December 2010
9 posts
Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street →
Over the past decade, algorithmic trading has overtaken the industry. From the single desk of a startup hedge fund to the gilded halls of Goldman Sachs, computer code is now responsible for most of the activity on Wall Street. (By some estimates, computer-aided high-frequency trading now accounts for about 70 percent of total trade volume.) Increasingly, the market’s ups and downs are...
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Hate running into eFreedom links when you're...
I’ve been doing some work I don’t typically do, which has involved coddling a rigid legacy system to work nice with Rails. I have very little idea of what I’m doing, but its nice to be doing something new. Needless to say, my Google usage has become very technical. One of the best sources for information is Stack Overflow, but there are lots of copy-cat sites with better SEO that...
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Excluding content from a Smart Folder on Mac OS X
I wanted to improve the Today and Yesterday Smart Folders by removing extraneous system and library files. The secret, as it often is, is in the Option key. From Mac Rumors:
Ok, as you create a Smart Folder (ie do the Finder Spotlight search) hold down the alt key. This will turn the plus icon into a … icon, allowing you to add multiple conditions. In the added conditions pick None of the...
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“It didn’t matter about the yards. It didn’t matter about the money. It was about...”
– Marcus DuPree
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“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior...”
– Steve Jobs