Comment Re:also he may be a liar (Score 1) 542
He is a friend of mine. I can assure you (for whatever that's worth), that everything in the article is 100% true and accurate.
Comment Re:None of them should be making any money (Score 1, Insightful) 1018
Maybe you should do some research before you just mouth off about something you obviously have no clue about. Not only have several academic studies proven the value of high-frequency trading to liquidity and improvements in market structure (Smith, Brogaard), but the common misconception that it was HFT that caused the flash crash has been shown to be false. why don't you investigate what spreads were before HFT, and tell me why it's better for people to pay $0.05/share after decimilization, or 12.5 cents/share before it? Or maybe you can just google HFT, and copy and paste the first thing that you find. Oh wait, you already did that.
Submission + - How to teach a 12 year-old to program? 9
thelordx writes: "I've got a much younger brother who I'd like to teach how to program. When I was younger, you'd often start off with something like BASIC or Apple BASIC, maybe move on to Pascal, and eventually get to C and Java. Is something like Pascal still a dominant teaching language? I'd love to get low-level with him, and I firmly believe that C is the best language to eventually learn, but I'm not sure how to get him there. Can anyone recommend a language I can start to teach him that is simple enough to learn quickly, but powerful enough to do interesting things and lead him down a path towards C/C++?"
