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Wall Street Journal "The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase" March 26, 2017 [^]Quote: The vendor of the marshmallows I wanted told me his high price was an attempt to bait competitors into raising their own asking prices for the item. This works because sellers of commodity items on Amazon are constantly monitoring and updating their prices, sometimes hundreds of thousands of times a day across thousands of items, says Mr. Kaziukėnas. Most use “rules-based” pricing systems, which simply seek to match competitors’ prices or beat them by some small fraction. If those systems get into bidding wars, items offered by only a few sellers can suffer sudden price collapses—“flash crashes.” Note: I was able to access the full text of the story (from S,E Asia, no VPN) without a subscription to WSJ ... once. To access the full-text again, I had to clear the Chrome cache (I use CCleaner).
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Hi Bill, the article can be accessed freely at Morningstar[^].
/ravi
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Using the plant like scaffolding, scientists built a mini version of a working heart, which may one day aid in tissue regeneration. Sorry, we can't give you that heart transplant, we made it into dip
Not the usual Sci/Tech news, but just too to ignore, imo.
Cracker?
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Wonder what they intend to do with left overs?
Hey buddy that ain't chip dip that's my arm...
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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So, Popey was right after all, eh? Spinach does help your muscles!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Hearts: ya cansk live widout 'em.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft is one of the most successful and influential companies in the world, but did you know that Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched an earlier venture as high school students in Seattle? It was called Traf-O-Data, a startup in the 1970s that developed a computer system to count traffic. So, what have you been up to since?
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Hey! They were big numbers, so I haven't finished counting, yet!
Why focus on lazy buggers, who couldn't take the pace, and jumped ship?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Tea drinking reduces the risk of cognitive impairment in older persons by 50 per cent and as much as 86 per cent for those who are genetically at risk of Alzheimer's, new research suggests. Because there is good news for non-coffee drinkers too
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Unfortunately in my case I may be too far gone to be saved - I keep making cups of tea and then forgetting to drink them, only to find them on the kitchen counter several hours later cold.
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Wow, recently Coffee, Tea and Pints have all been declared beneficial. At this rate, I fully expect to hear of the health benefits of smoking and my entire life style will be justified.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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James Hogg: If a body can just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity (of Scotch) that ought to be drunk every day and keep to that, I verily throw that he might leeve forever without dying at all, and that doctors and kirkyards would go oot o' fashion
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The Angular development team is announcing a major release to its mobile and desktop development framework. Because having a version 3 has never worked for others
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Something entirely wrong here... Angular team stated they use semantic versioning... So changing the major version manes breaking changes...
So either:
1. Angular do not know what semantic versioning is and they use it because it is so fancy...
2. There are actual breaking changes (and will be in 5 and 6), but they not even know what they are...
3. They only create a platform to be able to deny support to 1 and 2 (and 4 and 5) in a faster way...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So I'm officially out at this point. I'm not a fan of the way Angular2 doesn't provide vanilla JS support, or how it presupposes a tool-chain, and the confusion from the framework developers is just going to make everything worse moving forward.
I'm looking at React, but have the same issue with the tool-chain.
So I guess I stay with NG1 (NG Classic?)
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Quick, someone tell Gabe Newell about this strategy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All that remains for C++17 now is some ISO red tape and minor touch-up to get it officially published, which is expected to be just mechanical. Travel to Hawaii for a "standards meeting". Life is hard.
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CostToMe = 0? YeahBaby:Fergeddaboudit
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quality assurance engineer
What the Elephant is that!?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: What the Elephant is that!?
A Quality Assurance Engineer is an insurance policy that "donkeys" are only of the highest engineered quality.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It's the software-world equivalent of a "sanitation engineer", who carries out trashcans full of smelly, disgusting code, and buries it in a landfill.
Let's see someone try to call themselves that in Canada, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't know about elsewhere, but at our company, the QA Analyst is someone who can write the documentation and open a browser and click the right places and fill in values, and make sure the output is what's expected.
The QA Engineer is someone who scripts and automates that stuff using Selenium, and can also use script-based tools to do load and regression testing of REST services. The QAA doesn't even know what a REST service is, let alone be able to script a load test for one.
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Gosh. I am in the 17.2 and 7.5. That's really depressing.
This space for rent
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17.2 and 7.5 (and 28.9 (desktop) and 23.0 (mobile)) for me. Odd that they seemed to have lumped back end (server side) development into "Other".
/ravi
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