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Re:1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month on Sunday November 06, 2011 @04:02AM (#3202213)
I've heard of a trading company doing something like this: they parse Bloomberg's news stream for keywords and place orders accordingly.

Not sure they'd be able to connect flood in Taiwan with, say, Seagate stock based on Seagate NOT having plants in TW. Shorting stocks of the companies in electronics industry or some index like NASDAQ is feasible, though.

Re:Intel developers create shitty code too on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:46AM (#2831290)
oh man...

Recently, while telling you about check of another project

What did you try to say? Was that anything like 'Recently when I told you how we checked some project...'?

it is a very quality code

should be 'high-quality'

you just not only see a puddle, but

'not only do you see a puddle, but...'

etc etc etc

It's nice to see an English-language technical blog from Russia, but man, PLEASE, improve your English.

Re:Intel developers create shitty code too on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:39AM (#2831282)
Why not post the direct link to your blog? There's nothing on reddit ATM, so it's just another layer to click through without any added value.
Re:I am an HFT Programmer on Monday August 01, 2011 @04:04AM (#2831212)
People see market makers as scalpers when in fact they're providing a valuable service: they're creating liquidity.

The problem is, in the trading companies no one cares about liquidity (like, say, people at Google would care about search results quality). The thing they care about most is just money and all the nice things you can spend your money on - cars, entertainment, bars, discos... no one cares about the thing they do. So actually this point about liquidity really looks like a mere excuse to me.

Re:Ask HN: what makes a good developer? on Sunday July 17, 2011 @01:19PM (#2773678)
Great answer, thanks!

I suspected some of this stuff, and it's nice to know that other people also see that and it's not just me being paranoid.

Re:Ask HN: what makes a good developer? on Friday July 15, 2011 @12:58PM (#2768145)
Thanks a lot, great answer!

I indeed solved some problems in a more complex way than it was necessary - though I wasn't proud of it.

Ask HN: what makes a good developer?

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