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by balbeit 13y ago
I think you may be mistaken. High-frequency trading is becoming less profitable as an industry, but algorithmic trading in general is most definitely not.
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by balbeit 14y ago
Did you read the article? It discusses the lack of 4G/LTE support for two full paragraph at the beginning... "It’s as close to perfect as I’ve seen any Android smartphone get. But the Nexus 4 falls just short of perfection due to one major
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by balbeit 14y ago
Can you explain that situation? As I read it, it goes like this. Someone is willing to buy at $1.50, and someone is willing to sell at $1.60. If an investor comes along that wants to buy right now, he has to buy from the seller at $1.60. Bu
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by balbeit 14y ago
I would wager that it is because when creating named variables, people tend to start with the low integers, like var1, var2, etc... And when using constants, they will often use maximums up to a threshold, like 999.99. So the middle range (
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by balbeit 14y ago
Actually, the WSJ is correct. Helium has a lower density than air, while a head has a higher density. Hence, they will move in opposite directions.
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by balbeit 14y ago
From a shareholder's perspective, does this mean Barnes & Noble is now, in essence, an e-book reader manufacturer/distributor with a retail presence? And the retail presence just happens to be doing terribly at everything except selling
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by balbeit 14y ago
FTA: Facebook "paid 23 million shares at $30.89 a share plus $300 million cash for Instagram for a total of $1,010,470,000."
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by balbeit 15y ago
But by having people click on those ads, the companies that are advertising (which could be and are companies actively engaged in "physical" products) are acquiring paying customers and thus have greater ability to fund their products. Spac
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by balbeit 15y ago
This is the first iteration of my first-ever released project, done over the last week. It allows you to sync your mobile browser to your desktop browser. I hope to expand the product and overall make it easier for people to switch working
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Show HN: BrowseOn - continuous web browsing, from desktop to mobile (MVP)(browseonapp.com)
3 points by balbeit 15y ago|1 comments
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by balbeit 15y ago
This isn't Google. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5084900/how-can-i-reserve...
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by balbeit 15y ago
I always love learning little tidbits about Python like these. Thanks! Another I found quite useful: instead of collections.defaultdict, you can use the dict's get() method to set a default value if the key doesn't exist. get() takes the ke