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Except that I see no indication this is a Wall Street Journal article. The site is Ars Technica; the by-line says "By Felix Salmon (wired.com), Jon Stokes" and
by atuladhar 16y ago
Except that I see no indication this is a Wall Street Journal article. The site is Ars Technica; the by-line says "By Felix Salmon (wired.com), Jon Stokes" and the end of the article says "Felix Salmon (felix@felix salmon.com) is a blogger for Reuters."
- chrisaycock 16y agoI think what @w1ntermute means is that we can expect Ars to screw-up finance stories just as the WSJ screws up tech stories. Kind of an admonition for when journalists choose to venture beyond their expertise.
- w1ntermute 16y agoYeah, sorry I didn't make that clearer. I made the comment while this[0] poorly researched/written WSJ tech article was still on my mind. 0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086738 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086738
- mediaman 16y agoThat's odd; Felix Salmon writes almost exclusively for the financial industry, and used to run his own blog. Reuters hired him for his finance industry audience. It's surprising that he would make elementary errors regarding his industry of primary coverage.
- ggruschow 16y agoIt's easy to be wrong when it's so hard to make out what's right. Algorithmic traders are unusually secretive about their modes of operation. The primary knowledge dissemination mechanism is via employees moving.
- jrockway 16y agoUh, but the Wikipedia article on the topic has the relevant information in this case.