I accept that your explanation makes sense, but the fact that this can happen automagically in an intransparent way when someone just wants to buy a number of shares at a quoted price just feels wrong. And reading a few other articles on Nanex also give me weird image of what happens in stocks in general.
Then again, I have no idea about these things and should probably shut up.
"Fresh Apples here! Only the best apples for 2 dollars!" -
"I would like one, please." -
"Thatll be 2.50, sir." -
"What? I thought you just said 2?" -
"Demand has just gone up."
Its probably intentional.
All of this has a kind of 'game' vibe to me.
Maybe its part of a CTF? It seems to run on nodejs, like m3m3n70 does. Maybe its a puzzle. Or a joke.
I wouldnt know.
I plan on running one as a headless server at home, yknow, a bit of file storage and whatever I can manage to put on it, not just because of the low price but because it draws a lot less power than my current setup.
35€ for something I can tinker with and basically leave running all day is pretty good. Not to mention at that price I can easily replace it.
I have had this for quite a while now, and I cant be burnt out or anything because I´m just 16.
And its not just on coding, but anything, really. Even gaming.
I bet if this post was about python and not ruby (and maybe leave the Arch Linux part, as people didn't seem to like that), there wouldn't be anyone calling him a fanboi.