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Rust backend & Javascript / Typescript | Urvin AI | Remote (US, Berlin, Barcelona) | Contract-to-Hire | https://urvin.ai We are looking to hire two junior developers. The first pos…

We've launched a huge redesign, after refusing a large investment to try to build a community-supported, ad-free site on the Internet that provides refuge from the standard social …

I would like to say that I was misquoted in this op-ed. I have never said that "high-speed technology was “a destructive force in the market” with “no social benefit.”" I said that…

Thanks! Every story has tags, if you scroll down. You can also search by tag, and you can open up the Topics section from the menu at the top of each page. All of that being said, …

Cowbird is a rich-media story-telling website. We are attempting to build a public library for the human experience. My particular story is an audio story about how I left high-fre…

I worked in high-frequency trading for 2.5 years until I grew disgusted with it. I had worked on startups before, and knew that was where my passion was - to create rather than sim…

I worked in high-frequency trading for 2.5 years until I grew disgusted with it. I had worked on startups before, and knew that was where my passion was - to create rather than sim…

I'm shocked nobody's interested in this. The design is cutting edge, and the platform could provide some true depth and substance in our increasingly facebook-ed world...

I don't get it, where's the class on multi-tier server architecture? Load-balancing techniques? Server scaling? Database / backend performance best practices? I appreciate the focu…

I'm going to be volunteering an hour of my time each week to teach inner-city 7th graders how to program. I've got about 15 interested in learning, and I'm trying to figure out the…

There's a dramatic difference between high-frequency trading and other quantitative trading. In HFT, speed is ALMOST everything. It's not entirely, but many of these firms are runn…

Felt it in Philly - the house started shaking, some stuff fell off the shelves! First Earthquake for most of us!

SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote We're a startup looking for a designer. Looking for someone to create our main website and a web-based mobile app (potentially iOS and Android in the fu…

The Sputnik Observatory is filled with videos similar to TED, in a very innovative interface: http://www.sptnk.org The videos are shorter, but the site tries to link you to similar…

Actually this is a far better explanation of High Frequency Trading: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-30-2009/cash...