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I worked on Windows back in 2014, probably the most surprising thing joining there out of college was looking through the bug database. Every issue that gets complained about onlin…

I work for a large wholesaler and wrote the code that handles client GTC orders for on behalf of pretty much every brokerage in the US. Whatever your experience is, it's no longer …

A confusing and incorrect comment all around. Exchanges do not receive or handle GTC or GTD orders, see for example the NYSE pillar spec.[1] Broker-dealers handle stock splits and …

The fund would not have such a simple construction - but you can build a simple tail risk strategy with options. Buy deeply out of the money puts on SPX and periodically roll them.…

In your written testimony, the goals for privacy regulation seem quite watered down from past proposals of yours like prohibiting behavioral ad targeting, or eliminating data broke…

Of course, if this technology was able to price securities better than the market (the fundamental job of almost every market participant), it would be printing money and they woul…

It's very disappointing. I wrote a fun app for my friends which would find the nearest bar serving picklebacks in New York City on top of Foursquare. These API changes effectively …

The only viable solution is #4. So long as Facebook can make money by targeting specific groups or behavioral features, their algorithms and advertisers will find facsimiles for pr…

This is largely due to Amazon stock appreciation. Amazon does not pay senior engineers $400K, let alone $500K. In FAANG, a typical non-promotion raise is 5-8%. The author could pro…

This is standard practice, the system compositor has a fast path for video decoding and rendering. The fast path will not be taken when software composition is needed (eg, somethin…

I graduated six years ago, have worked at Microsoft and Dropbox, and anecdotally around a quarter of my friends at either of them wouldn't work at Facebook now. Parent comment is n…

The company will be put into receivership when it can no longer meet capital requirements imposed by regulators, this may not be a company breaking event - the receivership proceed…

The Windows runtime is backwards compatible, so there are no breaking changes in WinMD files. You should be able to just generate a module for the latest available version of Windo…

Split the transaction in YNAB, send your part to the correct category "Dining", and itemize owed amounts per person into another category "Loaned Money". It's easy to track if "Loa…

If reminding customers that they are actually making recurring payments to a company causes that company to go out of business, I don't think we need to shed any tears.

No MDIL. NGEN can still JIT for things like cross domain generics and because it loads non-native code, still needs to optimize at run time. Project N compiles to fully native code…

You earned the right to not be spied on? What, specifically, did you do that exclusively grants you that privilege?

For one, you're criticizing a web API here and not the C# language-- and you've failed to even do that convincingly since it's an intentionally verbose example using an outdated AP…

The use of McDonalds as idiomatic low quality trash is questionable too, I've found McDonalds in Australia and New Zealand is significantly higher quality than in the US. While it'…

But A and C can still collude against B, no?

What is your platform?

Do you happen to have a link? I would be interested in reading that paper.

What makes you include GMail in that list? It has, by all measures, failed to move up the value chain, its revenue is completely eclipsed by that of Exchange. (Disclaimer: I work a…

The main point is that it is decentralized and (ostensibly, with enough care) anonymous. This makes it ideal for illegal transactions (drugs, gambling, weapons, contract killing, c…

I can't dig up a source, but Blizzard representatives have confirmed in the past that they hired economists to work on Diablo III -- this isn't something unique to Valve.