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by patmcguire 14y ago
A "pop" for an IPO means an increase in share price. Think pop vs. fizzle, not pop in bubble terms. Companies generally underprice the stock going through the underwriting banks so by the time they're sure to have a liquid market. The banks
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Back when I was doing PHP I loathed the docs for their vagueness and the overbearing wrongness of the comments (no, we're not going to tell you how to make these date handling fucntions work together, we're going to show something that invo
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Somewhat of a correlation there.
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It's occasionally upheld by the supreme court, occasionally overturned. It's defacto legal because it's unprovable. Also, it's worth noting that it's not exactly a panacea - the two big (in terms of scale) uses of it in the USA were norther
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I'm sure it's great, but my first reaction when I looked up what it was was "oh no, another MySQL storage engine."
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It's the best description I've seen. That's how I remember everyone when I started school, but everyone got a lot more cynical after the 2008 crisis. People still do the same things, though - the attitude is that even if the ladder might no
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80% of kids at elite schools come through the same kind of feeder system of either good local public schools or private schools. In that system there's a series of successively narrower hoops you have to jump through - if there's only one j
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Nothing's hidden behind the paywall - Google can see everything. The general strategy for paywall sites is to let Google index everything and let a person's first visit to the site from Google bypass it as well. That way the paywall stays u
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About five years ago Columbia threw out the final for their Western literature course that every freshman takes because one professor gave the thing almost in full to her students and it spread like mad (through the football team and friend
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Right. I get annoyed by articles like this because they get so excited by the technology and the product itself that they ignore the basic issue with Higher Ed - it's not in the business of education, it's in the business of signaling. I di