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by vide0star 9y ago
Tl;dr No The field of probability was invented by largely French philosophers wanting to understand the math behind casino games. Casino games are nothing more (or less) than pure math. The 'unethical' part of casino comes from op
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by vide0star 11y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile ONSITE We're working on a financial exchange to trade events, mostly sports. Open source/linux stack. We have a self-management system, no bosses. For more info: ht
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by vide0star 11y ago
Smarkets uses erlang extensively.
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by vide0star 12y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded company with a small, agile development team, an
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by vide0star 12y ago
We have a flat structure with no technical managers at Smarkets (London). Engineers self-organise into projects. Projects are self-directed and members of the project appoint a lead and have quantitative goals. Salaries will be set from ano
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by vide0star 12y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded company with a small, agile development team, an
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by vide0star 12y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-fund
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by vide0star 12y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-fund
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by vide0star 12y ago
Favorites win every game! Try doing your March Madness basketball bracket like that and you will not get very far. Saying the 1st and 2nd seed teams will be in the final is not a reasonable prediction.
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by vide0star 13y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-fund
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by vide0star 13y ago
Smarkets, London, VP of Engineering and Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition.
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by vide0star 13y ago
Smarkets, London, VP of Engineering and Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition.
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by vide0star 13y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded co
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by vide0star 14y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python, Erlang & Mobile Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded co
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by vide0star 14y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python & Erlang Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded company wi
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by vide0star 14y ago
Smarkets, London, Software Engineer, Python & Erlang Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern betting exchange with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. We're a well-funded company wi
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by vide0star 14y ago
London: Python and Erlang Engineers, FT, not remote Smarkets ( https://smarkets.com ) Smarkets is a real-time online trading platform with an Erlang backend and Python frontend. Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering
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by vide0star 14y ago
London: Python and Erlang Engineers, FT, not remote Smarkets ( https://smarkets.com ) Smarkets is a real-time online trading platform with an Erlang backend and Python frontend. Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering
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by vide0star 14y ago
London: Python and Erlang Engineers Smarkets ( https://smarkets.com ) Smarkets is a real-time online trading platform with an Erlang backend and Python frontend. Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a modern bettin
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by vide0star 14y ago
A review of a review?
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by vide0star 15y ago
Casino Jack documentary is a pretty good insight into the more unfortunate side of the lobbying process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Jack_and_the_United_Stat...
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by vide0star 15y ago
This is too general to be helpful. I think it's dangerous to try to distill entrepreneurship to a few bullet points of advice. Starting a company is complicated and nuanced. It takes years of hardwork. It's great to pass on experience of fa
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by vide0star 15y ago
It's interesting that this question keeps getting mod'd up and then mod'd back down again. Elephant in the room? For as successful as Tumblr's growth has been, my guess that it's in large part due to the platform distributing a bazillion
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by vide0star 15y ago
What percentage of Tumblr traffic is pornography?
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by vide0star 15y ago
This is further evidence the industry should be regulated and taxed in the US. The amount of money following around the poker/betting/online gambling industry is immense and there's no reason with a little oversight that this mess can be a
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by vide0star 15y ago
A few of my favourite docs: Spellbound: story about kids entering a spelling bee - great film about the fabric of America Fog of War: Former Sec of Defence talking about war Capitalism- a love story: humorous look at our economic system Pla
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by vide0star 15y ago
We use Erlang at Smarkets.com for a lot of things including a trading exchange
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Programming the real time web (slides as demo)(dibi2011.intranation.com)
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by vide0star 16y ago
Smarkets in London: http://smarkets.com Real-time trading platform. Python frontend, Erlang backend. Smarkets is one of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Tech Startups to watch in Europe and was shortlisted for the Startups Awards.
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by vide0star 16y ago
There's a lot of FUD surrounding the topic of high frequency trading (lowercase). Much more important to stability and sanctity of markets is transparency and effective regulation. Traders by design are trained to find inefficiencies to e

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