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Comment · 12 years ago
Call me old-fashioned but I shy away from unique platforms precisely because they are, well, unique, as you don't have a lot of vendor choice should you decide to migrate for whatever reason.
Comment · 12 years ago
The classic version of it:
Comment · 12 years ago
What is wrong with piping `ls`?
Comment · 12 years ago
> HFTs and other trading firms actually buy up the order flow from brokerages.
I'm going to ask for a citation on this one.
I remember a similar incident at KRX in 2009, and it resulted in a criminal investigation [1], so that ought to be illegal.
[1] http://www.traderdaily.com/07/koreas-elw-players-get-hfc-wak...
Comment · 12 years ago
RT (of course) gives such a different view from Western media, it may as well be a completely different story. Right now, for example, it tells how "armed extremists sent from Kiev tried to seize government buildings in Crimea".
Comment · 12 years ago
You can also use alt-coin exchanges, e.g. BTC->LTC->BTC, or even multiple exchanges (one to buy, one to sell) to obscure the trail even more.
Comment · 12 years ago
Comparatively few people will read this story. Even fewer will care enough to continue the crusade against the attacker for any prolonged period of time to raise awareness among the potential future audience that this account was stolen.
High chance the story will be quickly forgotten and the account will be re-used.
Comment · 13 years ago
Worth noting that BitBucket had this as long as I can remember.
Comment · 13 years ago
On a related note, I've run into a similar problem in C++, but opposite effect. A lambda won't keep my object alive if I try to capture a shared_ptr member, because C++ lambdas, similarly to blocks, by default capture implicit reference to "this", rather than individual instance variables.
Comment · 13 years ago
This reminds me of a story of Sir Isaac Newton and South Sea Company bubble. He got out early, then watched all his friends get rich, jumped back in again with both feet, lost a fortune. Even smart people are not immune to bubbles.
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/isaac-newton-and-the-south...
Comment · 13 years ago
Conversely, JS programmers I complain about JS gotchas about contend that "once you learn all those horrible gotchas, it's a great language".
Even C++ programmers, at least the ones that had good fortune to have time away from C++, agree that C++ gotchas are unforgivable.
But in general, C++ and JS communities have the biggest cases of Stockholm Syndrome I've seen.
Disclaimer: I'm a recovering C++ programmer.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think what GP is saying is that in emerging markets, or at least in Thailand, there is no "compromise" market segment (and it's not going to appear regardless how much Apple "want" it). Normal people get ultra cheap phones, rich people get high-end iPhones, which is why 5c is a miss.
Comment · 13 years ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is it $700 a month or a week? I'm used to Sydney prices where a 1-bedroom apartment could easily cost around $500 a week.
Comment · 13 years ago
> It might be an interesting failure scenario for algorithmic trading.
It's not how auto trading works. Traded instrument ranges are preset before the algo is started. I've never heard of an algo that tries to pick stocks to trade dynamically based on a name, it would be astoundingly risky.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think it's more likely that LinkedIn mobile app grabs your phone contacts, if you happen to give it permissions to do so.
I've noticed that the "People you may know" section started to contain faceless placeholder entries with emails from my address book (though, I'm not sure if/when I've given the iOS app the address book access).