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That is that commitstrip cartoon... "we'll be able to write a comprehensive spec and bam we don't need programmers anymore"

"and do you know what you call that?" "code, it's called code"

Because professional development is not just for fun

Location probably matters, where are you?

To be fair, in the best of climates that is still searching in a niche market with an attempt to do something new with an engineering experience gap

It confuses me when people talk about frameworks as being totally different. They solve the same problems, slightly differently. It’s not a big lift to learn a new one if you are familiar with one or two already.

Most people don’t do this and won’t start

All you need is some deposits

I love this. Would absolutely buy one if it were for sale. Thanks for posting.

Having lived in Hong Kong for a significant portion of my life, I have a soft spot for the SCMP. However it is owned by Alibaba now, so effectively an arm of the CCP.

Use it wisely to bias western propaganda with eastern.

Sure that means they need half the number of engineers to stand still. Most companies aim to grow not stand still.

“Fixed lump of work fallacy” as noted by commenter above. If a company can get 100% more output they don’t fire half their people so they stand still/get no additional productivity gain.

They produce twice as much and grow.

What forum is this???

Of course they do. And where states' intelligence agencies or militaries overstep their mandates their citizens should know and act accordingly/

States do have secrets. And when those secrets are grave and destructive, their citizens have a right to know about them.

This seems like some real mental gymnastics. Not sure how true the above is, but your argument has some serious holes.

Does the bad entity that is doing bad things have a right to do bad things? No

Does a man exposing the bad entity have a right to do bad things? Also no

Why? To punish and deter.

He exposed terrible things done by large powers, therefore he was persecuted absolutely.

RIP ICQ

Spent a lot of my childhood using it.

The distinction in my mind is HFT is “worse” for market participants because of the front running of large orders between exchanges.

I’d argue this cross exchange arbitrage does still provide some value by keeping prices of securities across exchanges/the world in sync, despite being quite unfair and taking value from those putting in large orders.

Liquidity provided by algo market makers is also a service to market participants because they take risk to ensure there is always someone to buy or sell - this reduces volatility and risk for everyone.

Algo trading is also required for keeping ETFs in line their benchmarks, which is an entirely separate subject you could fill a book with.

So no, all algo trading is not the same thing, there are valid and productive uses of code rather than people shouting across a pit or running slips up and down roads to keep capital flowing through markets efficiently.

Please explain why quantitative algo (not HFT) trading is “bad”?

That’s a great episode and covers a lot in depth. Would recommend Acquired in general - appeals to me as interested in tech, business and finance

Exactly. Handling and Acceleration are the most important factors at 200cc.

Acceleration because when (not if) you get hit/crash, you need to be able to catch up quickly.

Well I always pick Koopa, who is apparently the worst. Although in my group of friends I win the most by far… I’ll keep with him to keep it fair :)

3) The exact inverse is much more commonly visible - disingenuous promotion of crypto from those with vested interests

That viewpoint is both draconian and fiscally irresponsible

Then it makes no sense. If most middle schoolers have heroin and tasers we are talking about a very different situation.

Does an IP alongside a HTTP request count as personal data?

Plenty of publicly traded companies have free APIs allowing third parties to build the same front end and sidestep their primary source of revenue (showing users ads)?

To clarify - I am not a fan of Reddit’s latest move, I see it as a product of the management hoping to soon be beholden to Wall Street. That necessarily comes with securing of revenue streams.

I’m not an expert on this, but perhaps it’s the usage of that data and linking to a person that crosses the line.

A web server’s logs may include the IP and http request they’ve made, but once you start attaching that to an identity instead it might count as data processing.

When that tool is a 3rd party which takes proprietary code as an input surely you can understand pushback from big software, financial services etc companies?

Mind sharing what fads have been the most profitable for you?

Do they work in practice?