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Post by gingerlime »

heidar wrote: post #250
gingerlime wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a great service, and was really toying with the idea of creating something like this when I was living in the UK. But mostly for ebay purchases. There are lots of bargains for furniture and heavier stuff which is 'pick-up-only'. If you can get a quote for picking it up and delivering it before you even bid on an auction, this will open up loads more opportunities for both buyers, sellers, and local deliv…

Thanks! You might already know but the UK has AnyVan which is similar but perhaps more for long distance stuff. I think they have eBay integration too. You're right that is a huge market though.

Thanks for the tip about AnyVan. I wasn't aware of it. Now I'm in Germany, but I see that they have German presence as well. Very useful to know!

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Post by loupereira »

lawl wrote: post #264
loupereira wrote: post #234

I am working on Thunder Defense and building Anti-Big Brother tools to help the general public protect their privacy. The goal is to help create awareness about potential privacy threats with simple to use tools. It's not meant for tech savvy people or hackers but the general population. My first tool is called Webcam Blocker Pro which protects your audio and video inputs. http://www.thunderdefense.com

I don't mean to offend you but I watched your promo video and it just screams FUD. Basically scamming not tech savvy people out of their money? Your product has nothing to do with what's a firewalls job and yet you claim your product is better and cheaper? Also if someone has access to your microphone and webcam they probably have a trojan on your box. So I don't see how a your software product could prevent a trojan…

No offense taken, appreciate the input. It's a matter of perspective, like most things. If you are indeed infected with a Trojan that simply re-enables your microphone and webcam after they've been disabled, the software is designed to inform you of that. I don't know of any firewall or anti-virus program that does that, do you? That being said, this certainly isn't a replacement for firewall or anti-virus protection, it just does a better job of making it easier for non-technical users to easily disable and re-enable their devices.

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Post by Brabon »

I'm porting an Android app to iOS with no prior knowledge of Obj-C. It's a load capacity calculator for yarders used in the logging industry.

Dealing with the differences between Java/Android and Obj-C/iOS has been both interesting and frustrating at times.

https://github.com/Brabon/Mobile-Anchor-Capacity-System

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Post by chrisgd »

noname123 wrote: post #241
chrisgd wrote: post #169

An algorithmic trading model. I have been investing for 2 months on my own and hope to open an investing firm in 2 years or less

You trading equity, options, futures? What's your strategy, stat arb, directional, delta-neutral? What's your broker? Lime/IB/Lightspeed/DMA? What's your tech stack? C/Java/Scala/GPU?

Equity, directional. Using trade king right now but no tech developed. Once I prove out my model works, would look into the tech side. Using excel right now.

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Post by noname123 »

chrisgd wrote: post #277
noname123 wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You trading equity, options, futures? What's your strategy, stat arb, directional, delta-neutral? What's your broker? Lime/IB/Lightspeed/DMA? What's your tech stack? C/Java/Scala/GPU?

Equity, directional. Using trade king right now but no tech developed. Once I prove out my model works, would look into the tech side. Using excel right now.

Nice. I'm trading delta-neutral, volatility strategies on options using Interactive Brokers API. Right now trade entry is automated, but I do adjustments and closing trades manually. I spent a lot of time on tech, digging deep into C/messaging queues/distributed backtesting/event processing but I think best to use Excel instead of worrying about tech.

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Post by radioact1ve »

dochtman wrote: post #247

I'm working on a programming language. It's a reimagining of Python as a statically-typed, compiled language. The compiler is written in Python and targets LLVM IR. Currently working towards support for exceptions; raising already works, currently trying to work my way through all the stuff that needs to work for catching.

Any links you can share?
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