thesnark

Any groups in Vancouver? I am moving there on the 1st of June.

Actually a channeling market is better for arbitrage strategies, where you are basically earning the spread.

Have you looked into VSTO? You still have to deal with bloat but at least you can write addins/automations for excel in C# and use Visual Studio...

The problem typically comes when you are working in a role supporting someone else, i.e., traders.

Deploying software written in Matlab that other people can use is a nightmare.

I really enjoy http://crossfit.com

I think I got this idea from HN somewhere but I cannot remember: when you are running good, and the ideas are coming easily, stop before you get stuck. That way when you come back to something you know exactly what to do next and its easier to find the thread.

Also, learning how to suffer through really painful exercise has improved my ability to focus at work.

Does walking at 1 mile per hour provide any cardiovascular benefits? I thought the point of exercise was to raise your heart rate?

What about NodeBox? http://nodebox.net

Wow this is possibly the worst job posting I have ever read.

LAPACK

http://www.netlib.org/lapack/

I got the idea from this page:

http://4c.ucc.ie/~hcambaza/page5/page5.html

The number of dominos I would have needed would have cost too much, so I decided to use dice instead.

I made a portrait of my girlfriend out of dice.

http://www.elusivesnark.com/2008/11/carolines-dice-portrait....

This account is... I forgot my password or my account got deleted from 2007.

me too