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Tweet from David Risney

2016 Jun 5, 4:00
@FremyCompany It uses https://github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js  the asm.js port of the StockFish chess AI (the asm.js part is why Edge wins)
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 2, 10:43
Tesla's April fools headline fooled stock trading algorithms causing $1.50 jump: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/tesla-stockholders-can-t-take-a-joke …
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Retweet of billcox

2015 Mar 3, 1:54
Marketing pro tip: punch up your artisanal PPTs with idiotic Vince Vaughn stock photos. http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/vince-vaughn-and-costars-pose-idiotic-stock-photos-you-can-have-free-163239 … pic.twitter.com/AZVCfIFN9T
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David_Risney: The Onion called it 2yrs ago: plans to launch video-on-demand service

2015 Jan 20, 1:29
David Risney @David_Risney :
The Onion called it 2yrs ago: http://Overstock.com  plans to launch video-on-demand service http://tmblr.co/ZykYww1bCzBoP 
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theatlantic: How the 8.5” x 11” Piece of Paper Got Its...

2012 Sep 19, 6:37


theatlantic:

How the 8.5” x 11” Piece of Paper Got Its Size

Why do we use a paper size that is so unfriendly for the basic task of reading? According to a very interesting post by Paul Stanley, the rough dimensions of office paper evolved to accommodate handwriting and typewriters with monospaced fonts, both of which rendered many fewer characters per line. “Typewriters,” he explains, “produced 10 or 12 characters per inch: so on (say) 8.5 inch wide paper, with 1 inch margins, you had 6.5 inches of type, giving … around 65 to 78 characters.” This, he says, is “pretty close to ideal.”

Read more. [Image: Picsfive/Shutterstock]

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Nanex ~ 03-Aug-2012 ~ The Knightmare Explained

2012 Aug 6, 4:29

We believe Knight accidentally released the test software they used to verify that their market making software functioned properly, into NYSE’s live system.

I get chills breaking the build at work.  I can’t imagine how much worse it would feel to deploy your test suite and destroy the company you work for.

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Mike Merrill Is a Publicly Traded Person | Motherboard

2012 Jul 1, 2:01

By which is meant the following:

Essentially, each shareholder has decided to buy into Merrill ’s life and help him make better choices that will then hopefully up the stock price, allowing them to make money should they ever decide to cash out.

What? Oh, he lives in Portland.

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First Person Tutor | 7dfps challenge

2012 Jun 20, 3:45

First Person Tutor is a game about *grading papers*, lock, stock, and two smoking inkwells

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RFC 3797 - Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection

2010 Dec 13, 11:12Used to generate publicly verifiable random numbers. For instance to pick 'xn--' for the IDN prefix from a set of prefixes, they decided on a hash, a set of stocks and a time in the future to generate the hash from the stock values. The resulting value is random and anyone can check the work to verify that it was chosen randomly.


Although, now looking back from the future I can't verify that they didn't generate this data after the stock quotes came out. And they're using MD5...PermalinkCommentsrfc algorithm random election ietf technical

Senators call for end to anonymous, prepaid cell phones

2010 May 27, 8:52Time to stock up on prepaid anonymous cell phones before its too late! Or just use the call encryption Android application...PermalinkCommentsprivacy security cellphone anonymous politics government technical

Emanuel Derman's Blog: Trading Places

2009 Dec 31, 1:50Har har: "I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) switched roles. If a bank failed at 9 a.m. one morning and shut its doors, the TSA would announce that all banks henceforth begin their business day at 10 a.m. And, if a terrorist managed to get on board a plane between Stockholm and Washington, the Fed would increase the number of flights between the cities."PermalinkCommentseconomics humor airplane emanuel-derman tsa fed government

In Which She's Every Woman - Today - This Recording

2009 Aug 21, 3:31"A woman approaches me and tells me that she's with Getty Images. They're shooting stock photos in the park today, would I be willing to pose?" Then finds her photo on tea, camera ads, Quicken's website, etc.PermalinkCommentshumor photo advertising getty via:waxy

Royal Pingdom - The world's most super-designed data center - fit for a James Bond villain

2009 Jan 8, 5:45"It is a newly opened high-security data center run by one of Sweden's largest ISPs, located in an old nuclear bunker deep below the bedrock of Stockholm city... The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb." Wait, you mean it can't take a direct hit? Lame.PermalinkCommentssweden photos design datacenter underground bomb technology

Excercise Bike and Tacoma Screw Products

2008 Jan 13, 11:07

Sarah and I got an exercise bike on sale and when attempting to put it together found that it was missing a bag of about ten different screws. The manufacturer website said we could order a replacement bag for thirty dollars (!!) but since the instructions listed the various kinds of screws we needed I figured we could just go to a hardware store and buy them.

We started at Home Depot because I didn't know better. The screws are all listed in metric sizes which is apparently uncommon and a helpful senior worker forwarded us to McLendons whose stock was better but we were again redirected this time to Tacoma Screw Products.

Tacoma Screw Products is great! See them for your hardware needs first! The store has a back area with every kind of screw ever. I felt a little out of place as as all the customers looked like contractors. The employee who helped me explained the various options I had in screws as the bike instructions weren't as explicit as they could have been. In the end I bought all my screws for only one dollar (much better than $30!) and they all fit correctly.

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Clocking and Stocking the NSC1 Pro: The Class 1 Nanite Compiler And You (Ars Technica)

2007 Apr 11, 12:58An old ars technica article about getting the most out of your nano-compiler (April Fools article). I remember reading this in high school.PermalinkCommentshumor nano nanocompiler fabrication article

stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

2006 Jan 2, 3:47PermalinkCommentsart design free images photos search tools
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