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by acconrad 9y ago
As valuearb pointed out, value investing basically comes down to reading 10Ks and 10Qs which are freely available on the SEC database. You read those to get the complete financial health of a company, and using those numbers, calculate what
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by acconrad 9y ago
Most value investors you've heard of aren't really value investors, they're activist hedge fund managers who try to "catalyze the unclaimed inherent value" in a company by bullying them (through board seats) to cour
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by acconrad 9y ago
They are not as common today because we are in a huge bull market, but they can still be found: https://www.oldschoolvalue.com/stock-screener/net-asset-curr...
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by acconrad 9y ago
None of this is new news, this is exactly what The Intelligent Investor and Margin of Safety are based on: that the market is irrational. To go further, this is what Warren Buffett made his first few millions off of what is considered
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by acconrad 9y ago
Can anyone speak to how taxes are appropriated? Because in all of this talk about MID and perhaps how eliminating it might level the playing field, that only seems to make sense if that money is then appropriated to lower income individuals
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by acconrad 9y ago
Since when is working two jobs a bad thing? Plenty of people work two or three jobs to make ends meet. If you can make both work, and you aren't violating any contracts or NDAs, I don't see why you should feel bad about that.
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by acconrad 9y ago
Just don't take 23andMe too seriously. I had markers of being Factor V Leiden[1] but after a blood test it was revealed I didn't have it. It's a data point for sure, but it doesn't immediately mean that your genes will a
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by acconrad 9y ago
Is this real? This is genuinely one of the funniest and most absurd documents I have ever seen in my life. I am crying I am laughing so hard. I genuinely hope someone pitched this to Pepsi EDIT: I have confirmed this is from a real creative
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by acconrad 9y ago
Know: Python, Ruby, Elixir, Javascript, (deprecated knowledge: Java, C/C++, OcaML, Scheme) Want to learn: Haskell, Go, even more Python and Elixir
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by acconrad 10y ago
If Quora is doing "extremely well", then why are they still seeking funding this many years in for a second round with YC?
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by acconrad 10y ago
Given they've acquired Kaggle, I would imagine if you can solve Kaggle questions you're getting a solid preview of the ML-specific questions they might ask you in addition to the standard data structure/algo and unix question
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by acconrad 10y ago
> o Joseph Lampel and I studied the post-1990 records of all 19. How did they do? In a word, badly. A majority, 10, seemed clearly to have failed, meaning that their company went bankrupt, they were forced out of the CEO chair, a major
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Functional Programming by any other Name(davidwalsh.name)
2 points by acconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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Classes Are Making Me Sad(gist.github.com)
53 points by acconrad 10y ago|61 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
I'm an idiot
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by acconrad 10y ago
If you live in Massachusetts it's now illegal for a perspective employer to ask this question as part of your interviewing process: http://www.mass.gov/governor/press-office/press-releases/fy2...
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by acconrad 10y ago
Every email from a recruiter is a chance to secure part time consulting work even if you're fully employed and happy at your job. Great way to build your freelance résumé and secure more money quite easily.
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A dozen lessons about product/market fit(25iq.com)
1 points by acconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
If you're a new grad, we just started using Vue and you can be a prime influencer in it's direction: https://boards.greenhouse.io/catalant/jobs/534116
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by acconrad 10y ago
Have them mate with other breeds
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I have to relearn Angular’s Form API every time I use it(medium.com)
4 points by acconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
> Why would I ever want to own when I get free maintenance and don't have to worry about a down payment? Because my mortgage (aka rent) hasn't gone up in 3 years...in fact it's actually gone down because I refinanced a
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by acconrad 10y ago
> there is no 'programmer' role in the c-suite CTO?
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by acconrad 10y ago
So if I have a masters in CS, but in a different discipline, will that be okay if I'm now wanting to shift focus to data science through a series of my own side projects utilizing ML?
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by acconrad 10y ago
I'm very confused. When the TPP first leaked as a series of secret talks, everyone on HN was seemingly up in arms about the trade deal. Then it went through, and HN shifted to being very pro TPP. Now it's withdrawn, and now the HN
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by acconrad 10y ago
How is the HN community upvoting this? There is not a single piece of actual data that actually backs any single one of these outlandish salary claims. This is all hearsay from one single source with no proof whatsoever. Given that HN has
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by acconrad 10y ago
Should I be depressed by this thread or inspired? I may get a raise to $150k/yr and I thought that was doing well for the northeast, but this just makes me feel like I've made bad career choices to be in the workforce for 8 year
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Major Service Outage at GitHub(status.github.com)
155 points by acconrad 10y ago|85 comments
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How to Make the Best of Your New Dev Job(medium.com)
3 points by acconrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 10y ago
Let him find out himself. Maybe he can hack it, maybe he can't, but also maybe he'll be okay with partial success. Better to let him explore and decide than decide for him. Yes, I am a software engineering by profession :)

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