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    The death of Microsoft

    Excuse me, but if I refer to Yahoo statistics, I can read the following : MSFT : Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): 9.40% RHAT : Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): 41.90% GOOG : Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): 95.90% Who is growing then ?
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    IB DOM for Eurex not working

    Actually, I have the problem on another opened TWS. This problem seems to happen only if you are requesting DOM data at the time the glitch happens.
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    IB DOM for Eurex not working

    This time, I haven't experienced the same problem as you. My DOM is here without restarting. I don't know it it had disappeared before that though. But with respect to what I saw these last days I would say you are right on the fact there is a problem with DOM.
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    Who would be your dream mentor?

    None of them, for sure...
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    The death of Microsoft

    A very good book on this topic is "In search of stupidity" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590591046/002-8210779-1164027?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance The typical reason for all these high-tech disasters is pretty simple : failure to provide a new product without bug and a...
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    The death of Microsoft

    No, but I know I am an exception.
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    The death of Microsoft

    I still can remember the muted answer I got from candidates for a job at my previous company when I told them I was unable to open their ".doc" document and asked them to send me a CV in a more standard format like postscript... It's not worth mentioning this was a very good first filter for the...
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    The death of Microsoft

    I have refused a job at 200K$ fixed salary just because I had to use windows. You should have seen the face of the guys when I told them the reason why I declined their offer.
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    The death of Microsoft

    Let me start from the Desktop, as successful as LAMP is, and OpenOffice probably will be, you can not beat the interoperatability and the standard intuitiveness of MS family of products. In a fortune 1000 firm, 60% of the users of PCs don't use them to develop software, far from it, most of them...
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    black friday

    Do you consider the VIX as a vol indicator ???
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    Using Martingale with a proven strategy.

    Whatever the strategy you find, using a martingale will ruin you one day...especially if it would have never happened in the backtesting of your strategy...
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    black friday

    It's not a question of crash. It's just a kind of reference. Amazing how people consider that what would have been a normal day some years ago is a huge plunge now...
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    The death of Microsoft

    If that's not poetry.... #!/usr/bin/perl # 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd@mit.edu> # MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout. # usage: perl -I <k1>:<k2>:<k3>:<k4>:<k5> qrpff # where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant...
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    The death of Microsoft

    It seems a lot of scientific libraries are still available only in fortran too, especially for astronomy. And no, I'm not a zealot, just a poet...
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    The death of Microsoft

    I've been lucky enough to come to computers with the first 5.25" disks...actually the first I used was using a beautiful tape recorder...
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    The death of Microsoft

    Fortran77 : the worst thing I've seen in my whole life...:D Long life to ruby...:)
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    black friday

    Huge plunge ? Where were you in 2000/2001/2002/2003 ?
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    Backtesting vs. Realtime results

    Isn't Kelly approximation L = m/(m^2+s^2) ?
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    The death of Microsoft

    Is there a place where M$ is not losing money, except its office suite and its windows OS, which both have rising competitors ?
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    IB DOM for Eurex not working

    All US futures actually...
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