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BetFair-TradeFair and the National Security Agency (among others) are giving away $260,000 in tournament prizes to attract the world’s best nerdy geeks (who can’t fry an egg, can’t get a Friday night date, but can decipher a computer algorithm).

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

The 2008 TopCoder Open @ Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2008-05-11~15 BetFair Corporate – Jobs & Careers -

Posted in Events & Meetings, Information Technology, Jobs - Careers - Hiring | Tagged BetFair, careers, coders, computer algorithm, computer technologists, developers, geeks, Information Technology, jobs, Las Vegas, National Security Agency, nerds, Nevada, prediction markets, programmers, TradeFair, United States, USD | Leave a comment

Section 2.3 (k) of the BetFair API agreement says you can’t make a product which promotes any other prediction exchange. That’s evil, because it means we will never have any multi-exchange, order-entry and analysis software package for (real-money and play-money) prediction markets.

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

BetFair: TERMS AND CONDITIONS Software Vendor Special Terms: [e.g. waivers of prohibitions, consents, rights to use trade marks subject to guidelines, added warranties and/or indemnities and variations to the standard terms generally] (1) Subject to the due performance of his/her/its … Continue reading →

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Is BetFair (a de facto monopoly) playing evil with traders and developers?

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Two serious issues. – - ISSUE ONE: The Sporting Exchange forbid any independent order-entry software for the BetFair prediction markets to be used for the other prediction exchanges. Chris Gibbs: BinarySoft Chris 22 Apr 17:59 Part of the agreement we … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: developers

BetFair-TradeFair and the National Security Agency (among others) are giving away $260,000 in tournament prizes to attract the world’s best nerdy geeks (who can’t fry an egg, can’t get a Friday night date, but can decipher a computer algorithm).

Section 2.3 (k) of the BetFair API agreement says you can’t make a product which promotes any other prediction exchange. That’s evil, because it means we will never have any multi-exchange, order-entry and analysis software package for (real-money and play-money) prediction markets.

Is BetFair (a de facto monopoly) playing evil with traders and developers?

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