Having wasted 6 years of my life intensively working to create an algorithmic trading system (and failing to make it consistently profitable), what they have here is the easy part. You need a system for discovering strategies. That's were almost all your effort will go. The simulator for backtesting, integrating with a broker, etc. is such a small part of it, if you're serious about it, you're probably better off writing your own.
Readit Newsbproctor commented on NautilusTrader: Open-source algorithmic trading platform nautilustrader.io/... · Posted by u/Lwrless
I still regret missing Michael Scott's 05-05-05 party. It only happens once every billion years.
bproctor commented on Ask HN: If Apple integrated Time Machine with iCloud, would you use it? · Posted by u/BugsJustFindMe
I don't know what I'm missing, but I've tried to use Time Machine many times over the past decade and every time it's the same thing. After a few weeks, it forgets what it's doing and has to rebuild the backup from scratch.
bproctor commented on Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing? · Posted by u/trhoad
As managers, we've had many individuals tell us "everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new." So we often hear "I'm fine" and translate that to "I'm bored/unhappy/disengaged but I'm not telling you that because I don't think it's in my interest to reveal dissatisfaction to my manager."
The first step is creating enough trust and openness in the relationship to get past this communication impasse.
Promotion ladders are one (of many) tools for expressing what the company desires of its employees. For employees seeking advancement, they also work as a tool for discovering an employee's motivation. If promotion isn't the motivation - express what is the motivation. Figuring out that someone loves the puzzle of debugging, or takes pride in being the expert, or is a 9-5 journeyman who wants a stable, competitive salary for their contribution can be the key to having a fruitful conversation.
Once both sides are honest about motivation and satisfaction (the manager obviously also needs/wants something from the employee...) then there's space for adult-to-adult conversations about how and if those motivations line up.
In my experience, managers rarely turn away skilled, drama-free, reliable contributors. But we know our employees aren't totally truthful/open with us about these sensitive topics - so we don't take "I'm fine... leave me alone" at face value.
If you keep prying after "I'm fine... leave me alone" then you'll quickly become the reason for them going from "fine" to "not fine".
bproctor commented on Some Britons crave permanent pandemic lockdown economist.com/britain/202... · Posted by u/edward
Airplane hijackings and bombings used to be a relatively frequent occurrence. One can argue that the security is not worth the loss of freedom (e.g. not being able to bring a gun on a plane). But it doesn’t seem to follow that the security is merely theater.
As a former TSA agent, it's most definitely theater. We used to practice by trying to hide something and see if we could get through. The xray operator didn't stand a chance even when they knew it was coming. This was over 10 years ago so maybe it's improved? I doubt it.
bproctor commented on So you want to write your own CSV code (2014) thomasburette.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Well sure, if you're writing a generic CSV parser, it's very complicated. But if you know what your input looks like, CSV can be one of the simplest format to parse.
bproctor commented on Animals killed since opening this page justone.earth/food/... · Posted by u/mavsman
> I can absolutely understand why someone would therefore conclude it's morally wrong to use animals for food. I'm just not sure I agree.
Why not? Your comment makes it clear that industrial animal agriculture is wrong (not to mention ecologically disastrous), but then your last sentence makes a 180 out of nowhere. It feels extreme at first, but I'd like to assure you that reducing your consumption of these industries is possible (and sometimes even easy!).
I thought he explained why not in the second paragraph.
bproctor commented on Complexity Has to Live Somewhere ferd.ca/complexity-has-to... · Posted by u/mononcqc
Complexity can easily be manufactured. Comparing it to something as fundamental as energy is pure bollocks.
Heres an amusing and simple example of manufactured complexity: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
I think the analogy to energy is pretty good. Like the FizzBuzz thing, you can also build a machine that has a lot of energy but doesn't accomplish anything useful.
bproctor commented on Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management grocy.info/... · Posted by u/jka
I love the idea of this, but in reality I can’t imagine the time and energy required to scan and keep everything up-to-date is offset by the benefits. Perhaps a current user can prove me wrong?
Agree, I love the idea and wanted to make this work for my home, but from personal experience I'd say most people would find this more trouble than it's worth.
I wrote something very similar to this a couple years ago for our household. It runs on a raspberry pi and uses a barcode scanner and when we go shopping we scan everything in and then scan things out as we use them. We live far away from town and shopping trips are rare, big all day events. It's easy to forget to scan things out and then things that don't have barcodes like vegetables are hard to track so we don't bother. Manually entering it all in and then remembering to remove it while cooking is too much trouble (we tried).
I would add that you should have a backup plan for preparing any holiday meal using a camping stove because the power could go out an hour into roasting a turkey. In fact don’t invite anyone over unless you’ve confirmed ahead of time that they don’t mind sleeping in the same room, together with your family, in front of the wood stove. This could happen even on a clear day. Don’t rely on the electricity in the winter ever.