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I find these pictures to be very misleading. Did the author have his camera 'checked' and all the not so great pictures deleted when crossing back into China?

Because when I went there what's shown in the pictures represents only what they want you to see. You can see a lot of poverty, undernourishment, and lack of basic infrastructure even if you follow the approved tour route to the letter. He managed to snap a lot of pictures from his bus, so why not show the less impressive shots as well? It's impossible to not see any this when you traverse the whole country from north to south.

Looks good! X and Y axes with price/time ticks would be really useful...

Will my site not be penalized if the crawler thinks everything on it points to crawlspa.com?

The text on this page is almost unreadable: http://metrics11.com/analytics/keyword_trial/

I find it very strange that they picked BufferBox instead of Thalmic Labs.

Makes a lot more sense now as to why gd could stand out so much... wow

Thanks moot!

How so? I know they don't have a great reputation, but I am guessing you have had to deal with a ton of companies while running 4chan. What made GoDaddy stand out?

(Apologies if you've posted an answer to this somewhere else... please provide a link if that's the case!)

It still doesn't make any sense. You can get the same drag and drop deployment with graphical ftp software and 1-click static site deployment. At 1/100th of the cost.

It's interested that they chose NYSE of NASDARK(DAQ).

Facebook IPO trauma?

"I wish I worked harder" said nobody on their deathbed ever.

There's a difference between working hard as a corporate slave and working hard on something you personally believe in. A big difference the author doesn't seem to understand...

Instead of sorting by name, you need to find a better way to order the cars in each category (and allow several sorts, price, mpg, popularity, etc)

There is very little value in showing me 300k Bentleys next to 30k BMWs. It makes navigating the site a real chore, unless I know exactly the model I'm looking for, but then why would I use showroom.is in the first place, right?

Lots of offshore development going in the Gulf of Guinea!

This map is extremely helpful. Thanks gsa!

Looks great! I think this would be great for anyone looking through online classifieds, so that posters could include a mobile friendly media (placeunit) link. Is that your main target?

Do you have any plans to charge for this service?

That is insane! How did you attract users in the beginning, and do you use the same strategy now?

You'll probably have a much easier time if you're willing to sell your soul and apply for quant jobs on wall street.

That's like saying you can attain a black belt in Karate by reading instruction manuals and watching training videos. Absolutely not.

You broaden your horizens by interacting with what's around you when you travel, whether that's physical, social, cultural, spiritual etc. Nothing in print or virtual can replace that, just as when you learn a new martial art. If you take some time to actually travel for the sake for the experience and not for the bragging rights, you'd realize how ridiculous that statement sounds.

Reading some of the other articles on this blog, this guy needs to realize he's not a unique snowflake and has no business giving 'life advice' to others.

e.g. http://www.freedomtwentyfive.com/2013/03/where-does-it-end/

Same for me, Page not fund.

If it's clicks instead of keystrokes though, that's music to my ears!

Once my favourite framework is installed, will you abstract out most of the common configuration / maintenance / tuning steps as well? Or will I have to ssh in and do that by hand?

Yes you can. Anyone willing to write a feed handler for these feeds can. For example, https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=totalview and http://www.nyxdata.com/openbook. As kasey_junk mentioned, availability is on an exchange basis, so I'm not sure if all exchanges provide this service.

I was talking about the sophistication of low latency trading in Canada and that only. In the states, there aren't a ton of exchanges and ETN and dark pools, with different matching engine rules and all that crap. If I am a sophisticated low latency firm, I wouldn't want any exchange added 'extras' to get in the way.

IMHO, I think retail investors are better served and have less chance of being thrown on a roller coaster ride by runaway algos in Canada compared to the U.S., and that's a good thing.

PHLX, NOM, ISE/Gemini all halted trading and all exchanges halted options trading on Nasdaq listed symbols until Nasdaq came back up at ~3:40. Yes, most sophisticated co-located firms probably use raw feeds, but how do you facilitate trading when the official feed for the underlying is down and the symbols aren't even trading on their listed exchange? (Nasdaq down from ~12 to ~3:40)

Yes, I think very many are dependent on these feeds. As you mentioned, they are the official prices and are referenced for compliance with all those damn regulations and most of the market relies on them so it'd be pretty much impossible to facilitate trading while it's down.

Also, trading in any derivative that is based on any underlying in the feed will be very problematic because that's where the underlying spot price come from. Options trading for example were entirely shut down in those symbols while the feed was down.

1) The consolidated feeds are CTA/UTP (legally mandated committees, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_market_system_plan) , not Bloomberg. Yes, Bloomberg can provide a similar feed and probably does with some enrichment, but you do not reference the NBBO (National best bid & offer) from a Bloomberg feed.

Also, you do not need to colocate your server to receive a direct feed from the exchange. Anyone with an internet connection and some spare cash can get a direct feed. Anyone that can afford to pay for colo space can also get the feed pretty much instantly (limited by the speed of light).

There is no such thing as letting HFT (what's that?) see orders up to 30ms before, not anymore. Colos are a pain in the ass to manage and cost an arm and a leg, so if you're not in the microsecond and nanosecond race, there's little benefit in paying for colo space. So yes, the ethics can be argued, but these firms are simply paying rent for some space.

Anyone willing to pay the same rent can get the same 'speed improvement'. Retail investors and most hedge funds don't need this speed because they do not have the infrastructure, talent base, or capital to build a trading system that would make any money off of the minimal speed advantage. People argue all this ultra low latency stuff adds liquidity to the market, but I think in the end it's just creating noise and scaring away people that don't understand how the speed is used in the market.

Technologically, Canada is stuck in the stone age compare to what's going on in the states, and I think that's actually a good thing (Canadian working in the states).

To summarize, the advantages are: speed, more speed(colo), and arbitration opportunities against those that just rely on consolidated feeds.

You can also count on index funds to lose 50% of their value in two years in an upcoming crisis. The roaring 90s and mid 2000s isn't a pattern that will continue to repeat itself. The fed can't keep printing the S&P500 up forever.

I think made a great decision, but you ought to diversify your nest egg.

The public in East Asian countries see public transit in a different light than most North Americans, partly due to a lack of cars and the population density. They are probably the some of the few governments that can afford to foot the bill for such an unproven project with potential for dramatic benefits (and cost savings over building HSR), but also with the risk that the 10 billion or so could go down the toilet. Europe would be another ideal target, but I doubt any governments there have the appetite for big capex infrastructure projects right now.

If the U.S. doesn't take this on, I hope another country with a big appetite for enormous public transit projects takes this on. Japan, Korea, and China, I'm looking at you...

Very good reads, bookmarked! Thanks for pointing them out

What's the difference between making a large order at a food truck vs doing the same at McDonalds?

Thanks, looking forward to reading it!

All these posts about 'Passive Income Hackers' and I have yet to see any mention of what a reader of these articles could do to become one.

"That's a shame, because as a programmer in the 21st Century, you're in a unique position to do something that most people simply can't; live a life with adequate income, lots of time and total freedom over what you do with it."

That sounds great, but how?