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I agree. Another happy Linux user :)

NP, although sometimes I feel like I'm 30. :)

I've written a ton of strategies in C# for NT, none very profitable afaik. It seems to me that coding is the easy part, finding a profitable strategy is the hard part.

Actually, I'm 62, will be 63 next month. My first coding adventure was on a CDC mainframe in Fortran and later Compass assembler. Then on to Pascal, C, and later C++ and some Java and C#.

A lot of great replies :) Frankly, I was thinking more existentially. Coding for coding's sake. Coding is one of the ways that I relax. I may never write a profitable strategy, but I'll code them anyway. Probably won't run them ...

1) Seeing your code do what you told it to do, regardless of whether it makes you any money, is one of the most satisfying experiences I know. 2) And seeing your code f*up is a reality check. Good for the soul. And debugging can be an adventure in itself. 3) Your mind is expanded. 4) You...

Well, obviously a terrorist is not going to comply. It'll probably just result in a lot of false positives, and create havoc for a lot of innocent people. But I guess that is life in the world today.

Well, Russia's is not free, but damn close.

Check it out (personal experience). In Russia (St. Petersburg) you can go to yandex taxi for example, ask for a taxi to the airport, and it arrives in about 4 minutes (600-800 rubles - $10-$12).

Yea, there are some stocks that I wish I had bought 1 share back in the day. BRK.A comes to mind. Hmmm, 10K account. It's pretty easy to blow through that quickly. I was enrolled in a day trading program, pretty good one, I think. I had a 6K account, and a trader to watch my trades and help...

Of course you can buy one share at a time. If you want to eventually have a 500 share position, and you buy 1 share at a time, you'll make your broker very happy (and you'll probably go broke :))

The new minimum wage has got everything rising here in NY. You name it, the price is going up (beer :().

Didn't you just refute your argument here? I think a non-zero sum game would be, those with correct systems win, and those with incorrect systems win too ! Everybody wins ! Example: non-zero sum game. Everybody puts in $1. Everybody wins. Everybody gets back their $1. Zero-sum game...

You definitely have put in some mileage with various distros. The first one I ever used was yggdrasil on a 3.5" floppy (I think) that I bought at a bookstore maybe in the early 90s (when there were still bookstores). I suspect that I have it around here somewhere (probably next to my K&R "The...

If you disable Secure Boot from within Windows 8-10 (becomes a legacy bios system and not UEFI), and I've read Fast Boot also in WIndows 10, then you should be able to configure a dual boot system just like in Windows 7. If you don't, well ...

Fine. If you tax unrealized gains, then we can deduct unrealized losses. Fair?

No, not using DAS Trader. But I have to agree with you about Windows 8. My problem with W8-10 is that afaik, Microsoft did not tell anyone about the Secure Boot feature. Attempting to install a second OS to dual boot is really a problem (impossible ?) with it enabled (and it is enabled by...

Kissed her head and smelled her hair. Maybe a little bit inappropriate by Biden, but frankly, I would not say hello to this person for fear of a lawsuit. Unfortunately, this is the new Democratic reality. What goes around, comes around.

It appears to happen here more frequently than other countries, but others are not immune. Other places, the motive seems to be fairly black and white, here, it's often not clear why someone picked up an AR 15, walked into a school and shot a bunch of kids.

TOS is great software. I really love it. My problem is that it is possible for TOS to upgrade itself out of existence. As an example, I had an XP box with TOS installed. Worked great. Left it alone for a few years, went back several years later, and TOS "upgraded" itself so that it no...