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by bjacokes 11y ago
Fidelity's phone system lets you authenticate by typing your password on the phone keypad. On the plus side, this is probably the only time I've understood the technical reason behind a limited password alphabet.
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by bjacokes 13y ago
This is also the subject of a Kurt Vonnegut short story, "The Euphio Question", from Welcome to the Monkey House.
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by bjacokes 13y ago
As mentioned in the article, there's always potential downside to preferred stock. A more accurate comparison is if you could buy Twitter stock for $100, would only start losing money if it went below $30, and would only start making m
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Why Mobile Gaming Startups are Risky(medium.com)
2 points by bjacokes 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjacokes 13y ago
That's Andrew Mason's shtick. There is similar stuff in pretty much any other statement/article he writes.
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by bjacokes 13y ago
It's worth watching the Advanced Go Concurrency talk from I/O before judging whether Go is designed for below-average developers. They throw up a plausible code sample near the beginning that has multiple tricky bugs. It's not a very forgiv
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by bjacokes 13y ago
I compiled a jargon list when I did a summer internship in finance. They're less frequently used in startups (thank god) but I still hear them used by business types: - Human capital: "People", often referring to your employees. - Reach out
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by bjacokes 13y ago
Our web hosting service at Parse (launched last week) is built entirely in Go. It happens to live in a sweet spot for the language: we need to query Memcache and/or Mongo to figure out exactly how to route a request but don't want to block
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Monsanto Wins Seed Patent Case(bloomberg.com)
1 points by bjacokes 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjacokes 13y ago
I would expect the direct financial impact of this launch to be quite small for us. The goal here isn't upselling customers, it's making it easier for our developers to have a strong web presence. This is only the first step, and we have so
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Parse launches web hosting(blog.parse.com)
20 points by bjacokes 13y ago|5 comments
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by bjacokes 14y ago
It's worth looking at "active isolated stretching" for an approach that is well-regarded in distance running circles and is an alternative to the "static stretching" that this article is referencing: http://www.runnersworld.com/injury-trea
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by bjacokes 14y ago
I don't quite understand the reasoning here -- it seems like you're advocating a long-term buy and hold approach with bitcoins, based solely on the fact that they've recovered from every crash thus far? While bitcoins certainly have a lot g
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by bjacokes 14y ago
In defense of Chicago, its grid is amazing for being able to efficiently travel around the city. The street numbering makes it trivial for any local to find their way to an address like "X00 W Belmont" without a map, and obviously the lack
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by bjacokes 14y ago
True -- although in that hypothetical situation, there'd be a lot of pressure to raise the dividend. Investors don't want to have money in such a cash-heavy company, because it's like investing in a mutual fund that takes half your money an
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by bjacokes 14y ago
A price/earnings ratio of 10 is fairly common for blue chip stocks. It certainly isn't priced for growth, so presumably investors think that Apple's earnings have a risk of plateauing. Given how high Apple's earnings are, there's certainly
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by bjacokes 14y ago
Like with any other language, I've found that frequent interaction with financial terms improves your literacy and helps you make better connections between ideas. For instance, a few years ago when Southwest Airlines seemed to have much lo
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Target, Schedule, and Preview Notifications in the Parse Push Console(blog.parse.com)
30 points by bjacokes 14y ago|2 comments
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IOS badge management on Parse(blog.parse.com)
12 points by bjacokes 14y ago|0 comments
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Powerful targeting for iOS push notifications(blog.parse.com)
53 points by bjacokes 14y ago|4 comments
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Better Pushing from Your Browser(blog.parse.com)
2 points by bjacokes 15y ago|0 comments
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Parse launches Push Console(blog.parse.com)
30 points by bjacokes 15y ago|4 comments