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Great documentary about Treblinka, the death camp in which one-third of the killings occurred. It's not talked about very often, so it's refreshing to get an in-depth look:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFq--lStmgs


Quote from an interview with Hunsader on CNBC regarding this topic:

   Q (CNBC): Should long-term investors care about milliseconds?

   A (Hunsader): Yes, they should.


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The whistleblower (Hunsader) is the authority being quoted there, not CNBC.


Hunsader is basically an authority on conspiracy theories and little more.


That's not true. Even people who don't like Hunsader's analysis (and there are lots of those people) tend to acknowledge that his operation generates good data.


I agree with the previous poster. As someone who works in the field, I find a lot of the analysis very conspiratorial when often the correct explanation is somebody had a bug.

"Never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough" -- Hanlon's Razor


often the correct explanation is somebody had a bug

That's true in general. But there are literally billions of dollars in play every day on Wall Street. One quip I've heard is IIRC "there are no coincidences on Wall Street".

Never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough

Wall Street does not, in general, employ stupid people. Stoned, perhaps (c.f. Jimmy Cayne), but not stupid.


I welcome debate over specific topics. I demand specific examples from wild accusations. Since I've published over 3000 pages (and have never had to retract a single page), you have plenty to chose from. BTW, what have you published?


OK that's fair. The data is good. But the theories on top of that data....not so much.


Agreed. I don't see how you could construe my comment as any sort of endorsement of CNBC.


Ok, and...?


"Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff.


Well put. What a disgusting person Nicole Sanchez is. Hopefully the next company will know better than to hire someone so destructive.


Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Please don't do this again.


Isn't it though? Nicole Sanchez and Danilo Campos are openly advocating racial hatred while creating a toxic environment. If I worked there I would leave too. Never again, Github. There are too many good alternatives out there for me to support this fallen star.


and "we" while you're at it.


Does anyone have an idea of what the dropout rate is for the typical bootcamp program? Seems like it would be hard to accurately measure, but perhaps there's an "industry insider" lurking around here.


This depends significantly by program but at AppAcademy the attrition rate was around ~6%.


In my cohort our attrition rate was 16%, but I think ours was unusually high.

I'm pretty happy with a/A though. I can't speak for every program, but it seems we cover a lot more than most. That said, I think people need to come into it with more to be successful - I know other programs take folks with absolutely zero experience.

Only a few of us had any kind of CS background though. I was one of another 16% in my cohort who had any idea about different data structures, Big O, etc.


I'd say it's about 1 in 20.


I'm not sure she can design well at all. The tiny, light gray text on the white background is painful to read.



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