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The people in the article find it one of the best jobs available and a path to a middle class lifestyle for their area.

If by wealthy having 90th percentile investments 10 years before normal retirement age then these plans are well equipped to make you wealthy. Get rich slow totally works.

Glancing at the abstract it looks like 97% lose money, what larger number in a more suitable sample size would make a difference? I've heard low single digits of traders and invest…

What's the point of even building a website if Google is just going to scrape the information and put in a SERP? You need to add value and build a relationship with your customer.

It's important to distinguish market cap based indexes and other asset class indexes. Small and micro-caps are notoriously hard to trade but mega-caps typically have much higher li…

Growth of 10K tool on Morningstar is really handy so that you aren't comparing apples to oranges with dividends, splits, etc.

... Google is valued highly today because they print money today. They print money because of search and advertising. They are really good at this and that's why their market cap e…

Both companies will struggle for the kind of revenue growth Wall Street is looking for. Ad sales account for 99% of Google revenue, with speculative ventures generating less then $…

There are pressures from both the earn and the spend side, but the surest path to misery is living above your means. Dickens had it pretty much nailed with, "Annual income twenty p…

I love how the engineers in "Halt and Catch Fire" are always talking about "the laws of physics".

The More Cocoa Programming for OS X: book has been in O'Reilly Rough Cuts beta for several years and the tech is pretty old at this point. Not sure if it ever will see the light of…

At least part of the problem was the resentment that people felt about needing to sign up to paid service to keep their identity and follow their friends. Their was implied social …

Yep. Should have expressed that it is non-linear.

... Chronic lack of exercise causes people to sleep 9+ hours per day. Put those same people on regular aerobic exercise regimes, and they start sleeping Peak performance exercise c…

Who said anything about completely eliminating OpenGL ES? SceneKit writes to OpenGL, OpenGL views are pervasive, WebGL is turned on in Safari, CALayers are OpenGL backed. Metal jus…

Provocative title, but probably overstated. SceneKit uses OpenGL directly with shaders and deferred rendering. Metal seems likely to become more mainstream as engine developers ado…

Maybe people who are overly concerned about their food consumption, of which vegetarianism is a subset, are more likely to be neurotic.

Not sure what ...help you keep a level proprietorship with your llc or whatever company you have producing the app... means, but from the read me for brushes from the same develope…

...a group of professionals have examined you, your team, and your idea and decided that it's worthwhile risking a sum of money backing you... You could make a similar case for mor…

I think it's likely that a particular community, language, tooling combination is likely to resonate with a particular person. Although reading a few well reasoned articles might g…

The same comparisons were made when Flash was being misused. It doesn't take much to muddy an ecosystem. There were certainly other problems with Flash, but thinking that best prac…

Dribble Crowd? Yep, what the world needs now is yet another cultural stereotype.

The direct response industry continues to use long sales letters and "ugly" design to great effect. It's the same kind of a/b testing that agile UX practitioners espouse that produ…

...The bullshit part is trying to apply a geographic model of governance... You could use a VAT, but that won't appease the state constituencies looking for more revenues. Taxes ar…

When they are they laugh in the face of the peon daring to question his greatness.