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   by nstj 10y ago

   Call me a skeptic (and this is an active board right now, I'm surprised I'm the first to say it) but this doesn't really add up. Guy is smart enough to fool the brightest HFT minds around the world and wipe out trillions of
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   by nstj 10y ago

   Actually it's not facetious at all. The point comes from his mentor Benjamin Graham, which relates to the difficulty in recouping investment capital following a loss (ie: making your money back after you break the rule). eg: You have
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   by nstj 10y ago

   Nice pragmatic summary. Bravo.
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   What is the use of a “hello world” web benchmark?

   3 points by nstj 10y ago|1 comments
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   by nstj 10y ago

   I'm bearish on it right now, though conceptually it's a fantastic idea which just has quite a way to go before it's ready for prime time. I definitely think a lot of people have jumped the gun by pushing serverless before it
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   by nstj 10y ago

   > Conventional wisdom says Frankel is more likely to join the millionaire has-beens who dot the hills in my San Francisco neighborhood or become a trophy hire at a tech startup, like contemporaries Fanning, Marc Andreessen, and Linus Tor
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   by nstj 10y ago

   Or a proxy such as AWS API Gateway or Apigee
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   by nstj 10y ago

   Git absolutely changes the way I code. Cheap feature branching and easy rapid collaboration are huge in how they influence my coding practice and output. I wouldn't enjoy coding anywhere near as much if it weren't for Git.
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   by nstj 10y ago

   He actually references that pretty specifically saying that indeed it can't be used to move 32bit -> 64bit [0] > Bitcode is not [12:30] a magic solution, though. You can't take a 32-bit app, for example, and run it on a 64
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Lattner refuted the ability of Apple to recompile bitcode into alternate architectures in his recent ATP interview
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Anyone have any examples of a "seminal" iOS app which is still 32 bit?
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    by nstj 10y ago

    We've all been there! Feel better man, it could be a lot worse :)
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Great article! Could be worthwhile to provide a reference to the 'Cloud-Based Enterprise Pub-Sub Messaging' element of SNS? It does a bit more than just 'Send mobile notifications, emails and/or SMS messages' Curren
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Warren Buffett summed up businesses like this quite well[0]: > The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable c
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Having experienced some rather concerning keychain issues with Digits a few months back and seeing the writing on the wall with Twitter and their stockholders calling for blood I dropped all of my Fabric dependencies in November. For crash
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Bravo on Sentry - it's a terrific platform. I'm especially fond of the breadcrumbs, they're a great feature.
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    by nstj 10y ago

    sounds like @mbesto is referring to the changes in cap table/shareholding structure rather than the 'vibe' of the deal
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Thank you @mewo2 for your insider responses - a fantastic ammendum to the original article!
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    by nstj 10y ago

    http://tattoocoder.com/aspnet-slack-sign-up/ is one Slack which has been suggested to me which is frequented by the ".NET crew". Booyah.
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Peculiar this is being downvoted - compiler speed / reliability / support for incremental builds are all issues with large Swift projects. I've even see people go as far as splitting up their project into frameworks in order
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    by nstj 10y ago

    > Please limit title to 80 characters [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
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    by nstj 10y ago

    In case the full title makes a difference it's "Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, automation, and deep learning?" cc @dang
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    by nstj 10y ago

    I don't doubt it. I've certainly seen people bill similarly (and obviously it doesn't involve writing that much code) - I'm just trying to put the pieces together in this context.
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    by nstj 10y ago

    > I have never ran a consultancy full-time, and didn't particularly want to start now Just interested - does that mean that you've never actually been a full-time consultant? And do you really think that it's within the re
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Sure - so let's say you have PI insurance of $100/week, and you do an international flight each week also at $1000/rt. This still leaves you with $28,900/week pre-tax? What other major expenses can you see with private
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Net of what?
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    by nstj 10y ago

    For sure, completely understood, but it's hard to say that something exists without giving some kind of evidence that it actually does.
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Partner at a global law firm charges ~$1k/hr, this would take 500 hrs of their time and 1000 hrs of an associates? Seems a bit vague?
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Link? Quote? Article describing services which cost millions to deindex a person?
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    by nstj 10y ago

    Interesting - didn't know you were talking on a per city basis. Anything to back up the claim of profitability in these cities?