On: Programmers Should Invest

This is horribly bad. He bought some apple stock, it happened to go up, and he beat the market. I once bought myself black at a roulette table, it happened to be the next color, and I beat the house. Should I write a page about the fundamentals of gambling that I read about and ultimately ignored for the fact that people like black better than red.

Agreed. It's also important to point out that the timeframe was in the span of weeks, which is minuscule in the scope of typical investing timeframes.