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by andr 16y ago
If you have direct market access you can match particular orders in the order book, even if they are out of the money. Your friend would fill your $0.01 order at $0.01 and move the last trade price.
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by andr 16y ago
That's the best part. Only the trades that are directly related to the stocks that dropped are being reversed. Even if your trades on the stock are reversed, you have still moved the market and executed your DJIA options.
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by andr 16y ago
Standard trading systems have stoploss orders (sell if price < X), which don't have an option for a lowest price at which to sell.
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by andr 16y ago
Theory: 1) Short DJIA. 2) Pick some stocks and place buy orders at $0.01. 3) Get a friend to fill those orders for you at $0.01, taking the loss. Call it a trader error. 4) A lot of poorly written algorithms, which take into account the las
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by andr 16y ago
While I agree with the spirit of the message to Steve, the attack on Apple not sharing back open source software modifications is out of place. Darwin is open source. WebKit is open source and actively developed by Apple, giving competitors
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by andr 16y ago
Apple knows as much about MobileMe users as Google knows about Gmail users.
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by andr 16y ago
Apple sits on the steering committee of the police unit that entered Chen's house. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1795
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by andr 16y ago
Apple has a steady market single-digit market share in personal computers - a cash cow. Yet they have a growing, serious, and volatile market share in mobile devices - a star.
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Android Passes iPhone Web Traffic In U.S.(techcrunch.com)
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Spotify launches social networking integration today(eu.techcrunch.com)
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by andr 16y ago
Right now the burden of establishing Earth-alien communication pretty much lies on the aliens, so it doesn't matter what we do. Our conscious attempts in contacting other world are so feeble in their scope and reach that it hardly matters i
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by andr 16y ago
Adjust for inflation (2.8% mean for 1997 to now [1]) and the $330k value of a PowerBook goes down to $230k in 1997 dollars. [1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+inflation+from+1997+...
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by andr 16y ago
Replace Coda and BBEdit with Vim and Emacs (or vice versa) and you'll see why posts like that are pretty pointless. You can't argue with taste.
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Watch Startup Lessons Learned (Eric Ries' conference) live now(justin.tv)
1 points by andr 16y ago|1 comments
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by andr 16y ago
It's peculiar that they would A/B test all those changes at once, instead of testing them one by one to see what's good and what's not.
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by andr 16y ago
What is the success rate of startup weekend startups?
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by andr 16y ago
While not exactly news, his account is filled with a continuos stream of truly interesting philosophical ideas, 140 characters each. Quite the contrast to the typical wordy philosophical discourse.
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Alain de Botton's Twitter Account(twitter.com)
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by andr 16y ago
It's not only airlines that would be affected. Think about UPS and FedEx. Think about major exporters of fresh fruits, fish, etc. Most of those are transported by planes. The "build on demand" model that companies like Dell operate under wo
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by andr 16y ago
Assuming that the ash layer remains at altitudes over 32,000 ft., would not airlines eventually start flying at lower altitudes, albeit slower, with more stopovers, and more costly?
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by andr 16y ago
That's a great idea. You might want to improve your wording so I know what I'll get extra when I register. Realistically, how far can you get with no ads?
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by andr 16y ago
Summary: If you can't make something people want, because you don't know what that is, make something you want.
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by andr 16y ago
The piracy comparison is bogus. I don't think anyone is worried about Apple suing them for using Flash/MonoTouch/whatever. The problem is investing a month or three into writing an app only for Apple to say "Nope, sorry." Or even worse, get
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by andr 16y ago
What? It won't be magical?
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by andr 17y ago
"If what you produce sucks, the word will get around quick; having used the official Android toolchain won’t save you." This is the biggest weakness in Apple's argument. Watch crowds of developers trying to create their first 3D engine to r
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by andr 17y ago
No, it does not make sense. Instead of trying to build a better service, Apple is just cutting the lifelines of competing services. That is the poster case of unfair competition.
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by andr 17y ago
I would love to see support for HTTP long polling or web sockets, to allow this to be used for real time web apps.
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Lectures in Quantum Computing Since Democritus (U. of Waterloo Course)(scottaaronson.com)
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First test flight scheduled for X-37B mini shuttle(space.com)
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by andr 17y ago
Done! Should kick in after DNS updates.

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