Submitted by andy on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 00:38
Seems like hardly anyone noticed the passing of this computer pioneer who was probably as influential as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in terms of bringing personal computers to the masses. The Commodore 64 was the best selling single personal computer model of all time.
Tramiel, an Auschwitz survivor, died of heart failure at the age of 83.
Submitted by cotis on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 12:47
Java, for all its type-safe glory and cross-platform support, has never been a lean beast. Running on top of a VM has historically left Java with a reputation for bringing with it a steel-toed boot of a memory footprint.
Submitted by jake on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 11:32
Submitted by andy on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 23:03
An informative survey of the various approaches with their pros and cons can be found here.
Submitted by jimn on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 12:30
The LaSalle Technology Group, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FIX Explorer(tm) Mobile for the Apple iPhone. FIX Explorer Mobile is an application that provides FIX message formats and fields for all versions of FIX that is fully searchable. The full version of the application is available for free download via the Apple App Store. The application is being provided as a free service to the FIX Community.
Submitted by andy on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 16:46
DEC co-founder - computer pioneer. Obit
Submitted by andy on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 21:08
Institutional investors may finally have a hammer to use against the high-frequency traders who have allegedly been poaching their trades.
A new trading technology from RBC Capital Markets called “Thor” – publicly rolling out this month – could help counteract the ability of high-frequency traders to pick off the orders of other investors. Of course, many expect the HFT crowd to start working on a counter-Thor strategy straight away.
Full Article
Submitted by andy on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 17:14
It cost them $300M to dig 825 miles. Now at 13ms they are 3ms faster than all competitors.
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Submitted by jimn on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 19:58
Recently a group of the thought leaders within FPL started up the High Frequency Trading Working Group. The goal is to come up with a less verbose encoding for FIX than tag=value and to also streamline order handling semantics and possibly even the session layer.
The snow has arrived up north here in the Lasalletech home office, which gives us time to contemplate the big things in life, or the minute, in the case of high frequency trading messages.
Submitted by andy on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 10:13
Interesting article about server location for those who need to access multiple non-colocated servers.
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