Dilpil

Joined 18 years ago

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Math/Computer science student at University of Pittsbugh. Soon to be working at one of those dastardly high frequency trading firms. Lover of all things mathy and puzzly.
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Comment · 15 years ago
The higher your bid the better. Your $100 an hour rate is your premium branding.
Comment · 15 years ago
Wait a minute- DHS? As in, department of homeland security? Why are they involved in this even?
Comment · 15 years ago
There are quite a few games I wouldn't mind seeing my kid get hooked on.

If raising a chess champion is a good thing, I can't imagine that raising a starcraft champion is a bad thing.

Comment · 15 years ago
Alot of people probably look for Random but find Math.random().
Comment · 15 years ago
salesman => college student => software engineer
Comment · 15 years ago
So given all the negative reviews of this so far- why isnt there a good C++ repl? Surely there is a huge demand.
Comment · 15 years ago
I might add: especially to entry level jobs. These jobs are hard to judge candidates for- you can't evaluate their past work, you have to evaluate their potential for future work.
Comment · 15 years ago
This is what happens when your approach to system design revolves around whacking out the latest bugs with quick fixes rather than creating something logical and consistent. How many of these loopholes were created in order to stimulate a particular activity, or to close another specific loophole? At no point have lawmakers ever sat down to completely plan out the tax code, carefully considering the consequences of various interactions between laws, and this is the result.
Comment · 15 years ago
If investment banking is so needless, why did the economy falter when lehmen brothers went bankrupt?

If high frequency trading is so needless, why does the entire market go into shock when the traders panicked and left on may 6th 2010?

Most importantly- if these products are useless and harmful, why do people keep buying them?

Comment · 15 years ago
Id be very surprised if more than 100 of those employees were involved in this decision.
Comment · 15 years ago
I would pitch it to the adult industry as follows: If someone is surfing from behind a content filter, they are either a child without a credit card, or in an area where sex is so taboo they will not possibly whip out their credit card for a porn site. Let us filter out these useless bandwidth leeches for you.
Comment · 15 years ago
Aye, me as well. And later written my fair share of them when the going got rough.
Comment · 15 years ago
Decent graphics are murder for adventure games. With some of the oldest adventure games, there were only a few places you could plausibly click on and see a result. Hunting for the interactable object in a 3D textured and shadered world is less intuitive.
Comment · 15 years ago
A better challenge would have been "a million dollars to the first person that points out a contradiction in my viewpoints".

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