maverhick

Nope, an individual who has built most of these things during their free time. I do spend a lot of my time trading and that helps me evolve strategies from a traders perspective and not a 'quant's' perspective

Thanks, this is quite bang on. Any good stuff is getting banned/archived/trolled and I am really missing on talking to people about the technicalities of some of the trading systems that I am building. When I mentioned an 'advanced community', I meant discussing with devs their experience in working with tick data, data storage, in memory processing. Qs like can they ingest tick data for a few thousand symbols and what kind of latencies exist in converting to candle sticks, what is the the stack that they trade using. Technicalities in risk management, handling of errors, directional, non directional strategies and in-depth conversations on almost all of the above topics and more

Make it x times the Brittanica, y times the Oxford Dictionary, stacked z books xy times to the moon

Can they rewrite stuff on glass? Or is it a one way write?

4chan uses google analytics? doesn't the free version stop at 10M pages? Does 4chan pay 150K/year for google analytics?

"around the interwebs" "baggies of drugs" "things that go BOOM"

Seems legit.

In the context of this article, it is only true for people who care as much, have spent years caring about their work and continue to do so. Surviving sufficiently long enough in the world where you get to a point where you are truly awesome at your craft and still get to make these choices and worry about them and think about them and have those choices bother you is the realm of very few fantastic people.

>TL;DR - Zynga's profits are a sign that they have doubled down on acquisitions to counter-balance a market shift from web to mobile.

That is not the right summary. Aquisitions are not expenses. They are spent from the 'capital/capital reserves'. So the act of acquiring doesn't hurt the company's profitability directly. However if all the acquired companies are making losses, those losses will now become zynga's losses. So right now the cost of running zynga is huge and that is not too good a thing as compared to its revenues

and they were ex-googlers by the way.