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I think it's a miracle that you can ask for $500 dollars of a thinly traded stock and quite quickly get an offer to get it at $515.

That's how market makers make money. They match up investors who want to buy and sell the amount they want to sell at the time they want to sell it.

Contrast to the private corporation that I own shares in, where it's taken me weeks to broker a deal to buy some more shares from another shareholder -- including face to face meetings with many of the officers of the company. We had to have an accountant do the valuation and I ended up buying exactly the number of shares the other owner wanted to sell because this would mean more financing complexity and paperwork for the hardworking officers who should be spending their time building the business.

Maybe your broker gets $10 and the market maker gets $15 but this is a bargain when you consider how much it would cost without them. Imagine trading on the New York Stock exchange when you were in San Francisco in 1860!

Many low latency (high frequency) traders are market makers. Since the first successful offer gets the trade, you've got to be the fastest to survive at this game.

One reason it's hard to make money as a trader is that as people find discover deviations from ideality and exploit them, the deviations go away. "Market neutral" strategies we quite successful through the 90's but are no longer profitable. Today I'm worried about the options market because trading in volatility may alter the relationship between implied and realized volatility and ruin another family of simple strategies that have performed well lately.
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so apparently I'm part of a CIA front
IOS 6 Maps confuses Manhattan and Brooklyn
Anecdotally, I'm probably a good example of this. Being sickly, I was homeschooled for a lot of my childhood, so I didn't have a peer group to tell me what was cool for many years. I did interact with other kids through church and various activities like choir, but it wasn't very similar to social groups that form in schools.

My mother also limited my TV time. My dad didn't but only when we watched Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, and all kinds of other sci=fi stuff together. He also told me stories about robots. I did also love playing with my Littlest Pet Shop toys and dressing up as a princess, but I also loved building robots, spaceships, pirate ships, etc. with legos. I don't really understand why that stuff isn't more popular with girls. I mean, almost all franchises based on them have multiple good female characters and storylines that seem like they would appeal to women.

Based on later experiences as a teacher of 4-5 year olds, I get the impression that socially there is usually a queen bee girl who tells all the other girls who like different things that they are lame and they can't be in the club if they play with robots. I don't necessarily think that's a natural thing as the way schools divide children up based on age would be unusual from a historical perspective. I think having all 5 year olds together with no younger or older girls encourages bullying behavior as they establish a social dominance, rather than age-based, hierarchy.
It would not be a problem if lawyers wouldn't take the case.

So the question is, how do we make sure lawyers don't want to? (without going to jail).
German court rules that Motorola, Samsung don't violate Apple touch event patent
That's great, I might actually be able to use this to significantly improve a certain project I am working on.

It would be really nice to have it using the same API, but yeah, it would be really tricky to actually pull it off.

Then again, I heard about gifsockets (http://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets) earlier today, so I guess anything is possible!
Probably not, but "the absence of Steve" effect will be brought up for years to come any time Apple stumbles. Steve stumbled too.
It's not hypocrisy if you try to live up to your ideals and fail. It's hypocrisy when you tell others to live up to your ideals, but you don't bother yourself.

Also, you're assuming that a charge of hypocrisy automatically means the idea is voided. It's not - a charge of hypocrisy is an accusation of a serious character flaw.
I'm not saying it's Google's fault (I know it very likely isn't). steevdave opened the door to other people's experience re. mass transit on Google Maps versus Apple Maps, I gave mine.
That me in TEST ex-KGB then.

And yes, we're spiraling deep down a meta rat hole here.
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> Copying yes, but with the intention of confusing buyers, I don't think so.

Well, if they weren't intending to do it, then it was quite a happy accident. http://www.bgr.com/2012/07/27/samsung-tablet-returns-best-bu...
When did the length of the period of speculation become the moral compass for whether someone should be allowed to put their capital at risk.

I still think that everyone is missing a key point. There is huge value in programatic trading. The frequency of a crash with impact to retail investors (not traders willingly risking money speculatively) relative to the volume of spread tightening trading approaches zero.
The real question is: How many Apple users or would-be Apple users consider mapping to be critically important?

This could be a very interesting case study on sales of an otherwise great product being hurt by a move that cripples a critically important element of said product.

I've already met several people with iPhone 4's (or older) who said they are not upgrading to either iOS6 or iPhone 5 because of the mapping issue. I am part of that group as well. I'll have to buy an iPhone 5 for development purposes but I don't think I'll have it as my primary phone until the whole maps business is sorted out.

Mapping seems to be one of those things that you can't design your way around. In other words, nobody cares about beautiful inaccurate maps. This could be one of the first challenges on Apples's desk that can't be solved with cute commercials and pretty design. It has to be good and at least equal to, if not better than, Google's offering.

Regrettably sometimes the only way to get good at something is to start doing it. At first you'll probably suck at it but, with time and effort, you'll get better and better. This is Apple getting on that path to excelling at mapping. It'll take time. There's no doubt that they have the financial resources to make it happen. Now it is about execution.
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I am a web developer, and I've never used photoshop. I rarely touch graphics at all. My sense is that this is true for most or at least many web developers in general.
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I bought it. It was an MVP. The M stands for Minimal. The V stands for Viable. I still have it and note that Maps in iOS 3 over EDGE is more responsive and slicker looking than Maps in iOS 5.
In some places it sure as hell would improve Google Maps if they would (be able to?) include OSM data. Compare for example Sarajevo on Google Maps at http://goo.gl/maps/kc3yP to its OSM counterpart at http://osm.org/go/xfYWiLv8-- .
Yeah, I remember reading this possibly even earlier than that -- I am in the same position (sort of) so obviously it resonated with me. I can't understand why people would lie on their resume; but then again, I usually don't understand lying at all.
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And I would love to see anyone defend that position in court. "Your honor, it was patented but was it a 'real patent?', I mean look at the offices of the company that owns it. It's a small company, not very famous and their coffee tastes bland"..
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It's not uniformly available in the US either. If the local transit authority publishes the data in the right format, then Google will add it to their maps. I suppose if there's sufficient interest they might write a custom scraper.

My local transit authority thought this was a better idea: http://www.katbus.com
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How would you suggest someone without any experience in physical products get that required knowledge? A friend and I have an idea for a physical product and we're in the process of building the garage prototype now. When that's finished and if we think it's a fit for Kickstarter, what resources should we find so we don't set goals too low, etc?
One day Apple apologists will have to draw a line in the sand – does Apple care more about users, or more about ego-laden competitive angst? When Apple limits people – they do it for business, when they allow freedom they are doing it for the users.

Sorry, but ripping out a familiar, tried and true application and replacing it with one far inferior is not for the users. It would be different if they had been more diplomatic and said to Google, "we're doing our own stuff, so, maybe you want to launch at the same time so people won't be all pissed off with our version 1.0?". That would be for the users and Apple could still have their own Maps and improve it beyond Google's capabilities within time. People would switch because it was better.

I have all Apple products, but as a fan I sit on the fence when the logic doesn't make sense.
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3) The design is famous. It's not like Apple sneakily copied it thinking no one will notice.

So why didn't they license it?
There is a definite obligation, as a licensed professional engineer, to protect the reputation, and to an extent the scarcity, of engineering knowledge as a resource. I know for sure that, as an architect, it is unethical to do architecture work for friends, family, etc. for free. The examples you gave are straw men, though, except open source.

- Open Source is a really interesting problem, and I'm not involved in that community very much. I suspect a licensed engineer would be averse to writing code for an OS project in their spare time, if it wasn't part of their job.

- Quitting your job and working for yourself isn't the same as offering your services to a third party for free / cheap. If a lawyer was actually an equity partner in a firm, they could set their own salary, certainly it could be less than usual. This is different than what I saw as a contracting/retainer relationship where the lawyer is an independent third-party providing services because they have some free time. Of course, there is probably a lot of red tape involved in creating an in-hour legal department versus contracting this out.

- Providing services to charity, inarguably, provides a net benefit to the profession. Most professional organizations allow for this, provided you're acting in an advisory role. Arguably, actually getting involved in litigation is no longer 'advisory'.

- Writing about cool things and implementing them are two different ideas. Some lawyers provide commentary as a hobby, but this is not interchangeable with the actual service they provide. As a software engineer, writing about a concept isn't the same as implementing that concept for a client.

Remember, this only applies to licensed engineers who belong to a self-regulating professional organization. Just because your job title has 'Engineer' in it, if you didn't take an oath, you aren't really an Engineer.
This can actually happen with things like "breaking the iceberg"--playing tricks with the order book, but like you said, there clearly exist dangers with HFT, to claim that all HFT is evil is just flat out wrong.
And if Apple wanted to claim any part of that as true they should have thought twice before they started suing companies on design patents.

Made bed, meet company laying in you.
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Google Maps is seven years old. Do you really think people are going to wait around until 2019 for Apple to fix this?

This is a rare but genuine example of (the modern) Apple completely fucking up; it surprises me that some people are so unwilling to acknowledge the fact.
Blame the user is a bankrupt strategy. Maybe you can deflect the blame, but it does nothing to keep the black hats at bay. In essence, you are admitting you are wrong. (Clearly passwords period are broken for use by non geeks, but that is another can of worms.)
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Translate that for me: L'Arroseur arrosé.
Except, that isn't all high frequency traders do.

They send in tens of thousands of requests a second, many of which they have no interest in ever being forfilled, in the hope of partly fooling other people, who are sending around similar numbers of requests.

Stock exchanges have turned into a high-frequency war-ground, which fortunately doesn't appear to spill out and effect the rest of us too often, at least as far as I understand.
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From what I heard in 2011, the OSM license change was motivated by legal status of the data in the EU. Creative Commons is seen as an arts license and data could only be licensed and protected through an appropriate data license.
This sounds a bit fishy – how could Appcelerator even get an app pulled from the app store? DMCA?
Mark Cuban, go create your own exchange where you set the rules, or STFU.

That's why we live in a free society.

There is no valid reason or excuse for putting a gun to someone's head and telling them, "stop trading or else," which is what you keep insisting on.
Well, according to Dick Costolo it has nothing to do with the API changes: https://twitter.com/dickc/status/248947914582405120 but I'm struggling to imagine IFTTT killing a really useful feature for no reason.
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Creating this was probably fun and a good learning experience, but I wouldn't recommend trying to push it beyond that point. The problem Shake solves doesn't call for the sort of DSL that uses macros to make Clojure code act like something other than Clojure code.

I'd rather have something like https://github.com/clojure/tools.cli but in reverse: a library for building, manipulating, and running command lines and interacting with the results ... maybe something that supports setting up mappings so that external programs can be exposed as Clojure fns with "Clojuresque" arguments "--rather" "than" "--arrays-of" "strings".
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All of these things are useful and valid techniques for building scalable, maintainable and extensible code.

Abstract is a pretty basic OO concept. You make an abstract class when you want it to be derived and never used directly.

Singleton is where a class can only ever create one object. Harder than it sounds.

Proxy is where the class interfaces with something else. Again, very useful. Proxies are used by Spring to implement AOP.

Factory - abstracts away the creation of objects, in other words the client object does not need to know how to create objects. It's used extensively in the Spring IoC container.

Beans are object that use simple but powerful conventions of creating reusable components in Java.

Interceptors at used by AOP.

If you use these concepts as they are intended to be used then your code will be cleaner, maintainable and a joy to work with.
As staunch upholders of intellectual property rights, Apple, I'm sure, greatly appreciates this oversight being pointed out to them.
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The thing is, we just don't know what the circumstances were. If you want, you can assume that Apple was the one who pulled the plug on Google's Maps app, but the same thing happened with the YouTube app, and wouldn't you know, Google released a new YouTube app through the app store, with ads.

A version of the story, that is at least as likely as Apple taking away Maps.app (which could arguable be the most used non-telephone app on the iPhone) and replacing it with something that isn't as good - Google wanted to put ads in the app, something more than "sponsored pins" or whatever they had been doing (aka, display ads).
Yet I'm sure you realize that in other parts of the world that could not be the case.
There was an article on HN a few months ago about this difference between USA and Europe. In USA having a car is almost mandatory, because of the distance between the cities and the state of public transport. In Europe not having a car is not not so uncommon (almost everyone of my friends and I don't have a car), especially if you live in a city.
>"but rather the price of the stock in relation to the value being manipulated by, as one example, high frequency trading and macro economic conditions."

Please explain or expand on how the above occurs.
why do you need to be on the latest?

If you just want the latest source, why not cron a VCS pull every morning
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I'm not sure Apple had done much to update their Maps app in 5 years.
His main poing is wrong.

High Frequency Trading makes trading stocks cheaper. There have always been market makers. They used to be expensive humans. Now they are cheap computers. This means that it now costs less for you to trade a stock.
...or it could be a common malady amongst programmer: inability to write clear documentation. I note that it's much clearer in the most recent documentation.
> First, this is indeed obfuscation. There undoubtedly is a constant key...It's certainly miles beyond what most other sites use

The state of typical security in software projects of the 1990's: sad, sad... Any improvement in 2012: such a piddling little improvement. The trend is clear as is the conclusion: the average dev can't be trusted to do security. It doesn't work!
I can't tell you how many bad startup ideas I've seen...especially at those hacker/startup meetups.

I'm in the Chicago area and one of the winners (startup weekend winner) was a clone of twitter that allows 300 characters instead of 128. I can't see this ever really making it.

I think the problem is that too many people focus on "me too " ideas and don't even think about how they are going to actually make money.

The other problem is that the end goal for many of these startups is to get venture capital, not build a successful business.
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Apple wrote a software application which uses Openstreetmap and Tomtom. They don't have an actual map data set like Google does.
use does accept an :as option:

=> (use '[clojure.set :as set])
=> set/intersection
#<set$intersection clojure.set$intersection@58ca40be>

Prior to the addition of :refer to require, this was often paired with an :only (...) in order to alias a namespace as well as refer in some limited set of vars if desired, all in one declaration.
"The market has changed in a way that an overwhelming number of external factors can have a negative (or positive) impact on that company's share price"

Really? In what way has it changed?

External factors have always had a huge impact on businesses. I'm sure there were lots of super well run businesses that went under durring the Great Depression (which was, you know, the mother of "external factors").
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Wow, so the trains don't run on time, so they make the time run on the trains?
Unless you have specific insider information that hasn't leaked onto the internet, we don't know anything about why Apple has moved onto their own mapping data instead of Google's data, past "their licensing agreement expired and wasn't renewed". Google might have put some crazy ridiculous demand out there that no one would take. Apple might have thrown a tantrum and pulled Google completely and said "ner ner ner". I'm not apologising for Apple, the Maps need a lot of work, but we have no clue about the internal policy and licensing negotiations that took place so we can't just assume it's out of hubris.
HFT happens on millisecond scale. That is what they mean by "short term" now.

If you are going to hold a stock for weeks it will probably not affect you at all. Even if your holding period is several hours you are not really competing with HFT.
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In order to keep it to what purpose? To make money.
Superb work!
I just got prompted today to update my firmware and declined, wondering when I would be able to update it again.
Individual investors outperform the market over a 20 day holding period and that "these patterns are consistent with the idea that risk-averse individuals provide liquidity to meet institutional demand for immediacy." The expected return for an individual investor deteriorates as time horizons get shorter and longer than 20 days, with professional traders dominating individuals at the shorter end and professional investors at the longer.

http://archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/2451/26930/3/CFE-04-04.pdf....
It's rather hard to judge right now. We have so much little information. What if Google asked Apple a billion dollars for another year of ad-free YouTube and Maps?

I'm not saying what they did was the best thing they could've done. I'm just saying there might have been other factors involved.
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You hit the hail on the head. My argument is that curiosity is more powerful than notions of what one "should" do.

All things come with some level of challenge. Getting past such hurdles has a lot to do with how much you get out of the overall experience. Yes, hard work is required; and I'm no stranger to sticking with something. For more thoughts on this notion, read The Muck: http://www.deliberatism.com/editorial/the-muck/

I've done creative things for the better part of my life. This path has often been difficult. In spite of that, I find a strange pleasure in sitting down and putting pen to paper: be that in a drawing, something I'm writing, or in a new business idea.

I'm not doing these things to improve myself. I'm just interested in seeing what the next thing might lead to. As a result, even the toughest parts become more tolerable.
Maybe if the developer is not complying the opensource license [1]

e.g. Apache 2.0

>> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3966116/where-to-put-open...
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I'm not saying Apple is right. I'm saying the contexts are wildly different. They probably ought to cough up some sort of fee, or change if the designers don't want them to use it.

But one face on one app of a multifunction device is simply not the same as aping a plurality of features and designs of a competing device.
That's why I wrote 'close to no security issues'.

What I didn't realise is that jQuery 1.6 is only from last year.
Mark Cuban is only human, and I was wondering why he seemed to take that huge Facebook loss so lightly.
TabBarController is now highly buggy. I had to put multiple workarounds into our app to get around them (figured out mostly myself and from forums).

There's no info on Apple's dev site about how to actually support iphone 5's new resolution. You have to figure it out from the forums.

It's less useful because they have removed google maps, youtube, podcasts from itunes (you now have to download a separate app), etc.
When I moved from college to New York I managed to lose all my identification save for a foreign passport over a decade expired with a 2-year old picture of me in it. It took a bit of sweet talking, but I was able to open bank accounts (and fly domestically) with that alone. Note, too, that thanks to silly drinking laws in the U.S. there is a thriving industry in creating fake identity cards.