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Comparing Python to Perl ( assuming equal experience with both ): If you are a good programmer, you will write good Perl and Python code. If you are a bad programmer, you will like…

Probably referring to recent articles / interviews that claim how large tech companies over-hired in efforts to take supply out of the market for competitors. https://fortune.com/2…

For those looking to make a good investment to “create a desirable urban space”, there are many ways to donate to non-profit (museums, theaters, local schools, libraries, co-ops, e…

Was expecting more info on how repayment works thru the revenue sharing notes - not clear what percentage of revenue a business is agreeing to pay or how much teeth these notes act…

Pay attention. This is how you rant.

Agreed! Once we automate one task, we move onto the next. Some of the automation requires tending over time, but order of magnitude less than the manual intervention than before. T…

I’d rather invest in just that company, one that can continue reinvesting profits in itself at attractive returns year in and out. I can sit back and let compounding work it’s magi…

No, the corporation retires the shares after the buyback. Total outstanding shares decrease. All remaining shareholders get a larger percent ownership of the corporation

Buybacks are effectively taxed at the same rate as dividends, at least qualified dividends, just timing differs: Simple case with a corporation worth $200 with two equal shareholde…

My two top ( by dollars and attention ) are: - Walker School ( walkercares.org ) - special education and behavioral care for children and their families. Why Support? This is a loc…

Big difference is that a surgeon cannot fiddle around with a liver, jam it back in the body, wake the patient up, test how the change works, and address (or revert if really messed…

Others.

Have it do one thing very well and document it clearly so users can build it into their own processes. If it is more complicated than that ( i.e. must do several things very well w…

You own 40% of the company right now and Jim owns 60% ( assuming all common stock ). If you sold the company right now, that should be the ratio to use to divvy up the proceeds due…

Imagine there was a cookie market made up of two types of cookies, tasty and meh. An active investor in cookies would spend time determining which cookies are likely tasty and whic…

No really easy way to do it. Just step through in a debugger a bunch of times and pay attention to the call stack and you'll start to get a feeling of the flow and structure of the…

... actually the U.S. Nuclear System uses 8 inch floppy disks. FISK seems to be too advanced.

How else do you think the U.S. Nuclear System shares data https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479588478... ?

Finishing my first build now. It was a tear down of an old house and replaced with a slightly larger ( ~ 4200sqft ), custom house on the same footprint. A different design ( curved…

Shouldn't the criticism for IPO terms like this be directed at the money managers buying these shares on behalf of their clients? It is ultimately those making the capital allocati…

Awesomeness?

I still use Eudora... heavily .... maybe this is a sign

Variable interest rates are only disastrous if you ignore affordability in the future as rates increase. You should know at what rates the adjustments will hurt you and at which ra…

A basic personal finance class in high school would go a long way. Anyone take one of those in high school ( or even college )?

Building the career fair website for my college while in school. There was a lot to be desired, but thousands of students had accounts and uploaded resumes, hundreds of companies r…