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Comment Nanex: Knightmare on Wall Street (Score 1) 377

by arunkv on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:51AM (#40867389) Attached to: Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million

It is surprising that the best article on KCG's trades was not shared yet. Check out http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3522.html for a fascinating look at the trades. Chart 3 shows a millisecond interval chart with around 40 trades happening in under a second, each buying at the offer and immediately selling at the bid. As Nanex put it "you now have a system that's very efficient at burning money".

Comment Re:How hard is it to have something like this in U (Score 4, Informative) 491

by arunkv on Monday December 28, 2009 @04:28PM (#30575212) Attached to: China Debuts the World's Fastest Train

Yes, it's not SF to LA via Sacramento. It's two branches from Fresno to SF and Sacramento. You can see the proposed map here.

Comment Re:People will like it (Score 4, Funny) 336

by arunkv on Thursday October 01, 2009 @06:47PM (#29612003) Attached to: Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, but Noisy

Leonard: We need to widen our circle.
Sheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on myspace.
Leonard: Yes, and you've never met one of them.
Sheldon: That's the beauty of it.

Journal Journal: Day after Christmas is my lucky day!

Journal by Tsunayoshi on Wednesday December 20, 2006 @05:54PM

By virtue of the fact that I am the only sysad not taking that day off, I get to come in at 5am in order to upgrade a number of our SANS with a newer OS. The boss decided that since the network would be down for a bit anyway due to the network team upgrading IOS on the switches and routers, which means all the databases and websites will also be offline, that our team has a perfect oppurtunity to do these long awaited upgrades.

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