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by sseveran 14y ago
If this is such a huge deal and users don't like it then there should be a market for machines that are not Windows Logo certified and run Linux. Given that there does not seem to be such a large market maybe those people that want to insta
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by sseveran 14y ago
The idea that a single data center can host a highly available service is just wrong.
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by sseveran 14y ago
While the why is important the who is important as well. In any organization of sufficient size there are going to be B grade developers, or even just young developers. It is important to understand if certain people are writing most of the
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by sseveran 14y ago
Not exactly. Hedges can blow up just like any other trade. There is a very gray line between hedging legitimate risks, i.e. moves in interest rates, and speculation that the interest rate will rise. In this case here they were trying to bec
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by sseveran 14y ago
JP Morgan is hardly going out of business.
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by sseveran 14y ago
No. The dominate strategies of HFT firms are market making and related arbitrage such as latency arbitrage between venues. There is nothing nefarious about having a computer do this in general as it is much more efficient than a human doing
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by sseveran 14y ago
What is the correct time interval?
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by sseveran 14y ago
SEO gets crappy websites into Google. HFT serves many purposes, mainly replacing human market makers with computers.
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by sseveran 14y ago
There are many opportunities for institutional investors to trade in exactly the manner you suggest. NASDAQ runs the opening and closing cross as well as other intra-day crosses. Other platforms allow private crosses, dark pools allow cross
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by sseveran 14y ago
The answer is no. Marking side effects is the one thing, probably more than any other that makes haskell awesome for building applications. For instance STM is awesome in Haskell because it is easy for the compiler to see any and all side e
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by sseveran 14y ago
Chain of trusts always require the chain to be secure. In fact there will undoubtedly be future chain of trust attacks on certificates.
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by sseveran 14y ago
For most users I could not agree less.
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by sseveran 14y ago
I can't reveal that, but major ones with an international presence. Most use it for modeling. They do lots of modeling.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Flame used a prefix collision attack that had not been seen before. The concept was demonstrated a couple of years ago but the attack itself was novel. http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-breakth...
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by sseveran 14y ago
Haskell has much more of a group inside of a company will use it as their primary environment then adopting it wholesale. Haskell is used extensively in trading with almost every major bank and hedge fund using it, although no one talks abo
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by sseveran 14y ago
I don't think this provision will work. In practice software developers would then be required to keep the equivalent of lab notebooks and write down everything they do so if there is a lawsuit it can be proved that the invention is indepen
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by sseveran 14y ago
Very different. The cost of coming up with chemical compounds is often quite large. With software most new work is done by very few people.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Has the community tried to buy the info to at least cover nVidia's cost of compiling and releasing documentation?
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by sseveran 14y ago
When AWS goes down people get angry. When NASDAQ goes down different people get angry.
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by sseveran 15y ago
At the point of IPO the capital for a company has already typically been allocated. The financial markets allow the owners of a company to sell their shares to the public and realize profits on their prior investments. After that markets ar