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megaframe
7y ago
Agreed. In other languages a part of me always feels like if I'm using regex I'm doing something wrong, because I used it so liberally in Perl. It feels like a Perl-ism so I try to make a conscious effort not to carry those over a
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7y ago
I have Sonic, and it's $64.05 not $75. The promo router is a bit annoying but they only charge you if you return it before the promo period ends or if you keep it after. The land line is annoying but still comes out way cheaper Comcast
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7y ago
How am I more fascinated by his warehouse robot than the glass bottles. It's such a great design/implementation.
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7y ago
I keep an old tablet at home with a second copy of all my rotating keys. I know all the sites say not to do this, but if I loose my phone or it breaks or while switching phones I have that tablet around. Not the ideal "cheap" solu
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8y ago
Certified Repair/Mechanic/HVAC isn't what it used to be. After my landlord paid $3500 to replace an in wall heater, a 20min operation I easily knew how to do, I honestly considered switching jobs. Do something with my hands b
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8y ago
I think this is like cars that market themselves as capable of racing and/or off roading, but people use them to commute in stop and go traffic. Majority of people don't select products for rational/practical reasons.
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8y ago
Apartments on the second floor, it's worked in some places, but mostly where the mall was already centrally located http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-first-shopping-mall-...
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9y ago
San Francisco - Sonic - (~$40/mo) for symmetric 1Gbps up/down
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9y ago
Doesn't seem low enough to me, at least not low enough to warrant the risk. It has hit a lower price in a 1yr term... Just saying I've been burned with that kind of thinking, sometimes it's best to wait for the anger to settl
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10y ago
Someone left the bath running... that's what the overflow drain is for http://www.freediyhomeimprovement.com/wp-content/uploads/201... The rest is bad on Airbnb though.
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10y ago
"with no prior training" is a false statement, the prior training is life and learning to read and having human experiences. For example if all reviews were in english and the human only spoke Mandarin they would need "prior
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11y ago
If you're looking to loose some weight I've had this conversation with a few people. It rests on the idea that the the recommended Caloric intake of 2000 Cal/day is likely wrong for you. It might be right but for a lot of peo
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12y ago
Some yes. Kidney failure in a small set of patients. Typically urine/blood samples are taken for the first few months to check for this. There's some evidence of bone degradation in long term use (think 10+ years) but its mitigate
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12y ago
> I would have ended up teaching them how to do the bulk of the job had we hired them. Is that really a bad of thing? If they're good programers and quick to pickup new technologies wouldn't you be better off getting them, trai
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12y ago
SEC rules. To do that you need become a trading advisor (similar to a hedge fund), which requires that you have made over $200k/yr for the last 3 years or that you have $2.5Mil in your own assets. While I've done consistently well
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12y ago
Level I and Level II data from my broker's API (Interactive Brokers). It's a free service as long as you have enough trading fee's every month. TDAmeritrade has an OK API as well. Both services have some limitations on data f
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12y ago
I started with the open NLP packages, but I rewrote pretty much everything, including my own ML algos. Typically based on the open source one. I kept running into scaling and use case performance issues. On some occasions things I did turne
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12y ago
There's a whole world of people doing this. Some even package it up into solutions to sell you as though it's this black box solution you can plop down and just make money out of it. The combination layers of machine learning and
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12y ago
I make about what a Hedge fund makes 15-28% a quarter depending on how well the market is doing. I just don't pay hedge fund fee's. It's not wildly innovative I'm just circumventing paying a hedge fund, which often use t
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12y ago
Like most tasks start by teaching yourself to trade on news/price info. Then automate yourself step by step. For instance News articles pop up, what are you trying to glean from them, its usually sentiment and and critical alerts. You
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12y ago
Combination Machine Learning, NLP, Neural Networks, stock analyzer. Does automated day trading. Not HFT style stuff. More what a bank pays an analyst to do, type of trading, but smaller scale since it's only my personal funds.
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12y ago
In California, an LLC is treated like an S-Corp and you get charged the Corporate tax rate in addition to paying your regular income tax. Unless you feel the name of your company requires the protection of an LLC and make enough to justify
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13y ago
Yes if you've ever had an order not get completely filled... happens to me a lot, it's kind of annoying and usually not worth chasing the price up. Every small investor should use limit orders. Market orders are rigged at the Mark
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13y ago
Last time I priced this out for a personal project it was half the price just to build something at home... if I didn't already own the setup this would be pretty great.
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13y ago
I wanted to put "Meat Popsicle" but they have pre-defined "custom" tags
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13y ago
I travel with my laptop so I worry about it being stolen... So I could be wrong about this, and if I am please tell me. From what I read if you use full disc encryption, bios password, and set the bios to go direct to hdd for booting on a m
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13y ago
Been wanting this for a long time but didn't know of a free vendor and didn't seem worth paying for (just for my personal use)... now I got it working on everything but OSX, it just does not seem to want to accept the cert.
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megaframe
13y ago
I had this problem when I switched jobs... so I built the tools I needed from my last job (roughly from memory) fixing the things that had annoyed me.
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13y ago
Yeah there's normally a negotiation via pins being grounded or through the level of resistance on that pull up which tells the device what spec is being used. That goes on to tell the device how much power it can pull without causing a
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13y ago
I used to design these things. Yes they are difficult to design in the sense of RF engineering to pump that much data on a data line, but the power end of it is a very simplest design. It has a current cap to prevent damage to the regulator
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