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In such a thought experiment, what if the algorithms discovered more money could be realized by trading on a vector different to 'the current/future worth of a company'? Say a genetic algorithm determined that whether the share price ended the week's trading on an odd number rather than an even number is more important for predicting the future direction of the price on Monday. In the world of genetic algorithms, stranger shit has happened. What impact would this have?

I don't know much about trading, particularly HFT, so I don't even know if this is possible or realistic. I do love thought experiments though, and believe that HFT algorithms are currently trying to predict human responses to market events and act accordingly. Just wondered what would happen if they dominate a market such that human influence is negligible. So yeah, interesting question.

Programming languages, their frameworks, their libraries, their petty concerns are a mere vanity folly, riddled with re-invention, abstraction arcana, and deus-ex-machina hoopla. We have lost our way, straying so far from the path of the UNIX philosophy such that I must now 'whole-stack' an application instead of using the pipe character. A pox on the whole damned lot of it!

Some days I just despair of all the time I've wasted bustling and jostling, crushed by the sweaty masses in the ghetto. But if I'm honest with myself, I must confess I love it too. I love my programming languages, my libraries, the eight different ways I know to full-text search, to regex, to parse, to lock, to async. I love the smell and heat of the coal-face, the futility of it all. Stockholm Syndrome indeed!

In a semi-related matter, does anyone know of the algorithm Bill used to draw RoundRects 'blisteringly fast'? http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Steve Jobs know how important regions were: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Bytecode, as distinct from object code, is on the way out. Consider Javascript a portable high-level object code and move on. If you want other languages, compile them to Javascript. Semantic affinity between source language and execution environment (e.g. is "0" false, as mentioned elsewhere) is an issue you'll need to address regardless of whether you're using bytecode.

Also, don't underestimate the power 'view source' had in making Javascript perhaps one of the most widely-adopted programming languages in the world.

Solution: don't advertise 'a Ruby job'. Advertise 'a programming job'. What it is you really want in your applicant?

Hats off to you sir. Oh, I also do the occasional motorcycle maintenance as well.

  " Split windows/multiple files
  " use <Ctrl>+s to split the current window
  nmap <C-S> <C-W>s
  " use <Ctrl>+j/<Ctrl>+k to move up/down through split windows
  nmap <C-J> <C-W>j
  nmap <C-K> <C-W>k
  " use <Ctrl>+-/<Ctrl>+= to maximise/equalise the size of split windows
  nmap <C--> <C-W>_
  nmap <C-=> <C-W>=
  " use <Ctrl>+h/<Ctrl>+l to move back/forth through files:
  nmap <C-L> :next<CR>
  nmap <C-H> :prev<CR>

As for in-place editing, Neyric's javascript library has something along these lines.

http://neyric.github.com/inputex/

All this hand-wringing about 'the community' and signal/noise indicates the membership has outmanoeuvred any means of wrangling it into some pre-conceived notion of 'quality'. For better or for worse, the thundering hoards of the internet have arrived and are drowning out the elitist clique. If that is bad for everybody, then it's time to shut up shop.

It's an interesting hypothesis, but similar to the idea that the Yacutan asteroid wiped out the dinosaur population. If that were the case, how did other species survive?

  rt: d884:main:main: upcall fail '.t0 < 3u', ts2.rs:5

  GET /resources/picture/orientation => 0
  PUT /resources/picture/orientation?value=90

I am aware that some operational transformation is used in docs, however the usage scenario is different: collaboration is not the default use case and the number of collaborators would be smaller than in a wave, where the default use case is many waves with many participants.

Your post raises an interesting point, how did all these 'strawman police' become such a bunch of self-satisfied nazis in the first place?

http://www.tiddlywiki.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433 <-- Check out the low id, '1432 days ago'

Such an awesome thing.

I think the greatest benefit of my undergrad years haunting the philosophy department is that if I'm going to argue a point, I'm damn sure I'll have satisfied myself with my position, and have ready refutations for all counter-arguments I can think of. I don't comment much on web sites because the rigour of this far exceeds the two cents my opinion is worth.

My advice for anyone contemplating philosophy is this: learn to be good with analogies. Explaining abstract concepts is difficult and a good analogy (and here I mean a genuinely fitting one) goes a long, long way. If you spend a lot of time just thinking about stuff anyway, studying philosophy really gives you a lot of quite interesting stuff to think about: what is truth? Can we know something without expressing knowledge of it? If so, how can I know that you know something without your expressing it? A heady trapdoor indeed.

What if you've sorted the list (by sender, for example) so the 'natural' place for the new message is half way down your list? Will it determine a travel delta or something similar to determine whether to snap you to the message?

I'm guessing you can't sort your email.

I've run into this problem before (how to orient a view of a list that is updated in the background). Google, for example, partitions the list into 'all items' and 'new items' so if you've paged half way through the list, the incoming item is added to the 'new items' view and a visual indicator is made that a new item exists (cf. Google Reader).

The creators of 'one-dollar' released the next generation of the algorithm, the $N multistroke algorithm, and here's an implementation of it in javascript: http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/ndollar.htm...