired with C (not C++) and not used as "scripting glue" but fully integrated and driving the system. it really appeals to minimalistic / keep it simple philosophy guys which isnt the web community.

lua is not a one stop shop and will never be, which probably why it flys under the radar so much - you cant stamp a powered by lua logo on it.

one thing i really like about lisp/lua presumably erlang and many others. is how trivial it is to send a function down a socket e.g. how functions/bytecode is just a datatype. makes distributed/parallel/async processing so much easier to build.

guessing you cant do this with a compile to C style implementation.

yet with those languages were derived from constructs in math - new is always relative to the context.

Guess it depends on whats the advantage of doing this is? just for fun? or for a serious practical application.

Whats the point of inventing yet another language? Its far better to use existing and proven languages for both a completeness/stood.the.test.of.time point and time it takes a new developer to get up to speed.

Granted I hate C++ with vengeance my poison if choice is C99 + LUA which creates a really powerful lowlevel and high level combo. Using lua to drive it, farming bits out to C, instead of the opposite "scripting language addon" approach. Yeah lua isnt quite as powerfull as lisp but gets pretty close and dosent look like alien space talk to new devs.

HFT is a nice scape goat for the finance industry, where the public at large, and the current status quo for that matter, are looking to point fingers at and cry "thats-not-fair", due to the last 18months of joy.

... and as we all know its far easier to attack geeks than other more politically astute sections of the industry

why do people expect japan to rebound at all? with a severely aging population that is highly xenophobic compounded by deflation creating at best a flat to negative domestic consumption. This results in any economic growth being highly export dependent and has been for the last 10+ years.

so.. a double blow, the great recession and the new decade of retirement, its a slow fade to #4 or #5 in world GDP.

yup and they will cripple everything to point where its impressive how low the maximum perf of a 3rd party app will be... hopefully this round its gets to double digit MHz

just use openid