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by n72 13y ago
Find CDs with a low early withdrawal penalty (Ally bank for example) and you've for many intents and purposes eliminated inflation risk, to which the bonds are vulnerable. Inflation may not go up, but it certainly can't go much farther down
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by n72 13y ago
Relatedly, see Rich Hickey's http://blog.datomic.com/2012/10/codeq.html
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by n72 13y ago
Also, get a good hair cut. Pop for an appointment where you consult with a high end stylist. A good stylist really does know what they're doing. After that, once the style has been determined, you can have a less expensive haircutter simply
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by n72 14y ago
I wondering how much of this is comprised of auto-renewed subscriptions that people don't even realize they're paying for.
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by n72 14y ago
Well, Nate Silver is kind of to politics what Nate Silver is to baseball. There had been forecasting systems prior to PECOTA, but it upped the bar.
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by n72 14y ago
Yeah, this jarred me as well. Vaguely racist.
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by n72 14y ago
Hey, guess what, Jeff Bezos stopped by our office today. I just wanted everyone to know that, so I posted about something platitudinous he said.
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by n72 14y ago
Ick, breaks command/query separation, the other OO rule that along with tell, don't ask I find to be a hallmark of well coded OO systems. class SystemMonitor def check_for_overheating if temperature > 100 sound_alarms en
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by n72 14y ago
Relatedly, a long, long time ago I found Allan Holub's PPT Everything You Know is Wrong quite good: http://ebookbrowse.com/everything-you-know-is-wrong-pdf-d281...
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by n72 14y ago
In this case, I don't consider signContract part of the seller's or buyer's role in that signing is more closely aligned with a contract than a person. That is, a person does a lot more things - views house, negotiates, etc. If you put all
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by n72 14y ago
Agreed, Interactors are pretty much what Eric Evans calls Domain Services in Domain Driven Design.
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by n72 14y ago
I don't object to the privacy aspect, since this will never take off. I object to the utter unimaginative/douchy aspect of this. Who with half-a-brain hasn't thought of this and immediately rejected it as a stupid kind of frat boy inspired
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by n72 15y ago
I couldn't understand why the startup of which I was a member, which was 2 years old and sold for half a billion in January wasn't covered in Tech Crunch. I guess this explains it.
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by n72 15y ago
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have mentioned Ashton Kutcher by name. I merely meant to illustrate a type of person. That is, once a thing becomes public, well-known, trendy, etc that the game is up in terms of mining value from an under valued
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by n72 15y ago
This is completely unscientific, but once something gains this much hype I just get the gut feeling that the value has disappeared for investors. If the likes of Ashton Kutcher are there, the game's up, the secret's out - these assets are n
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Ask HN: What do you use for a payroll app
5 points by n72 15y ago|4 comments
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by n72 15y ago
"Beane and the A's were mostly focusing on offense, because that's were they could find value." This is not true. One, the big three of Zito, Hudson, and Mulder is one of the best front ends to a pitching staff in baseball history. Moreover
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by n72 16y ago
Guess they shouldn't have written those unit tests.
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by n72 16y ago
And now thankfully we have the Play framework for java/scala.
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by n72 16y ago
"We do hear that both Zynga and Twitter may be recruiting him aggressively" Why? Perhaps I'm missing something, but hasn't facebook pretty much sucked in terms of monetization?
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by n72 16y ago
Using haxe as well
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by n72 16y ago
Groan - reminds me of the PEDs issue in baseball. Perfect grandstanding issue.
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by n72 16y ago
Ah, I do love scala.
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A hoax from 2005
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by n72 16y ago
Or just call a licensed exterminator. That's what I did both times and it worked.