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  1. Front-running is where a broker gets an order from a customer and makes the same trade on his own account first, before it can move the price.

    Nothing directly related to HFT. You could do it with pen and paper, and no doubt back in the olden days they did.

  2. Recycling a New Zealand joke on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not all perfect. Look at who they've got for neighbours.

  3. Re:Been there. Not fun. on Outsourced IT Workers Ask Sen Feinstein For Help, Get Form Letter in Return (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    You probably had grounds to force the payment of the severance anyway, in your case, as its a UK company and under British rules severance

    Bullshit. I award you zero points, etc.

  4. Elephants on PC Industry Is Now On a Two-Year Downslide (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The elephants in the room: systemd & win 10.

  5. Where is that? In the US it'd be unconstitutional, in the EU it'd be against human rights, and anywhere it'd be "Sooooooo unfair!".

  6. Only LUDDITE students read books and write with pencils, etc etc APPS!

  7. A repair your PC video series is more accessible than a giant hardback tech manual, for example.

    You must be a millennial. The rest of us read "loosen the screw" and we know which way to turn it.

  8. Re:Why does Iggy Pop even Fucking Bother? on Sprint To Provide 1 Million Students With Free Internet, Mobile Devices (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You go to school, get good grades, get a good job, stay out of trouble, all to make a good living and enjoy some luxuries.

    # Dum dum daah, dum dum didah dum, Dum dum daah, dum dum didah dum, LUST FOR LIFE!

  9. ... Linux doesn't "have" a CEO.

    Don't let him hear you, or he'll have another tantrum.

  10. Re: New and Improved!!! on FreeBSD 11.0 Released (freebsdfoundation.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The systemd developers have better things to do than support a dead OS.

    Like killing a live one?

  11. Re:mdsolar on Is Britain Secretly Funding Its Nuclear Submarine Program? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, but a broken clock is right twice a day?

    No it isn't. A *stopped* one is, on average.

  12. Re:"Now available to download" link on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    pyone

    Is that a combination of pyrotechnic + phone?

    I think Samsung have a patent on that.

  13. Re:Keeping up with the emojis on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    English is the current lingua franca

    Je vois ce que vous avez fait là.

  14. Re: Keeping up with the emojis on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd say that's more of a feature than a bug.

  15. A variation on Betteridge's Law? on Google Chrome 55 May Use Less Memory (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    Indeed. And while it's "arguably the best browser" one might well argue otherwise.

    Does the article actually say anything?

  16. Accept headers schmaccept schmeaders. on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    I can see why this is important to Google, since they seem to like showing me ads in the wrong language.

  17. Be optimistic. Also, yo dawg. on Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production Temporarily (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Third time luck!

  18. Re:Really? on O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    They're relatively recent, but this lot are like "Left-handed data APIs for millenials: A devops manifesto"

  19. Cardigan snackbar!

  20. Re:What?! on Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe in fairy tale land this sounds like something that pretty much does itself via an "expert system" driven by a "rules engine" that you wire up without being a "real developer" but that's what most developers I've met do.

    That's because you're not a real developer either. Crivens! Och, I'd bet a whole shilling you put sugar on your porridge, the noo.

    If someone could come up with that, they could become very rich. Getting the users to specify precisely what the system needs to do might be a hurdle, but I reckon Elon Musk could solve it.

  21. Re: Barriers to entry on Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    Plugging numbers into a calculator using someone else's formula isn't even arithmetic.

  22. Re:I forgot that being rockstar is so elementary on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, there is an outside chance GP was being sarcastic.

  23. Re:I guess they don't have any thing better to do on Microsoft Is Redesigning the Paint App For Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Shut the FUCK up, Lennart.

  24. Re:Double edged sword on The Real Reasons Companies Won't Hire Telecommuters (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not overly simplified, it's called sarcasm. However, is that or is that not the fundamental justification for offshoring anything that's not explicitly banned by the DoD?

    I've never done 100% telecommuting. I did one job where a blind eye was turned to the odd occasional day at home - this was nice, there's always childcare issues, transport strikes and shit - until one guy abused it (he had the odd occasional day where he'd turn up) and got everyone banned. Within a month two good experienced people left.

    I used to do 4 on site 1 at home. With a bit of planning I'd do the touchy-feely-requirement-gathery stuff there and all the solo hacking at home. I used to do 4 hours sometimes and still get more actual work done than the rest of the week put together.

  25. Re:What?! on Linux Foundation Shares LinuxCon Highlights (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 2

    You really think that all it takes to convert the average soccer mom from third most dangerous thing on the road to perfect driver is a physics class?