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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 online -- and many more -- are in there, and have been for a long time, marked WONTFIX due to a potential compatibility break, lack of priority, or some other policy reason.

I don't know if anyone even owned Notepad or any other older inbox apps like the command prompt, but the issues were pretty well understood and WONTFIXed. Single undo, unicode support, unix LF support, etc, etc.

For Notepad a frustrated engineer had produced a change-set to fix all of them, and it had sat there attached to the bug for some time. It would surface on internal mail threads from time to time as a joke or a bitter reflection on bureaucracy, and if I recall a VP once chimed in to say they had looked at it, and sadly none of it could be committed due to backwards compatibility issues.

Of course the compat issues were real (you could view reports on which obscure apps hooked into this or that internal code of cmd.exe or Notepad and would break), but I always though they served as a nice justification for whichever investments were being made at the time: certainly not Notepad.

It's nice to see the wind change on that, even if it took a decade or two.

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 correct. NASDAQ stopped accepting GTC orders in 2015, before NYSE.

Here is the specific rule relating to adjusting the price of open orders: https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/5...

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 behavior varies according to your broker. Some brokers will request the broker-dealer cancel all orders back, but most brokers allow limit prices to be adjusted for orders "below the market" (buy limit orders and sell stop orders). The Fidelity FAQ is an illustrative one.[2]

I'm not sure what a "vendor" is here, but brokers send GTC orders to broker-dealers, who forward them to the exchange every day as a day order. This behavior is industry standard and certainly not bush league.

[1] https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/NYSE_Pillar_Gateway_FIX_Prot...

[2] https://www.fidelity.com/trading/faqs-order-types

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. You are now betting on a tail risk wiping out the market (although paying a continuous premium to do so).

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 brokers altogether.

Does this represent a shift in what you think is reasonable, or achievable, or just language tailored for the audience?

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 would not release it.

This is not the secret sauce, but probably an implementation of a set of standard well known pricing and risk models. That's still useful, and can be expensive to develop, so thanks Goldman.

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 killed it.

This is the same company that regularly hosts hackathons and talks about wanting "to inspire young developers to dream up the next generation of amazing products and services, and provide them with the tools to make them a reality."[1]

How about if you want to do that, don't take your users data and hold it hostage to developers who want to provide them a free service?

[1] https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/foursquare-x-la-hacks-g...

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 protected groups, the vulnerable, children, or Nazis since this optimizes revenue and engagement in dramatic ways. Even the most well-intentioned actor -- and Facebook is very far from that -- could not win this self-imposed game a whack-a-mole.

One alternative to shutting off targeting altogether would be switching from a blacklist to a whitelist approach, where regulators provide the set of features or groups that are allowed to be targeted.

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 probably have been a bit more specific and noted that his income was actually quite likely to go down for the next several years, but it wouldn't have made for such a compelling post.

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, something is overlaid or blended).

If you’re asking why they didn’t think to design the fast path to deal with Byzantine faults, it’s probably because why the hell should they?

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 not obviously wrong, and you shouldn't assume bad faith.

Your last submission was titled "We're lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge" and around half your comment history is devoted to defending Facebook. At least if you're going to question someones motives, you should state yours.

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 proceedings will determine if the insured and creditors are best served by liquidation, conservancy, or rehabilitation.

Assuming a somewhat rational market, a market cap above zero means that the present value of future cash flows is greater than (or equal to) the debts owed. In practice this means the company can borrow against those cash flows, and continue to meet capital requirements - avoiding potential liquidation.

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 Windows.WinMD.

Attempting to call functions which don't exist on the OS you are using should just result in E_NOINTERFACE being surfaced by this projection.

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 "Loaned Money" has a positive balance, and you don't screw up the budget for your Dining category.

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, so there can be no JIT, and significantly smarter optimizations can happen since they don't impact performance at runtime.

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 API.

res.Text = (await new HtppClient().GetStringAsync(url.Text)).Length.ToString();

(Disclaimer: I work at MS.)

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's still not a luxury brand by any means the restaurants do have a much more sophisticated atmosphere.

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 at MS.)

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, child pornography). These being incredibly inelastic goods, price fluctuations will do little to hamper continued growth of the Bitcoin.

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.

As an Australian CS graduate, the best offer I got from an Australian company was less than half the worst BigCo offer in the states. Google might hem and haw about "Australia's future prosperity", but their motives should be clear. More graduates does not a Silicon Valley make.

Looks like there are permissions problems when emailing botrace@scribd.com

What are the grid-size and fruit-count limits like on the server -- the same as in the standalone client?

In fact Microsoft has in some cases gone to great pains to avoid introducing features for which independent ecosystems already exist.

Because consumers do not have choice, the person ensuring that the service is free and universal does. It is by definition not a free market.

I didn't indicate that I think any should be free. I think education should be universally accessible.