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by peterbraden 8y ago
It's crazy how poor the financial data provider offerings out there are. Most financial data is riddled with inconsistencies, wildly overpriced, and in esoteric formats. Simply ingesting financial data in a reliable manner requires sig
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Why on earth would anyone want to be on the hook for liability like this for an unpaid maintenance job? Open source licenses state this clearly: "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND"
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Part of the problem is that they are developed and tested on top of the line laptops on internal networks. Even if they are also performance tested on other devices, the developers rarely feel the pain
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Docker are requiring logins to download their binaries again(github.com)
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by peterbraden 8y ago
What is this 'flagship design' nonsense. The notch is a horrible idea, iphone or not. Glass everywhere makes it less grippable. And now we see the complete lack of originality in the phone industry as the manufacturers compete to
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I'm more angry at google for removing them from the pixel than for apple. I want to vote with my dollars, but at the moment the options for phones with headphone jacks and no crapware preinstalled are exceedingly limited.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
In the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, part of the story takes place around the China galleons. Definitely worth a read if you find this sort of thing exciting.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
This assumes home cooking for 6 people each meal. The economics are very different when cooking for less.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I guess I'll be leaving 500px then...
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Can you give some examples? Normally I find that location data makes my user experience worse, for example assuming the language I speak based on the country, or redirecting me away from the url I was trying to go to.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I asked for a full facebook data export, and this data wasn't in the bundle they gave me.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I wonder if it's so they can later experiment with winglets, which would fold inwards when vertical, rather than outwards which a downward fold would mandate.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
The value of gulp / webpack et al are the plugins. I've had success in several JS projects using make in combination with the shell version of a lot of these plugins and npm scripts. There is value in both approaches.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Why? Just because a non-typed language is dominant, doesn't mean that typed languages disappear.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
You did attack them personally. The JS module ecosystem is far ahead of most other languages for web stuff. Most of the time the modules are perfectly sufficient, and if not, patching them is also easy. Sure there's a lot of glue code
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by peterbraden 8y ago
>No. You can build it in TypeScript or Dart or any number of more sane language and transpile to JavaScript. Which is what people are doing. Exactly, you can't avoid javascript. Transpilation is at best a level of indirection. I&#x2
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Transpilation is the number one reason I've seen that makes maintenance of older projects hard. The fact that JS didn't standardize on a module syntax until far too late means that we're forced into a transpilation cycle to b
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Oh man, I hate these articles as they bring out the trolls. Javascript is a great language because it allows you to develop incredibly fast (scripting language) for a platform that runs everywhere (the web). It used to be far simpler, but I
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Try getting a list of transactions, or working out what you are paying with a margin account. Their reporting is inscrutable. On top of this, their recommended way of buying USD securities with a foreign base currency account is to short th
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by peterbraden 8y ago
A good reason would be dollar cost averaging. If you have a monthly transaction split across 3 index funds, you're over 30 trades per year.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I strongly disagree. Their reporting is convoluted, their interface terrible, their support is horrible. I've tried half a dozen brokerages over time, and IB is by far the worst.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
They also have a terrible user interface and horrible support. Highly un-recommended.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
This is great news. Relatedly, does anyone know a way to block websites on android? It seems impossible without a rooted phone.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
The problem with relying on exercise as a coping mechanism is that you may get injured and therefore will have no fallback.
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by peterbraden 8y ago
I had an employee provided macbook air which had constant issues with driving an external display. (I think it was firmware problems). When the keyboard broke after 10 months, I was pretty happy to have a solid reason for a replacement. New
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by peterbraden 8y ago
Is there any way to farm coral in more temperate waters? Reef fish are very valuable so it could even be commercially viable.
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by peterbraden 9y ago
The deals seem particularly expensive and the site in general is very slow.
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by peterbraden 9y ago
Lack of ethics is a feature? Ambition shouldn't come at all costs.
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by peterbraden 9y ago
It's an interesting step towards the panopticon - self driving vehicles by necessity have complete surveillance and store everything. Misdemeanors that previously would have been dismissed as word against word are now persistent in the
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by peterbraden 9y ago
Absolutely, but externalities don't justify the original act. Definitely not denying the benefit that innovation brought, but just because the human testing on humans in concentration camps brought medical advances doesn't justify

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