January 2011
7 posts
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663052/how-to-give-ele... →
observations and reports: Efficient Market... →
goodship11:
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to “side-channel” manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts of latency into them. By doing so, they can subtly change the course of trading and pocket profits of millions of dollars…
Seth's Blog: A culture of testing →
goodship11:
from seth:
Netflix tests everything. They’re very proud that they A/B test interactions, offerings, pricing, everything. It’s almost enough to get you to believe that rigorous testing is the key to success.
Except they didn’t test the model of renting DVDs by mail for a monthly fee.
And they didn’t test the model of having an innovative corporate culture.
And they didn’t test...
