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I'm sorry, but making a desktop app look like a phone app doesn't really "improve the user experience" by default. I've been using itunes for 6 or 7 years now, and i literally stood there for 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell i was looking at when it first started up.
Your missing the point that owning part of a company for 10 seconds brings zero social value to the economy. Which I also tend to agree with. Slightly off-topic from the point of the article, which was that he achieved it without backing of a fairly large institution.
No, he said he backtested them against data he collected from the feeds. He paid for the feeds just like everyone else does with his own money.
This is not even close to an accurate summary. He never stated that he had any employer backing, and he wasn't collecting market making fees. In fact he was paying brokerage fees which is the exact opposite.
I get tired of the "Don't hate the player, hate the game" mantra after a certain point though. We make the damn game. And if the players are assholes, the game is going to suck.
Except for Zuck, he'll steal the shit outta your Hipster Coffee Shop Wifi app.
Of course it's a marketing play. Why else would a company willingly commit large sums of money to a completely unrelated business venture. And anyone who was watching the feed before and after the jump will know they did do plenty of back-story on Joe Kittinger and his original mission.
This is cool. But anybody else having just a blank screen when they try a different url other than google analytics?
"Step into my office" "Why?" "Cuz you're fuckin fired!"
So maybe they should have called it. "3 problems that raytracing can't solve, and 4 other ones that just suck about modeling real life in 3d(on a 2d surface)".