Serving the Quantitative Finance Community

Search found 13054 matches

by farmer
August 30th, 2016, 11:25 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Earth to end in about a month
Replies: 85
Views: 6619

Earth to end in about a month

At least two objects, which a combined width of perhaps several thousand feet, are headed directly toward Earth at around 1 million miles per hour, from the direction of Tabby's star. Traveling at this rate, you can expect them in around a month. This first silhouette of the objects was captured on ...
by farmer
April 2nd, 2016, 2:58 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Grammar-Pattern Programmers: Is Over-Abstraction Delivering Projects Faster Or Slower?
Replies: 187
Views: 82625

Grammar-Pattern Programmers: Is Over-Abstraction Delivering Projects Faster Or Slower?

<t>*******I am working on this essay to fight back against the wave of terrible programmers who are hailed as geniuses and threaten to destroy the world. Comments requested.*******The other day, as always, I asked my friend the exact syntax to write a join query. This rekindled a debate where he has...
by farmer
December 29th, 2015, 4:31 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: the second stage of science is reproduction
Replies: 2
Views: 2772

the second stage of science is reproduction

<t>I'm looking for a guinea pig with $2,000 so I can try to double your money, no fees involved. I made like 900% last year, and if anything that understates how predictable the markets seemed. So for scientific interest, the first step is to try to reproduce this phenomenon with someone else's mone...
by farmer
May 13th, 2014, 10:40 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: funny racism news
Replies: 113
Views: 14240

funny racism news

<t>At least I no longer have to suffer shame when I use firefox. They just pushed an update on me with the logo removed. It looks almost like Google Chrome. I had to dig around a while to figure out what browser is this.Now I can be a hateful bigot in secret.Edit: I wanted to post instructions to te...
by farmer
May 13th, 2014, 1:13 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: funny racism news
Replies: 113
Views: 14240

funny racism news

<t>The left has gone too far trying to demagogue their enemies. The robots who carry their message have become dysfunctional.I mentioned in another thread how my friend had some college girls over and one of them wanted to have sex with me. But when she found out I support Republicans she snapped, a...
by farmer
May 12th, 2014, 8:48 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: kids who can't get jobs know a lot and have strong values
Replies: 5
Views: 4488

kids who can't get jobs know a lot and have strong values

<t>There is a sort of funny story on marketwatch.com. I will just quote the whole thing, though I promise you, there are some good ads and content over there where it came from.QuoteInternational Monetary Fund director Christine Lagarde withdrew Monday from a commencement address at Smith College af...
by farmer
May 12th, 2014, 10:28 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: funny racism news
Replies: 113
Views: 14240

funny racism news

<t>The NFL has a big problem with this gay player kissing his boyfriend with cake and icing on his face. It would be bad enough if Tom Brady were kissing Gisele Bundchen with cake on his face. It might make me puke, but at least the chicks dig it. But when a seventh-tier player who cannot even jump ...
by farmer
May 12th, 2014, 10:19 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nigeria
Replies: 160
Views: 158929

Nigeria

<t>The headline says "A Boko Haram video emerged today purportedly showing some of the kidnapped Nigerian girls and the terror group's leader declaring they have converted to Islam." But to me, it looks like it is the schoolgirls who have converted the group's leader to dressing like a sissy pretty ...
by farmer
May 11th, 2014, 7:34 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: End of bitcoin?
Replies: 917
Views: 199303

End of bitcoin?

<r>I wouldn't call it a genius idea, but I had a lightbulb light up about a bitcoin private ledger. So I searched "bitcoin bank" on google and the first result was:Quoteflexcoin | the bitcoin bank - Bitcoin Bank - Access Bitcoins ...<URL url="http://www.flexcoin.com/Flexcoin">www.flexcoin.com/Flexco...
by farmer
May 11th, 2014, 1:58 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: funny racism news
Replies: 113
Views: 14240

funny racism news

<t>We are in this crazy era of group politics. It was headlines all yesterday that a gay guy got drafted in the NFL. A violent black gay guy. One interesting facet of it, is the thugging of gay culture.My friend reminded me that the 1980's was the gayest era in the US. It was absolutely flaming. Pop...
by farmer
May 10th, 2014, 8:18 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nigeria
Replies: 160
Views: 158929

Nigeria

<t>Isn't "vampire squid" a Jewish slur?Anyway, there is something disturbing about this wikipedia phrase I can't put my finger on:QuoteLloyd Blankfein was born in the Bronx borough of New York City, to a Jewish familyMaybe it is the use of "to" rather than "in." Or maybe it is its use showing some d...
by farmer
May 10th, 2014, 10:13 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: nothing good comes of not watching television
Replies: 20
Views: 6549

nothing good comes of not watching television

<t>When I lived in South Beach, there was a TV channel called fTV or fashion television. At that time it mostly showed models walking down runways all day. It is the only TV show I can remember watching on a regular basis. It was hard to turn off, for fear of missing something.In a way, it was like ...
by farmer
May 10th, 2014, 12:44 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: malaysia
Replies: 293
Views: 24023

malaysia

<t>I read this analysis skeptical of the satellite doppler interpretation. One thing I have not heard mentioned is jitter and drift in the frequency of the crystal used to create the pings.In cellphones, a cheap crystal is used which cannot hold a frequency at all. So each time it registers with a t...
by farmer
May 9th, 2014, 8:48 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: funny racism news
Replies: 113
Views: 14240

funny racism news

<t>I was at the dive bar last night, the Heat game was on like nine televisions. Rather than the usual handful of mopes and losers, the place was packed with huge fat guys of all shades.So in walks this tall old black guy with a Black History Month tshirt showing MLK, Obama, and Mandela. That stuff ...
by farmer
May 9th, 2014, 12:38 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Nigeria
Replies: 160
Views: 158929

Nigeria

As a young, healthy person, I am thinking I should join Boko Haram over Obama Ayers.