Exactly my thought - I guessed that MC was praising us. Sigh, you'd think we HFT practitioners were, I dunno, Goldman Sachs or something like that. ;) (jk, GS, you know we love you ...)

Good list, also. I work with some really smart programmers and tech people and HFT is a great laboratory to work on tough technical problems in the real-world, with real results.