Hacker News: smabie

New comment by smabie in "Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)"

smabie — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:38:54 +0000

The original sin of Pandas is row indices

New comment by smabie in "A better build system for OCaml"

smabie — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:36:05 +0000

People outside the industry just use that as cope because they making way less money.

"How do you live with yourself making high 6 fig / 7 figs a yr?"

Quite easily in fact.

New comment by smabie in "Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)"

smabie — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 17:22:03 +0000

Don't most array languages have first class functions?

New comment by smabie in "An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes"

smabie — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:00:47 +0000

LTCM wasn't really an options selling fund though selling equity options did become a big trade for them

Also they were more of advisors in the fund then anything else

New comment by smabie in "An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes"

smabie — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:58:34 +0000

Safer bet would be to hold short term treasures.

New comment by smabie in "An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes"

smabie — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:57:31 +0000

Why? the mean can be negative?

New comment by smabie in "Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx"

smabie — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 04:38:05 +0000

Turns out mediocre code is fine most of the time though

New comment by smabie in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

smabie — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:21:07 +0000

Or you could beat the guy up

New comment by smabie in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

smabie — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:20:06 +0000

With a 10% edge you really don't need to be very good

And in fact if these guys were good they wouldn't be banning people at all

New comment by smabie in "I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (No Visuals/Sound)"

smabie — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:56:41 +0000

Actually in reality these so called professionals will diagnose you almost immediately

New comment by smabie in "I made a game you can play without anyone knowing (No Visuals/Sound)"

smabie — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:55:29 +0000

Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.

New comment by smabie in "The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia"

smabie — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:47:22 +0000

Having had a few interactions with the Indonesian government, the Netherlands should have just kept them.

New comment by smabie in "Desert Racers Demolish Art Carved by Ancient People in Chile"

smabie — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:05:13 +0000

Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways

New comment by smabie in "Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation"

smabie — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 20:23:14 +0000

No chance they spend the most on leisure activities. Definitely it's baby boomers.

New comment by smabie in "Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake"

smabie — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:08:11 +0000

People like to play these games and thus probably good for societies

World would be pretty full without competitive games / sports

New comment by smabie in "Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake"

smabie — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:06:13 +0000

Could they ever operate without the gambling?

New comment by smabie in "A MiniGolf game for Palm OS"

smabie — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:56:35 +0000

If you're laser focused on a end product then learning can happen remarkably quickly.

New comment by smabie in "New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike"

smabie — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 22:45:13 +0000

Useful in society says a lot?

New comment by smabie in "New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike"

smabie — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:21:02 +0000

Your entire comment basically talks about how a Yale degree means you probably better tho?

New comment by smabie in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

smabie — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:09:40 +0000

If you're truly underpaid for your experience and location then you should be able to get a new higher paying job easily. And if you can't easily get one well maybe you aren't underpaid.