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Re:Ads and articles from UnixWorld Magazine (1992-1996) on Monday May 13, 2013 @11:05AM (#5699052)
OMG, I still have my coherent 3,5"s somewhere... loved it on my superbeefy 386sx
Re:AppGratis Apple AppStore Appeal on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:37AM (#5523735)
Shame on you for trusting apple (or any other vendor) with your business. Develop for open platforms or be ready for things like this to happen.
Re:Freelancer.com: Crazy or Evil? on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:11AM (#5181081)
Matt, your cutomer support team is a disgrace. Your bidding API is the least neeeded API in the known universe. Try googling "freelancer scam".
Re:Freelancer.com: Crazy or Evil? on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:09AM (#5181078)
Evil. Letting API bots bid on every project just leads to jobs going to unscrupulous bidders.. avoid freelancer like plague, both as a buyer and a bidder.
Re:Ask HN: does bitcoin mining pay off? on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:21PM (#5165466)
Don't forget that according to the (non existant) spec there's a finite number of btc. So even if it was profitable (which i doubt), it's guaranteed to stop being viable when every block has been mined.
because Iceland is smaller than hicksville, and basically has naturally provided almost free energy... what happens there cannot be duplicated anywhere else.
Re:Someone got the natural gas report 400 ms early on Friday February 01, 2013 @01:25AM (#5149547)
if the market was architected to be fair, all data releases would happen at midnight london time. it just isn't and will never be...
Re:Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:55AM (#5108882)
If you have alpha your broker will reverse engineer it until their last breath...
Re:Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:54AM (#5108876)
would you share a twitter link so we can be alerted when you release?
Re:Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:52AM (#5108867)
Indeed there is lots that can still be done. Not going to share anything here, but don't worry, I don't believe in backtesting so I'm not implementing it =)
Re:Quantopian Brings Algorithmic Trading To The Masses on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @11:04PM (#5107168)
beat me to it, working on something similar... with a twist. btw they're on github : https://github.com/quantopian