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Sat Sep 20 18:35:17 UTC 2014 <moriarty> if you have a good perception of what will be the populist stance, then you can make a trading move to optimise your profits in response
Sat Sep 20 18:34:42 UTC 2014 <moriarty> it's all about grasping the mindset of the mainstream, and then harvesting that to your advantage
Sat Sep 20 18:34:12 UTC 2014 <moriarty> heh asciilifeform brought up a good point on trading though
Sat Sep 20 18:29:55 UTC 2014 <moriarty> bounce, this calls for a good ol' http://xkcd.com/610/
Sat Sep 20 18:29:17 UTC 2014 <moriarty> lol bounce
Sat Sep 20 18:27:37 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, a lot of the bugs arise typically not from the main objectives by the side-work in getting simple I/O right, etc, a lot of which can really be templated
Sat Sep 20 18:26:43 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, and couldn't agree with it more :)
Sat Sep 20 18:26:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, i see the points made there, make it high level enough that you don't need to get bogged down by the side-work in the midst of pursuing your main objectives
Sat Sep 20 18:22:43 UTC 2014 <moriarty> daybyter, and of course i assume a full-fledged basic mathematical suite to support doing whatever i want to the model
Sat Sep 20 18:22:19 UTC 2014 <moriarty> daybyter, i'm thinking in terms of interest rates, manufacturing activity, GDP delta, CPI, retail sales, etc
Sat Sep 20 18:21:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> daybyter, interesting, i was thinking of perhaps less specific but at the same time more atomic than simple moving averages
Sat Sep 20 18:21:13 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> moriarty: the 'support of the community' - that is, mainstream 'programmer culture' - is pure intellectual poison. the farther from it - the better.
Sat Sep 20 18:20:11 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> moriarty: relevant: http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/not-all-programmers-alike/#comment-3663
Sat Sep 20 18:19:46 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, all the things one takes for granted, the support from community at large is non-existent in a corporate setting :) so what was trivial in popular languages had to be polished up, e.g. good documentation and example codes
Sat Sep 20 18:18:33 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, to be fair it was somewhat of an adjustment coming from the open world of academia and studenthood into proprietary work
Sat Sep 20 18:18:05 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, hah
Sat Sep 20 18:17:42 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, that makes perfect sense
Sat Sep 20 18:17:18 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> moriarty: when you pay $1m for a 'q' license, etc. you are buying out of having to carry out this labour.
Sat Sep 20 18:17:00 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> moriarty: in point of fact, any serious industrial use of a lisp proceeds by first creating just such a language for the system in question, and then programming in it.
Sat Sep 20 18:16:28 UTC 2014 <moriarty> daybyter, so what we ended up doing was using proprietary languages that allow us to atomically describe market conditions with ease