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ZNGA All time low (2.75)(google.com)
1 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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FB New Low (20.87)(google.com)
6 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
Facebook requirement is a nonstarter. Even if it cuts down spam, requiring FB already eliminates a good portion of the population.
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by veyron 14y ago
This is not a single-round game. The financial markets represent effectively an infinite game (in game theory jargon), where you assume that the operation isn't closing today. Therefore, you have to consider both the short-term effects an
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by veyron 14y ago
Maybe that info should be on the page itself somewhere. I wouldn't know to look at the github to find your guard script: https://github.com/haskelllive/haskelllive/blob/master/Guard...
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by veyron 14y ago
His business is in facebook ads ...
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by veyron 14y ago
A quick scan on ebay shows that you were charging less than the buy-it-now prices. One other difference is that you were advertising for an event on facebook (as opposed to an external site). Do you pay per click to the facebook page or pa
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by veyron 14y ago
ZNGA also hit new low (2.85): http://www.google.com/finance?q=znga
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FB all-time low (21.86)(google.com)
5 points by veyron 14y ago|3 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
I gathered the vim part. Is he pressing a separate key to run the stuff in the lower-right window or is there a vim hook to do that automatically?
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by veyron 14y ago
What is the editor / configuration used in the video ?
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by veyron 14y ago
UBS was rendered an undue risk when the first order didn't acknowledge. Sending future orders was UBS mistake, despite the eventual performance.
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by veyron 14y ago
You may actually want to send multiple orders, which is why pretrade duplicate checks usually assume a fixed window (2 orders of the same price/quantity/side in a 50 msec window) For example, sending a large order to the market looks differ
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by veyron 14y ago
The real problem, according to UBS, is that in absence of an acknowledgement they sent extra orders. UBS improperly acted. The first rule when you set up risk limits is to consider both actual position (acknowledged) and theoretical positio
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by veyron 14y ago
Who produces the high quality photos and video on the site?
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ZNGA new 52 week low(google.com)
4 points by veyron 14y ago|0 comments
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by veyron 14y ago
Will we ever see an ad from apple as epic as the original macintosh 1984 ad?
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by veyron 14y ago
"So we did what any good developers would do. We built our own analytic software. Here's what we found: on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on." Later: "So we did what any good developers would do. We
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by veyron 14y ago
Overall it's hard to say whether google wins or loses overall by this. In absence of a real competitor in the search ad space, people generally will swallow google's fee hikes ...
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by veyron 14y ago
Is there a single tool that can take access/error logs and compile these stats? This sounds like something relatively useful ...
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by veyron 14y ago
"failure to load referenced CSS or image files" -- is there a way for bots (in particular, mechanize in perl/python) to also download those files? "100% failure on Captcha challenges" -- are captchas generally deployed on click-through ads?
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by veyron 14y ago
Original source: http://allthingsd.com/20120729/court-case-offers-rare-glimps...
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by veyron 14y ago
"We built a page logger. Any time a page was loaded, we'd keep track of it. You know what we found? The 80% of clicks we were paying for were from bots." How do you tell if it's a bot? Just by user-agent string or repeated slamming by IP a
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by veyron 14y ago
That's you. Lots of people pumped Facebook and got in expecting an IPO pop. For example, even the bearish analysts believed in the pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Twxv1V50s Short conversation on the matter: http://cl.ly/image/0K2
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by veyron 14y ago
"I think most people understand that shares in tech startup IPOs are a fairly high risk business." That's not clear ... Forget about the multitude of analysts who were way off the mark (Lou Kerner, for example, called for $200B Facebook) fo
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by veyron 14y ago
The right way to do it is: $ ssh -N -L <localport>:localhost:<serverport> <user>@<yourserver> and $ ssh -N -L 5000:localhost:5000 bob@bobsbookwonderland.com (the : is standard syntax used
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by veyron 14y ago
The "insanely lucky" part focuses more in initial traction and less on future actions. He got in at the right time in the right milieu. THAT part is luck. You take it as a foregone conclusion that the social revolution would happen, but
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by veyron 14y ago
The fact that they had to bring someone else in means that they thought it necessary to evaluate him differently. Had nothing to do with Mensa.
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by veyron 14y ago
In many industries they won't consider you without a degree. And if you lie, you will be caught (there's a clearinghouse specifically for this)
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by veyron 14y ago
They aren't paying YC for most of it. I expect those types of pieces rise due to excitement about the process or the particular technologies used For example, some posts talk about Puppet or Chef in the title. I didn't recognize those the f

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