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"It did make me wonder if the author really wants to be an entrepreneur." As someone who relates to the post [i.e., been spinning my wheel's studying for a while], I totally unders…

Maybe it's just me, but anyone else has troubles dealing with lack of Focus and concentration, ending in not getting things done and getting stuck in a "disfuncional perfectionism"…

Tks for all the feedback. This is an awsome list to get started. On to reading & hacking away...

What advice would you give for someone with a Non-CS background (economics, to be precise) wanting to learn Ruby & Rails?

How many of you started with 26+ year? I'm doing some side projects, but until now never managed to start anything (personal problems), and it always bugs me if I'm "too old" to st…

I don't think that answers my question on intermittence, persistence and syncronization. I can have my date hosted, but if my friends don't (that's why they use your service, so no…

Pardon what may seem to be a silly question (amateur "would-be" engineer speaking), but I have a doubt, which is the following: Data needs to be stored. You either store it locally…

If you think HFT is quite hard and challenging, then Forex isn't any easier: you can still lose a ton of money over an unforseen event somewhere in the World. More seriously, as so…

The complexity of the platform is cumbersome. In first place you need a special purpose terminal (the Keyboard essentially) because you need special functions, that are only found …

"So one way to disrupt banks would be to put these resources in the hands of an individual." Well, not quite, IMO. Because technically those resources are not the Banks own resourc…

As a trader, I totally agree!

Disrupting Wall St. implies not just making a "new" UI/UX/Interface for banking clients (like Mint or Square), it implies looking at changing the Banks inherent Business Model. Can…