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"Judging from the TOC, I’m done with the docker basics, and it’s now time for advanced usage tutorials. Nice!" — Feb 04, 2017 05:25PM
"Judging from the TOC, I’m done with the docker basics, and it’s now time for advanced usage tutorials. Nice!" — Feb 04, 2017 05:25PM
Then Smith said something that Knudsen never forgot. He said, “From now on you’ve got to lead, not drive.”48 It was the last lesson Smith left him, and one of the most important. From that day Knudsen learned to bottle up his rage and lock
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“In his searches, Schwall noticed something else, though at first he didn’t know what to make of it: A surprisingly large number of the people pulled in by the big Wall Street banks to build the technology for high-frequency trading were Russians. “If you went to LinkedIn and looked at one of these Russian guys, you would see he was linked to all the other Russians,” said Schwall. “I’d go to find Dmitri and I’d also find Misha and Vladimir and Tolstoy or whatever.” The Russians came not from finance but from telecom, physics, medical research, university math departments, and a lot of other useful fields. The big Wall Street firms had become machines for turning analytically minded Russians into high-frequency traders.”
― Flash Boys
― Flash Boys
“Worried that it needed to do more to promote diversity, RBC invited Brad along with a bunch of other nonwhite people to a meeting to discuss the issue. Going around the table, people took turns responding to a request to “talk about your experience of being a minority at RBC.” When Brad’s turn came he said, “To be honest, the only time I’ve ever felt like a minority is this exact moment. If you really want to encourage diversity you shouldn’t make people feel like a minority.” Then he left. The group continued to meet without him.”
― Flash Boys
― Flash Boys
“The old Soviet culture also left its former citizens oddly prepared for Wall Street in the early twenty-first century. The Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with loopholes. Everything was scarce; everything was also gettable, if you knew how to get it. “We had this system for seventy years,” said Constantine. “People learn to work around the system. The more you cultivate a class of people who know how to work around the system, the more people you will have who know how to do it well. All of the Soviet Union for seventy years were people who are skilled at working around the system.”
― Flash Boys
― Flash Boys
“It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“Even then, none of the line’s creators knew for sure how the line would be used. The biggest question about the line— Why?—remained imperfectly explored. All its creators knew was that the Wall Street people who wanted it wanted it very badly—and also wanted to find ways for others not to have it. In one of his first meetings with a big Wall Street firm, Spivey had told the firm’s boss the price of his line: $10.6 million plus costs if he paid up front, $20 million or so if he paid in installments. The boss said he’d like to go away and think about it. He returned with a single question: “Can you double the price?”
― Flash Boys
― Flash Boys
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